Test-retest reliability and construct validity of the ENERGY-child questionnaire on energy balance-related behaviours and their potential determinants: the ENERGY-project

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Insight in children's energy balance-related behaviours (EBRBs) and their determinants is important to inform obesity prevention research. Therefore, reliable and valid tools to measure these variables in large-scale population research are needed.</p> <p>Objective</p> <p>To examine the test-retest reliability and construct validity of the child questionnaire used in the ENERGY-project, measuring EBRBs and their potential determinants among 10-12 year old children.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>We collected data among 10-12 year old children (n = 730 in the test-retest reliability study; n = 96 in the construct validity study) in six European countries, i.e. Belgium, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, and Spain. Test-retest reliability was assessed using the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) and percentage agreement comparing scores from two measurements, administered one week apart. To assess construct validity, the agreement between questionnaire responses and a subsequent face-to-face interview was assessed using ICC and percentage agreement.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Of the 150 questionnaire items, 115 (77%) showed good to excellent test-retest reliability as indicated by ICCs > .60 or percentage agreement ≥ 75%. Test-retest reliability was moderate for 34 items (23%) and poor for one item. Construct validity appeared to be good to excellent for 70 (47%) of the 150 items, as indicated by ICCs > .60 or percentage agreement ≥ 75%. From the other 80 items, construct validity was moderate for 39 (26%) and poor for 41 items (27%).</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Our results demonstrate that the ENERGY-child questionnaire, assessing EBRBs of the child as well as personal, family, and school-environmental determinants related to these EBRBs, has good test-retest reliability and moderate to good construct validity for the large majority of items.</p

What do parents think about parental participation in school-based interventions on energy balance-related behaviours? a qualitative study in 4 countries

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Overweight and obesity in youth has increased dramatically. Therefore, overweight prevention initiatives should start early in life and target modifiable energy balance-related behaviours. Parental participation is often advocated as important for school-based interventions, however, getting parents involved in school-based interventions appears to be challenging based on earlier intervention experiences. The purpose of this study was to get insight into the determinants of and perspectives on parental participation in school-interventions on energy balance-related behaviours (physical activity, healthy eating, sedentary behaviours) in parents of ten- to twelve-year olds in order to develop an effective parental module for school-based interventions concerning energy balance-related behaviours.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Four countries (Belgium, Hungary, Norway and Spain) conducted the focus group research based on a standardised protocol and a semi-structured questioning route. A variation in parental socio-economic status (SES) and parental school involvement was taken into account when recruiting the parents. The audio taped interviews were transcribed, and a qualitative content analysis of the transcripts was conducted in each country.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Seventeen focus group interviews were conducted with a total of 92 parents (12 men, 80 women). Physical activity was considered to be a joint responsibility of school and parents, nutrition as parent's responsibility but supported by the school, and prevention of sedentary behaviours as parent's sole responsibility. Parents proposed interactive and practical activities together with their child as the best way to involve them such as cooking, food tasting, nutrition workshops, walking or cycling tours, sport initiations together with their child. Activities should be cheap, on a convenient moment, focused on their children and not on themselves, not tutoring, not theoretical, and school-or home-based.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Parents want to be involved in activities related to energy balance-related behaviours if this implies 'doing things together' with their child at school or at home.</p

Les recherches participatives à l’épreuve du politique

Nébuleuse aux contours mouvants, les recherches participatives connaissent un succès grandissant. Cet état de l’art constitue une cartographie critique des clivages et convergences entre les différentes traditions et approches de recherches participatives, en interrogeant, plus particulièrement, les rapports des recherches participatives au politique. Deux échelles d’analyse sont explorées : les relations de pouvoirs dans la division sociale du travail de recherche et dans le rapport aux institutions, entre reconnaissance et injonction. Cet article souligne un défi majeur : celui de se distancer des approches pacifiées et consensuelles des recherches participatives, les appréhendant comme des partenariats vertueux entre sphères académique, professionnelle et citoyenne. L’investigation des débats théoriques permet de distinguer trois formes idéal-typiques : les recherches participatives radicales, caractérisées par la lutte contre la hiérarchie des pouvoirs et des savoirs dans le sillage des épistémologies critiques ; les recherches collaboratives et partenariales, renvoyant à une coopération réflexive visant la co-production de savoirs « actionnables » ; les recherches participatives fonctionnelles et instrumentales, caractérisant les sciences citoyennes dans le champ de la gouvernance des risques et de la biodiversité et s’inscrivant dans une perspective à la fois de vigilance et de surveillance collective et d’acculturation aux normes scientifiques conventionnelles.Participatory research is on the rise. This state of the art proposes a critical mapping of the convergences and cleavages between the different traditions and approaches of participatory research, in particular by questioning the relationship between participatory research and politics. It explores two axes of analysis: between recognition and injunction, the power relationships in the social division of research and in relation to institutions. This article focuses on a major challenge: the need to depart from pacified and consensual approaches of participatory research, and to understand them as virtuous partnerships between academic, professional and citizen spheres. The exploration of theoretical debates allows us to discern three ideal-typical forms: radical participatory research, characterized by the fight against the hierarchy of knowledge and powers, in the wake of critical epistemologies; collaborative research, referring to a reflexive cooperation oriented toward the co-production of actionable knowledge; and functional and instrumental research characterizing citizen science in the field of risk and biodiversity governance, and falling within a perspective both of collective vigilance and monitoring and of acculturation to conventional scientific standards

Sociologie des initiatives culturelles citoyennes : le pouvoir d'agir entre démocratie participative et économie solidaire

Through the analysis of cultural citizens’ experiences – a cultural centre of comunity-based managment, a self-directed sociocultural centre and an association of artistic mediation – this thesis questions the capacity of citizens’ initiatives to constitute autonomous public spaces, as sources of creativity and resistance, of elaboration of critical discourses and construction of concrete alternatives. In front of the limits of institutional offer of participation, of entrepreneurial standardization of citizens’ initiatives and of commodification of the cultural field, this research investigates the various levers of the autonomy of public spaces of civil society, combining two main scales of analysis : the making of collective action (institutional, organizational, economic but also social and relational dimensions) and the relation to political institutions, through the tension between institutionalization and counter-power, domestication and institutional innovation. At the crossroads between economic and political sociology, the stakes of this thesis are to articulate participatory democracy and solidarity-based economy fields to understand the conditions of citizen autonomy, to enrich the Habermasian approach of « autonomous public spaces » but also to contribute to a sociology of emancipation that, without neglecting domination and reproduction processes, was able to enlighten critical and creative capacities of these popular public spaces.A travers l’analyse d’expériences citoyennes dans le champ culturel – un centre culturel de gestion communautaire, un centre socioculturel autogéré et une association de médiation artistique -, cette thèse interroge la capacité des initiatives citoyennes à constituer des espaces publics autonomes, en tant que foyers de créativité et de résistance, d’élaboration de discours critiques et de construction d’alternatives concrètes. Face aux limites de l’offre institutionnelle de participation, au formatage entrepreneurial des initiatives citoyennes et à la pénétration marchande du champ culturel, la recherche s’intéresse aux leviers de l’autonomie des espaces publics de la société civile, en combinant deux échelles d’analyse privilégiées : la fabrique des collectifs (institutionnelle, organisationnelle, économique mais aussi sociale et relationnelle) et le rapport aux institutions, à travers la tension entre institutionnalisation et contre-pouvoir, apprivoisement et innovation institutionnelle. S’inscrivant à la croisée de la sociologie économique et de la sociologie politique, les enjeux de cette thèse sont d’articuler les champs de la démocratie participative et de l’économie solidaire afin de saisir les conditions de l’autonomie citoyenne, d’enrichir l'approche habermasienne des « espaces publics autonomes » mais aussi de contribuer à une sociologie de l’émancipation qui, n’évacuant nullement l’attention aux processus de domination et de reproduction, soit apte à mettre en lumière les capacités critiques et instituantes d’espaces publics populaires

Bringing about a cultural democracy through the making of participative art. The case of a French CSO

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Participatory Art as a Social Practice of Commoning to Reinvent the Right to the City

International audienceThe right to the city is a concept that helps rethink spatial–social dynamics, which has recently rein- vigorated the field of organization studies. Following Lefebvre and considering the failure of both the market and the state, other scholars pinpoint the need to rethink social– spatial and geographical–historical relations. They do so by theorizing the city as a host for urban commons. Collective and non-commodified, these spatial–social experiences need to be constantly reproduced and preserved through commoning practices in the struggle against spatial injus- tice. A case study shows that a civil society organization (CSO) uses participatory art to (re)produce urban commons at the level of a local community and to redress partially spatial injustice. We theorize participatory art-making as a social practice of commoning, i.e., a process of organizing for the commons—collective art-based activities to serve a community—and of the common—to (re)produce a community while performing them. Such commoning practices are not only about sharing urban resources but also about using and experiencing differently urban spaces. By making participatory artworks in public spaces and co-designing street furniture with residents of poor areas, TDA helps to better cope with the tensions between residents and local authorities and between amateurs and professional artists. By negotiating the long-term implementation of these creative artworks in the public space with public authori- ties, TDA has fostered the empowerment of inhabitants as they have experienced citizens’ reappropriation of some public spaces in Marseille

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Re-devenir Indien en Argentine (Amaicha et Quilmes à l'aube du XXIe siècle)

Amaicha del Valle et Quilmes, deux villages du nord-ouest Argentin, ont le statut de communauté indienne depuis le milieu des années 1990. Cette étude s'attache à analyser ce phénomène de revendications identitaires indiennes et d'en comprendre les enjeux, qu'ils soient d'ordre politique, économique, sociaux, culturels, et bien sur territoriaux. Ce travail s'interroge donc sur ce phénomène complexe et non sans ambiguïté qui est de re-devenir indien en Argentine . Comment affirmer, revendiquer et mettre en scène une identité ethnique censée avoir disparu de la scène nationale ? C'est en terme de processus social et historique et en termes de frontières qu'est ici analysé le phénomène d'ethnogenèse qui s'opère dans le nord-Ouest argentin. Ce travail montre que ce processus revendicatif s'inscrit dans un contexte continental et mondial plus général lié aux droits élaborés en faveurs de peuples autochtones . Cette étude ne vise cependant pas à établir une théorie générale à propos de l'ethnicité, au contraire. L'approche comparative de deux villages voisins éloignés de vingt kilomètres, montre que d'un lieu à l'autre, les enjeux des revendications identitaires peuvent être très différents et que la construction de soi en terme ethnique peut être tout à fait distincte alors qu'on appartient à une même aire géographique et culturelle.Since the 1990s, Amicha del Valle and Quilmes, two villages in Argentina have the status of "Indian Community". This study analyzes this process of claiming for an Indian identity. To understand the claiming process for an Indian identity it is important to take all aspects of what is at stake into account; political, economical, social, cultural and of course not least territorial. In this work the question is asked what it means to re-become Indian in Argentina. How is an ethnical identity which is supposed to have disappeared from the national arena reclaimed? The process of "ethnogenesis" in North West Argentina is analyzed in terms of social and historical processes as well as in terms of "borders". What this work shows is that the procedure of (re-)claiming the ethnical identity is part of a global context, linked as it is to the developed ideas of the rights of "indigenous people". But, this study does not pretend to be building a general theory on ethnicity. At the contrary, the comparative study of two neighboring villages, situated only twenty kilometers (approximately twelve and a half miles) apart, shows that the claims for identity are very dissimilar. Consequently, how to build your identity can be different even when we are part of the same geographical and cultural area.PARIS3-BU (751052102) / SudocSudocFranceArgentinaFRA