Project overview
Physical activity is crucial in managing long-term conditions (LTCs), yet participation levels have declined nationally post-COVID. BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 has been significantly impacted, with economic crises exacerbating health inequalities (BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Data Observatory, 2022). BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 NIHR-funded ‘Maintenance Of physical aTivity beHaviour’ (MOTH) programme has improved understanding of how best to support people with LTCs to stay active for better self-management.
Complex inequalities we revealed in physical activity at a ‘system’ (e.g., activity provider) and individual (i.e., public) level. Including fewer opportunities to access evidence-based guidance and infrastructural physical activity (e.g., active transport) for people living in BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载’s deprived areas.
Where next?
MOTH highlighted two areas for improvement: i) better partnership working, and ii) ensuring LTCs are supported to ‘self-manage’ using community-based physical activity. Consequently, we have commissioned an organisational change specialist, Move Consulting, to develop an evaluation framework of physical activity pathways for people with LTCs. This will lay foundations for a ‘roadmap’ and follow-on funding bid (e.g., NIHR Research for Patient Benefit) for a large-scale evaluation across BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载. We have begun engaging stakeholders, including the communities most socio-economically impacted by BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载.
What is missing?
Move’s framework will allow us to identify enablers (and barriers) for physical activity, and highlight key approaches to working with stakeholders across BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载. This will include the challenges and needs of the providers and individuals relating to (in)access to physical activity. Your funding will add impact to our framework, by:
i. Piloting a series of community cafes across socio-economic areas of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载, to inform and engage public with LTCs in staying active.
ii. Convening ‘roundtable’ meetings to evaluate pilot cafes, review the framework, and begin consortium building (with local public and decision-makers).
iii. Working with community partners to engage hard-to-reach individuals/groups through knowledge exchange in non-traditional environments.
Funding will support:
1. Ten ‘Active Living’ cafes for people with LTCs across BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载.
2. Two ‘roundtable’ meetings involving public (i.e., people with LTCs), community providers (e.g., Abri), decision-makers (e.g., BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 City Council), and Move Consulting.
Each 2-hour café will involve ‘lessons learnt’ from MOTH, then open forum to hear ‘how’, and ‘where’, people with LTCs would like support in staying active in their communities. Feedback will be sought from attendees and organisers regarding community cafes as a public engagement method for follow-on projects.
Cafes will be located across the socio-economic strata of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 (informed by BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Data Observatory), including co-applicant wards: Swaythling (Abri’s RoundAbout Café); Bitterne/Woolston (Active Nation); St Mary’s (Saints Foundation); Thornhill (Thornhill Church). Cafes will be advertised via host organiser(s) networks, BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 City Council, and the Physical Activity Alliance.
Roundtable meetings will conclude the project, with academics, public and community partners:
1. Reviewing the findings from the MOTH project to identify key themes for follow-on project(s).
2. Discussing feedback on the pilot cafes and the evaluation framework (drafted by Move Consultancy)
3. Engaging with strategic stakeholders (e.g., BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 City Council) to share insights and identify potential partnerships for follow-on research and policy.
4. Co-producing a draft bid for the follow-on evaluation of physical activity for LTCs across BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载.
Complex inequalities we revealed in physical activity at a ‘system’ (e.g., activity provider) and individual (i.e., public) level. Including fewer opportunities to access evidence-based guidance and infrastructural physical activity (e.g., active transport) for people living in BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载’s deprived areas.
Where next?
MOTH highlighted two areas for improvement: i) better partnership working, and ii) ensuring LTCs are supported to ‘self-manage’ using community-based physical activity. Consequently, we have commissioned an organisational change specialist, Move Consulting, to develop an evaluation framework of physical activity pathways for people with LTCs. This will lay foundations for a ‘roadmap’ and follow-on funding bid (e.g., NIHR Research for Patient Benefit) for a large-scale evaluation across BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载. We have begun engaging stakeholders, including the communities most socio-economically impacted by BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载.
What is missing?
Move’s framework will allow us to identify enablers (and barriers) for physical activity, and highlight key approaches to working with stakeholders across BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载. This will include the challenges and needs of the providers and individuals relating to (in)access to physical activity. Your funding will add impact to our framework, by:
i. Piloting a series of community cafes across socio-economic areas of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载, to inform and engage public with LTCs in staying active.
ii. Convening ‘roundtable’ meetings to evaluate pilot cafes, review the framework, and begin consortium building (with local public and decision-makers).
iii. Working with community partners to engage hard-to-reach individuals/groups through knowledge exchange in non-traditional environments.
Funding will support:
1. Ten ‘Active Living’ cafes for people with LTCs across BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载.
2. Two ‘roundtable’ meetings involving public (i.e., people with LTCs), community providers (e.g., Abri), decision-makers (e.g., BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 City Council), and Move Consulting.
Each 2-hour café will involve ‘lessons learnt’ from MOTH, then open forum to hear ‘how’, and ‘where’, people with LTCs would like support in staying active in their communities. Feedback will be sought from attendees and organisers regarding community cafes as a public engagement method for follow-on projects.
Cafes will be located across the socio-economic strata of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 (informed by BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Data Observatory), including co-applicant wards: Swaythling (Abri’s RoundAbout Café); Bitterne/Woolston (Active Nation); St Mary’s (Saints Foundation); Thornhill (Thornhill Church). Cafes will be advertised via host organiser(s) networks, BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 City Council, and the Physical Activity Alliance.
Roundtable meetings will conclude the project, with academics, public and community partners:
1. Reviewing the findings from the MOTH project to identify key themes for follow-on project(s).
2. Discussing feedback on the pilot cafes and the evaluation framework (drafted by Move Consultancy)
3. Engaging with strategic stakeholders (e.g., BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 City Council) to share insights and identify potential partnerships for follow-on research and policy.
4. Co-producing a draft bid for the follow-on evaluation of physical activity for LTCs across BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载.
