Pub Date : 2023-01-08DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2022.2161610
L. Walker, Sam Dawson, Samantha Brady, Emily Hillison, Michelle Horspool, Gareth Jones, Ellie Wildbore, E. Peckham
ABSTRACT SPACES (Supporting Physical Activity through Co-production in people with Severe Mental Illness) is a study which aims to develop an intervention to increase physical activity created with and for people with severe mental ill health (SMI), their carers and professionals involved in physical activity and/or severe mental ill health. People with SMI are less physically active than the general population and have an increased likelihood of experiencing long-term physical health conditions such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, diabetes and obesity. The SPACES team employed a comprehensive process of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) work embedded within a co-production strategy. Researchers worked together from the point of inception with people with lived experience, two of whom became co-applicants, to design and carry out the intervention development stage of the study. This included PPIE work and an iterative process of focus groups and interviews with various stakeholders and a consensus group made up of multiple stakeholders with lived, caring and professional experience. Here, we describe the co-production model we used, the benefits, challenges, achievements and areas for learning and improvement. We offer co-production principles and practical strategy, which we hope will be used, modified, personalised and built on by others. We also offer the idea that laying out the co-production strategy to be employed prior to a study commencing and then comparing how that strategy was or was not met could be a step towards creating more accountability and academic rigour in co-production.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-04DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2022.2161607
L. Romo, Jenna S. Abetz
ABSTRACT Emerging adulthood is a period rife with uncertainty, even prior to COVID-19. Research suggests college athletes may be better adept at managing COVID-related challenges. Thus, we interviewed 16 U.S. college athletes to better understand their experiences related to uncertainty and uncertainty management. We found college athletes, who had to balance both academics and sports, experienced uncertainty related to health, academics, interpersonal relationships, and careers. Using the lens of uncertainty management theory (UMT), we found most college athletes viewed uncertainty negatively, attempting to reduce it via seeking social support and information, establishing schedules, and protecting against COVID. However, others learned to adapt to ambiguity by controlling what they could control and focusing on COVID’s positives. By adapting, college athletes were able to build resilience, informing strategies other emerging adults can use not only to navigate a global pandemic, but the unexpected challenges and adversity inherent in emerging adulthood.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2022.2161606
J. Webb, F. Darroch, A. Giles, J. Oliffe
ABSTRACT The relationship between physical activity and fatherhood in communities in which people experience marginalisation is not well understood in qualitative research. This is particularly the case in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver, Canada, where there are few services to meet the unique needs of fathers. To address these gaps, we developed Make a Move (MaM): A six-week family walking group pilot program for mothers, fathers, and their children who were living or accessing services in DTES. Informed by a community-based participatory research approach and intersectional poststructuralism, we conducted semi-structured interviews with nine fathers pre- and post-program to understand how their lived experiences as involved fathers in DTES shaped their participation in MAM. Our analysis revealed the ways that the men challenged dominant discourses related to masculinity, physical activity, and fathering, especially within the context of occupying marginalised and subordinate masculinities.
在定性研究中，人们经历边缘化的社区中，体育活动与父亲身份之间的关系尚未得到很好的理解。在加拿大温哥华的市中心东区(DTES)尤其如此，那里几乎没有满足父亲独特需求的服务。为了解决这些差距，我们开发了“行动起来”(Make a Move, MaM):一个为期六周的家庭步行小组试点项目，对象是在DTES生活或获得服务的母亲、父亲和他们的孩子。通过基于社区的参与性研究方法和交叉后结构主义，我们对9位父亲进行了半结构化访谈，以了解他们作为参与DTES的父亲的生活经历如何影响他们对MAM的参与。我们的分析揭示了男性挑战与男性气质、体育活动和养育子女相关的主流话语的方式，特别是在被边缘化和从属的男性气质的背景下。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2022.2161608
Guilherme H. Costa, J. Kochanek, K. Erickson
ABSTRACT Despite the widely held belief that participation in organised sport promotes Positive Youth Development (PYD), the evidence supporting this notion remains limited. Alternatively, scholars have investigated the potential for action sports to contribute to young people’s development. In particular, skateboarding may represent a more accessible and inclusive option compared to traditional sports as evidenced by its increasing popularity amongst youth in Brazil and worldwide. While the potential to promote positive development warrants attention, as development through sport should be an option for all, it is particularly important to understand the experiences of historically marginalised groups such as women. The purpose of the current study was to (a) explore the developmental experiences afforded by skateboarding, and (b) women’s unique experiences within this setting. Reflexive thematic analysis was employed to analyse Brazilian skateboarders semi-structured interviews and responses to a commensurate open-ended survey. Taken together, results suggest skateboarders were able to develop both individual (e.g. resilience) and collective-level outcomes (e.g. social capital) due to this sport’s peer-centred, self-structured, and community-oriented nature. While female skateboarders were faced with a consistent set of gender-related constraints, they employed both individual and collective strategies to navigate these constraints and empower women within this setting. Overall, skateboarding provided different developmental experiences and outcomes when compared to traditional sports. The nature of skateboarding encouraged participants to reflect on and engage in sociopolitical processes (e.g. protesting), empowering this group of young people and situating them as capable of enacting social change within their communities.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2022.2152085
B. Buckley, Jacqueline Newton, Stacey Knox, Brian Noonan, Maurice Smith, P. Watson
ABSTRACT Discerning the perspectives and working practices of those who deliver and receive a health service makes for a sensible step towards improving it. The Liverpool Co-PARS project was a four-year iterative process in which a physical activity referral scheme for inactive patients with health conditions was developed, refined, and evaluated. The aim of the present study was to explore multidisciplinary stakeholder perspectives of those involved in the co-production of Co-PARS and inform recommendations for future co-production research. We invited 5 stakeholders (service user, exercise referral practitioner, fitness centre manager, general practitioner/public health commissioner, and an academic) to co-author the present paper and provide their reflections of co-production. Four non-academic stakeholders completed a ~ 30-minute phone discussion of their personal reflections of the co-production process, transcribed in real-time by the first author and edited and checked for accuracy by the stakeholder. The fifth, academic author completed their reflections in writing. The multi-stakeholder reflections presented in this paper highlight identified strengths (multidisciplinary perspectives that were listened to and acted upon, co-production that permeated throughout the research project, real-time intervention adaptation) and challenges (homogeneous sample of service users, power imbalances, and a modestly adapted intervention) of co-production. We propose that co-production could be seen as a pro-active tool for the development of health service interventions, by mitigating potential issues encountered during latter implementation phases. We conclude with five key recommendations to facilitate future co-production research.
{"title":"Multi-stakeholder perspectives on co-production: Five key recommendations following the Liverpool Co-PARS project","authors":"B. Buckley, Jacqueline Newton, Stacey Knox, Brian Noonan, Maurice Smith, P. Watson","doi":"10.1080/2159676X.2022.2152085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2022.2152085","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Discerning the perspectives and working practices of those who deliver and receive a health service makes for a sensible step towards improving it. The Liverpool Co-PARS project was a four-year iterative process in which a physical activity referral scheme for inactive patients with health conditions was developed, refined, and evaluated. The aim of the present study was to explore multidisciplinary stakeholder perspectives of those involved in the co-production of Co-PARS and inform recommendations for future co-production research. We invited 5 stakeholders (service user, exercise referral practitioner, fitness centre manager, general practitioner/public health commissioner, and an academic) to co-author the present paper and provide their reflections of co-production. Four non-academic stakeholders completed a ~ 30-minute phone discussion of their personal reflections of the co-production process, transcribed in real-time by the first author and edited and checked for accuracy by the stakeholder. The fifth, academic author completed their reflections in writing. The multi-stakeholder reflections presented in this paper highlight identified strengths (multidisciplinary perspectives that were listened to and acted upon, co-production that permeated throughout the research project, real-time intervention adaptation) and challenges (homogeneous sample of service users, power imbalances, and a modestly adapted intervention) of co-production. We propose that co-production could be seen as a pro-active tool for the development of health service interventions, by mitigating potential issues encountered during latter implementation phases. We conclude with five key recommendations to facilitate future co-production research.","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":"15 1","pages":"220 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44259561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2022.2152081
E. Ostermeier, Kristen C. Reilly, Kendra Nelson Ferguson, Stephanie E. Coen, J. Gilliland
ABSTRACT As most Canadian children are not attaining the recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity, it is imperative that affordable and accessible programs are implemented to help children become more physically active. Specifically, community-based programs that are free and easy to access have shown to be advantageous for promoting beneficial health behaviours at a population level. The Grade 5 ACT-i-Pass (G5AP) is a community-based physical activity program in the mid-sized Canadian city of London, Ontario that offers free programming to all grade 5 children (ages 9–11 years) at various recreational facilities across the city. The data from 28 focus groups with past G5AP participants (n = 101) were analysed to understand the influence of the program on children’s perceived physical activity levels, and to investigate the enablers and/or barriers that children believe influenced their participation in, or access to, G5AP programming. Five distinct themes were identified during the analysis, including two themes describing participants’ perceived changes to their physical activity levels (i.e. additional physical activity opportunities, and well-being and self-efficacy), and three themes explaining enablers and/or barriers to G5AP programming (i.e. program structure and implementation, spatial accessibility of programming, and social supports and constraints). The findings from the focus groups were used to generate recommendations for current and future community-based physical activity programs as a means to improve the health and well-being of children.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-30DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2022.2152084
J. Lawson, T. Williams, A. Latimer-Cheung
ABSTRACT Classification is a defining feature of Para sport; however, little empirical evidence describes the experience of classification and how it can be improved. To date, the primary focus of research related to classification has been on the development of evidence-based classification procedures. Meanwhile, the limited literature which has focused on experiential aspects of classification has shown classification to be a potentially negative experience for athletes. As well, classifiers have been identified as important social actors within the Para sport context, yet no research has examined both athletes’ and classifiers’ experiences with classification. The experiences of athletes and classifiers have yet to be considered alongside one another. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to elucidate athletes’ and classifiers’ experiences with classification in Para sport. Semi-structured interviews exploring the experience of classification were conducted with 18 internationally classified Canadian athletes and an international sample of eight classifiers. Hermeneutic phenomenological analysis was used to conceptualise athletes’ and classifiers’ classification experience. Results demonstrate athletes and classifiers learn about classification by observing others and reflecting on their own understanding of their body or skillset in relation to classification. Additionally, we show how interactions between athletes and classifiers influence each parties’ experience quality and highlight discrepancies between each groups’ understandings of classification. Next, we provide recommendations for future research to address the identified gaps in athletes’ and classifiers’ understanding of classification. Lastly, through the provision of practical recommendations, this work may support Para sport practitioners in improving athletes’ and classifiers’ experiences with classification.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2022.2152083
Ciara Everard, R. Wadey, Karen Howells
ABSTRACT While the notion of creating and sharing multiple narratives in sport, exercise, and health settings to promote a more diverse landscape is often discussed, the process of, and tensions in doing so are less articulated. Extending a previous study that identified the narrative typologies that scaffold elite athletes’ stories of sports injury experiences , the aim of this study was to critically reflect (i.e. introspective, intersubjective), on member reflections with participants to understand how these storylines were received and interpreted. Data was analysed using a reflexive thematic analysis. Using narrative theory as a theoretical lens , five reflexive themes were identified: (a) confronting the dominant narrative, (b) embracing new materialism, (c) extending boundaries of tellability, (d) linear and polyphonic narratives, and (e) symbolic violence. This study provides evidence of how the process of member reflections can enrich and extend our theoretical understandings and offers considerations about how to shift our social and cultural worlds to become more inclusive and diverse.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2022.2146164
Anna Pettican, Beverley Goodman, W. Bryant, P. Beresford, P. Freeman, V. Gladwell, C. Kilbride, E. Speed
ABSTRACT Recognising the limited literature detailing the practical application of co-production principles and practices within sport, exercise and health research, critical reflections on co-production principles and practice are shared here, drawing on two participatory action research (PAR) projects in the United Kingdom (UK). Co-production and PAR are distinguished, and their commonalities discussed. Both projects were facilitated by occupational therapists and concerned with health inequities and social justice. The Voices for Inclusive Activity project brought disabled people together online to explore more accessible and inclusive approaches to evaluate disability sport and physical activity. The Positive Mental Attitude project took place with a community-based football league for people with experience of mental distress and explored the nature and value of participation. Both projects involved researching with people who are often excluded from research. Addressing power imbalances can function to engage marginalised people in processes of knowledge production and enable social justice. Co-production offers useful principles that are democratic, inclusive, collaborative, and participatory, but the process is not straightforward. The reflections within this paper focus on the challenges and opportunities the first and second authors faced as facilitators of co-produced research. Participant and co-researcher quotes reveal how participatory methods and approaches address gaps in experiential knowledge of exclusion and marginalisation. The potential for co-produced research to influence policy and practice is outlined.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2022.2152082
Emilea Mysko, S. Elliott, Murray Drummond
ABSTRACT In contemporary society, parents enrol children into organised sport from as young as three years of age. Although the benefits of sport participation are well documented, it is important to acknowledge early sport involvement can also prompt an increase injury risk, psychological burnout and/or sport dropout. Yet little is known about why parents enrol preschool aged children into organised sport, especially from a sociological perspective. Using a social constructionist theoretical framework, this study sought to explore parent motives for, and beliefs about, enrolling young children (aged three-to-five years) into organised sporting programs. The objectives of this study were to [1] understand the socially constructed motives, beliefs and attitudes that lead parents to encourage children into organised sport programs; [2] explore parents’ perceived benefits and challenges of engaging children into organised sport; and [3] identify broader social and cultural forces that influence parental decision-making surrounding young children’s contemporary sport participation. Individual, semi-structured interviews with 16 parents of children aged three-to-five years were transcribed verbatim and analysed using a reflexive thematic analysis. Three main themes developed from the analysis including the notions of urgency, futureproofing, and the sporting family. The results suggest that parental decision-making can be influenced by broader sociocultural, contextual, historical, and political forces which are perceived to construct, maintain, and perpetuate powerful ideologies that encourage children’s early sport involvement. From a social constructionist theoretical perspective, the findings highlight how social and health-related discourses, government programs, and past experiences emerge as dynamic yet highly influential forms of disciplinary power relating to parental decision-making. Recommendations for policymakers, researchers and parents are discussed.
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