Participatory Design of an Activities-Based Collective Mentoring Program in After-School Care Settings: Connect, Promote, and Protect Program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Out of school hours care (OSHC) services provide a unique opportunity to deliver early intervention programs to enhance primary school-aged children's social, emotional, physical, and cognitive well-being; however, such programs are currently lacking.

Objective

This study aims to address the lack of well-being programs for children accessing OSHC services in the research literature by using participatory design (PD) to collaboratively develop and test an OSHC well-being program-the connect, promote, and protect program (CP3).

Methods

The study employed methods of PD, user (acceptance) testing, and iterative knowledge translation to develop a novel well-being program framework-CP3-with key stakeholders (eg, children, OSHC staff, volunteers, families, clinici

SUBMITTER: Milton AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8076982 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature