Framework, principles and recommendations for utilising participatory methodologies in the co-creation and evaluation of public health interventions

Table 3 Framing case studies using the PRODUCES method

PRODUCES	Case 1	Case 2	Case 3
Problem	Older adults are too sedentary and spend long periods sitting	Accidental falls causes individual suffering and substantial costs to society	Adolescent girls have low levels of physical activity. Many interventions fail to induce an effect on girls’ physical activity level, often because this target group is difficult to reach and less likely to engage in interventions
Objective	To design an intervention that will help older adults break up long sitting periods	To design a mobile application that will enable seniors to create and adhere to an individually tailored strength and balance exercise programme	To design an intervention to promote physical activity
Design	PAAR	PAAR	PAR
(end-) Users	Community-dwelling older adults over 65 years of age	Community-dwelling older adults over 70 years of age	10th grade lower educated adolescent girls
Co-creators	University researchers and community-dwelling older adults	University researchers and community-dwelling older adults	University researchers and lower educated adolescent girls
Evaluation	Process evaluation	Process and effect evaluation	Process and effect evaluation
Scalability	Generalisable model	Generalisable model	Distributed model

PAR Participatory Action Research, PAAR Participatory Appreciative Action and Reflection

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