Co-designing obesity prevention interventions together with children: intervention mapping meets youth-led participatory action research.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Youth-led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) involves children throughout the process of developing and implementing interventions. Combining YPAR with a structural approach for designing and planning interventions, such as Intervention Mapping (IM), may further improve implementation and effectiveness of interventions. This paper describes how YPAR and IM were combined in the Kids in Action study. METHODS:The Kids in Action study aims to improve health behaviors of 9-12-year old children living in a low socioeconomic neighborhood in Amsterdam, by co-designing interventions with these children. At each of four schools 6-8 children (N = 18-24 total per year) and two academic researchers formed participatory groups that met weekly or every fortnight during two school years. An I

SUBMITTER: Anselma M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6909512 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature