Table 1 Search strategy

Participants

  Young adult women aged between 18 to 40

  Participants with healthy physical and mental status

Design

  Qualitative studies with descriptive data

  Full-text articles published in English

Outcome measures

  Participant's attitudes or perceptions of PA

  Participants perceived barriers or facilitators to PA

Clarification

  PA: Including leisure-time physical activities and structured exercise, sports participation

  Healthy: Participants without outstanding physical or mental disorders/disabilities. Studies on the population in recovery/rehabilitation/potential medical risk were excluded

  Pregnancy: Studies on pregnancy, the prenatal period, and the postpartum period were excluded because they pertain to a particular biological stage of women where the barriers and facilitators are strongly tied to pregnancy and lack the applicability of the age of young adult women in this review