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A qualitative examination of the impact of microgrants to promote physical activity among adolescents
BACKGROUND: Microgrants are a mechanism for providing funding to community organizations or groups to support health initiatives. Little research to date has examined the use of microgrants in promoting physical activity (PA), and no studies have explored how microgrants may support PA promotion amo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4247614/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25417002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1206 |
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author | Tamminen, Katherine A Faulkner, Guy Witcher, Chad S G Spence, John C |
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description | BACKGROUND: Microgrants are a mechanism for providing funding to community organizations or groups to support health initiatives. Little research to date has examined the use of microgrants in promoting physical activity (PA), and no studies have explored how microgrants may support PA promotion among adolescents. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of microgrants in enhancing PA opportunities for Canadian adolescents. METHODS: Employing a case study approach, nine community organizations from across Canada were selected as cases providing sports and physical activities with the support of microgrant funding. Researchers visited each organization and conducted semi-structured interviews with 40 program participants (12–25 years of age, M = 16.3, SD = 2.6) and 17 adult organizers/instructors (23–57 years of age, M = 37.4, SD = 10.0). Interview transcripts were inductively and deductively coded to identify concepts and create a hierarchy of themes. RESULTS: Analysis produced themes regarding participants’ perceptions of the Funding, Running Programs and Events, the Impact of Program (for the Organization, Teen Participants, and the Community). Opportunities for PA programming would not have been possible without the microgrant funding. Microgrant funding was valuable in promoting PA for adolescents, and they afforded opportunities for adolescents to engage in new and/or nontraditional activities. In addition to promoting PA, the microgrants had benefits for participants and the community organizations including improved organizational capacity. CONCLUSIONS: Microgrants appear to be an effective mechanism for enhancing community capacity to provide PA opportunities for Canadian adolescents by helping to reduce financial barriers and empowering adolescents to take an active role in identifying and hosting new and creative PA events within their communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-42476142014-11-30 A qualitative examination of the impact of microgrants to promote physical activity among adolescents Tamminen, Katherine A Faulkner, Guy Witcher, Chad S G Spence, John C BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Microgrants are a mechanism for providing funding to community organizations or groups to support health initiatives. Little research to date has examined the use of microgrants in promoting physical activity (PA), and no studies have explored how microgrants may support PA promotion among adolescents. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of microgrants in enhancing PA opportunities for Canadian adolescents. METHODS: Employing a case study approach, nine community organizations from across Canada were selected as cases providing sports and physical activities with the support of microgrant funding. Researchers visited each organization and conducted semi-structured interviews with 40 program participants (12–25 years of age, M = 16.3, SD = 2.6) and 17 adult organizers/instructors (23–57 years of age, M = 37.4, SD = 10.0). Interview transcripts were inductively and deductively coded to identify concepts and create a hierarchy of themes. RESULTS: Analysis produced themes regarding participants’ perceptions of the Funding, Running Programs and Events, the Impact of Program (for the Organization, Teen Participants, and the Community). Opportunities for PA programming would not have been possible without the microgrant funding. Microgrant funding was valuable in promoting PA for adolescents, and they afforded opportunities for adolescents to engage in new and/or nontraditional activities. In addition to promoting PA, the microgrants had benefits for participants and the community organizations including improved organizational capacity. CONCLUSIONS: Microgrants appear to be an effective mechanism for enhancing community capacity to provide PA opportunities for Canadian adolescents by helping to reduce financial barriers and empowering adolescents to take an active role in identifying and hosting new and creative PA events within their communities. BioMed Central 2014-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4247614/ /pubmed/25417002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1206 Text en © Tamminen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tamminen, Katherine A Faulkner, Guy Witcher, Chad S G Spence, John C A qualitative examination of the impact of microgrants to promote physical activity among adolescents |
title | A qualitative examination of the impact of microgrants to promote physical activity among adolescents |
title_full | A qualitative examination of the impact of microgrants to promote physical activity among adolescents |
title_fullStr | A qualitative examination of the impact of microgrants to promote physical activity among adolescents |
title_full_unstemmed | A qualitative examination of the impact of microgrants to promote physical activity among adolescents |
title_short | A qualitative examination of the impact of microgrants to promote physical activity among adolescents |
title_sort | qualitative examination of the impact of microgrants to promote physical activity among adolescents |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4247614/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25417002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1206 |
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