GezondMeNu

Citizen Science and lifestyle-interventions

GezondMeNu (in translation something like: ‘taking care of health and wellbeing now’) was an initiative of community organisations, knowledge institutions, health and welfare organizations, to explore what works with lifestyle interventions and activities for health and wellbeing from the perspective of inhabitants themselves. You can think of activities like walking groups, service users groups by people and familymembers with dementia, bootcamps with immigrants, football tournaments with Muslima’s etcetera. Central in the project was the construction of a ‘appreciation system’ from the perspective of communities themselves.

In GezondMeNu we built an appreciation model for lifestyle activities and interventions, based on the perspective of community organizations. Ingredients are factors like: this works for my health; this works for my community, this is what makes me happy; this is good for my social relations. In spring 2023 we tested the model, together with the citizen-researchers. In the summer of 2024 there was a working online/offline model for appreciation of lifestyle activities from the perspective of community organizations constructed.

The basic model is accessible here. GezondMenu as a model is regrettably not further implemented, due to a lack of means.

For more information check out their website.

Summary

There are a lot of formal evidence based lifestyle interventions in national databanks. Problem is that a lot of these interventions are evidence based, but they do not work. For instance due to lack of reach under targetgroups, outage under the target groups or a mismatch with cultural circumstances. In ‘GezondMeNu’ we are going to(re)search what works, who works and how it works from the perspective of community organizations with citizen-researchers. And we will develop an appreciation model for lifestyle activities from the perspective of community organizations. The goal is to unlock the data for community organizations ánd professional organizations to further develop and spread successful lifestyle interventions and activities.

Technology Readiness Level (TRL)

1 - 5

Time period

24 months

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