Designing programmes of physical activity through sport: learning from a widening participation intervention, 'City of Football'

• Published in: BMC public health Vol. 18; no. 1; p. 1142
• Main Authors: Zwolinsky, Stephen, Kime, Nicola, Pringle, Andy, Widdop, Paul, McKenna, Jim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 26.09.2018; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Behavior; Behaviour change; Boys; Children; Children & youth; Children's fitness; Cluster analysis; Clustering; Domains; Exercise; Football; Girls; Health aspects; Health promotion; Influence; Intervention; Methods; Motivation; Network analysis; Participation; Physical activity; Physical fitness; Professional soccer; Public health; Research design; Soccer; Social aspects; Social capital; Social networks; Social organization; System effectiveness; United Kingdom; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK; England; Physical activity; Clustering; Behaviour change; Network analysis

Implementation profoundly influences how well new audiences engage with sport-based physical activity programmes. Recognising that effective implementation relies on concurrently generating supportive contexts, systems and networks for the least engaged 'target' groups; this paper aims to...