High School Students Voice Regarding School-based Physical Activity: Perceived Barriers and Facilitating Factors
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Published:2021-07-01
Issue:4
Volume:8
Page:
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ISSN:2326-4403
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Container-title:Health Behavior and Policy Review
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language:
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Short-container-title:Health Behav Policy Rev
Author:
Dubuc Marie,Fortin-Suzuki Seira,Beaudoin Sylvie,Berrigan Felix,Turcotte Sylvain
Abstract
Objective: To contribute to the development of tailored school-based physical activity interventions, in this study, we aimed to identify the perceived facilitating factors and barriers of high school students toward their physical activity in the school environment. Methods: A total of 139 students from 4 different high schools completed an online questionnaire comprising open-ended questions on their perceived facilitating factors and barriers toward their physical activity at school. Thereafter, 100 of these students participated in one of the 16 focus groups designed to deepen students’ responses regarding their perceived facilitating factors and barriers. Qualitative content analysis was performed to classify data according to the Social-Ecological Model. Results: Through questionnaires, students mostly identified intrapersonal elements as facilitating factors and barriers to their practice of physical activity, as opposed to institutional factors during the focus groups. Girls strongly valued the characteristics of the interventions and of the involved school stakeholders. Conclusions: Our results allow us to qualify the current understanding of high school students’ perceived facilitating factors and barriers toward school-based physical activity and strengthen the relevance of surveying students prior to the development and implementation of physical activity interventions.
Publisher
Paris Scholar Publishing
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health Policy,Health (social science)
Cited by
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