Physical activity, social connectedness and healthy ageing: intervention development

身体活动、社会联系和健康老龄化：干预措施的发展

• 批准号: MR/Y503228/1
• 负责人: Kathryn Skivington
• 金额: $ 19.16万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FY503228%2F1
• 关键词: Physical; activity; social; connectedness; healthy

Background: Physical activity and social connections support healthy ageing and have been identified as priorities by older people, carers, health-care providers, and the Scottish and UK government. Low levels of physical activity and social isolation are a particular problem among older people living in underserved communities. Physical activity lends itself to connecting people, and support from friends, family and others can help people start and maintain physical activity. Therefore, finding new ways to increase physical activity in combination with social connections may increase the chances of long-term changes in behaviour and better health among older people. Aim: To work alongside mid-to-older aged people (55+) and other stakeholders to co-design an action plan of interventions that support older people in two communities in Scotland to be more active, but crucially to combine it with strategies to increase social connections. Our approach: We will work with communities and stakeholders, including people in the target age range, policymakers, health-care practitioners, local community and third sector organisations, to develop a shared understanding of how different factors combine to influence older people's behaviours. We will then co-design interventions to change behaviour. Interventions may include new services or products, or new ways of working or combining existing services. Research plan: Our intervention development research will build upon other work currently being done by our research team. This work is underpinned by community engagement and relationship building, and explores physical activity and social connectedness both broadly (e.g. by exploring influential factors for physical activity and social connectedness, using existing data collected in Scotland-specific and UK-wide surveys), and within our two communities. Within these communities, we are currently exploring older people's social networks (e.g., who they connect with, for what, and where), local collaboration between organisations that support physical activity and social connectedness, and the lived experiences of older people through interviews (exploring their physical activity and social connectedness over time, including how this is shaped by the place they live and major life events). As such, we have engagement within the communities and local-level data to bring to this PHIND-funded project. As part of this PHIND-funded research, we will work within the local communities, and alongside older people and other stakeholders, to identify and design interventions to support social connections and increase physical activity. They will be invited to three workshops during which they will review existing interventions and use these initial ideas alongside findings from the various pieces of ongoing work (as mentioned above), to identify and develop ideas for increasing physical activity and social connections in the areas where they live. We will also consider literature that has already been published (through a process called a rapid review) to identify potential interventions that the workshop groups may draw upon. After the workshop series, we will facilitate working groups to further refine the intervention ideas prioritised at the workshops. We will also follow-up with individuals in each area to gather their views on the suggested intervention and its potential effects. We will communicate widely with older people and other stakeholders to develop a network of collaborators to work with us on this project and others. We will develop plans for rolling-out successful interventions to other communities with the ultimate aim that older people maintain their health and independence for longer.

背景：体育活动和社会联系支持健康老龄化，已被老年人、护理人员、医疗保健提供者以及苏格兰和英国政府确定为优先事项。身体活动水平低和社会孤立是生活在服务欠缺社区的老年人面临的一个特殊问题。体育活动有助于人与人之间的联系，朋友、家人和其他人的支持可以帮助人们开始和维持体育活动。因此，寻找新的方法来增加身体活动并结合社会联系可能会增加老年人行为长期改变和改善健康的机会。目标：与中老年人（55 岁以上）和其他利益相关者合作，共同设计一项干预行动计划，支持苏格兰两个社区的老年人更加活跃，但至关重要的是，将其与增加社会联系的战略结合起来。我们的方法：我们将与社区和利益相关者合作，包括目标年龄范围内的人们、政策制定者、医疗保健从业者、当地社区和第三部门组织，就不同因素如何结合影响老年人的行为达成共识。然后我们将共同设计干预措施来改变行为。干预措施可能包括新的服务或产品，或者新的工作方式或结合现有服务。研究计划：我们的干预开发研究将建立在我们研究团队目前正在进行的其他工作的基础上。这项工作以社区参与和关系建设为基础，并广泛探索身体活动和社会联系（例如，通过探索身体活动和社会联系的影响因素，使用在苏格兰特定和英国范围内的调查中收集的现有数据）和我们两个社区内的身体活动和社会联系。在这些社区内，我们目前正在探索老年人的社交网络（例如，他们与谁联系、联系什么、在哪里联系）、支持身体活动和社会联系的组织之间的本地合作，以及通过访谈了解老年人的生活经历（随着时间的推移探索他们的身体活动和社会联系，包括他们居住的地方和重大生活事件如何影响这种联系）。因此，我们与社区合作并为这个由 PHIND 资助的项目提供本地数据。作为 PHIND 资助的这项研究的一部分，我们将在当地社区内与老年人和其他利益相关者一起工作，以确定和设计干预措施，以支持社会联系和增加体育活动。他们将被邀请参加三个研讨会，期间他们将审查现有的干预措施，并将这些初步想法与正在进行的各个工作（如上所述）的发现结合起来，以确定和开发在他们居住的地区增加体育活动和社会联系的想法。我们还将考虑已经发表的文献（通过称为快速审查的过程），以确定研讨会小组可以借鉴的潜在干预措施。系列研讨会结束后，我们将协助工作组进一步完善研讨会优先考虑的干预思路。我们还将对每个领域的个人进行跟踪，收集他们对建议的干预措施及其潜在影响的看法。我们将与老年人和其他利益相关者广泛沟通，建立一个合作者网络，与我们在这个项目和其他项目上合作。我们将制定计划，向其他社区推广成功的干预措施，最终目标是让老年人更长时间地保持健康和独立。