Table II.

Commonly reported barriers and facilitators ofPA by each of the four focus group^a

Focus group	Barder	Facilitator
Urban parent groups (n = 3)	Distance and cost: ‘You’d have to pay … $55 for a parent to have your daughter or your son to sign up for softball or baseball. And there are a lot of parents, who can’t. I mean, the gas priees are so high’. Danger: ‘My son has to be in by the time the Street lights corne on … my neighborhood is kind of rough…’ ‘I don’t even let my kids go out in the neighborhood … because the kids out there …everybody want to fight each other … it’s not …a good environment’. Television: ‘I think that they’re doing the games on the TV … when they’re doing that, only thing they want to do is sit there all day long … And then, you know, they ain’t doing no movement.’	Social: ‘… you get a group of group of kids together, maybe play kickball, basketball; it helps with their social skills and interacting with others, and how to get along with other people that are from different backgrounds. ‘ Facilities: ‘there’s a lot of playgrounds and stuff around here that you can take your kids to go to free. But … a lot of rimes transportation and the cost eut a big part in it’.
Rural parent groups (n = 4)	Distance and cost: ‘… just to get her out the house to have activities, do you want to pay the price of gas? … Because he wanted to play traveling ball, and I told him we just couldn’t afford to play traveling ball … ‘ Television: ‘and they just stay inside the house (and watch) the television… They don’t want to go outside…for me it’s important that they go outside to run around …. Not so much time in front of the television.’	Social: ‘When they have friends over, they going to want to do stuff other than just look at TV.’ Parent role modeling: ‘But you can’t be a couch potato yourself and expect your child to go out there and do’.
Urban youth groups (n = 3)	School PA policies: ‘…we should get exercise all day in school … PE every day.’I did go to PE last semester, and it was really fun, but now I think I’m just tumed into like waste … I’m not getting that much exercise.’ Danger and supervision: ‘it’s like you have on a certain color … they might think you like that gang member and they like want to fight you or jump you or something like that and don’t know nothing about you.’	Social: ‘… my school friends, we just go on bike rides and play volleyball and shoot hoops.’ Facilities: I live at a big field … we have like two big fields on the sides at the entrance in our neighborhood.
Rural youth groups (n = 3)	School PA policies: ‘The sixth graders and seventh graders do (get recess) … but eighth grade, we can’t go outside no more and play.’ Danger: ‘We had a breaking in, we have vandalism … sometimes they don’t want us to go out too far depending how the area looks.’ ‘We have woods in our backyard. They be hunting. We hearing gunshots.’	Social: ‘We—me, her, and my friends play baseball, soccer.’ Facilities: ‘We have … jump ropes … we have sports equipment that we can take outside and play … we have fields, we have our PE classes … softball field, football field.’ ‘down the Street there’s a community center, and they have a basketball court and all that stuff.’

^aPE = physical education.