Strategies and intervention components of the HPSC intervention framework (Van Hoye et al., 2021)
| Strategies | Intervention components |
| COMMUNICATION: Develop and implement communication to raise awareness of the actions taken to promote health within the sports club | COM1: Develop a communication plan COM2: Communicate with one message, a slogan (clear, explicit and visible) COM3: Ensure internal club communication COM4: Ensure the club communicates with the external community COM5: Ensure the club communicates with all partners COM6: Communicate the benefits of health promotion activities |
| DYNAMIC: Create strategies to improve all stakeholders' sense of belonging to the club and consider the individual and their environment (socio-ecological approach) to define the most relevant health promotion goals | DYN1: Take the feeling of belonging to the club into account when defining the goals DYN2: Consider interactions between the individual and their environment, while defining health promotion goals |
| EDUCATION: Support the sports club, management and coaches by varying the type of education they receive and take into account differences in the sports’ participants they coach | EDU1: Support the managers and coaches to actively engage in gaining knowledge and skills to promote health EDU2: Tailor the support to the managers and coaches individually in relation to the sports’ participants they coach (mentoring, courses, online tools) EDU3: Encourage the managers and coaches to support each other to promote health EDU4: Propose a variety of ways for the sports clubs to raise awareness about health promotion EDU5: Create tools and training courses to support health promotion in sports clubs |
| EXPERIENCE: Identify past club experiences, organisational readiness and the reasons and quality of the club’s commitment to promote health | EXP1: Identify previous club experiences to promote health EXP2: Identify the organisational readiness to promote health EXP3: Identify reasons for commitment to promote health EXP4: Identify the degree of commitment to promote health EXP5: Rely on existing, evidence-based health promotion tools EXP6: Rely on a diagnosis to assess needs and expectations to implement health promotion actions EXP7: Rely on other clubs’ experiences when developing health promotion actions |
| GOALS: Write down the sports club’s health promotion goals, using positive messages, adapted to sports language, culture and the placement of health promotion within the club, considering the social inequalities of health | GLS1: Define the goals of health promotion GLS2: Health promotion goals are formally written and documented GLS3: Write goals in a positive sporting language based on the club’s culture GLS4: Consider inclusivity (eg, how people experience health differently) when defining the goals |
| FEASIBILITY: Regularly review the capacity of the sports club to achieve its health promotion goals | FEAS1: Regularly review the financial resources being used FEAS2: Regularly review the human resources being used FEAS3: Regularly review the club’s capacity to undertake the actions required to achieve the goals FEAS4: Regularly review the time dedicated to achieving the goals |
| MOBILISATION: Mobilise people to manage the development of health promotion | MOB1: Mobilise sports champions to support the development of health promotion within your club MOB2: Mobilise experts in health promotion MOB3: Identify and mobilise one or several internal health promotion representatives MOB4: Mobilise parents (and other family members) to support health promotion actions MOB5: Mobilise local decision-makers and elected officials to promote health within the sports club MOB6: Advocate with sports federations to support the clubs on health promotion actions |
| MONITORING: Monitor health promotion activities in daily practice using a ‘small steps’ philosophy and review any changes | MON1: Review small improvements towards achieving health promotion goals MON2: Review all the health promotion activities undertaken in the club MON3: Review the short-term effects of the actions (changes within one sports season) MON4: Review the long-term effects of the actions (changes beyond one sports season) MON5: Review the health promotion policies of the sport clubs |
| MOTIVATION: Understand what motivates coaches to implement health promotion and empower them in this undertaking | MOT1: Foster positive interpersonal relationships MOT2: Take coaches' skills to manage situations into account MOT3: Take coaches’ motivation for coaching and their future expectations into account MOT4: Strengthen coaches' autonomy to promote health MOT5: Strengthen coaches' sense of ownership of the club |
| PARTICIPATIVE APPROACH: Value a ‘participative approach’ to promote health throughout the club and beyond | PAP1: Identify and call attention to health promotion actions of individuals PAP2: Identify and call attention to coaches' health promotion actions PAP3: Identify and call attention to management health promotion actions PAP4: Identify and call attention to every health promotion action PAP5: Include the managers, coaches and sports participants in the decision-making process PAP6: Involve parents (and other family members and friends) in health promotion efforts |
| PARTNERS: Partner with other organisations to create a common culture and collaborative process to promote health | PART1: Identify partners for health promotion (clubs, agencies, regional authorities, health professionals) PART2: Define how to collaborate with existing and future partners (define roles, share experiences, contract terms, evaluation of results, equal partner power) PART3: Create a common culture with existing and future partners (trust, recognition, shared time) |
| PLANNING: Create an implementation plan to achieve the written health promotion goals | PLAN1: Include the core goals in the plan PLAN2: Include the target population in the implementation plan PLAN3: Include the funding sources in the implementation plan PLAN4: Include the responsible persons in the implementation plan PLAN5: Include key steps in the implementation plan PLAN6: Encourage sustainable health promotion actions PLAN7: Base future plans and policies on current health promotion actions PLAN8: Plan future actions based on the evaluation of current actions |
| RESOURCES: Identify, develop or review financial, human, material and capacity building resources available to invest in health promotion | RES1: Review available financial resources (subsidies, sponsors) to invest in health promotion RES2: Review available human resources (dedicated volunteer time, staff turnover) to invest in health promotion RES3: Review current skills and knowledge available to promote health RES4: Identify and mobilise tools for health promotion development within sports clubs RES5: Identify the funding that can be used for health promotion actions RES6: Establish a national resource site for health promotion within sports clubs RES7: Establish a national spokesperson for health promotion within sports clubs RES8: Create and host a regional and local network of health promotion mentors within sports clubs (share practices) |
HPSC, health-promoting sports club.