Perceived Barriers to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity among Adolescents in Seven Arab Countries: A Cross-Cultural Study

Table 6

Significant differences (𝑃 value) between males and females for perceived barriers to physical activity among Arab adolescents (using chi-square test).

Barriers	Algeria	Jordan	Kuwait	Libya	Palestine	Syria	UAE
(A) Personal barriers to physical activity
(1) Do not have motivation to do physical activity, exercise, or sport	0.000	0.000	0.049	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
(2) Not enjoying physical activity, exercise, or sport	0.002	0.000	0.040	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
(3) Do not have the skills to do physical activity, exercise, or sport	0.000	0.000	0.799	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
(B) Social support barriers to physical activity
(1) No parents’ support to be physically active	0.000	0.188	0.008	0.000	0.148	0.001	0.002
(2) No friends’ support to be physically active	0.000	0.000	0.317	0.000	0.930	0.000	0.000
(3) No teacher’ support to be physically active	0.966	0.147	0.671	0.054	0.206	0.187	0.001
(C) Environmental barriers to physical activity
(1) Do not have enough information about how to increase physical activity	0.000	0.000	0.328	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
(2) Not having access to places to do physical activity, exercise, or sport	0.003	0.048	0.699	0.090	0.653	0.002	0.000
(3) Not being able to find physical activity facilities that are inexpensive	0.024	0.539	0.071	0.247	0.055	0.782	0.014
(4) Not having the time to be physically active	0.000	0.000	0.001	0.018	0.004	0.000	0.037
(5) Feeling shy when practising exercise outdoor	0.000	0.000	0.060	0.000	0.001	0.000	0.000
(6) The climate is not suitable for practising exercise	0.000	0.037	0.054	0.000	0.377	0.002	0.000
(7) Not being able to practise physical activity due to cultural factors	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
(8) Do not have enough money to enrol on physical activity club	0.334	0.895	0.000	0.162	0.043	0.782	0.059