School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
J Phys Act Health. 2013 Jan;10(1):33-41. doi: 10.1123/jpah.10.1.33. Epub 2012 Feb 29.
The after-school period is potentially a "critical window" for promoting physical activity in children. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively explore children's perceptions of the factors influencing their engagement in physical activity during the after-school period as the first phase in the development of a questionnaire.
Fifty-four South Australian children age 10-13 years participated in same gender focus groups. Transcripts, field notes, and activity documents were analyzed using content analysis. Through an inductive thematic approach, data were coded and categorized into perceived barriers and facilitators according to a social ecological model.
Children identified a number of factors, including safety in the neighborhood and home settings, distance to and from places, weather, availability of time, perceived competence, enjoyment of physical activity, peer influence, and parent influence. New insights into bullying and teasing by peers and fear of dangerous animals and objects were revealed by the children.
In this study, hearing children's voices allowed the emergence of factors which may not be exposed using existing surveys. These findings are grounded in children's perceptions and therefore serve as a valuable contribution to the existing literature, potentially leading to improved intervention and questionnaire design.
课余时间是促进儿童身体活动的“关键期”。本研究的目的是定性探讨儿童对影响其课余身体活动参与因素的看法，作为开发问卷的第一阶段。
南澳大利亚 54 名 10-13 岁的儿童参加了同性别焦点小组。使用内容分析法分析了转录本、现场记录和活动文件。通过归纳主题方法，根据社会生态模型将数据编码并分类为感知障碍和促进因素。
儿童确定了许多因素，包括邻里和家庭环境的安全、到活动地点的距离、天气、时间可用性、感知能力、对身体活动的享受、同伴影响和家长影响。儿童揭示了一些新的见解，即同伴的欺凌和戏弄以及对危险动物和物体的恐惧。
在这项研究中，听取儿童的声音使可能无法通过现有调查揭示的因素浮现出来。这些发现基于儿童的感知，因此对现有文献做出了有价值的贡献，可能会导致干预和问卷设计的改进。
