scholarly journals Exploring strategies to improve the health promotion orientation of Flemish sports clubs

2016 ◽  
pp. daw004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Meganck ◽  
Jan Seghers ◽  
Jeroen Scheerder
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Promotion Orientation

Health promotion orientation of GAA sports clubs in Ireland

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aoife Lane ◽  
Niamh Murphy ◽  
Alex Donohoe ◽  
Colin Regan
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Promotion Orientation

Health promotion orientation of GAA sports clubs in Ireland

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
Aoife Lane ◽  
Niamh Murphy ◽  
Alex Donohoe ◽  
Colin Regan
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Promotion Orientation

A healthy sports club initiative in action in Ireland

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (6) ◽  
pp. 645-657
Author(s):  
Aoife Lane ◽  
Niamh Murphy ◽  
Alex Donohoe ◽  
Colin Regan
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Health Promotion Activity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Promotion Orientation

Objective: The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is part of the cultural fabric of Irish society with a club in almost every community nationwide. The aim of this project was to carry out a pilot evaluation of the GAA Healthy Club Project (HCP), which is a unique effort by a national governing body to include health as part of the core business of the organisation at grass roots level. Design: A pre–post intervention group only design was used across 18 clubs recruited to a pilot phase of the project. Setting: GAA grassroots sports clubs across Ireland. Methods: Twelve Healthy Club Officers completed a self-evaluation survey of their club at two time points to indicate the health promotion orientation of their club and the extent of health promotion activity in the club. Results: Data showed improvements in the health promotion orientation of clubs, from moderate to high health promoting overall and particular increases in policy and practice scores. This is likely due to the widespread appointment of Healthy Club Officers and the delivery of health-related initiatives in clubs. Conclusion: The impact of the project, while not demonstrable as an intervention effect at this stage, was real for the clubs involved. The GAA HCP is a novel way of carrying out health promotion in Ireland, serving as a meeting point between the ‘push of health’ and ‘pull of the sports club’.

scholarly journals Health Promotion Interventions in Sports Clubs: Can We Talk About a Setting-Based Approach? A Systematic Mapping Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Geidne ◽  
Sami Kokko ◽  
Aoife Lane ◽  
Linda Ooms ◽  
Anne Vuillemin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Setting Approach ◽  
Mapping Review ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers ◽  
Systematic Mapping Review

Many researchers and authorities have recognized the important role that sports clubs can play in public health. In spite of attempts to create a theoretical framework in the early 2000s, a thorough understanding of sports clubs as a setting for health promotion (HP) is lacking. Despite calls for more effective, sustainable, and theoretically grounded interventions, previous literature reviews have identified no controlled studies assessing HP interventions in sports clubs. This systematic mapping review details how the settings-based approach is applied through HP interventions in sports clubs and highlights facilitators and barriers for sports clubs to become health-promoting settings. In addition, the mapped facilitators and barriers have been used to reformulate previous guidelines of HP in sports clubs. Seven databases were searched for empirical research published between 1986 and 2017. Fifty-eight studies were included, principally coming from Australia and Europe, describing 33 unique interventions, which targeted mostly male participants in team sports. The settings-based approach was not yet applied in sports clubs, as more than half of the interventions implemented in sports club targeted only one level of the socio-ecological model, as well as focused only on study participants rather than the club overall. Based on empirical data, the analysis of facilitators and barriers helped develop revised guidelines for sports clubs to implement settings-based HP. This will be particularly useful when implementing HP initiatives to aid in the development of sports clubs working with a whole setting approach.

scholarly journals Valuing experiential knowledge in health promotion: a new method to build up knowledge in France

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Laurent ◽  
C Ferron ◽  
P Berry ◽  
B Soudier ◽  
B Georgelin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
New Method ◽  
Tobacco Prevention ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Sports Clubs

Abstract Issue Effectiveness analyses of health promotion (HP) interventions (HPI) abound nowadays in France, but few research details how HPI work, nor explains how practitioners can translate conclusive evidence from the literature into action. Furthermore, large amounts of experiential knowledge remain untapped and undervalued. To close these gaps, a national multidisciplinary committee, comprising public officials, academics and practitioners, has worked since 2016 at designing a new method to build up knowledge in HP. CEKHP The method aims at Capitalizing, collecting and circulating Experiential Knowledge in HP (CEKHP). Committee members first investigated methods used in other countries to synthesize and share practical evidence, then drafted and experimented CEKHP in 11 different settings to test its relevance and applicability. Results Key components of CEKHP are: 1/CEKHP consists in in-depth semi-structured interviews and offers a guideline template adjustable for various contexts and multiple public health issues (behaviors, environments, etc.); 2/a trained outsider, mastering 7 core competencies, must conduct CEKHP; 3/CEKHP includes a framework for reporting key mechanisms that influence HPI outcomes. Detailed mechanisms include: context, partnerships, key steps, barriers and levers, ethics, theoretical foundations (intervention models, evidence-based literature, etc.), transferability. A guidebook and a toolkit are published in 2020. CEKHP successfully disseminates within the French HP community. It is currently used as the main data collection tool in a research project investigating health promoting sports clubs (PROCeSS) and in a practice-focused project documenting tobacco prevention (DCAP). Lessons Practitioners benefit from access to knowledge on how HPI work. CEKHP offers new tools to value and disseminate experiential knowledge. Given that policymakers increasingly prioritize funding in France on documented HPI, providing such tools and training is crucial. Key messages CEKHP offers a new method in the French context that has proven fruitful in various settings, for various public health issues, and can be useful to practitioners and researchers alike. Building up experiential knowledge with and for practitioners can be effective at both documenting practices and helping them gain new skills and better understanding of their interventions.

“It Wasn’t Like We Expected”: Analyzing (Non-)Participation of Family Caregivers of People With Dementia in Sports Activities From Different Perspectives

2020 ◽  
pp. 073346482091729
Author(s):  
Veronique Wolter ◽  
Sarah Hampel
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Target Group ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Sports Activities

Family caregivers of people with dementia represent a physically and psychologically burdened target group, which can benefit from offers of health promotion, but rarely use existing services. This article deals with the motives and conditions that induce this target group to be (not) active in sports. For this purpose, the perspectives of family caregivers and local sports clubs in Germany are compared to uncover similarities and discrepancies with the aim of developing target group-specific health promotion services. Results were classified into three dimensions for (non-)participation in sports activities. People who participated in sports club programs generally confirmed its positive effects. Among other things, the sports clubs and family caregivers surveyed emphasized the compatibility of the care situation with possible leisure activities as very important components for (non-)participation. The results show that the subjective health attitudes must be taken into account in the design of health promotion offers.

scholarly journals Building health promoting sports clubs: A participative concept mapping approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Johnson ◽  
A Van Hoye ◽  
A Donaldson ◽  
F Lemonnier ◽  
F Rostan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Participative Approach ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Health Promotion Interventions

Abstract Background Sports clubs offer a unique position to increase performance and physical activity but may also provide additional health promoting opportunities. Research is limited on support clubs need to increase health promotion efforts. This study took a participative approach to gather French stakeholder ideas on perceived assistance sports clubs need to increase health promotion efforts and prioritized them based on ratings of importance and feasibility. Methods This concept mapping study had 4-steps: 1) drafting a focus prompt to a key issue, 2) brainstorming ideas in response to the focus prompt, 3) sorting ideas into themed piles and 4) rating ideas (1-6) based on two indicators. French stakeholders (45) in sports and health organizations were invited to respond using the groupwisdom™ platform. Researchers produced visual cluster maps of themed piles and Go-Zone graphs displaying ideas perceived as important and feasible. Results Participants generated 62 ideas responding to the focus prompt: 'What assistance would benefit sports clubs to become health-promoting settings?'. Once researchers edited ideas, 78 were available to sort. Final sorting formed 9 clusters: Tools for health promotion, Communication tools, Stakeholder training courses, Diagnostic & Financing, Awareness & Mobilization, Advocacy, Policies & Methods, Sharing & Networking, Communication & Dissemination. Importance and feasibility ratings produced Go-Zones with 34 ideas above the mean for both indicators. Top focus areas include: increasing awareness of health promotion benefits, mobilizing actors, advocating for support and educating club actors. Conclusions Understanding support stakeholders need to increase health promotion efforts in sports clubs is a crucial step to plan and implement policies. Including stakeholders' perceptions helps establish effective interventions by increasing the possibility of integration into current or emerging policies and acceptance from those working in clubs. Key messages Generating and organizing stakeholder ideas gives insight into perceptions of what support is needed to develop and implement health promotion interventions in the sports club context. Based on importance and feasibility, sports clubs can increase health promotion efforts by focusing on: increasing awareness of health promotion benefits, mobilizing actors, advocacy and education.

The health promoting sports club model: an intervention planning framework

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurélie Van Hoye ◽  
Stacey Johnson ◽  
Susanna Geidne ◽  
Alex Donaldson ◽  
Florence Rostan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Published Evidence ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Master Level ◽  
Intervention Planning

Summary Researchers and policymakers acknowledge sports clubs (SCs) as health promoting settings. Limited research links the health promoting sports club (HPSC) concept with evidence-driven strategies to provide SCs guidance to develop health promotion (HP) interventions. As implementation science insists on theoretically grounded interventions, the present work’s objective was to provide SCs an evidence-driven intervention framework for planning, developing and implementing HP initiatives. Four iteratively sequenced steps were undertaken: (i) investigation of ‘health promoting’ indicators, (ii) adaptation of the HPSC concept to create the HPSC model, (iii) formulation of published evidence-driven guidelines into strategies and implementable intervention components (ICs) and (iv) merging the HPSC model with the ICs to create an intervention planning framework for SCs. First, researchers drafted five HPSC indicators. Second, they defined three SC levels (macro, meso and micro) and four health determinants (organizational, environmental, economic and social) to create an HPSC model. Third, researchers used published guidelines to develop 14 strategies with 55 ICs. Fourth, three workshops (one each with French master-level sport students, French sport and health professionals and Swedish sport and health professionals) had participants classify the ICs into the model. The HPSC model and intervention framework are starting points to plan, select and deliver interventions to increase SC HP. This planning framework is usable in several ways: (i) clubs can apply strategies to achieve specific goals, (ii) clubs can target specific levels with corresponding ICs and (iii) ICs can be used to address particular health determinants.

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