Can Asset-Based Community Development with Children and Youth Enhance the Level of Participation in Health Promotion Projects? A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis

Agdal, Rita; Midtgård, Inger Helen; Meidell, Vigdis

doi:10.3390/ijerph16193778

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“…One of those strategies is strengthening community action, which focuses on empowering communities to set priorities, make decisions, and implement plans to improve health and well-being. This strategy is consistent with other health and social science research such as community development and compassionate communities [ 3 – 5 ]. Community-led solutions have long been an important means to address interconnected health and social issues, such as homelessness and food insecurity [ 6 , 7 ].…”

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#Caremongering: A community-led social movement to address health and social needs during COVID-19

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Background To combat social distancing and stay-at-home restrictions due to COVID-19, Canadian communities began a Facebook social media movement, #Caremongering, to support vulnerable individuals in their communities. Little research has examined the spread and use of #Caremongering to address community health and social needs. Objectives We examined the rate at which #Caremongering grew across Canada, the main ways the groups were used, and differences in use by membership size and activity. Methods We searched Facebook Groups using the term “Caremongering” combined with the names of the largest population centres in every province and territory in Canada. We extracted available Facebook analytics on all the groups found, restricted to public groups that operated in English. We further conducted a content analysis of themes from postings in 30 groups using purposive sampling. Posted content was qualitatively analyzed to determine consistent themes across the groups and between those with smaller and larger member numbers. Results The search of Facebook groups across 185 cities yielded 130 unique groups, including groups from all 13 provinces and territories in Canada. Total membership across all groups as of May 4, 2020 was 194,879. The vast majority were formed within days of the global pandemic announcement, two months prior. There were four major themes identified: personal protective equipment, offer, need, and information. Few differences were found between how large and small groups were being used. Conclusions The #Caremongering Facebook groups spread across the entire nation in a matter of days, engaging hundreds of thousands of Canadians. Social media appears to be a useful tool for spreading community-led solutions to address health and social needs.

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#Caremongering: A community-led social movement to address health and social needs during COVID-19

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“…One of those strategies is strengthening community action, which focuses on empowering communities to set priorities, make decisions, and implement plans to improve health and well-being. This strategy is consistent with other health and social science research such as community development and compassionate communities [3][4][5]. Community-led solutions have long been an important means to address interconnected health and social issues, such as homelessness and food insecurity [6,7].…”

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confidence: 55%

#Caremongering: A community-led social movement to address health and social needs during COVID-19 (Preprint)

Seow¹,

Civak²,

Bainbridge³

et al. 2020

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BACKGROUND

To combat social distancing and stay-at-home restrictions due to COVID-19, Canadian communities began a Facebook social media movement, #Caremongering, to support vulnerable individuals in their communities. Little research has examined the spread and use of #Caremongering to address community health and social needs.

OBJECTIVE

We examined the size and speed at which #Caremongering spread across Canada, the main ways the groups were used, and differences in use by membership size and activity.

METHODS

We searched Facebook Groups using the term “Caremongering” combined with the names of the largest population centres in every province and territory in Canada. We extracted available Facebook analytics on all the groups found, restricted to public groups that operated in English. We further conducted a content analysis of themes from postings in 30 groups using purposive sampling. Group content was qualitatively analyzed to determine consistent themes across the sites and between small and large groups.

RESULTS

The search of Facebook sites across 185 cities yielded 130 unique groups, including groups from all 13 provinces and territories in Canada. Total membership across all groups as of May 4, 2020 was 194,879. The vast majority were formed within days of the global pandemic announcement, two months prior. There were four major themes identified: personal protective equipment, offer, need, and information. Few differences were found between how large and small groups were being used.

CONCLUSIONS

The #Caremongering Facebook groups spread across the entire nation in a matter of days, engaging hundreds of thousands of Canadians. Social media appears to be a useful tool for spreading community-led solutions to address health and social needs.

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“…In agreement with our review, McLean and McNeice (2012) as cited in Friedli [19] have observed that many asset mapping studies or projects are "case study" assessments, rendering it impossible to answer questions about the effectiveness of such interventions, because an asset-based approach to public health assumes certain inherent community circumstances that render more traditional assessment methods, such as the randomised control trial, less useful and at times inappropriate [20]. Similarly to our review, Agdal, Midtgard and Meidell [103] observed that the participatory action research (PAR) method is used as a foundation for the mapping process.…”

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Dimensions of Community Assets for Health. A Systematised Review and Meta-Synthesis

Sáinz-Ruiz

Sanz-Valero

Gea-Caballero³

et al. 2021

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Since Aaron Antonovsky’s salutogenesis theory and Morgan and Ziglio’s health assets model were first proposed, there has been a growing concern to define the resources available to the individual and the community to maintain or improve health and well-being. The aim of the present study was to identify the dimensions that characterise community assets for health. To this end, we conducted a systematised review with a meta-synthesis and content analysis of research or projects involving asset mapping in the community. Articles that met our eligibility criteria were: (1) based on the salutogenic approach and (2) described an assets mapping process and among their results, explained what, how and why particular community assets for health had been selected. The search included primary studies in the published and grey literature which were selected from websites and electronic databases (Web of Science, MEDLINE, Scopus, EBSCOhost, Dialnet, SciELO). Of the 607 records examined by a single reviewer, 34 were included in the content analysis and 14 in the qualitative synthesis. Using an inductive process, we identified 14 dimensions with 24 categories, for which in-depth literature reviews were then carried out to define specific indicators and items. These dimensions were: utility, intention, previous use, accessibility (“circumstances–opportunity–affordability”), proximity-walkability, connectivity, intelligibility (visibility, transparency), identity (uniqueness, appropriability, attachment), design (configuration, functionality, comfort), safety (objective/subjective), diversity, the dimension of public and private, and sustainability (which includes maintenance, profitability or economic sustainability, environmental sustainability, centrality-participation and equity-inclusiveness).

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Can Asset-Based Community Development with Children and Youth Enhance the Level of Participation in Health Promotion Projects? A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis

Cited by 21 publications

References 36 publications

#Caremongering: A community-led social movement to address health and social needs during COVID-19

#Caremongering: A community-led social movement to address health and social needs during COVID-19

#Caremongering: A community-led social movement to address health and social needs during COVID-19 (Preprint)

Dimensions of Community Assets for Health. A Systematised Review and Meta-Synthesis

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