Research Article

Physical Inactivity and Related Barriers: A Study in a Community Dwelling of Older Brazilians

Table 3

Number of barriers (means) reported by older adults, by gender, and by age groups, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil.

Age group
(years)
MenWomen   
UMW

60–695.3a6.5d0.01
70–796.8b7.8e0.08
80-and-over6.8c9.3f0.05

UMW: U Mann-Whitney test. Kruskal Wallis test: (a) significantly different from (b) ( ); (d) significantly different from (f) ( ) and (e) ( ); (e) significantly different from (f) ( ).