Table 6.

Parent (N = 26) reported problems associated with wearing accelerometers, their own strategies for overcoming these problems, and their suggestions to improve compliance in future interventions

Parent reported problem	Successful strategies used by parents	Parents’ suggestions for future intervention
Difficulty in remembering to wear the accelerometers	• Keeping the accelerometers in a visible place when they are taken off at night	• Allowing parents to opt in/out of a text reminder service was seen as a positive way to remind parents to wear the accelerometers
	• Making wearing the accelerometers a habit
Lack of understanding about the accelerometers		• Spend more time explaining why parents are asked to wear the accelerometers
		• Having the information translated into parents’ native language
The accelerometers being uncomfortable or not practical to wear (for parents and children)	• Choosing to wear clothes with belt loops
Children feeling targeted at school due to being only child wearing the accelerometer	• Support from teachers and school staff	• Providing information on the project/physical activity for the whole class
	• Wearing the accelerometer underneath the school uniform	• Asking the whole class to be involved in the project
Children refusing to wear the accelerometers	• Parents encouraging their child to wear the monitor
	• Some children were naturally interested and proud to wear the accelerometer
Increasing motivation to wear the accelerometer for parents and children: Provision of data feedback	• Many parents and children were interested in seeing the results from the accelerometers	• Promoting to parents at the initial data collection that they will get feedback on their data
	• Knowing if their child was getting enough PA compared to the recommendations, knowing if they’d increased PA over the 3 time points, and having a comparison of other people or the average were all of interest