Using co-design to identify intervention components to address unhealthy dietary and activity behaviours in New Zealand South Asians.

ABSTRACT: There is an urgent need to develop sustainable and impactful interventions to mitigate the high risk of diet-related non-communicable diseases (diet-NCDs) in South Asians living in high-income countries. The current study using a co-design methodology aimed to identify community-led intervention components (solutions) to address barriers and enablers of disease-promoting dietary and physical activity behaviours in New Zealand South Asians. Data were collected from South Asian immigrants aged 25-59 years via three focus group discussions (n = 21) and 10 telephone or face-to-face interviews between 2018 and 2019. The thematic analysis resulted in identifying 22 barrier and enabler codes and 12 solution codes which were summarised under five themes. The key solutions (intervention components)

SUBMITTER: Parackal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11428100 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature