Table 2 Barriers and facilitators to free time for physical activity based on transcribed semi-structured interviews
Theme | Supporting Quotes |
|---|---|
Limited Time | |
Participant 9 | “So I cleaned the kitchen, pack up the lunch, you know for my husband, and put the other food away, wash the dishes, sweep, mop, you know, the regular you have to do the kitchen and pick up all the kids’ stuff … set up the bed for them, check what the homework was about. If he finished. So it looked like [son] didn’t finish some of the homework that he has so I had to go over with him a few things and iron the clothes...You know though sometimes you have got to spend time and talk to them how is school and they want to talk about what happened so I do that with them and then I go into my room and my husband is up and he wants to talk about our weekend...My husband says he is sick then I go to the kitchen bring him some medicine and he is talking more and I don’t remember what happened because he said I fell out. I was gone. He said ‘I was talking to you and you fell asleep’.” |
Participant 3 | “Everything is for everybody [else], not for me.” |
Participant 6 | “You don’t feel like concretely anything gets done because it’s constant.” |
“So, once it gets like it feels a little overwhelming to a point where I just kind of like, I’m Iike okay I can’t and I just bag it up and throw and send it to a laundry man so they can do it like if it becomes too much but I try to do it by myself and do it as much as I can so it’s like slowly throughout the week, it’s like taking away time from other stuff because I’m mostly doing laundry.” | |
Participant 11 | “At the end of the day... I am completely exhausted and I am like can I sit down? Can I sit down for half an hour? I just sit down and I am like almost passing out and I am like okay then after that I get up and get the kids you know, brush their teeth or whatever and I am like let me survive.” |
Limited Support | |
Participant 11 | “this new bed bug issue is killing me because also it is going to trigger the schizophrenia of my husband and he goes berserk and he starts giving me problems like I don’t need grief from him. It is just like one thing after another.” |
Participant 6 | “[My husband is] always working, and we don’t have time to sit down...I would like to sit down with my husband … can’t we just have like a breakfast at home twice a week? You know, sit down and the kids, we can actually talk. We have never talked in all these years because he comes home late so I can’t talk to him unless on the phone. |
Physical Activity | |
Participant 3 | “I need to get back to my gym because like a year ago I was going to the gym and I felt so great when you go to the gym...it’s like you get all the energy back and it feels so good.“ |
Participant 10 | “[Exercising is] very important for your health like, at this moment I feel like you know I may look young...but you know when you get older that’s when your body needs them, the more you exercise the more strength and the stronger you become. So, it’s important for everyone to start when they are young.” |
Participant 9 | “I will say maybe if there will be more help with homework with the kids and more help in the house like if there will be that second person that will take care of the cooking part and homework part...I take care of everything else and when I finish doing what I have to do then I put the time in [at the gym].” |
Participant 12 | “We dance, we go to the park” |
Participant 11 | “I run after my kids and I mean like I carry groceries.” |
Participant 10 | “I’m always moving in and around and like I don’t sit down all the time...I’m always doing something.” |
Participant 9 | “More physical activity than I do? I don’t sit...this is the moment I am sitting down. This is my moment.” |
Self-Efficacy | |
Participant 9 | “I schedule my days...when I am home sometimes like I will do certain things like if I finish at night time and I be like let me do some sit-ups. I do some sit-ups.” |
Participant 6 | “… it’s been so taxing on me and my house that I just suddenly get burned out almost. You can’t do anything...you’re like so tired like always something happening.” |
Trust and Technology | |
Participant 10 | “To be honest I don’t know If I would need my kids with another mom especially me not knowing that person.” |
Participant 1 | “Yes, I think the use of an app is helpful because that’s what everybody goes to...It’s like an app is the easiest way to get people at least to connect … I would definitely use that in that way because of connections.” |
Participant 5 | “There is also a lot of people that I know that don’t have people around and it does, it does give you some type of comfort to have somebody to share with you something even though where there is the struggle or just to vent so that’s awesome.” |
Community Space | |
Participant 11 | Another participant envisioned a center participants could, “just bring their kids for free play and the participants could sit and like drink tea or coffee in one half of the room.” |