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Facilitating health promoting ideas and actions: participatory research in an underserved Swedish residential area

BACKGROUND: For an intervention to contribute to decreased health gaps, people living in underserved areas must participate in the research-to-action process during the development of the intervention. The purpose of this study was to collaborate with residents living in a Swedish underserved area t...

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Autores principales: Magnusson, Maria, Vaughn, Lisa M., Wretlind, Katharina, Forslund, Heléne Bertéus, Berg, Christina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8785534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35073898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12431-y
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author Magnusson, Maria
Vaughn, Lisa M.
Wretlind, Katharina
Forslund, Heléne Bertéus
Berg, Christina
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Vaughn, Lisa M.
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Forslund, Heléne Bertéus
Berg, Christina
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description BACKGROUND: For an intervention to contribute to decreased health gaps, people living in underserved areas must participate in the research-to-action process during the development of the intervention. The purpose of this study was to collaborate with residents living in a Swedish underserved area to generate health and wellness priorities and actions. METHODS: We applied Group Level Assessment (GLA) together with people living in a Swedish neighborhood where obesity, dental caries and other illnesses are prevalent. GLA is a qualitative, participatory methodology that is designed for a large group to generate and evaluate relevant needs and priorities within a lens of action for positive social change. Residents were recruited by posters, postcards and snowball sampling. In total, 47 residents participated. Eight GLA sessions were held over a five-month time period. RESULTS: The GLA sessions resulted in reflections, proposals and actions for change by the residents. Adolescent and parent need for support, improved communication and more meeting places were highlighted as priorities for promoting health and well-being. The results were presented for stakeholders in a report and an exhibition and some of the participants started a language café. CONCLUSIONS: GLA emphasised the participants’ perspective. The participatory process helped them identify what they thought valuable and relevant concerning health issues and supported them in taking actions to achieve change.
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spelling pubmed-87855342022-01-24 Facilitating health promoting ideas and actions: participatory research in an underserved Swedish residential area Magnusson, Maria Vaughn, Lisa M. Wretlind, Katharina Forslund, Heléne Bertéus Berg, Christina BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: For an intervention to contribute to decreased health gaps, people living in underserved areas must participate in the research-to-action process during the development of the intervention. The purpose of this study was to collaborate with residents living in a Swedish underserved area to generate health and wellness priorities and actions. METHODS: We applied Group Level Assessment (GLA) together with people living in a Swedish neighborhood where obesity, dental caries and other illnesses are prevalent. GLA is a qualitative, participatory methodology that is designed for a large group to generate and evaluate relevant needs and priorities within a lens of action for positive social change. Residents were recruited by posters, postcards and snowball sampling. In total, 47 residents participated. Eight GLA sessions were held over a five-month time period. RESULTS: The GLA sessions resulted in reflections, proposals and actions for change by the residents. Adolescent and parent need for support, improved communication and more meeting places were highlighted as priorities for promoting health and well-being. The results were presented for stakeholders in a report and an exhibition and some of the participants started a language café. CONCLUSIONS: GLA emphasised the participants’ perspective. The participatory process helped them identify what they thought valuable and relevant concerning health issues and supported them in taking actions to achieve change. BioMed Central 2022-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8785534/ /pubmed/35073898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12431-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Forslund, Heléne Bertéus
Berg, Christina
Facilitating health promoting ideas and actions: participatory research in an underserved Swedish residential area
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8785534/
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