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Table 3 Summary of Qualitative and Quantitative Findings

From: Rural Latino parent and child physical activity patterns: family environment matters

Summary of Activity Patterns

Summary of Qualitative Findings

Interpretation

PA and families: Parents

• Parents were mostly sedentary

• No difference between weekday / weekends activity levels

• Reported being mostly inactive outside of work and household duties

• Desired doing PA together as a family by visiting parks on weekends

Barriers & Challenges

• Lack of time

• Work and family responsibilities

• Lack of opportunities

Perceptions & Beliefs

• Identified PA as important for health and wellbeing

• Identified PA as important, yet reported significant barriers to being active on weekdays.

• Wanted to be active on the weekends with their families, but minimal activity differences reported between weekends and weekdays.

PA and families: Children

• Children were mostly sedentary.

• Spent most time /hour in moderate activity during afterschool. Hours; 3 – 6 pm

• Spent most time /hour in sedentary time during school hours.

• No significant differences in PA levels between weekdays and weekends.

• Active with parents when biking, sports, walking and swimming.

• Active in informal play during afterschool hours.

Barriers and challenges

• Lack of other children to be active with.

• Health issues such as asthma.

• Busy schedules.

• Costs of organized team sports and transportation.

Perceptions & Beliefs

• Parents identified physical activity as important to their children’s health.

Impact of technology/ excess screen-time:

• Minimal parental limit-setting.

• Screen-time as reward

• Television in bedrooms

• Meals with television

• Parents acknowledged barriers to their children being active despite their support of their children’s PA engagement.

• Children engaged in informal play rather than organized team sports afterschool.

• Children were on screens an average of 4–6 h per day.