Football metaphor and mental well-being: An evaluation of the<i>It's a Goal!</i>programme

Spandler, Helen; McKeown, Mick; Roy, Alastair Neil; Hurley, Margaret Anne

doi:10.3109/09638237.2013.819420

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“…This measure has good psychometric properties and a relatively high level of acceptability among mental health service users (Crawford et al, 2011); its use also facilitates comparison with other exercise programme evaluations Spandler et al, 2013). The Resource Generator-UK (RG-UK) (Webber & Huxley, 2007) was used to measure participants ' access to social capital.…”

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“…Some football programmes are run within mental health services, either those run by the National Health Service or by mental health charities, and use community facilities rather than those of professional football clubs. In addition, football clubs ' corporate social responsibility programme includes work with community groups, for example those for disadvantaged young people, people with learning disabilities, people at risk of cardiovascular problems, and, increasingly, people with mental health problems (Spandler et al, 2013). It appears that either model can benefi t participants ' well-being (McGale et al, 2011;Spandler et al, 2013) but many other questions could be examined.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…The increasing use in England and elsewhere of participation in playing (McGale et al, 2011;Spandler et al, 2013) to improve mental health, particularly among men, raises some interesting questions. Some football programmes are run within mental health services, either those run by the National Health Service or by mental health charities, and use community facilities rather than those of professional football clubs.…”

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Corporate social responsibility and mental health: The Premier League football Imagine Your Goals programme

Henderson

O'Hara

Thornicroft

et al. 2014

International Review of Psychiatry

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Football is increasingly used to facilitate recovery in mental health services, often in partnership with football clubs. However, few clubs have made mental health part of their corporate social responsibility programmes until recently. We report the impact on participants of the 'Imagine Your Goals' programme, run by 16 Premier League football clubs in conjunction with England's Time to Change programme to reduce mental health-related stigma and discrimination. Mixed methods evaluation used pre/post measures of well-being, access to social capital, focus groups held early on and towards the end of the two-year programmes, and questionnaires for coaching staff. There were no significant changes to participants' mental well-being scores between baseline and follow-up, nor to the total number of social resources accessible through their networks. However, there was a statistically significant increase at follow-up in the mean score of the personal skills subscale of the Resource Generator-UK. Participants' individual skills were also higher at follow-up. Qualitative data showed programmes had largely met participants' expectations in terms of socializing, providing structure and improving fitness levels, exceeded expectations in relationships with coaching staff and additional activities, but did not always meet them in improving football skills. Participants varied in their knowledge of exit opportunities, depending on which club's programme they attended. A minority of clubs reported difficulties in recruitment and concerns about planning for the future of the projects. Football clubs and the charitable foundations they set up can successfully deliver programmes to people with mental health problems which improve access to personal skills social capital and have other potential benefits.

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Corporate social responsibility and mental health: The Premier League football Imagine Your Goals programme

Henderson

O'Hara

Thornicroft

et al. 2014

International Review of Psychiatry

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“…This reflects the importance of the football club as a symbol of the city, and it was further reinforced to participants when players from the football team joined them on the programme. Previous studies such as FITT (Hunt et al 2014) and an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies funded mental health project in North West England (Spandler et al 2013) have shown similar benefits of utilising sporting venues as health intervention settings with positive clinical outcomes and service user feedback. This emphasizes the importance of utilising spaces and possibly engaging public figures, which have resonance with the local target population.…”

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Success of a sports-club led-community X-PERT Diabetes Education Programme

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This study examined the effectiveness of a sports-club-led X-PERT Diabetes Programme, measuring changes to participants’ physical condition, knowledge of diabetes, psychological well-being, activity level, diabetes self-management and participants’ rating of the programme. In this mixed-method, repeated measures evaluative study, data were gathered at baseline (T0), six weeks (T1) and 6 months (T2) using the Diabetes Health Profile, General Practice Physical Activity Questionnaire, Diabetes Empowerment Scale – Short Form, Participant Evaluation Questionnaire and focus groups. Over three years, 260 individuals with type 2 diabetes provided data for the evaluation. The sports-club-led X-PERT Diabetes Education Programme was successful in achieving its targets with improvement in clinical outcomes including significant reductions in BMI, waist circumference, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and glycated haemoglobin by T2. Positive changes were also evident in relation to participants’ health profile, self-management and empowerment. This study illustrates the important role that European sports stadia can play in community health through delivering targeted programmes beyond general health promotion activities

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“…This reflects the importance of the football club as a symbol of the city, and it was further reinforced to participants when players from the football team joined them on the programme. Previous studies such as FITT (Hunt et al 2014) and an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) funded mental health project in North West England (Spandler, McKeown, Roy and Hurley 2013) Wolverhampton CCG identified 14,000 patients diagnosed with diabetes living in the city, and the programme has the potential to be offered to all patients through the practitioner referral system. Annual inpatient care to treat short-and long-term complications of diabetes is estimated at between £1,800 and £2,500 per patient (Diabetes UK n.d.), in contrast to annual outpatient costs (including costs of medications and monitoring supplies) estimated at between £300 and £370 per patient.…”

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Success of a sports-club led-community X-PERT Diabetes Education Programme

Morgan¹,

Drew²,

Clifford³

et al. 2018

Healthy Stadia

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This study examined the effectiveness of a sports-club led X-PERT Diabetes Programme, measuring changes to participants' physical condition, knowledge of diabetes, psychological well-being, activity level, diabetes self-management and participants' rating of the programme. In this mixed-method, repeated measures evaluative study, data were gathered at baseline (T0), 6 weeks (T1) and 6 months (T2) using the Diabetes Health Profile (DHP), General Practice Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPPAQ), Diabetes Empowerment Scale -Short Form (DES-SF), Participant Evaluation Questionnaire (PEQ), and focus groups. Over three years, 260 individuals with type 2 diabetes provided data for the evaluation. The sports-club led X-PERT Diabetes Education Programme was successful in achieving its targets with improvement in clinical outcomes including significant reductions in BMI, waist circumference, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and glycated haemoglobin by T2. Positive changes were also evident in relation to participants' health profile, self-management and empowerment. This study illustrates the important role that European sports stadia can play in community health through delivering targeted programmes beyond general health promotion activities.

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Football metaphor and mental well-being: An evaluation of theIt's a Goal!programme

Abstract: Using football metaphor to deliver a group therapeutic programme aimed at men appears to be an effective means of facilitating mental health benefits.

Cited by 34 publications

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Corporate social responsibility and mental health: The Premier League football Imagine Your Goals programme

Corporate social responsibility and mental health: The Premier League football Imagine Your Goals programme

Success of a sports-club led-community X-PERT Diabetes Education Programme

Success of a sports-club led-community X-PERT Diabetes Education Programme

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