Original / Deporte y ejercicio The prevalence of barriers for Colombian college students engaging in physical activity

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of barriers and their association with Colombia college students en-gaging in PA. Methods: A total of 5,663 students (3,348 male) from three cities in Colombia. In fall 2013, students voluntarily completed a demographic questionnaire, Barriers to Be-ing Active Quiz. Logistic regression analysis of each ba-rrier (adjusted for confusion variables: gender, age and BMI) was used for verifying such association. Results: The most prevalent barriers in overweight in-dividuals were “fear of injury ” (87.0%), “lack of skill” (79.8%) and “lack of resources ” (64.3%). The group of females revealed a protective association regarding “lack of time ” (OR=0.53: 0.47-0.60 95%CI), “social influence” (OR=0.67: 0.60-0.75 95%CI), “lack of energy ” (OR=0.54: 0.49-0.61 95%CI), “lack of willpower ” (OR=0.57: 0.51