Recruiting and engaging adolescents in creating overweight and obesity prevention policies: The CO‐CREATE project
Recruiting and engaging adolescents in creating overweight and obesity prevention policies: The CO‐CREATE project
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Bröer, Christian
Ayuandini, Sherria
Baillergeau, Evelyne
Moerman, Gerben
Veltkamp, Gerlieke
Łuszczyńska, Aleksandra
Budin-Ljøsne, Isabelle
Rito, Ana Isabel
Stensdal, Maja
Lien, Nanna
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2023-02-24
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Obesity Reviews
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S1
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24
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1-9
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1467-7881
1467-789X
1467-789X
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2023-02-24
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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.
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engagement
obesity prevention
youth
obesity prevention
youth
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Confronting Obesity: Co-creating policy with youth
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