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Find your village: co-designing a community asset-based peer support intervention for wellbeing, social connectedness, and early child development among migrant families during the first 1001 days.
| Τίτλος: | Find your village: co-designing a community asset-based peer support intervention for wellbeing, social connectedness, and early child development among migrant families during the first 1001 days. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Allport T; Centre for Academic Child Health, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.; Community Children's Health Partnership, Sirona Care & Health, Bristol, UK., Musse S; Executive and Operations, Barton Hill Activity Club, Bristol, UK., Ingram J; Centre for Academic Child Health, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK., Feder G; Centre for Academic Primary Care, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK., Osman F; School of Health and Welfare, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden., Redwood S; National Institute of Health Research Applied Research Collaborative for the West of England (NIHR ARC-West), Bristol, UK. |
| Πηγή: | Global health action [Glob Health Action] 2026 Dec; Vol. 19 (1), pp. 2731693. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Sep 21. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101496665 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1654-9880 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 16549880 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Glob Health Action Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: <2016- > : Philadelphia, PA : Taylor & Francis Original Publication: Häggeby : Co-Action Publishing |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Transients and Migrants*/psychology , Peer Group* , Social Support* , Child Development*, Somalia/ethnology ; Humans ; Infant ; Wales ; England ; Infant, Newborn ; Female ; Refugees |
| Περίληψη: | Background: One in five children born in England and Wales has a parent born in the Global South. Migrant families are often marginalised, experience adverse environments, lack social support, and have highly stressed pregnancies; their children are at risk of adverse long-term outcomes. Interventions to improve early child development are highly effective and cost-effective, but often do not reach marginalised communities effectively. Objectives: To develop an asset-based community peer support intervention to improve family wellbeing, social connectedness, and early child development, addressing one migrant community's strengths and needs in detail; and to articulate its transferability to different contexts. Methods: This participatory mixed-methods approach to complex intervention design was co-produced with community partners. We constructed an ecocultural model of challenges to early child development in local Somali refugee families, integrating findings from public and professional consultations; systematic reviews of qualitative and quantitative evidence; and local qualitative research and epidemiology. We then collaboratively developed, refined, and prototyped a flexible asset-based peer support intervention to address potentially modifiable factors. Results: The key transferable functions of this intervention are: reaching out to engage, enable, and advocate for families; organising group activities; and advocating for neighbourhood environment improvements. This has potential to improve wellbeing, child development, social connectedness, and relationships with agencies. Conclusions: This intervention is designed to mobilise migrant community assets, and improve wellbeing, developmental opportunities, and community connectedness, flexibly and transferably through local co-production. It requires evaluation for its effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, and for potential to reduce inequalities and disrupt cycles of disadvantage. |
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| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: Migration; early child development; participatory mixed-methods complex intervention study; peer support; wellbeing Local Abstract: [plain-language-summary] Main findings: A co-produced complex intervention design process produced a flexible asset-based peer support intervention in pregnancy and the first 2 years of life (the first 1001 days) for communities with migrant heritage.Added knowledge: This peer support intervention addresses potentially modifiable factors within the complex context of challenges to early child development for disadvantaged and marginalised migrant families in the Global North.Global health impact for policy and action: This flexible, transferable approach to co-producing these asset-based peer support interventions has potential to be delivered cost-effectively on a large scale, adapting to local strengths and needs, to reduce inequalities in experience and outcome for children and families with migrant heritage in the Global North. |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260921 Date Completed: 20260921 Latest Revision: 20260925 |
| Update Code: | 20260925 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC13600321 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/16549716.2026.2731693 |
| PMID: | 42765152 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1654-9880 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/16549716.2026.2731693 |