| Titre : | Co-Creating Questionnaire to Assess Exposure of Adolescents to Green Spaces |
| Auteurs : | Sri Hari Govind Kaliapuram Narendrakumar ; Ecole des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP) (Rennes, FRA) |
| Type de document : | Mémoire |
| Année de publication : | 2025 |
| Description : | 55p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Classement : | MPH/ (Mémoires MPH à partir de 2024) |
| Mots-clés : | Adolescent ; Espace vert ; Co-construction ; Questionnaire |
| Résumé : |
Background: Adolescents are particularly sensitive to environmental stressors, making their interaction with green spaces crucial for their physical, mental, and social development. While existing research highlights the health benefits of green space exposure, there is limited understanding of how adolescents access, use, and perceive these environments.
Objective: To co-create an adolescent-friendly questionnaire that assesses the exposure of public green spaces for French adolescents in three domains: usage, services and perception. Methods: An exploratory literature review informed a provisional questionnaire framework. Participatory knowledge generation combined (i) a co-creation workshop with three male adolescents (12 and 14 y) in Rennes, (ii) a focus group discussion with 11 health experts, and (iii) comparative analysis with a baseline questionnaire generated by ChatGPT. Inputs were iteratively synthesised to refine content, wording, and structure of the questionnaire. Results: The workshop with the adolescents showed that they engage with green spaces both intentionally and incidentally, especially when it is part of their daily trajectories. They consider schoolyards and informal green areas as significant and categorised eight types of green spaces, based on their functionality. Temporal variations in access to green space use (e.g., weekday vs. weekend, school period vs. holiday) emerged as a critical factor. The expert focus group further emphasized the importance of capturing temporal variability and functional definitions of green space. Private-garden was identified as a potential confounder and was subsequently addressed in another section of the questionnaire. Experts also stressed the need to assess both positive sensory cues along with negative sensory cues and incivilities. Comparative analysis with an AI-generated (ChatGPT) questionnaire demonstrated the superiority of the co-created version in contextual sensitivity and content validity. The final co-created questionnaire consists of six sections covering demographics, commute-related exposure, private green space use, most used public green spaces and detailed exploration of the two most frequented types of green spaces. A parent proxy version of the questionnaire was also developed. Conclusions: This developed questionnaire serves as a novel tool for assessing adolescent’s green-space exposure in future epidemiological and public health studies, and urban planning. |
| Diplôme : | Master MPH of public health |
| Plan de classement simplifié : | Master of Public Health - master international de Santé Publique (MPH) |
| En ligne : | https://documentation.ehesp.fr/memoires/2025/mph/sri_hari_govind_kaliapuram_narendrakumar.pdf |
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