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Kids in Action: the protocol of a Youth Participatory Action Research project to promote physical activity and dietary behaviour.
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- Facilitating co-research: lessons learned from reflection forms within three participatory action research projects.Health research policy and systems · 2024Article
- Navigating process evaluation in co-creation: a Health CASCADE scoping review of used frameworks and assessed components.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Health Promotion Actions Developed Through Youth-Centered Participatory Action Research.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2023Article
- Puberal and Adolescent Horse Riders' Fitness during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effects of Training Restrictions on Health-Related and Functional Motor Abilities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Development of a School-Based Health Literacy Model for Liver Fluke Prevention and Control Using Participatory Action Research.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2022Article
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- Exploring the co-involvement of disabled adolescents in participatory action research; protocol for a critical interpretative synthesis.HRB open research · 2021Article
- Shifting From Tokenism to Meaningful Adolescent Participation in Research for Obesity Prevention: A Systematic Scoping Review.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- "Not Only Adults Can Make Good Decisions, We as Children Can Do That as Well" Evaluating the Process of the Youth-Led Participatory Action Research 'Kids in Action'.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Co-designing obesity prevention interventions together with children: intervention mapping meets youth-led participatory action research.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Article
- Nyakaza-Move-for-Health: A Culturally Tailored Physical Activity Intervention for Adolescents in South Africa Using the Intervention Mapping Protocol.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
introductionIn this study, researchers collaborate with children from a low socioeconomic neighbourhood in Amsterdam in developing, implementing and evaluating interventions targeting their health behaviours. This Youth Participatory Action Research project focuses on the promotion of physical activity and healthy dietary behaviour. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This study is a controlled trial using participatory methods to develop interventions together with children aged 9-12 years. At four primary schools in a low socioeconomic neighbourhood in Amsterdam, an 'Action Team' is installed: a group of six to eight children who actively participate as co-researchers in developing, implementing and evaluating interventions. An academic researcher facilitates the participatory process. Four control schools, also located in low socioeconomic areas in and around Amsterdam, continue with their regular curriculum and do not participate in the participatory process. For the effect evaluation, physical activity and sedentary behaviour are assessed using accelerometers and self-reporting; dietary behaviour using self-reporting and motor fitness (strength, flexibility, coordination, speed and endurance) using the motor performance fitness test. Effectiveness of the interventions is evaluated by multilevel regression analysis. The process of co-creating interventions and the implemented interventions is continually evaluated during meetings of the Action Teams and with children participating in the interventions. Empowerment of children is evaluated during focus groups. Summaries and transcripts of meetings are coded and analysed to enrich children's findings. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The Medical Ethics Committee of the VU Medical Center approved the study protocol (2016.366). TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: TC=6604.
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