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Personal
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Already active
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Personal activity
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‘I tend to walk quite a lot anyway, so I didn’t think a pedometer would probably be likely to increase my walking at all really’. (IDN12)
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Work activity
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‘I actually work as a postman, so I do a hell of a lot of walking … and that was basically the reason that I didn't think I’d need to actually join the programme’. (IDN06)
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Medical problems
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Stroke
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‘I had the stroke in ’94. So that limited my walking’. (IDN07)
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Pain
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‘If I walk for more than half an hour at a time, I get incredibly stiff and painful’. (IDN16)
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Heart condition
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‘I’m always at the hospital seeing a cardiologist’. (IDN18)
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Multiple medical problems
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‘I don’t need anything else going on to do with health … I certainly would have thought … that they would have thought, “oh, she wouldn’t want to do this because she’s got lots of other problems”’. (IDN18)
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No wish to increase activity
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Not interested/does not like physical activity
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‘And I don’t really like running … and I certainly won’t join a gym. I hate exercising’. (IDN02)
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Already doing enough
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‘No, I think I do enough. I’m fine with what I do’. (IDN17)
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Not interested in walking
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‘More interesting than walking’
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‘Cycling’s nice, swimming … any form of recreation thing, like ice skating or horse riding or bicycle riding, anything like that … Walking’s quite boring’. (IDN02)
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Team sport
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‘Well, it would be hard for you to organise team sports I should think wouldn’t it? I mean I used to play badminton quite a lot which I enjoyed’. (IDN19)
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Running
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‘If anybody’s doing research into people that have had heart attacks and then trying to get back into running, that I’d be extremely interested in’. (IDN24)
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Not the right person
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For younger people
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‘You get to a stage in your life and you think, that’s it… I’m relaxing now. I exercise my mind instead’. (IDN02)
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For lonely people
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‘These sort of things people take them up if they’re lonely and I’m not lonely’. (IDN18)
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For overweight people
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‘Unless you were a really fat person, which I’m not’. (IDN18)
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Altruism
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‘… an opportunity for someone else, you know, that it may be more useful to’. (IDN13)
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External
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Work commitments
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‘It’s bad enough trying to get … a day off for a normal appointment.’ (IDN02)
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‘I just didn’t think I’d have time … because I know how important walking is, and I love walking, and if I have an hour or two free, I would prefer to walk than talk to the nurse’. (IDN21)
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Travel difficulties
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‘If I had time, I’d love to be part of your research and go to the surgery and all the rest of it, but I think, actually … the awkwardness of the journey…’ (IDN22)
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Other commitments
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Travel from home
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‘I’m going away so much, I couldn’t really tie myself down to anything like that’. (IDN01)
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Caring for family member
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‘I’m a carer for my father. I think most of it is just being there’. (IDN04)
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Chores/‘life’
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‘I’ve got grandchildren. I’ve got a husband. I like to do my gardening. I’ve got a four bedroom house to keep clean. I feel my load is more than enough to keep me going’. (IDN08)
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Advice from others
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‘I did mention it to my daughter actually and she said “that sounds crazy!” She said it’s not for me, so I didn’t go any further’. (IDN07)
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Trial-related
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Length of programme
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‘It does sound a bit on the lengthy side doesn’t it really… some people could be put off by that’. (IDN10)
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Trial material
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Too long
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‘… there was a lot to read. Bullet points are good. Just make it simple’. (IDN19)
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Aimed at older people
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‘I just remember thinking, actually, I don’t think I’m in that age group yet. It kind of seemed to be geared to people who really were in their 70s and over’. (IDN09)
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Equipment problems
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Pedometer/accelerometer
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‘Well, I mean I have actually used a pedometer but I wouldn’t sort of particularly want to do it for a week’. (IDN09)
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Randomisation
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Did not like concept
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‘I think if you’re doing research then you should be able to choose …within reason …what club you’re willing to join really’. (IDN13)
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Did not want to be in nurse support group
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‘… I could probably commit to the other two groups, but possibly not to the nurse support’. (IDN09)
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Did not want to be in control group
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‘Well … I couldn’t see the point of being in a group that did nothing’. (IDN04)
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Venue
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Fitness-related better
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‘If you’re going to do a fitness programme, you should do it in a fitness venue’. (IDN04)
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Does not like the GP surgery
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‘I have to go there when I’m not well. I certainly am not going to go to the surgery when I’m well’. (IDN18)
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Walking environment
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Boring
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‘Walking’s quite boring. Unless you’re walking somewhere on an outing somewhere, you know, in the country or something, seaside. You should have more trips’. (IDN02)
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Wrong season
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‘As the weather gets better, then I might go for a walk in the evening … it was really due to the seasons as well’. (IDN28)
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Preferred group
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‘I think you get more encouragement if you are in a group’. (IDN05)
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Trial design
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‘… that isn’t something I wanted to be part of I think I’d have found it incredibly boring’. (IDN18)
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