TY - JOUR
T1 - A community-driven approach to generate urban policy recommendations for obesity prevention
AU - Díez, Julia
AU - Gullón, Pedro
AU - Vázquez, María Sandín
AU - Álvarez, Belén
AU - Martín, María del Prado
AU - Urtasun, María
AU - Gamarra, Maite
AU - Gittelsohn, Joel
AU - Franco, Manuel
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: J.D., P.G., M.U., and M.F. were funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013/ERC Starting Grant Heart Healthy Hoods Agreement no. 336893). P.G. was supported by Enrique Nájera grant for Young Epidemiologists (12th edition) awarded by the Sociedad Española de Epidemiología. The Photovoice projects were co-funded by an “Ignacio Hernando de Llarramendi” (MAPFRE 2015-001) research grant 2014 of the MAPFRE Foundation, and by a research grant to promote research groups of the Universidad de Alcala (CCG2015/BIO-046).
Funding Information:
J.D., P.G., M.U., and M.F. were funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013/ERC Starting Grant Heart Healthy Hoods Agreement no. 336893). P.G. was supported by Enrique Nájera grant for Young Epidemiologists (12th edition) awarded by the Sociedad Española de Epidemiología. The Photovoice projects were co-funded by an “Ignacio Hernando de Llarramendi” (MAPFRE 2015-001) research grant 2014 of the MAPFRE Foundation, and by a research grant to promote research groups of the Universidad de Alcala (CCG2015/BIO-046).
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PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - There is an increasing research interest in targeting interventions at the neighborhood level to prevent obesity. Healthy urban environments require including residents’ perspectives to help understanding how urban environments relate to residents’ food choices and physical activity levels. We describe an innovative community-driven process aimed to develop environmental recommendations for obesity prevention. We conducted this study in a low-income area in Madrid (Spain), using a collaborative citizen science approach. First, 36 participants of two previous Photovoice projects translated their findings into policy recommendations, using an adapted logical framework approach. Second, the research team grouped these recommendations into strategies for obesity prevention, using the deductive analytical strategy of successive approximation. Third, through a nominal group session including participants, researchers, public health practitioners and local policy-makers, we discussed and prioritized the obesity prevention recommendations. Participants identified 12 policy recommendations related to their food choices and 18 related to their physical activity. The research team grouped these into 11 concrete recommendations for obesity prevention. The ‘top-three’ ranked recommendations were: (1) to adequate and increase the number of public open spaces; (2) to improve the access and cost of existing sports facilities and (3) to reduce the cost of gluten-free and diabetic products.
AB - There is an increasing research interest in targeting interventions at the neighborhood level to prevent obesity. Healthy urban environments require including residents’ perspectives to help understanding how urban environments relate to residents’ food choices and physical activity levels. We describe an innovative community-driven process aimed to develop environmental recommendations for obesity prevention. We conducted this study in a low-income area in Madrid (Spain), using a collaborative citizen science approach. First, 36 participants of two previous Photovoice projects translated their findings into policy recommendations, using an adapted logical framework approach. Second, the research team grouped these recommendations into strategies for obesity prevention, using the deductive analytical strategy of successive approximation. Third, through a nominal group session including participants, researchers, public health practitioners and local policy-makers, we discussed and prioritized the obesity prevention recommendations. Participants identified 12 policy recommendations related to their food choices and 18 related to their physical activity. The research team grouped these into 11 concrete recommendations for obesity prevention. The ‘top-three’ ranked recommendations were: (1) to adequate and increase the number of public open spaces; (2) to improve the access and cost of existing sports facilities and (3) to reduce the cost of gluten-free and diabetic products.
KW - Built environment
KW - Citizen science
KW - Community-based participatory research
KW - Healthy food
KW - Obesity
KW - Photovoice
KW - Physical activity
KW - Policy recommendations
KW - Urban environment
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph15040635
DO - 10.3390/ijerph15040635
M3 - Article
C2 - 29601505
AN - SCOPUS:85044961355
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 15
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 4
M1 - 635
ER -