Curbach, Janina and Warrelmann, Berit and Brandstetter, Susanne and Lindacher, Verena and Rueter, Jana and Loss, Julika (2018) Empowering senior citizens for healthy nutrition in Germany:Apilot study. HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, 26 (5). pp. 675-684. ISSN 0966-0410, 1365-2524
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Main goal of this study was to analyse how empowerment processes and bottom-up activities aimed at healthier food choices and food environment could be initiated among a group of senior citizens (between 60 and 75years old). The intervention was set up as a pilot study in a rural community (15,000 inhabitants) in the federal state of Bavaria, South Eastern Germany. A process evaluation documented how group formation and empowerment processes developed during the course of the intervention. Extensive field notes were taken in 27 meetings, interviews (n=13) and focus groups (n=4) were conducted with participants and key persons at different points of the intervention. Data were analysed using content analysis. The intervention succeeded in motivating senior citizens to participate in regular meetings over 11months. During the intervention, the group members' awareness of factors influencing their eating behaviour increased. Furthermore, they developed ideas to improve the community's food environment and accomplished duties needed to implement these ideas. However, initiating empowerment processes, especially in terms of fostering leadership and transferring responsibility, took longer than expected and could be realised only partially. The findings support a further use and evaluation of the empowerment approach for addressing nutritional aspects among senior citizens.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT; PROMOTION; PREVENTION; INTERVIEW; QUALITY; DISEASE; LIFE; community health promotion; community participation; empowerment; nutrition |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Institut für Epidemiologie und Präventivmedizin > Medical Sociology |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2020 15:31 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2020 15:31 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/14005 |
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