Learning from the CO‐CREATE project: A protocol for systems thinking across research (STAR)
Learning from the CO‐CREATE project: A protocol for systems thinking across research (STAR)
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Knai, Cécile
Savona, Natalie
Finegood, Diane
Aguiar, Anaely
Blanchard, Laurence
Conway-Moore, Kaitlin
Helleve, Arnfinn
Klepp, Knut-Inge
Lien, Nanna
Łuszczyńska, Aleksandra
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2023-09-27
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Obesity Reviews
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S2
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24
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1-11
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1467-7881
1467-789X
1467-789X
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2023-09-27
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The CO-CREATE project aimed to work with young people to create, inform, and disseminate obesity-preventive evidence-based policies using a complex systems perspective. This paper draws lessons from this experience and proposes a protocol for embedding systems thinking within a research project. We first draw on existing systems thinking frameworks to analyze how systems thinking was translated across CO-CREATE, including the flow and relationship between the work packages and in the methods used. We then take the lessons from CO-CREATE and the principles of existing systems thinking frameworks—which focus on various points of intervention planning and delivery but not on research projects as a whole—to formulate a protocol for embedding systems thinking across a research project. Key lessons for future planning and delivery of systems-oriented research projects include incorporating “boundary critique” by capturing key stakeholder (adolescent) values and concerns; working to avoid social exclusion; ensuring methodological pluralism to allow for reflection and responsiveness (with methods ranging from group model building, Photovoice, and small group engagement); getting policy recipients to shape key questions by understanding their views on the critical drivers of obesity early on in the project; and providing opportunity for intraproject reflection along the way.
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adolescents
complex projects
research planning
systems thinking
complex projects
research planning
systems thinking
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Confronting Obesity: Co-creating policy with youth
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