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

Table 1

Reliability of Arabic version of questionnaire as compared with original English version, using Cronbach’s alpha coefficients.

Barriers statements	Cronbach’s alpha; coefficients
	Arabic version	English version
Barriers to physical activity
Personal barriers (3 statements)	0.762	0.760
Social support barriers (3 statements)	0.711	0.680
Environmental barriers (8 statements)	0.720	0.710
Barriers to healthy eating
Personal barriers (6 statements)	0.686	0.830
Social and environmental barriers; (4 statements)	0.652	0.720