Table 8.

Individual factor facilitators for physical activity among schoolchildren.

Individual Factors
Categories	Subcategories	Code	Parents’ Verbalizations
Individual facilitators that encourage physical activity		Play as a meaningful occupation	“...So they start to play, but we go very quickly. If they can go out in the street with a ball and run, they do it...” (M5, FG1). “They love any game, no matter what it is. Now because football is the most famous, the most, but he doesn’t mind playing...” (M4, FG1).
		Young children are very active	“...He can’t sit still, he’s a very restless child and he can’t, he can’t, I’m sitting still here” (M3, FG2). “He is very active and spends all day playing” (F2, FG6).
	Schoolchildren’s preferences	Preference for after school activities linked to physical activity	“Practicing any type of activity, anything that involves moving, seems very appropriate for him. So football, swimming... whatever, anything that involves movement” (M3, FG7). “Well, he prefers Movi-Kids to English, he prefers it” (M4, GFG8).
		Preference for active free play	“...In my house she dances from the moment she gets up to the moment she goes to bed, it’s incredible, what she likes, so of course, in my house she’s there all day long too. And then if we go to the park for a while in the afternoon, there are days when she takes her skates or her bicycle down...” (M4, FG7).
		Preference for going outdoors to play	“He always wants to go out, well, if it were up to him, we’d be there all afternoon from six o’clock and he’s already saying “well, when are we going to go? When are we going to go?”, he likes it more... And then... I mean, if I don’t go out he goes out, it’s more about going downstairs than getting on the machine, he likes it more” (M1, FG4).

Abbreviations: M = Mother; F = Father; FG = Focus Group. Distinction of FG by rural or urban setting: Rural area: FG3, FG4, FG7 and FG8; Urban area: FG1, FG2, FG5 and FG6.