Lived experience of participants who engaged in the co-creation of initiatives to improve children's health in a rural Australian community.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe participants' lived experience of co-creating and implementing initiatives to improve children's health.

Design

This manuscript reports an embedded case study design, which aims to describe participants' lived experiences of co-creating community-based initiatives. Information was gathered from an online survey and two focus groups. The two transcribed discussions from the focus groups were analysed using a 6-step phenomenological process.

Setting

Mansfield, Australia, population 4787, is one of ten local government areas (LGA) participating in the Reflexive Evidence and Systems Interventions to Prevent Obesity and Non-communicable Disease (RESPOND) project.

Participants

Participants were purposively selected from established community gro

SUBMITTER: Vargas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10946477 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature