Table 3 Full list of excerpts given to youth advisory panel (YAP) members

 ID3

You’re just trying to beat your friends.

 ID4

Yeah I was just like competing with myself but like if there was like if we were still in school I would’ve been like ‘I need to beat her.’

 ID7

Makes you feel like I’m going to be scundered walking about alone but when you have your friend with you like you’d be more encouraged to do more walking if you’re like walking with your friend.

Yes

 ID8

Cause if you’re walking to school by yourself it’ll take forever but when you’re with your mates like cause yeah they’re talking about stuff it seems really quick so you could just like walk for ages and you wouldn’t even know.

Yes

 ID9

It would have been easier if we were like with our friends.

Yes

 ID2

Whenever you found out that you’re actually losing there’s just no point.

 ID14

I would like to be in her team cos then I wouldn’t have to do work.

 ID32

You know (Name) gonna get it, she’s going to win it! Nobody tries cos (Name) gets it every week.

 ID33

There is really no point because see at the end like I am literally only going to do it if you actually do change the PE gear.

 ID34

It’s just sort of cause you knew you probably weren’t going to win so you’re just like ‘there’s really no point in wearing it’.

Yes

 ID5

It wasn’t about the competition it was just about seeing how many steps you took.

 ID6

Yeah you didn’t want to let your team down.

 ID10

Just being lazy sitting in the house and then instead of sitting down I was just walking about the house even cause there’s nowhere really round my way so I just walk around the house like up and down the stairs and stuff.

 ID11

Yeah like even like walking more instead of getting your mummy to drop you to places like you just walk down like if it’s not even far away.

 ID12

Just healthier in general I think, cause I don’t think if you went out and bought one you’d be getting competitions and winning and stuff; think you’ll just be getting fitter.

 ID13

Like girls want to look more good than just about the competition, like girls will always (care) about their appearance so if you said make them healthier.

 ID15

Because you look at it and you’ve only took like 5000 (steps); you realise you have to take ten so you just try to push yourself to do it, to try reaching it.

 ID16

I want to be more active cos if you see your score’s quite low it’s just… You feel kinda bad as everyone else is like really high and actually try and do this.

 ID17

I don’t want to grow up to be like a wee lazy person who doesn’t do anything!

 ID18

It was quite interesting like, how many steps you’re doing.

 ID20

Maybe before that I like I would’ve been way more active but then it just sort of stopped cause I wasn’t as motivated and then like the pedometers would’ve just like started me up again to be competitive.

 ID21

I’d still do it anyway if there wasn’t any prizes.

 ID22

Like just get up and do it and then when you do it like it actually makes you feel better so it just makes you want to do more of it.

Yes

 ID23

You can set yourself like goals and targets and then try to beat them each day.

 ID24

It shows you how much like steps you can take in a day, like you wouldn’t even think you were walking that much.

 ID25

The app was helpful. It worked for me, it worked really well for me.

 ID26

Cause if you had one in training like I was looking at myself as being like I need to train more to get these up and then I did it.

 ID31

You do get like a lot of exercise when walking all around school and all upstairs and going down.

 ID37

It’s not even about like trying to be skinny it’s just about being healthy for me.

 ID38

It’s just the prizes work cos then you really want to win them and get more competitive.

 ID39

You’ll become healthier and fitter if you work with it.

 ID40

Cause you saw that they weren’t just like wee rubbish prizes they were really good ones.

 ID27

I reckon the summer one will be higher than it was in school.

 ID28

Cause when you go to school and you come home and you’re like drained and all and you have to go your homework but in the summer its different cause you don’t have to go to school so you don’t be as tired and you can get more sleep as well.

 ID29

School is better about the structure part but the summer is better cause you could use it more and you were out more.

 ID30

Yeah cause you got more time to spend to do stuff.

Yes

 ID35

And the problem is should be like every so often check whose lost it and then ask them ‘do you really want another one to continue’ because some people might not want to another one to continue, they are being given it and then they’ll lose that one as well.

 ID1

I was getting like really mad at (Name) like trying to beat her… she’s doing like 20,000 a day now or something.

 ID19

Could be like class prizes instead of individual ones.

 ID36

You didn’t know what progress you were making so it wasn’t really any benefit.