Anne Grunseit

Biographic Data

ID4171513
NAMEAnne Grunseit
GIVEN NAMESAnne
FAMILY NAMEGrunseit
SIGNATUREGRUNSEIT A
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Sydney
ORCID0000-0003-1250-3265
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS22
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Reverse translating parkrun’s scale-up success: Lessons for public health

    Open AccessAnne Grunseit, Leonie Cranney et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2026

    Introduction: The scale-up evaluation field has been limited by a conceptualisation of success dominated by quantitative spread and restriction to purposively and centrally disseminated initiatives. Empirical research shows, however, that working definitions of scale-up success are far more varied, nuanced, and context-dependent. Moreover, excluding examination of organically scaling initiatives has narrowed what may be learnt about sustainable d…

  • Cross-level environmental influences on social connection among older Australians: A Social-Ecological Analysis

    Open AccessDrew Eleanor Meehan, Dafna Merom et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2026References: 26

    Persistent concerns about loneliness and social isolation in later life have prompted increasing attention to the social and environmental factors that enable or constrain connection. Yet, while previous research has identified community and societal determinants of social connection, little is known about how these factors interact dynamically with individual and interpersonal circumstances to shape older adults’ lived connection experiences. Th…

  • Community-level determinants of loneliness and social isolation: A population-based cohort study across younger and older adults

    Open AccessDrew Eleanor Meehan, Philip J Clare et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Loneliness and social isolation (SI) are critical public health issues with well-documented effects on health and well-being. However, much of existing observational and intervention research has focused predominantly on individual-and interpersonal-level factors. This longitudinal study addresses significant knowledge gaps by comprehensively examining the independent influence of multiple community-level determinants on loneliness …

  • Physical activity policies in the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A qualitative study with document analysis

    Open AccessAli Ahmed Alzahrani, Peter Gelius et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: The Gulf states have some of the lowest physical activity levels and some of the highest obesity rates globally. Understanding physical activity policies is important but under-researched in this region. PURPOSE: To analyse physical activity policies in terms of structures, formulation, implementation and evaluation in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab E…

  • We Want parkrun to Well Outlive Us: Behind the Dissemination and Sustainability of parkrun in Australia

    Open AccessLeonie Cranney, Anne C Grunseit et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2025References: 34

    parkrun is a free, weekly organized mass participation physical activity event providing a remarkable example of at-scale dissemination, with over 1 million participants and 150,000 volunteers in Australia. This qualitative study draws on stakeholders' experiences to explore how parkrun succeeded with its dissemination and sustainability in Australia. Maximum variation and snowball sampling methods were used to select interviewees representing th…

  • Coming back for more: Individual participation patterns in the physical activity initiative parkrun in Australia

    Open AccessAnne Grunseit, Bo‐Huei Huang et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2024

    Most physical activity (PA) maintenance research has concerned adherence to small-scale interventions or infrequent observation in cohort studies. We analysed individual attendance trajectories and their drivers in a large-scale ‘real-world’ community-based weekly PA event (parkrun) cohort in Australia. Data were weekly attendance (walking/running) of 223 224 unique parkrun participants over their first 3 years of participation. An unweighted mov…

  • Promoting vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (vilpa) in middle-aged adults: An evaluation of the movsnax mobile app

    Open AccessCecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani, Anne Grunseit et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    The MovSnax app, tested in the present study, is the world's first digital tool aimed specifically at increasing VILPA. The findings of the present study underscore the need for further app refinement, focusing on clarifying its purpose and instructions, boosting user engagement through personalization and added motivational elements, enhancing accuracy in detecting VILPA bouts, implementing clearer feedback mechanisms, expanding customization ch…

  • Development and Application of the Scale-Up Reflection Guide (SRG)

    Open AccessKaren Lee, Melanie Crane et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Scaling up effective interventions in public health is complex and comprehensive, and published accounts of the scale-up process are scarce. Key aspects of the scale-up experience need to be more comprehensively captured. This study describes the development of a guide for reflecting on and documenting the scale-up of public health interventions, to increase the depth of practice-based information of scaling up. Reviews of relevant scale-up frame…

  • Designing physical activity interventions for women aged 50: A qualitative study of participant perspectives

    Open AccessGeraldine Wallbank, Amanda Haynes et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    A range of strategies is key to supporting women over 50 to be more physically active due to the variety of circumstances and levels of agency experienced. We offer suggestions that do not need to be resource intensive but could be incorporated into a scaled program

  • What helps older people persevere with yoga classes? A realist process evaluation of a Covid-19-affected yoga program for fall prevention

    Open AccessAmanda Haynes, Heidi Gilchrist et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    This study showed that online delivery of a yoga program for people aged 60+ retained much of the value of a face-to-face program for the majority of participants, and increased the value for some. The structured, communal nature of an organised group program delivered by a skilled instructor, together with yoga's intrinsic focus on mindfulness, facilitated continued engagement and perceived health benefits, despite the change in delivery mode

  • Changes in Australian community perceptions of non-communicable disease prevention: A greater role for government

    Open AccessAnne C Grunseit, Anne Grunseit et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Opportunities may exist to implement government health-promoting policies (e.g., taxing soft drinks), although advocacy may be needed to address the concerns of less supportive subpopulations. Attitudes on government intervention in general may be becoming more polarized; future research examining the association of such changes with exposure to different information sources could inform communication strategies for future health policy change

  • The psychometric properties of a novel task-based dance self-efficacy measure for older adult dance program participants

    Martha Waugh, Anne Grunseit et al.ARTICLEArts & Health2021References: 4

    The dance self-efficacy measure demonstrated good criterion and construct validity and can be included in future dance interventions to improve understanding of outcome variability and inform program evaluation

  • Weight change among repeat participants of an Aboriginal community-based weight loss program

    Open AccessErika Bohn‐Goldbaum, Aaron Cashmore et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    While individuals benefit from weight loss through program participation, strengthening strategies for weight loss maintenance within or following the program could improve long-term weight outcomes and reduce weight cycling

  • Evaluation of Get Healthy at Work, a state-wide workplace health promotion program in Australia

    Open AccessMelanie Crane, Erika Bohn‐Goldbaum et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Evaluation of program factors is important to improve program delivery and uptake and to ensure greater scalability. GHaW has the potential to improve workplace health culture, which may lead to better health promoting work environments. These results imply that government can play a central role in enabling prioritisation and incentivising health promotion in the workplace

  • Doing a good thing for myself”: A qualitative study of young adults’ strategies for reducing takeaway food consumption

    Open AccessAnne Grunseit, Amelia Cook et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Our participants reported strategies they believed led to them successfully reduce their takeaway food consumption by matching the attractions (e.g., convenience) and countering apparent disincentives for reducing consumption (e.g., losing a reward) of takeaway food. They reported eschewing more short-term rewards and costs, to prioritise their health, believing that avoiding these foods would benefit them personally and financially. The identifi…

  • Acceptability of financial incentives for maintenance of weight loss in mid-older adults: A mixed methods study

    Open AccessBronwyn Mcgill, Blythe J O’Hara et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    If financial incentives are considered for mid-older Australian adults in the health insurance setting, program planners will need to balance the discordance between participant beliefs about the individual responsibility for health and their desire for external supports to motivate and sustain weight loss maintenance

  • Nanny or canny? Community perceptions of government intervention for preventive health

    Open AccessAnne Grunseit, Samantha Rowbotham et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2018

    Critics of government intervention for the prevention of lifestyle-related chronic disease often conceptualise such efforts as ‘nanny state’, reflecting a neoliberal perspective and derailing wider debate. However, it is unknown how the community perceives such interventions. Given the importance of public opinion to government willingness to implement population-level system change, we aimed to better understand Australian community attitudes to…

  • Australian athletes’ knowledge of the Wada Prohibited Substances List and performance enhancing substances

    Open AccessRhonda Orr, Matthew Grassmayr et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2018

  • Assessing the Effectiveness of Wellbeing Initiatives for Lawyers and Support Staff

    Suzanne Poynton, Janet Chan et al.ARTICLEUniversity of New South Wales Law…2018

    This article reports on the findings of a study on the use and effectiveness of wellbeing initiatives implemented by a large public sector legal service organisation in Australia. The study, which was conducted from 2011 to 2015, employed a mixed-methods approach, consisting of three waves of staff surveys, interviews with key informants and staff, and workplace observation. The article considers the drivers of work stress, the impact of the intr…

  • User Perceptions of the Make Healthy Normal campaign Facebook Page: A Mixed Methods Study

    Open AccessJames Kite, Bronwyn Mcgill et al.ARTICLESocial Media + Society2018References: 31

    Facebook is used as part of public health communication efforts but little evidence is available on why people engage with health-related Facebook pages and what content appeals to them. This study aimed to investigate user perceptions of and experience with the Make Healthy Normal (MHN) Facebook page, part of a government campaign to address overweight and obesity in adults in New South Wales, Australia. This sequential mixed methods study compr…

  • Assessing junk food consumption among Australian children: Trends and associated characteristics from a cross-sectional study

    Open AccessSinéad Boylan, Louise L Hardy et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    This is the first study to provide and examine a summary measure of overall junk food consumption among Australian children. The results indicate that junk food consumption among Australian children is lower in 2015, compared with 2010. Still, the public health workforce must continue their efforts as levels of junk food consumption remain of concern among Australian children

  • Running on a high: Parkrun and personal well-being

    Open AccessAnne Grunseit, Justin Richards et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Australian parkrunners mostly reflect the general population on personal well-being, except report superior satisfaction with physical health. Women's personal well-being may benefit from parkrun through improved mental health and men's from community connectedness. parkrun may facilitate positive expression of identity and continuation of healthy habits among athletes, and non-demanding, health enhancing activity and social interaction for non-a…

  • Multiple lifestyle behaviours and mortality, findings from a large population-based Norwegian cohort study - The Hunt Study

    Open AccessSteinar Krokstad, Ding et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    This study adds to previous research on multiple risk behaviours by incorporating emerging risk factors. Findings regarding social participation and prolonged sitting suggest new components of healthy lifestyles and potential new directions for population health interventions

  • Physical activity, obesity and mortality: Does pattern of physical activity have stronger epidemiological associations

    Open AccessAdrian E Bauman, Adrian Bauman et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    PA patterns demonstrated a stronger association with a number of anthropometric and mortality outcomes than the single time-point measures. Operationalising PA as a sustained behavioural pattern may address some of the known under-estimation of risk for poor health in PA self-report measurements and better reflect exposure for epidemiological analysis of risk of health outcomes

  • Thinking on your feet”: A qualitative evaluation of sit-stand desks in an Australian workplace

    Open AccessAnne Grunseit, Anne Carolyn Grunseit et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    Sit-stand desks had high usability and acceptability and reduced sitting time at work. Use could be promoted by emphasizing the health benefits, providing guidance on appropriate set-up and normalizing standing for work-related tasks