| Interviews with session leaders/initiators | Interviews with local residents |
---|---|---|
Attitudes | Â | Good awareness of benefits of exercise |
 |  | Attitudes largely positive but some negative and some feelings of exercise being irrelevant |
Motivations | weight issues and physical health particularly in older adults | weight issues, physical and mental health, fitness |
 | socialising and enjoyment |  |
Barriers | lack of confidence | lack of confidence |
 | fear of stepping into an activity session alone | reluctance to attend alone |
 | perceived lack of competence | perceived lack of competence |
 | Cost | Cost |
 |  | requirement for and concerns regarding childcare |
 |  | low priority, issues of time and work patterns |
Enablers | fun, friendship and socialising | attending with a friend |
 | integration of sessions into the community | self confidence |
 |  | Low cost, good availability |
Awareness | Â | good awareness of benefits of exercise |
 |  | patchy awareness of available sessions |
 | power of networking and personal contact as recruitment tool | power of word-of-mouth as a communications channel |