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Scale development: perceived barriers to public use of school recreational facilities
John O Spengler1, Yong Jae Ko, Daniel P Connaughton
1College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. spengler@hhp.ufl.edu
Objectives:
To test an original scale assessing perceived barriers among school administrators to allowing community use of school recreational facilities outside of regular school hours.
Methods:
Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).
Results:
Using EFA and CFA, we found that a model including factors of legal/security, resources, and social support demonstrated the best relative fit for our data.
Conclusions:
The Perceived Barriers to Community Use (PBCU) Scale is psychometrically sound and provides a framework to guide the design of future research and discussion of perceived barriers that school administrators have about opening their school recreational facilities outside of regular school hours.
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