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ArticleSociology of health & illness2016

'Coz football is what we all have': masculinities, practice, performance and effervescence in a gender-sensitised weight-loss and healthy living programme for men.

Christopher Bunn, Sally Wyke, Cindy M Gray, Alice Maclean, Kate Hunt

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Article in Sociology of health & illness, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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34citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christopher BunnInstitute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Sally WykeInstitute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Cindy M GrayInstitute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Alice MacleanMRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Kate HuntMRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
University of Glasgow · GB

Funding

Chief Scientist Office CZG/2/504Department of Health 09/3010/06Medical Research Council MC_U130059811Medical Research Council MC_UU_12017/12Medical Research Council MC_UU_12017/3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper we use a social practice approach to explore men's experience of Football Fans in Training (FFIT), a group-based weight management programme for men that harnesses men's symbolic attachment to professional football clubs to engage them in lifestyle change. FFIT is delivered by community coaches in clubs' stadia and is gender-sensitised in relation to context, content and style of delivery. Using a 'toolkit' of concepts from the work of Bourdieu, Goffman and Durkheim we analysed data from 13 focus group discussions with participants, and fieldwork notes from programme observations to investigate the appeal and success of FFIT, and how it worked to support change. Our analysis builds on our work on the importance of shared symbolic commitment to the football club and being with 'men like me' to understand how the interaction context facilitated 'effervescent' experiences. These experiences encouraged men to make changes to their diet and physical activity, talk about them, practice performing them and implement them in their lives. Thus a social practice approach illuminated the social processes through which lifestyle change was achieved, and we argue that it can deepen and enrich both intervention design and evaluation.

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MasculinitySoccerWeight LossAdultDietExerciseFocus GroupsHealth PromotionHumansMaleMiddle AgedObesityPeer GroupProgram EvaluationUnited Kingdomdurkheimfootballhealth practicesmasculinity/masculinitiesmen's healthobesity

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PMID26864994
PMCPMC4950300
OpenAlexW2210505100

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