A family-based approach examining perceptions of an Australian TRYathlon series on children ’s health and development
This study sought to explore parents and children’s perceived motivations and perspectives of participation in the Australian Sanitarium Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon (a non-competitive triathlon series), on children’s health and well-being. An exploratory qualitative design utilizing se ven focus groups were conducted with 27 family units including 31 parents and 61 children (age 7–15 years old). Data were recorded, professionally transcribed and then analyzed using thematic analysis. Three overarching themes were identified, including (1)motivations for event and physical activity participation, revealing social interact...
Source: Health Promotion International - November 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Using a Collective Impact framework to evaluate an Australian health alliance for improving health outcomes
This study applied the Collective Impact framework to evaluate the alliance responsible for delivering a large-scale health promotion initiative. Committee meeting minutes for a 4-year period and qualitative interviews with key stakeholders (N = 14) involved in the design and implementation of the initiative explored the factors that contributed to collaborative efforts and initiative outcomes. Major strengths of the Healthier Queensland Alliance (the Alliance) stemmed from identifying a common agenda and using frequent communication to develop trust among Alliance partners. These processes were important, particularly in ...
Source: Health Promotion International - October 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
‘Sheds for Life’: delivering a gender-transformative approach to health promotion in Men’s Sheds
SummaryResearch has highlighted the importance of gendered approaches to engage men with health. Sheds for Life (SFL) is a health and wellbeing initiative that utilizes evidence-based and gender-specific approaches to engage hard to reach men with health promotion directly in the Men ’s Sheds (Sheds) setting. To understand the impact of SFL and how participants (Shedders) experienced SFL in practice, this qualitative study applied a framework of constructivism and aimed to explore how gendered approaches impacted engagement with SFL through Shedder’s own accounts of their at titudes, opinions and experiences. Qualitati...
Source: Health Promotion International - October 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Determinants of self-reported adherence to COVID-19 regulations in Spain: social norms, trust and risk perception
SummaryFailure of individuals to voluntarily observe regulations and recommendations around mitigating COVID-19 (e.g. social distancing; frequent handwashing) is often cited as a reason why some countries struggled to curtail the spread of the virus. Understanding the factors that are associated with people ’s willingness to comply with COVID-19 regulations and recommendations is an important step in helping policy makers and health officials reduce the impact of this (and future) pandemics. In the current study we examined this question in one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic: Spain. A l arge, representative...
Source: Health Promotion International - October 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Exploring the beliefs and experiences with regard to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and acceptance in a slum of Karachi, Pakistan
This study used an interpretivist epistemological approach for data collection and employed in-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs) to explore the themes of interest. IDIs and FDGs were conducted in the local language (Pashtu) and Urdu, using semi-structured interview guides. A hybrid thematic analysis approach (use of both inductive and deductive coding) was used to analyze the data. We identified two key themes: the first related to vaccine hesitancy and refusal and included the role of personal belief systems, vaccine mistrust and public perceptions in hesitancy; the second related to vaccine accep...
Source: Health Promotion International - October 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Activating the ‘peerness’ of youth leaders in a community sports programme through techne and phronesis
SummaryPeer-to-peer approaches engage groups of people considered to share one or more characteristics that identify them as peers and draw on rationales of credibility, identification and role modelling in peer-to-peer interactions. Despite the popularity of the approach, the ways in which the peer leadership component specifically contributes to health promotion is not thoroughly understood. We suggest that a first step for making use of peer leader characteristics is to make explicit what the peer leadership component is expected to bring to a programme. To approach such an understanding, we investigated how peer leader...
Source: Health Promotion International - October 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Did physical activity and associated barriers change during COVID-19 restrictions in Ireland? Repeated cross-sectional study
SummaryThis repeated cross-sectional study investigated physical activity and associated barriers and facilitators during the first two waves of COVID-19 restrictions in Ireland. An online, anonymous questionnaire collated data from adults during May (n = 1274) and November (n = 810) 2020. Statistical analysis used a combination of traditional significance testing and Bayesian lasso logistic regression. The pattern of physical activity changed significantly between waves (χ2 86.8 on 3df;p< 0.001). During wave 1 restrictions, the majority [46.1% (n = 587)] of participants reported being more active than usual, decreasin...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 21, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A qualitative UK study exploring counterpublic engagement of marginalized women via a Women ’s Health Network
This article presents data from semi-structured interviews with members of a Women ’s Health Network (WHN) in Bradford, one of the most deprived areas of England. WHN is a collective of women who aim to improve women and their families’ health, with a particular focus on seldom-heard voices. This article critically explores what realistic, representative counterpublic engageme nt looks like. It reveals the tension between the ideal of public engagement (direct participation) and what happens in practice. Challenges for direct participation of marginalized groups in formal structures require alternative solutions. It is...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 15, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Reconfiguring the biomedical dominance of pain: time for alternative perspectives from health promotion?
SummaryStrategies to reduce the burden of persistent pain in society are rooted in a biomedical paradigm. These strategies are located downstream, managing persistent pain once it has become a problem. Upstream activities that create social conditions to promote health and well-being are likely to help, yet health promotion discourse and research are lacking in pain literature. In this article, we argue that the subjective nature of pain has not sat comfortably with the objective nature of medical practice. We argue that the dominance of the biomedical paradigm, with a simplistic ‘bottom-up’ model of pain being an inev...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Workplace empowerment, psychological empowerment and work-related wellbeing in southeast Asian employees: a cross-sectional survey
SummaryThere is a growing body of research examining the nature and correlates of salutogenic factors in the workplace and employee wellbeing, and the role of empowerment therewithin. A paucity of research has distinguished between structural and psychological forms of empowerment in the workplace and examined how they independently and collectively relate to employee wellbeing. Much of the existing research has examined such considerations in western samples, with limited exploration of eastern working populations. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between structural empowerment (SE) and employee sel...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Evaluation of a tailored oral health promotion intervention for Syrian former refugees in New Zealand
SummaryTo investigate a health promotion strategy to improve oral health among former refugees in New Zealand. Former refugees were recruited (n = 63) and answered a questionnaire about their oral home care, smoking, sugar consumption and use of dental services. Participants then joined either focus group sessions to co-design oral health educational material (n = 39) or to be dentally examined for oral hygiene, periodontal health, gingivitis and dental caries and receive motivational instructions to improve their oral health habits (n = 20). Health messages using dual-language leaflets (covering oral home care, smoking, d...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire short form
SummaryThe aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Portuguese Brazilian version of the instrument for measuring health literacyEuropean Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire short form (HLS-EU-Q16). The study sample consisted of 783 Brazilian adults with a mean age of 38.6 years. The data were analyzed through an extensive and robust process of testing the properties with the combination of exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and item response theory (IRT) techniques, aiming to search for strong validation evidence in the internal structure and stability step for...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
An evaluation of the ‘bottom-up’ implementation of the Active at school! programme in Quebec, Canada
SummaryThe lack of physical activity (PA) amongst children is a public health concern in many industrialized countries. School-based daily physical activity (DPA) policies are a promising intervention for increasing PA levels amongst children. Informed by a logic model framework, this study examines the factors associated with meeting a ‘top-down’ DPA objective in the context of a ‘bottom-up’ implementation of a school-based DPA initiative in Quebec, Canada. An online survey assessing school-level inputs, outputs and outcomes was sent to all participating schools (415). Crude odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence in...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Active and healthy ageing in urban environments: laying the groundwork for solution-building through citizen science
SummaryUrban age-friendly initiatives strive to promote active and healthy ageing by addressing urban influences that impact individuals as they age. Collaborative community partnerships with multi-level stakeholders are crucial for fostering age-friendly initiatives that can transform urban community health. Employing a citizen social science (CSS) approach, this study aimed to engage older adults and stakeholders in Birmingham, UK, to (i) identify key urban barriers and facilitators to active and healthy ageing, and (ii) facilitate collaboration and knowledge production to lay the groundwork for a citizen science project...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Strengthening the gendered health promotion agenda
As the tsunami caused by COVID-19 quietly begins to recede, the academic community is assessing its impact. In the past two years, many of us had to juggle irreconcilable responsibilities, including a shifting and increasing academic workload carried out at home, increased childcare and caregiving responsibilities, homeschooling and household chores made more burdensome by the containment measures. Not surprisingly, this challenging situation has had a disproportionate impact on women and underrepresented minority faculty (Wu, 2021;Daviset al., 2022). Health promotion, as a field of research and action, should draw lessons...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 1, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
