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Engaging New Parents in the Development of a Peer Nutrition Education Model Using Participatory Action Research
This study investigated the implementation model and research methods of a peer education program for new parents focused on infant feeding and nutrition. Two hundred and sixty-nine parents with an infant aged birth to two years old were invited to become co-researchers in a Participatory Action Res...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8750105/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010363 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010102 |
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author | Ball, Richard Duncanson, Kerith Ashton, Lee Bailey, Andrew Burrows, Tracy L. Whiteford, Gail Henström, Maria Gerathy, Rachel Walton, Alison Wehlow, Jennifer Collins, Clare E. |
author_facet | Ball, Richard Duncanson, Kerith Ashton, Lee Bailey, Andrew Burrows, Tracy L. Whiteford, Gail Henström, Maria Gerathy, Rachel Walton, Alison Wehlow, Jennifer Collins, Clare E. |
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description | This study investigated the implementation model and research methods of a peer education program for new parents focused on infant feeding and nutrition. Two hundred and sixty-nine parents with an infant aged birth to two years old were invited to become co-researchers in a Participatory Action Research (PAR) study over three years. Data included focus group and online participant meeting transcripts, social media data, correspondence between the implementation team and peer educators, and field notes. All data were consolidated regularly and discussed by project participants and the research team. After each PAR cycle, structured content analysis was conducted, informing the next iteration of the implementation model and research methods. Participating parents were highly engaged in child feeding peer-to-peer education, but felt more effective and comfortable being considered as a child-feeding information resource sharer or ‘champion’ rather than a formal peer educator. Similarly, quantitative data collection was only effective when it was integrated seamlessly into the implementation model. PAR methodology suited the diversity and dynamic real-life study setting, facilitating substantial improvements to the peer nutrition intervention model and data collection methods. Our study demonstrated that a genuine collaboration between health professionals and participants to implement research in practice can achieve both intervention outcomes and research aims. |
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spelling | pubmed-87501052022-01-12 Engaging New Parents in the Development of a Peer Nutrition Education Model Using Participatory Action Research Ball, Richard Duncanson, Kerith Ashton, Lee Bailey, Andrew Burrows, Tracy L. Whiteford, Gail Henström, Maria Gerathy, Rachel Walton, Alison Wehlow, Jennifer Collins, Clare E. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This study investigated the implementation model and research methods of a peer education program for new parents focused on infant feeding and nutrition. Two hundred and sixty-nine parents with an infant aged birth to two years old were invited to become co-researchers in a Participatory Action Research (PAR) study over three years. Data included focus group and online participant meeting transcripts, social media data, correspondence between the implementation team and peer educators, and field notes. All data were consolidated regularly and discussed by project participants and the research team. After each PAR cycle, structured content analysis was conducted, informing the next iteration of the implementation model and research methods. Participating parents were highly engaged in child feeding peer-to-peer education, but felt more effective and comfortable being considered as a child-feeding information resource sharer or ‘champion’ rather than a formal peer educator. Similarly, quantitative data collection was only effective when it was integrated seamlessly into the implementation model. PAR methodology suited the diversity and dynamic real-life study setting, facilitating substantial improvements to the peer nutrition intervention model and data collection methods. Our study demonstrated that a genuine collaboration between health professionals and participants to implement research in practice can achieve both intervention outcomes and research aims. MDPI 2021-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8750105/ /pubmed/35010363 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010102 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ball, Richard Duncanson, Kerith Ashton, Lee Bailey, Andrew Burrows, Tracy L. Whiteford, Gail Henström, Maria Gerathy, Rachel Walton, Alison Wehlow, Jennifer Collins, Clare E. Engaging New Parents in the Development of a Peer Nutrition Education Model Using Participatory Action Research |
title | Engaging New Parents in the Development of a Peer Nutrition Education Model Using Participatory Action Research |
title_full | Engaging New Parents in the Development of a Peer Nutrition Education Model Using Participatory Action Research |
title_fullStr | Engaging New Parents in the Development of a Peer Nutrition Education Model Using Participatory Action Research |
title_full_unstemmed | Engaging New Parents in the Development of a Peer Nutrition Education Model Using Participatory Action Research |
title_short | Engaging New Parents in the Development of a Peer Nutrition Education Model Using Participatory Action Research |
title_sort | engaging new parents in the development of a peer nutrition education model using participatory action research |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8750105/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010363 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010102 |
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