Exploration of pick-up football intervention that acts as the vehicle to bring men together to improve their overall health and achieve social gains for local communities. Other
Conditions
Interventions
Football Cooperative (FC) is a social enterprise (SE) established in 2017 for men, by men and uses ‘pick-up-football’ as the vehicle to bring men together to improve their overall health and achieve s
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Sponsors
South East Technological University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants in general must be: 1. =18 years old and over 2. Provide written informed consent Service users: Participate in FC games Service Providers: Participate in and/or is involved in providing FC games Organisational Founder: Involved in the founding of FC games Wider Ecological System: Has a role in an organisation involved in providing funding or implementing policy related to sport for good initiatives in Ireland Outside of FC: The UEFA representative on the advisory board will act as a gatekeeper for some organisations relevant to this study. The Selection Criteria include: Service users: Participate in the programme/intervention provided by the organisation Service Providers: Participate in and/or is involved in providing the programme/intervention provided by the organisation Organisational Founder: Was involved in the founding of the programme/intervention provided by the organisation Wider Ecological System: Has a role in an organisation involved in providing funding or implementing policy related to sport for good initiatives in Ireland
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Does not meet the inclusion criteria
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Barriers and facilitators to implementation will be measured at all levels of the ecological framework [service user, service provider, organisational and wider ecological system i.e. policy maker and funders] both within FC and beyond FC. Data will initially be collected within FC from Feb-July 2023 and beyond FC from Oct 2023 – April 2024. Within FC data will be collected via ongoing consultation that involves: 1. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups 2. Informal short ‘pitch side’ interviews with service users 3. Observational data and reflections by embedded researchers at FC games 4. Desk-based research reviewing and synthesising findings from the feasibility study 5. Exit surveys with those who dropped out of games or who registered but never attended Beyond FC, data will be collected from a number of initiatives that have been successful in growing men’s and sport-related initiatives to scale. Following the desk review of the organisations, members of the research team will visit these organisations to collect data via informal (ad-hoc conversations) and formal (observations, interviews and focus groups) methods. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Processes and mechanisms for implementation will be measured at all levels of the ecological framework [service user, service provider, organisational and wider ecological system i.e. policy maker and funders] both within FC and beyond FC. Data will initially be collected within FC from Feb-July 2023 and beyond FC from Oct 2023 – April 2024. Within FC data will be collected via ongoing consultation that involves: 1. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups 2. Informal short ‘pitch side’ interviews with service users 3. Observational data and reflections by embedded researchers at FC games 4. Desk-based research reviewing and synthesising findings from the feasibility study 5. Exit surveys with those who dropped out of games or who registered but never attended Beyond FC, data will be collected from a number of initiatives that have been successful in growing men’s and sport-related initiatives to scale. Following the desk review of the organisations, members of the research team will visit these organisations to collect data via informal (ad-hoc conversations) and formal (observations, interviews and focus groups) methods. | — |
Countries
Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Türkiye
Outcome results
None listed