Recruiting and engaging adolescents in creating overweight and obesity prevention policies: The CO‐CREATE project

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dc.abstract.enThe CO-CREATE project aims to collaborate with adolescents across Europe in developing policy ideas that contribute to overweight and obesity prevention. In this paper, we present the theoretical basis and methodological approach to recruitment and engagement in the project. The principles of youth-led participatory action research were employed to design Youth Alliances in which adolescents and adults could collaborate. These Alliances should serve to promote and support adolescent participation and to develop policy ideas that would contribute to obesity prevention. Alliance members were recruited in two local geographical areas per country with a focus on reaching out to underrepresented youth. We started with fieldwork to assess locally relevant forms of inclusion and exclusion. The methodology entailed a handbook combining existing tools which could be used flexibly, a collaborative organization, and budgets for the alliances. Engagement started in local organizations, that is, schools and scouts, and with peers. Health- and overweight-related challenges were addressed in their immediate surroundings and supported the inclusion of experiential knowledge. Adolescents were then supported to address the wider obesogenic system when designing policy ideas. The CO-CREATE Alliances provide a concrete example of how to engage youth in public health, in a manner that strives to be participatory, transformative, and inquiry based.
dc.affiliationInstitute of Psychology
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii we Wrocławiu
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorBröer, Christian
dc.contributor.authorAyuandini, Sherria
dc.contributor.authorBaillergeau, Evelyne
dc.contributor.authorMoerman, Gerben
dc.contributor.authorVeltkamp, Gerlieke
dc.contributor.authorŁuszczyńska, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorBudin-Ljøsne, Isabelle
dc.contributor.authorRito, Ana Isabel
dc.contributor.authorStensdal, Maja
dc.contributor.authorLien, Nanna
dc.contributor.authorKlepp, Knut-Inge
dc.date.access2023-02-24
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-11T12:00:36Z
dc.date.available2024-01-11T12:00:36Z
dc.date.created2022-12-14
dc.date.issued2023-02-24
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p>The CO‐CREATE project aims to collaborate with adolescents across Europe in developing policy ideas that contribute to overweight and obesity prevention. In this paper, we present the theoretical basis and methodological approach to recruitment and engagement in the project. The principles of youth‐led participatory action research were employed to design Youth Alliances in which adolescents and adults could collaborate. These Alliances should serve to promote and support adolescent participation and to develop policy ideas that would contribute to obesity prevention. Alliance members were recruited in two local geographical areas per country with a focus on reaching out to underrepresented youth. We started with fieldwork to assess locally relevant forms of inclusion and exclusion. The methodology entailed a handbook combining existing tools which could be used flexibly, a collaborative organization, and budgets for the alliances. Engagement started in local organizations, that is, schools and scouts, and with peers. Health‐ and overweight‐related challenges were addressed in their immediate surroundings and supported the inclusion of experiential knowledge. Adolescents were then supported to address the wider obesogenic system when designing policy ideas. The CO‐CREATE Alliances provide a concrete example of how to engage youth in public health, in a manner that strives to be participatory, transformative, and inquiry based.</jats:p>
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dc.description.grantnumberCO-CREATE; European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program for Sustainable Food Security under grant agreement no. 774210
dc.description.granttitleConfronting Obesity: Co-creating policy with youth
dc.description.issueS1
dc.description.physical1-9
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume24
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/obr.13546
dc.identifier.issn1467-7881
dc.identifier.issn1467-789X
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/351
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/obr.13546
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND
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dc.subject.enengagement
dc.subject.enobesity prevention
dc.subject.enyouth
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dc.titleRecruiting and engaging adolescents in creating overweight and obesity prevention policies: The CO‐CREATE project
dc.title.journalObesity Reviews
dc.typeJournalArticle
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