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Table 3 Potential barriers to healthy lifestyle program recruitment reported by the overall study population (quantitative)

From: Engaging rural women in healthy lifestyle programs: insights from a randomized controlled trial

“Why do you think other women in your community did not join this program?”

They were not aware of this program

298 (65 %)

Work commitments

295 (64 %)

Family commitments

228 (50 %)

Feeling self-conscious or embarrassed to attend program among your community members

180 (40 %)

Session time was inconvenient

133 (29 %)

They are not concerned by their weight

113 (25 %)

Venue was inconvenient

35 (7.5 %)

  1. Results presented as relative frequencies (%)