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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Scale-Up and Scale-Out of a Gender-Sensitized Weight Management and Healthy Living Program Delivered to Overweight Men via Professional Sports Clubs: The Wider Implementation of Football Fans in Training (FFIT).

Kate Hunt, Sally Wyke, Christopher Bunn, Craig Donnachie, Nicky Reid, Cindy M Gray

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kate HuntInstitute for Social Marketing, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK.
Sally WykeInstitute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Christopher BunnInstitute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6604-1305
Craig DonnachieInstitute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1637-3138
Nicky ReidScottish Professional League Trust (SPFL-T), Glasgow G42 9DE, UK.
Cindy M GrayInstitute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
University of Glasgow · GBUniversity of Stirling · GB

Funding

Chief Scientist Office CZG/2/504Chief Scientist Office SPHSU12Department of Health 09/3010/06Department of Health 13/99/32Department of Health PHR/13/99/32Medical Research Council MC_U130059811Medical Research Council MC_UU_12017/12Medical Research Council MC_UU_12017/3Medical Research Council MC_UU_1207/12
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increasing prevalence of obesity poses challenges for public health. Men have been under-served by weight management programs, highlighting a need for gender-sensitized programs that can be embedded into routine practice or adapted for new settings/populations, to accelerate the process of implementing programs that are successful and cost-effective under research conditions. To address gaps in examples of how to bridge the research to practice gap, we describe the scale-up and scale-out of Football Fans in Training (FFIT), a weight management and healthy living program in relation to two implementation frameworks. The paper presents: the development, evaluation and scale-up of FFIT, mapped onto the PRACTIS guide; outcomes in scale-up deliveries; and the scale-out of FFIT through programs delivered in other contexts (other countries, professional sports, target groups, public health focus). FFIT has been scaled-up through a single-license franchise model in over 40 UK professional football clubs to 2019 (and 30 more from 2020) and scaled-out into football and other sporting contexts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, England and other European countries. The successful scale-up and scale-out of FFIT demonstrates that, with attention to cultural constructions of masculinity, public health interventions can appeal to men and support them in sustainable lifestyle change.

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Life StyleNutrition TherapySoccerWeight Reduction ProgramsAdultAgedHealth PromotionHumansMaleMasculinityMiddle AgedOverweightProgram DevelopmentProgram EvaluationPublic FacilitiesUnited Kingdomcontexthealth behavior changeimplementationmen’s healthobesityphysical activityscalability and sustainability of interventionsscale-outscale-upweight loss interventions

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PMID31963224
PMCPMC7014345
OpenAlexW2999454628

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