Cited by 64Participatory Visual Research MethodsCommunity Health and DevelopmentPhysical Activity and Health

Combining Photovoice and Focus Groups

Open access
Hannay, Jayme, Dudley, Robert, Milan, Stephanie, Leibovitz, Paula K.·2013·American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Latino adolescents, especially girls, experience higher obesity rates and are more likely to be physically unfit than non-Latino white peers. Out-of-school programs to increase physical activity and fitness in older Latino teens are critical, but sustained engagement is challenging. PURPOSE: This study combined a community-based participatory research methodology, Photovoice, with focus groups to engage Latina teens and their parents in identifying barriers to physical activity and initiating policy change actions to address them. The study investigates the effectiveness of applying Photovoice as both an evaluation tool and a leadership/advocacy intervention in a community-based obesity prevention program. DESIGN: Focus group data were collected between July 2009 and October 2010 and analyzed between November 2010 and July 2011. Five focus groups were held with adults (n = 41: 95% Latino) and four with teens (n = 36: 81% Latino, 10% non-Hispanic white, 9% African-American). SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: All participants (19 teens, six adults) were Latino. Spanish-speaking staff of a community-based agency, program staff, high school guidance counselors, and a job development agency recruited participants. Teens aged 14-19 years enrolled in New Britain CT, high schools, and their parents were eligible. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Data from Photovoice workshops (three with teens, two with parent-teen dyads) were collected and concurrently analyzed between July 2009 and August 2011. RESULTS: Teens criticized school-based physical exercise programs in favor of out-of-school exercise and career advice. Parental restrictions and work, transportation, and safety issues were cited as barriers to afterschool physical activity programs. CONCLUSIONS: Photovoice can empower teens and parents to address exercise barriers by promoting advocacy that leads to policy change (e.g., an out-of-school physical education option).

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.11.011

Cites

35 of 35 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Hannay, J., Dudley, R., Milan, S., & Leibovitz, P. K.
Affiliations
  • Community Health Center (US)
  • University of Connecticut (US)
Corresponding author
  • Hannay, Jayme
  • Dudley, Robert
Venue
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-03
Volume
44
Issue
3
Pages
S215-S224
ISSN
0749-3797 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1998348603
Cited by
64
References
35
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 5
FWCI
26.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Community Health and Development
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
Keywords
photovoice, Latino adolescents, adolescent obesity, barriers to physical activity, out-of-school time programs, community-based participatory research, adolescent girls, transportation barriers, parental restriction
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Awareness, Culture, Environment, Female, Health Promotion, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Obesity, Photography, Safety, Sex Factors, Transportation, Exercise, Focus Groups, Community-Based Participatory Research

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review