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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 3.
Published in final edited form as: Health Behav Policy Rev. 2021 May;8(3):236–246. doi: 10.14485/hbpr.8.3.5

Table 1.

Outline of Codes and Examples of Coded Text Used in Qualitative Analysis

# Code Name Description and Sub-codes Example Text
1.0 Characteristics Describes general family and child characteristics such as age, gender, family make up, parent employment “There’s 4 of us. There’s my husband, he is a commercial loan officer. Myself, I am an eighth grade language arts teacher. And then we have 2 kids.”
2.0 School work Describes general aspects of schoolwork done at home during COVID stay at-at-home including child behavior, parent involvement, technology, and perception of school district “Well, for my daughter who was in fifth grade, it wasn’t a ton of work. Her teacher did have frequent Zooms, probably 2 or 3 times a week in the morning and assigned a few things, which she completed within an hour or 2. And they were also supposed to be reading 30 minutes a day. But other than that, there really wasn’t a ton of work.”
3.0 Physical Education Describes what schools provided for PE during stay-at-home instruction, accountability, and substitute activities “One day, there was planking. There was, I don’t know if you’ve done wall sits before. Jogging in place. We stretched. Sometimes it was just kind of like, every once in a while, there’d be this program where it would be a song, and the kids just followed along to the dance.”
4.0 Physical Activity Describes the current and past physical activities of family, changes due to COVID, technology for PA “She dances on the competitive team, so she dances about 7–8 hours a week on a normal basis, when the studios were open.”
5.0 Environment for PA Describes aspects of the home, yard, neighborhood community which influences PA of child and family, equipment, and natural surroundings “We don’t have any sidewalks where I’m at. We’re mostly side streets…but all the parks are closed. We live close to a couple parks and they’re all closed as well.”
6.0 Parent PA Describes the physical activity participation of parent(s) and changes in PA due to COVID “I am a member at Orangetheory, so that was really what I did for working out. Pre-COVID, I would go 3 times a week. But of course, since that was canceled, it’s mostly just been walking in the neighborhood and that, of course, weather dependent.”
7.0 Value/Importance of PA Describes what the parent(s) value about their child’s and their own PA “Well, of course, just for health-wise, I think it’s important for her to stay active and in shape and then just for competitive dance as well. If they don’t continue with their stretching and conditioning and that kind of thing, they could lose some of their skills.”
8.0 Sedentary Describes general sedentary behavior, changes due to COVID, screen time “He plays video games and he watches TV or he sits at the table and colors and draws.”
9.0 Parent Rules Describes any time of rules or restrictions for PA, screen time, and outdoor play “To be honest, I have not been as strict this quarantine. This is the first quarantine we’ve experienced, but I have not been as strict because this has been such a life changing time for them with the unknowns and the restrictions.”
10.0 Well-being Describes aspects of well-being of child during COVID “They were never bored or felt like they didn’t have a purpose or anything like that. They adjusted pretty well.”
11.0 Positive Outcomes Describes any changes that the parent reports as being positive or healthy, and the perceptions of sustainability “I think the biggest positive change was the ability to have family dinners almost every night, which was not a possibility before.”