Strategies for effective implementation and scale-up of a multi-level co-designed men's health initiative "Sheds for Life" in Irish Men's Sheds.

ABSTRACT: Sheds for Life is a gender-specific tailored men's health initiative engaging "hard-to-reach" men in the Men's Shed setting in Ireland. It is implemented by multiple stakeholders at individual, provider, organization and systems level and thus multiple contextual factors influence its scalability. This research used established implementation science frameworks to guide participatory research approaches that captured the process and identified facilitators of and barriers to implementation and scale-up. Active recruitment, co-design processes, leadership and stakeholder engagement emerged as key facilitators of implementation. Prominent barriers were institutional capacity and funding. Acceptability, adoption and appropriateness of the initiative were high among stakeholders with sustainab

SUBMITTER: McGrath A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10012692 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature