Scale-Up and Scale-Out of a Gender-Sensitized Weight Management and Healthy Living Program Delivered to Overweight Men via Professional Sports Clubs

The Wider Implementation of Football Fans in Training (FFIT)

Bibliographic Data

ID15513514
AuthorsKate Hunt (0000-0002-5873-3632, University of Stirling, corresponding author), Sally Wyke (0000-0002-7509-8247, University of Glasgow), Christopher Bunn (0000-0001-6604-1305, University of Glasgow), Craig Donnachie (0000-0003-1637-3138, University of Glasgow), Nicky Reid (Scottish Professional League Trust (SPFL-T), Glasgow G42 9DE, UK), Cindy M Gray (0000-0002-4295-6110, University of Glasgow)
Year2020
Volume17
Issue2
Pages584-584
Publication date2020-01-16
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
PublisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph17020584
PMID31963224
OpenAlexW2999454628
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited69

Increasing prevalence of obesity poses challenges for public health. Men have been under-served by weight management programs, highlighting a need for gender-sensitized programs that can be embedded into routine practice or adapted for new settings/populations, to accelerate the process of implementing programs that are successful and cost-effective under research conditions. To address gaps in examples of how to bridge the research to practice gap, we describe the scale-up and scale-out of Football Fans in Training (FFIT), a weight management and healthy living program in relation to two implementation frameworks. The paper presents: the development, evaluation and scale-up of FFIT, mapped onto the PRACTIS guide; outcomes in scale-up deliveries; and the scale-out of FFIT through programs delivered in other contexts (other countries, professional sports, target groups, public health focus). FFIT has been scaled-up through a single-license franchise model in over 40 UK professional football clubs to 2019 (and 30 more from 2020) and scaled-out into football and other sporting contexts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, England and other European countries. The successful scale-up and scale-out of FFIT demonstrates that, with attention to cultural constructions of masculinity, public health interventions can appeal to men and support them in sustainable lifestyle change

Football · Geography · Medical education · Obesity · Overweight · Political science · Psychological intervention · Public health · Public relations · Scale (ratio · Weight management · Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise · Medicine · Nursing · Physical Activity and Health · Psychology · Sports injuries and prevention

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