The facilitators and barriers of physical activity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander regional sport participants.

CONCLUSION: Findings describe individual and external factors that promote or constraint PA as reported by Indigenous Australian adults. Results indicate that Indigenous people face specific barriers to PA when compared to a non-Indigenous sample. Implications for public health: This study is the first to compare the perspective of Indigenous Australians to a matched group of non-Indigenous Australians and provides useful knowledge to develop public health programs based on culturally sensitive data. PMID: 28749566 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - July 27, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Péloquin C, Doering T, Alley S, Rebar A Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research