experience and desire for future F=11 participation. M=5 Janssen & Stube To explore older U.S. (North Dakota) N=15 Interviews and Phenomenological adults’ (2014) perceptions about participation in 65-81+ years participant qualitative PA. F=8 observation methodology [High] M=6 Kalavar et al. To investigate the barriers to U.S. (New Jersey)/ Asian N=10 Focus groups Inductive thematic (2004) physical activity participation in Indians 66-79 years analysis sedentary older Asian Indians F=5 [Medium] living in the U.S. M=5 Leavy & Åberg, To explore and describe the Republic of Ireland N=30 (15 Swedish, 15 Irish) Semi-structured Thematic (2010) perceptions of physical activity (Dublin) & Sweden interviews framework held by older urban Swedish and (Stockholm) analysis 65 -89 years [High] Irish adults. F=16 M=14 CASP Rating: Lower scores indicate lower quality studies; Low = 3 or less; Medium = 4-6; High = 7 or more; PA=physical activity; F=female, Notes: M=male; *Dye and Wilcox: Despite stating that only women aged over 65 were invited to attend focus groups, one participant was stated to be aged 55-59 years in the results.
experience and desire for future participation. F=11 M=5 Janssen & Stube (2014) [High] To explore older adults’ perceptions about participation in PA. U.S. (North Dakota) N=15 65-81+ years F=8 M=6 Interviews and participant observation Phenomenological qualitative methodology Kalavar et al. (2004) [Medium] To investigate the barriers to physical activity participation in sedentary older Asian Indians living in the U.S. U.S. (New Jersey)/ Asian Indians N=10 66-79 years F=5 M=5 Focus groups Inductive thematic analysis Leavy & Åberg, (2010) [High] To explore and describe the perceptions of physical activity held by older urban Swedish and Irish adults. Republic of Ireland (Dublin) & Sweden (Stockholm) N=30 (15 Swedish, 15 Irish) 65 -89 years F=16 M=14 Semi-structured interviews Thematic framework analysis Notes: CASP Rating: Lower scores indicate lower quality studies; Low = 3 or less; Medium = 4-6; High = 7 or more; PA=physical activity; F=female, M=male; *Dye and Wilcox: Despite stating that only women aged over 65 were invited to attend focus groups, one participant was stated to be aged 55-59 years in the results.
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