Table 1.

Search strategy

Inclusion criteria
Participants
Young adult women aged between 18 to 40
Participants with healthy physical and mental status
Design
Qualitative studies with descriptive data
Full-text articles published in English
Outcome measures
Participant's attitudes or perceptions of PA
Participants perceived barriers or facilitators to PA
Clarification
PA: Including leisure-time physical activities and structured exercise, sports participation
Healthy: Participants without outstanding physical or mental disorders/disabilities. Studies on the population in recovery/rehabilitation/potential medical risk were excluded
Pregnancy: Studies on pregnancy, the prenatal period, and the postpartum period were excluded because they pertain to a particular biological stage of women where the barriers and facilitators are strongly tied to pregnancy and lack the applicability of the age of young adult women in this review