Planning Engagement Research Articles

What older adults do with the results of dementia screening programs.

IntroductionAlzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are often under-recognized in the community. MCI/ADRD screening could offer benefits such as early treatment, research participation, lifestyle modification, and advanced care planning. To date, there are no clear guidelines regarding the benefits vs. harms of dementia screening or whether a dementia screening program could be successful.MethodsA community-based study was conducted to evaluate an MCI/ADRD screening program and determine what older adults would do with the information. Measures of cognition, physical health, functionality, and mood were collected. Participants met with a health professional, were given screening results with recommendations, and then contacted 60 days later to determine what was done with the results. Logistic regression models were used to build predictive models.ResultsParticipants (n = 288) had a mean age of 71.5±8.3y, mean education of 13.3±4.8y, and were 70% female, 67% White, 26% African American, and 48% Hispanic. After 60 days, 75% of participants were re-contacted; 54% shared results with family, 33% shared results with health care providers (HCPs), and 52% initiated behavioral change. Among participants sharing results with HCPs, 51% reported HCPs did not follow-up on the results, and 18% that HCPs did not show any interest in the screening visit or its results. Predictors of sharing results with HCPs were elevated hemoglobin A1C (OR = 1.85;95%CI:1.19–2.88), uncontrolled hypertension (OR = 2.73;95%CI:1.09–6.83), and mobility issues (OR = 2.43;95%CI: 1.93–5.54). Participant behavioral changes included lifestyle modification (58%), social engagement (10%), cognitive stimulation (5%), and advanced care planning (4%). The most significant predictors of sharing with family were better overall mental health (OR = 0.19; 95%CI: 0.06–0.59) and better physical function (OR = 0.38; 95%CI: 0.17–0.81).DiscussionMCI/ADRD screening was well-received by a diverse community sample. Participants showed interest in sharing the results with their family and HCPs and many attempted behavioral change. While HCPs did not always act on screening results, 25% ordered further testing and evaluation. Efforts need to be directed toward (1) increasing self-efficacy of older adults to discuss screening results with their HCPs, and (2) educating HCPs on the value of early detection of MCI/ADRD. Community dementia screening programs can increase MCI/ADRD detection and improve patient-centered outcomes and medical decision-making.

BBC Cymru Wales’ digitisation and external partnership with the National Library of Wales

This article sets out the background and approach to the digitisation of BBC Wales’ broadcast archive ahead of relocation to a bespoke new building in Cardiff city centre. The first ‘complete’ BBC archive collection to be digitised, the team had to appraise over 90 years’ of archive content to facilitate digitisation for access purposes to support a full end-to-end production workflow. This took place against a rapidly changing technological background as the industry moved from tape to file-based playout and associated processes, as well as significant operational design changes within the organisation itself. The article describes the challenges faced and some of the decision-making process that took place during both the planning and implementation phases, as well as the establishing of a key partnership with the National Library of Wales to bring into fruition ambitious plans for audience and community engagement with this unique collection of cultural history in Wales, and the implementation of a new digital asset management system to deliver this.

Abstract B045: Operationalizing community engagement and participation: Experiences of the Yale Cancer Disparities Firewall Project to impact lifestyle change and cancer screening

Abstract Background The Yale Cancer Disparities Firewall Project addresses racial/ethnic minority and low socioeconomic status disparities in cancer screening and outcomes by translating evidence-based practices and guidelines into wrap-around support for these populations. Tailoring cancer disparities activities to local needs requires community engagement and participation (CEP). Operationalizing CEP is challenging though its value as a tool to adapt scientific and behavioral knowledge into acceptable patient-level interventions and programs has been recognized. We explored a range of CEP activities implemented within our project to understand and classify the use, outcomes and limitations of community engagement. Methods Comparative qualitative methods highlight variations in how CEP is operationalized. Data from group interviews (n=58; 66% Hispanic and 31% African American) and archival documents were synthesized based on models defined by Popay et al (2006) and Brunton et al (2017). Purposive samples of church-goers, members of a university-convened, community liaison group and a community action network (CAN) established to advise and promote CEP around healthy lifestyles and cancer screening were interviewed. Documents included minutes from a community research engagement subcommittee and supervision meetings for a lay health leader. The research team thematically coded data considering the process, timing, activities, expectations and power dynamics of community engagement. Gaps in community knowledge and access to cancer screening and services were also noted. This poster includes an electronic polling station that collects reader experiences. Results Empirical themes and process maps demonstrate the utility of different types of CEP. Most commonly, community members requested that cancer experts share more information with local populations. CEP generated voluminous suggestions about the outreach process, cancer communications content and channels, and potential barriers to reach and uptake. Additionally, we identified four ways of operationalizing CEP: a) operations advising, b) community knowledge assessment, c) program/intervention planning, and d) document development. Using quotations and visual data, we describe the range of CEP activities, the extent of engagement and institutional capacity required to facilitate each type. A framework for iterative CEP and bidirectional education to advance cancer risk reduction and screening objectives is proposed. Conclusion CEP encompasses diverse activities and can provide practical guidance for project implementation. By examining institutional context and CEP history, researchers may implement CEP more intentionally by presenting scopes of work, degree of engagement and output integration plans to CEP participants. Additional research is needed to demonstrate whether fit-for-purpose use of CEP results in different outcomes. Citation Format: Sakinah C. Suttiratana, Monique Killins, Denise E. Stevens, Jose DeJesus, Roy Herbst, Beth A. Jones. Operationalizing community engagement and participation: Experiences of the Yale Cancer Disparities Firewall Project to impact lifestyle change and cancer screening [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2019 Sep 20-23; San Francisco, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2020;29(6 Suppl_2):Abstract nr B045.

2228-PUB: Utilizing a Diverse Stakeholder Group to Build a Patient-Centered Type 1 Diabetes Research Agenda

Engaging patient’s in the research process is essential as it creates self-awareness, increases a collective understanding of needs and views, and allows for active participation in healthcare decisions. This stakeholder driven project aimed to develop a patient-centered research model to identify stakeholders of type 1 diabetes (T1D) for addressing the needs of patients and families in rural communities. From project inception, investigators used an innovative approach of incorporating stakeholders in the entire research process. A four-step engagement plan using the Methods in Community-Based Participatory Research for Health guided the project. In the first strategy, assessment of both personal and institutional capacities for active collaboration was completed. Specifically, the project lead (researcher, healthcare provider, and mother of a child with type 1 diabetes), caregiver, and advocacy organization executive met to discuss strengths and weaknesses and how to effectively collaborate. Next, identification of potential partners ensued with new and established networks, associations, and community leaders. We completed this step through years of networking and becoming involved within the community. Reframing the ultimate health issue for research was the third strategy. This was a dynamic, interactive process guided by a diverse group of stakeholder perspectives across two states in the development of a patient-centered research plan. Finally, developing and nurturing the sustained partnerships established between researchers and community partners was accomplished in strategy four. Specifically, the team developed a group process contract that allowed for fluctuation to meet individual and group needs. These relationships were built through sustained T1D community presence and networking. This shared decision-making process resulted in trust, accountability, and stakeholder empowerment while ensuring that individual’s voices were heard. Disclosure V.D. Jewell: None. A.A. Abbott: None. Funding Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (10443-CU)

TRAINING OF FUTURE SOCIAL WORKERS: METHODS AND FORMS OF ACTIVATING EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

The current pedagogical process of training the future social workers has an important issue of getting students acquire not only the knowledge but also the practical skills that can be used in work with clients. The professional education in social area is meant to satisfy needs, interests and goals of each student with respect to self-actualization, self-fulfillment, and further plans for engagement in various areas of social work. The correlation between theoretical and practical components in social work, as well as between the general and special purpose training, requires that both educational materials and educational process in general be organized in a certain way. In order to figure out the readiness condition of the contents of theoretical and practical materials more clearly, express and plan the development potential of lectures and classes more acurately, one should define the contemplated result in advance, choose the tools, methods and ways which can be used to achieve the result, and forecast the process of achieving the result. The contents of educational materials, forms, methods and techniques of work that increase the productivity of students in various pedagogical situations (cognitive, training, gaming) can be viewed as instruments impacting the efficiency of educational process. The experimentally and practically confirmed instruments serve as factors strengthening productivity of education and pedagogical action. Bringing methodological techniques into educational process and differentiation of educational forms help improve the processing of theoretical materials, encourage knowledge discovery among students, and give the possibility to gain more expertise in social work area.

Enhancing Students’ Academic Performance in University System: The Perspective of Supplemental Instruction

Following the dwindled academic performance of first-year undergraduate students in the universities as observed by the researchers and confirmed by the literature, the study problematised Supplemental Instruction (SI) mechanism as a tool to enhance students’ performance. Supplemental Instruction, according to this study, is the kind of supplementary academic supports rendered to students to enhance their performance. In order to achieve this, this study explored the challenges with the use of Supplemental Instruction along with the possible solutions to the problems. Social constructivism was used to theorise the study. Participatory Research (PR) was adopted as a methodology for the study because it involved the coming together of the concerned people to participate in problem definition, problem assessment, implementation, and evaluation. Unstructured interviews were used to generate data from the participants who were facilitators and students as co-researchers with the use of audiotape recorder. The participants for the study included first-year students at the selected university, the SI coordinator, two tutors for various modules and their lecturers. Thematic analysis was adopted to categorise, interpret, and analyse the generated data because it involved the reflection of categorised objectives. The study found out among others that; inadequate planning and lack of collaborative engagement were the major challenges while training and retraining of SI personnel and collaborative engagement were the suggestible solutions to ameliorate the problems. However, the study, in its conclusion, significantly enhances the university’s reputation and increases the quality of its outputs in terms of students’ academic performance through the use of SI. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.19.5.13

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COVID 19 and Nepal: Identification of Critical Public Health Measures

The COVID-19 pandemic is unfolding at an unprecedented pace. The unprecedented threat provides an opportunity to emerge with robust health systems. Nepal has implemented several containment measures such as Rapid Response Team formulation; testing; isolation; quarantine; contact tracing;surveillance, establishment of COVID-19 Crisis Management Centre and designation of dedicated hospitals to gear up for the pandemic. The national public health emergency management mechanisms need further strengthening with the proactive engagement of relevant ministries; we need a strong, real-time national surveillance system and capacity building of a critical mass of health care workers; there is a need to further assess infection prevention and control capacity; expand the network of virus diagnostic laboratories in the private sector with adequate surge capacity;implement participatory community engagement interventions and plan for a phased lockdown exit strategy enabling sustainable suppression of transmission at low-level and enabling in resuming some parts of economic and social life.

Stakeholders\u2019 engagement in co-producing policy-relevant knowledge to facilitate employment for persons with developmental disabilities

BackgroundPersons with developmental disabilities (PWDD) face a number of individual, environmental and societal barriers when seeking employment. Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) involves ongoing and dynamic interactions between researchers and stakeholders for the purpose of engaging in mutually beneficial research to address these types of multi-faceted barriers. There is a knowledge gap in the IKT literature on effective stakeholder engagement strategies outside of the dissemination stage to inform policy. In this paper, we report on a number of engagement strategies employed over a 2-year period to engage a wide range of stakeholders in different stages of an IKT project that aimed to investigate the ‘wicked’ problem of employment for PWDD.MethodOur engagement plan included multiple linked strategies and was designed to ensure the meaningful engagement of, and knowledge co-production with, stakeholders. We held two participatory consensus-building stakeholder policy dialogue events to co-produce knowledge utilising the nominal group technique and the modified Delphi technique. A total of 31 and 49 stakeholders engaged in the first and second events, respectively, from six key stakeholder groups. Focused engagement strategies were employed to build on the stakeholder dialogues for knowledge mobilisation and included a focus group attended only by PWDD, a stakeholder workshop attended only by policy/decision-makers, a webinar attended by human resources professionals and employers, and a current affairs panel attended by the general public.ResultsOur findings suggest that the level of engagement for each stakeholder group varies depending on the goal and need of the project. Our stakeholder dialogue findings highlight the inherent challenges in co-framing and knowledge co-production through the meaningful engagement of multiple stakeholders who hold different ideas and interests. Focused outreach is needed to foster relationships and trust for meaningful engagement.ConclusionsIn addition to providing guidance on how to implement adaptable meaningful engagement strategies, these findings contribute to discussions on how IKT projects are planned and funded. More studies to explore effective mechanisms for engaging a wide range of stakeholders in IKT research are needed. More evidence of successful engagement strategies employed by researchers to achieve meaningful knowledge co-production is also key to advancing the discipline.

Evaluation of a digital platform that engages stakeholders in the co-creation of healthcare innovations: A mixed-methods study

Introduction Engaging public and patients in the decision-making processes is on the agenda of many healthcare systems towards sustainable healthcare delivery. While many engagement initiatives are performed face-to-face, an increasing number is conducted online. An example of the latter is the Dutch digital platform Gezonde Mening that engages patients, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders in the co-creation of healthcare innovations. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement performed on Gezonde Mening by focusing on the process of planning, execution and transition of engagement activities. Methods A mixed-methods study was performed by conducting eight semi-structured interviews with developers and funders of Gezonde Mening and an assessment of the psychometric properties of two questionnaires administrated via Gezonde Mening to seek stakeholders’ inputs. While the interviews were analysed deductively and inductively, data from the assessment of psychometric properties were analysed in a descriptive quantitative manner. Data were interpreted through triangulation. Results Assessment of the planning of stakeholder engagement identified needs for having more stakeholders on the platform to enable subgroup analysis and robust insights. Moreover, questionnaires administered by Gezonde Mening showed low validity and reliability. Assessment of the execution of stakeholder engagement indicated that stakeholders are sufficiently informed about engagement. Assessment of the transition of engagement activities showed needs to provide direct results to stakeholders and allow their evaluation of the platform. Conclusion Gezonde Mening digital platform facilitates communication between innovators and stakeholders during engagement activities. However, the study identified room for improvement regarding the planning and transition activities.

Sport as a vehicle of change for livelihoods, social participation and marital health for the youth: Findings from a prospective cohort in Bihar, India

BackgroundAdolescent participation in pro-social activities such as sport can promote identity formation, self-efficacy and social support, but its benefits in India remain unassessed. We examined longitudinal effects of adolescent sport participation on economic, social and political engagement, marital health and family planning among young adults in India. MethodsWe analyzed prospective data from unmarried adolescents (n = 2,322, ages 15–19) who participated in the Youth in India 2007–8 study (wave 1) and were followed in the UDAYA study 2015–16 (wave 2), in Bihar, India. Sport participation was assessed in wave 1. Outcomes assessed in wave 2 were economic engagement (vocational training, past year paid employment), social group participation, political participation, marriage (any and prior to 18), and among those married, marital violence [MV] and contraceptive use. We used logistic and multinomial models to assess longitudinal associations between sport and our outcomes, adjusting for age, residence and wealth at baseline and secondary schooling completion at follow-up. ResultsIn multivariate models for males, adolescent sport participation was associated with higher odds of vocational training [AOR: 1.92, 95% CI: 1.17, 3.15], social program engagement [AOR: 1.89, 95% CI: 1.14, 3.15], and a trend effect for political participation [AOR: 1.47, 95% CI: 0.97, 2.24]. Among females, sport in adolescence was associated with lower child marriage [ARRR = 0.67, 95% CI: 0.48, 0.96], and higher vocational training [AOR = 1.28, 95% CI: 1.03, 1.16] and family planning use [AOR = 1.31, 95% CI: 1.05, 1.63]. Crude effects were noted for delayed marriage, paid work and perpetration of marital violence among males. InterpretationEvidence from India shows that sport can be an instrument supporting pro-social engagement for boys and girls. Further understanding of the gendered nature of sport and the mechanisms linking sport to agency among youth is needed. FundingThis work was supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Grant number: 2017-66705).

Transitioning back to faculty roles after being a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar: Challenges and opportunities.

There is a dearth of literature describing factors supporting a successful transition from a career-development fellowship to resumption of the full complement of faculty roles. Because little is known about the transition back to the full faculty role, a subset of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Nurse Faculty Scholars (NFS) was interviewed to evaluate the self-identified challenges and opportunities that the scholars faced and factors contributing to their success when they reassumed the full faculty role. A subset of scholars from cohorts beginning the RWJF NFS program between 2008 and 2012 (n=10) was interviewed by members of the NFS National Advisory Committee. NFSs identified challenges and opportunities faced as they transitioned to their faculty roles following completion of the career development fellowship as well as the character of support received from individuals in their organizational influencing the experience of the faculty transition. Evaluation outcomes include recommendations for transition planning for home institutions, colleagues and fellows. NFSs identified transition challenges including managing multiple responsibilities and increased teaching demands coupled with loss of protected time and funding for scholarly work. Opportunities for career advancement were influenced by effective mentorship, institutional supports including advocacy and allocation of time and responsibilities consistent with continued research productivity. Issues contributing to a more difficult transition included non-supportive relationships among administrators and colleagues and newly assigned responsibilities that detracted from success in meeting expectations for tenure and promotion. Effective transition from fellow to faculty included plans for continued mentorship and stakeholder engagement of administration, mentors and faculty colleagues. Effective transition from fellow to the full complement of the faculty role benefits both the home institution and scholar. Positive outcomes may be contingent on scholar support and organizational investment during the transition period.

Examining the relationship between sport spectator motivation, involvement, and loyalty: a structural model in the context of Australian Rules football

This study examines the relationships between sport spectator motivation, involvement, and loyalty. It sought to validate a comprehensive motivation scale and test the interrelationships among these three concepts using a partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) analysis. Data were analysed from 585 surveys collected from match day attendees of Australian Rules football in South Australia. The findings suggest that a strong positive relationship was found between sport spectators’ motivation and both socio-psychological involvement and behavioural involvement. Spectators’ motivation displays a mediating (indirect) effect on their loyalty through both involvement constructs. However, non-significant relationships between motivation and loyalty were found. One of the strongest motivations we found for attending a football game was vicarious achievement, whereas behavioural involvement has the strongest effect on spectators’ loyalty. This paper advances sport spectatorship scholarship and provides broader practical implications for practitioners, assisting in developing club’s long-term community engagement and growth plans.

Patients, clinicians and researchers working together to improve cardiovascular health: a qualitative study of barriers and priorities for patient-oriented research

ObjectivesThe overall goal of this study is to identify priorities for cardiovascular (CV) health research that are important to patients and clinician-researchers. We brought together a group of CV patients...

Principal characteristics of patients acutely poisoned by ethanol in the region of Belgrade (Serbia)

Background/Aim. Acute intoxication by ethanol constitutes a significant part of the acute pathology caused by toxic chemicals, which require medical care in specialized health care institutions. The aim of the study was to determine some principal characteristics of the patients treated after acute ethanol poisoning, such as: participation in the total number of patients treated after acute poisoning by all chemical agents, age, sex, severity of poisoning and capacities for ambulatory or hospital treatment. Methods. A five-year retrospective case study was conducted on 20,891 acute poisoned patients, of which 10,731 were treated after acute ethanol poisoning during the period 2011?2015. All the subjects satisfied the diagnostic criteria of poisoning according to the World Health Organization International Classification of Diseases-10 and standardized Poison Severity Score scale. Results. Monitored parameters were analyzed in 10,731 patients acutely poisoned by ethanol, and their average number during one study year was 2146.2 ? 437.95. The average number of treated patients due to poisoning by ethanol (51.47 ? 2.86%) was statistically significantly higher than that of other causes of acute poisoning (p < 0.001). The majority of poisoned patients were men, aged 19 to 65 years, with mild to moderate symptoms of acute ethanol intoxication. The highest number of patients poisoned by ethanol had Poison Severity Score 1 (70.25 ? 5.04%, p < 0.001). Very few acute poisoned with ethanol required hospital treatment (1.05%). Anticipated number of patients acutely poisoned by ethanol had high percentage of increase for the period 2016?2020 (slightly more than 20%), which is worrying, primarily due to their high absolute number. Conclusion. Acute alcohol poisoning represents a significant part of the pathology in the total number of patients treated due to acute poisoning with various chemical substances. The results of this analysis showed that certain populations are particularly vulnerable to abuse of alcohol to the level requiring health care (male population, age 19?65 years). Only a small number of patients (1% of all patients treated for acute alcohol poisoning) required clinical treatment. The obtained data provided the basis for a more targeted preventive action in certain population groups, as well as the adequate planning of professional medical staff engagement, material, spatial and other capacities. These data, also, provided the basis for additional detailed social, economic, health and other researches in this area as well as a more detailed registration of this type of poisoning and establishing a monitoring system and database.

A rising tide of adaptation action: Comparing two coastal regions of Aotearoa-New Zealand

Diverse and contested local interests and the complexity of climate change make adaptation to climate change risks at the coast challenging. Even in similar settings, adaptation experiences and prospects can differ markedly. Why? This paper provides empirical evidence of comparative adaptation experiences in two regions of Aotearoa-New Zealand - the Coromandel Peninsula and the Hawke’s Bay coast. We critically examine how local barriers and enablers influence the trajectory of adaptation in two regions that face similar risks, have essentially the same institutional architecture, and yet have had very different adaptation experiences. We investigate the situational differences and similarities, and their implications for adaptation in each region. We found that the evolution of adaptation is shaped by the perceptions of the actors, especially local authority leaders, and opportunities that arise at a context-specific point in time. Such perceptions and opportunities can amount to barriers in one location and enablers in another. Growing concern about coastal hazard risk, improving levels of trust and legitimacy, community engagement, and collaborative governance were key to innovative long-term adaptation planning in the Hawke’s Bay but their absence has led to short-term business as usual practices in the Coromandel. Yet even in the latter case, change is underway and longer-term adaptation planning is commencing. We conclude that there is a ‘rising tide’ of adaptation action in the face of escalating climate risk – with long-term planning and local action triggered by cumulative hazard experience and / or extreme events that raise public concern and make climate change salient to local community members and leaders. Both local and regional interests and concerns shape local response appetites. Proactive, local authority-led engagement and long-term strategic planning are foundational for mobilizing effective adaptation responses. Enabling national policy, guidance and institutional provisions are key to prompting and sustaining such efforts, and to facilitating broad consistency in locally appropriate responses. Notwithstanding efforts to foster locally appropriate but nationally aligned adaptation responses, our research shows that coastal communities and their local authorities follow pathways consistent with local risk appetites, understanding about climate change, and the political will and capacity of local government to mobilize key governance actors around long-term strategic planning.

Local flexibility markets and the role of active customers and communities supporting grid system operators – DOMINOES engagement plan

Local flexibility markets and the role of active customers and communities supporting grid system operators – DOMINOES engagement plan

Alumni programming in the age of technology

Higher education institutions have become increasingly reliant upon private donations and support to maintain scholarship dollars, fund capital initiatives and provide support for collegiate departmental projects. As such, alumni relations departments have become much more involved in development processes besides only focusing on alumni reunion planning. Alumni relations offices organise communications, events and engagement opportunities in order to maintain relationships with alumni. The purpose of maintaining these relationships is to develop and cultivate alumni to financially support alma maters. In today’s digital age and with many organisations competing for an individual’s attention, alumni relations departments are turning towards technological advances to help maintain connections and engage alumni in ways that have previously been impossible or unconventional with traditional reunion planning departments. This paper will discuss the changing climate of higher education and how technology is a vital component to alumni relations event, engagement and communication plans.

Theoretical underpinnings of interventions that effectively promote physical activity in adult men

The aim of this systematic review and qualitative content analysis was to investigate the theoretical underpinnings of interventions that effectively promote physical activity (PA) in adult males. This was done with a focus on gender-sensitivity and behavior change theory. In total, 26 studies, involving evaluations of 12 programs, were included. Out of these 12 programs, five overlapping intervention types could be distinguished. The results indicate that all programs mainly operate through actions and messages, while reducing the threats that traditional health care approaches pose to men’s masculine capital. Thereby, they are successful in recruiting a substantial number of men as participants even for settings or activities which are considered to have a feminine element to it. To initiate and maintain behavior change, most interventions refer to behavior change theory, but many of them lack theoretical purity. Instead, deliverers focus on well-defined and evidence-base behavior change techniques, which facilitate conscious and deliberate planning of engagement in PA. Nonconscious impulsive processes as well as operant conditioning are mostly ignored. This review in combination with a qualitative content analysis contributes to strengthening the theoretical foundation of future interventions meant to stimulate health-enhancing PA in adult men.

Planning to engage the community on renewables: insights from community engagement plans of the Australian wind industry

ABSTRACT Wind farms in Australia have encountered a range of community responses, sometimes resulting in opposition. This has caused the wind energy industry to evaluate and amend their community engagement practices. Community Engagement Plans detail wind farm developers’ internal intentions’ for stakeholder communication and engagement. This research sought insights into these intentions and the success of the selected engagement approaches through an examination of 32 plans. The article presents trends in wind developer practice and understanding of community engagement and benefit sharing, through analysis of these strategic documents that are rarely shared externally. The findings reveal a strong intention by wind farm developers to respond to and meet, or exceed, community expectations. The plans were heavily influenced by recent guidance documents from the Australian renewable energy sector and government. Analysing the plans revealed an increasing use of a diversity of community engagement and benefit sharing practices, and a recognition of the value of engaging more meaningfully with local communities. These findings are relevant to wind and other renewable energy developers scoping new or expanded projects, as well as government organisations seeking to maximise the contribution of wind-generated energy.