A further aim was to assess motivators for continued exercise participation after 12 weeks following completion of the trial.
A follow-up survey was conducted 6 months after baseline, immediately post-intervention and included two open-ended questions to assess motivators and barriers to attendance.
Splitting the women into three age groups when assessing barriers, motivators and support providers does inherently reduce the variance associated with the measure.
However, given the exploratory and hypothesis generating nature of the study, assessing barriers, motivators and support providers according to age assists in the planning of future research addressing the factors which help and/or hinder women with physicalysicactivityity plans.
However, there have been few studies which have assessed the motivators for women attending such programmes and the appropriateness of the programmes in terms of targeting women at risk.
Interestingly, when assessing the barriers, motivators and support providers for physical activity for women with and without PCOS with a healthy BMI, there were no differences between groups (data not shown).
Of the 10 motivators assessed, four had a protective effect, such as the desire to learn how to protect one's health.
Researchers from the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, conducted focus groups among obese non-diabetic adults to assess the perceptions, motivators and barriers for intake of beans, brown rice, SSB, and cold cereals.
A self-reported questionnaire assessing smoking habits, nicotine dependence level and factors identified as motivators to quit smoking was administered to 9378 employees working at a company in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan (as of 1 October 2011).
Results are presented for the whole sample after the top five motivators were assessed across age groups and were determined to be similar.
While further research is required to assess the efficacy of these motivators in other population groups, these represent a clear guideline for exercise interventions in at-risk female populations.
