Table 2.
Linking the Interview Questions, a Prior Coding and Final Coding to the Webber Model Domains
Webber domains | Interview questions, linked to and informed by Webber domains | A priori and initial codes, informed by Webber model and first reading of transcripts | Final, most salient codes and themes, based on line-by-line coding and team analysis meetings |
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Mobility determinants: “Wedges of the cone” * Physical Psychosocial Environmental Financial |
What gets you moving your body? Prompt for time, place, with whom What prevents you from moving your body? Prompt for barriers: cost; access; pain; physical ability, etc. If city planners could change one thing about your neighborhood, what would it be? Do you think that your neighborhood is walkable? Why/why not? Can you tell me about the transit system in your neighborhood? Prompt for cost; subsidized passes; use of transit. |
Facilitators to PA and mobility: - Desire to maintain health - Friendships and social connections - Shops and services in neighborhood - Transit provides access Barriers to PA and mobility: - Pain - Domestic work - Enviro barriers - Cost |
Walking for well-being Socializing with peers Same-language and culturally familiar activities Reliance on transit; gendered transportation; transit affords independence |
Life spaces Home –> world |
Please describe a typical day? A typical week? Prompts: where do you go? What do you do? Who do you see? How do you get there? | Room/Home Neighborhood Surrounding area Service community Surrounding area World |
Home Community centers Neighborhood house |
Outermost ring: | (In addition to above questions) | ||
Gender Biography Culture |
How would you rate your ability to communicate in English? Prompt for: communication difficulties; situations where they are able to use their first language, etc. | Communication difficulties; same-language activities | Same-language activities |
Do you think that (insert ethnocultural group here) people have physical activity habits that are unique? Do you think that you are more/less active than older, Caucasian Canadians? Why? | Cultural differences? | ||
What gets you moving your body? Tell me about your typical day/week. (from above) | Housework Domestic Work Walking not driving |
Gendered work Gendered transportation |
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Independence | A desire for independence and self- reliance |
Note: PA = physical activity.
*Note that we did not include cognition in our model, one of the “wedges” in the Webber model. One of the exclusion criteria for the Active Streets Active People: Foreign-Born study was a diagnosis of significant cognitive impairment.