The walks often give me a reason to get up and get out in the morning rather than hiding. Towards sustainable community-health enhancing interventions

Niki Koutrou, Angeliki Bistaraki and Anees Ikramullah 2024. The walks often give me a reason to get up and get out in the morning rather than hiding. Towards sustainable community-health enhancing interventions. Sport in Society. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2024.2346145

TitleThe walks often give me a reason to get up and get out in the morning rather than hiding. Towards sustainable community-health enhancing interventions
TypeJournal article
AuthorsNiki Koutrou, Angeliki Bistaraki and Anees Ikramullah
Abstract

Physical activity (PA) community-based programmes are increasingly put forward to promote active, healthy lifestyles and bring about long-lasting benefits to beneficiaries. Programme sustainability refers to the maintenance of an intervention beyond the initial time, resources, or other inputs to support it. A range of factors contribute to sport/PA programme sustainability; however, research often overlooks the critical ingredients to long-lasting interventions. This study explores the elements that promote, or hinder sustainability of a walking-based intervention addressed to caregivers and care-recipients in Kent, United Kingdom. Drawing on interviews and focus group data with organisers and participants, findings were grouped under three overarching themes: Benefits on social and mental well-being, factors facilitating programme engagement and key implementation considerations. In discussing these findings in context, we provide implications for the sustainable planning and implementation of future community sport and PA programmes.

JournalSport in Society
ISSN1743-0437
1743-0445
Year2024
PublisherTaylor & Francis
Accepted author manuscript
License
CC BY-NC 4.0
File Access Level
Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2024.2346145
Web address (URL)https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2024.2346145
Publication dates
Published online27 Apr 2024

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