Table 2. Characteristics of 20 Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) and 28 Exercise Instructors in Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance Program for Fall Prevention, West Virginia, 2013–2014.
Characteristics | N |
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Faith-based organizations (FBOs) | |
How FBO was identified | |
Extension agent | 1 |
Internet search | 2 |
Ministerial association | 1 |
Newspaper | 1 |
Purchased mailing list | 7 |
Word of mouth | 8 |
Outreach effort that resulted in FBO joining project | |
Clergy or church office | 6 |
Congregant | 5 |
Extension agent | 1 |
Ministerial association | 3 |
Physical therapy or fitness center | 1 |
Recruitment mailing | 3 |
Senior center | 1 |
Religious group and denomination | |
Protestant — Evangelical Church of God | 1 |
Protestant — Evangelical Church of God in Christ | 1 |
Protestant — Evangelical Nondenominational | 1 |
Protestant — Evangelical Southern Baptist | 1 |
Protestant — Evangelical Assemblies of God | 1 |
Protestant — Mainline Episcopal | 1 |
Protestant — Mainline American Baptist | 5 |
Protestant — Mainline Presbyterian | 3 |
Protestant — Mainline United Methodist Church | 4 |
Protestant — Mainline Christian Church | 1 |
Multidenominational | 1 |
Number of members (n = 15)a | |
1–99 | 10 |
100–199 | 2 |
200–499 | 3 |
500–999 | 0 |
≥1000 | 0 |
Church members (n = 15)a , b | |
1–99 | 12 |
100–199 | 2 |
200–499 | 0 |
500–999 | 0 |
≥1000 | 1 |
Exercise instructors | |
Relationship to congregation | |
Member | 13 |
Active nonmember | 1 |
Friend or family of member | 2 |
Pastor | 2 |
No formal connection | 3 |
Other | 3 |
Do not know | 4 |
Outreach effort that resulted in instructor joining the project | |
Church clergy or congregants | 11 |
Community members | 4 |
Newspaper article | 1 |
Ministerial association | 2 |
Volunteered | 4 |
Family member or friend | 1 |
Other class instructor | 3 |
Extension agent | 2 |
Data were available for only 15 FBOs.
The congregants who attended church services.