Designing a youth-led Dialogue Forum tool: The CO-CREATE experience

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dc.abstract.enWhile obesity prevention represents an established field of research, the inclusion of young people, who are regularly cited as an important priority group, are rarely actioned in long-term studies. This paper focuses on the development of a dialogue tool intended to tackle this issue, engaging, and eliciting insights on the theme of obesity prevention, by young people and for young people. As part of the CO-CREATE project, this tool was co-developed by designers, public health, and youth participation experts, researchers, and young people. Co-creation is a key methodology in the design of the dialogue tool, as young people were involved in all stages of the development process. This paper elaborates on the process of co-designing a dialogue tool that helps explore obesity prevention policy ideas from multiple perspectives, and describes the design principles that informed the process and the final versions of the tool. The purpose of the Dialogue Forum tool is for youth to engage policymakers and other relevant stakeholders to discuss and refine co-created and youth-initiated ideas for healthier food and physical activity environments. We analyze how specific design principles were integrated into different prototypes and the value of this within the project and the field.
dc.affiliationInstitute of Psychology
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii we Wrocławiu
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorUlloa, Manuela Aguirre
dc.contributor.authorNesrallah, Samantha
dc.contributor.authorShafafi, Pardis
dc.contributor.authorLamar, Angel
dc.contributor.authorCôrte-Real Gonçalves, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorGonçalves, Mafalda
dc.contributor.authorSteen Nylander, Karoline
dc.contributor.authorŁuszczyńska, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorLien, Nanna
dc.contributor.authorBergstrøm, Elin
dc.contributor.authorRutter, Harry
dc.contributor.authorMarki, Henriette
dc.contributor.authorKlepp, Knut-Inge
dc.contributor.authorBouillon, Claire
dc.date.access2023-09-27
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-10T12:22:30Z
dc.date.available2024-01-10T12:22:30Z
dc.date.created2023-06-08
dc.date.issued2023-09-27
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p>This study evaluated the effect on reported readiness for action and attitudes toward obesity prevention among older adolescents (mean age 17) who took part in a youth‐led participatory action research European initiative (CO‐CREATE Youth Alliances) compared with a comparison group that acted as controls. This was a concurrent before‐and‐after controlled study across five countries and took place between September 2019 and October 2020. Adolescents (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 159) recruited from schools and youth organizations came together with researchers and formed 15 Youth Alliances. An online questionnaire measuring their readiness for action and attitudes toward obesity prevention was administered. Alliance members (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 62) who filled in the questionnaire at both baseline and postinitiative, and adolescents from the comparison group (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 132) who completed the questionnaire twice were included in the main analysis. Two‐level linear mixed models controlling for country‐related variance were fitted. Alliance members scored significantly higher than the comparison group on two factors in each of the readiness for action, responsibility, and drivers of behavior concepts. The findings suggest that involving youth in co‐creating policies to prevent obesity may increase adolescents' readiness for action and promote a shift in adolescents' conceptualization of obesity from an individual perspective to a societal responsibility and drivers of behavior.</jats:p>
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dc.description.grantnumberCo-Create; Horizon2020; European Commission, Grant/Award Number: 774210
dc.description.granttitleConfronting Obesity: Co-creating policy with youth
dc.description.issueS2
dc.description.physical1-17
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume24
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/obr.13611
dc.identifier.issn1467-7881
dc.identifier.issn1467-789X
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/338
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/obr.13611
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
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dc.subject.enDialogue
dc.subject.enco-creation
dc.subject.endesign research
dc.subject.enyouth engagement
dc.swps.sciencecloudnosend
dc.titleDesigning a youth-led Dialogue Forum tool: The CO-CREATE experience
dc.title.journalObesity Reviews
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle