title: Scale development: perceived barriers to public use of school recreational facilities.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  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.
authors.affiliation: College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. spengler@hhp.ufl.edu
authors.forename: John O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Spengler
authors.forename: Yong Jae
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Daniel P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Connaughton
mesh_terms: D001107:Architectural Accessibility; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003625:Data Collection / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D011633:Public Facilities; D011634:Public Health; D011998:Recreation; D012574:Schools