Hisham Bachouri-Muniesa

Enabling sustainability through co-adaptation: a process evaluation of a school-based physical activity program Abstract. Schools represent strategic settings for adolescent health promotion across multiple domains, including physical activity (PA). Despite the devel

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#HealthPromotion #ImplementationScience #CoCreation #Schools #Sustainability #HPS

I would like to say a huge thank you to all the co-authors, Maïté Verloigne, Lena Lhuisset, José A. Julián Clemente, Julien Bois, Javier Zaragoza & Sonia Asún Dieste, for their close collaboration throughout the process.

Why it matters?: Moving beyond short-term wins, we show how participatory processes—co-adapting core components and tapering external support—can be messy at the beginning but allow to make school health promotion stick in busy, complex systems.

The result? High-fidelity, school-led delivery, formal institutionalisation (planning documents and implementation agreements); stronger conditions for long-term #Sustainability —with a candid look at real-world challenges (coordination time, turnover, training, family engagement).

Over three years, we tailored the Sigue la Huella programme to the host school’s routines and progressively shifted leadership from the research team to school staff (and relevant policymakers).

I'm thrilled to announce that our new paper is out! 😊 (nice pre-holiday present)

As part of my PhD and thanks to the amazing time I had at the Health Promotion UGent, in this study we worked together to develop a process evaluation of our #PhysicalActivity promotion intervention.

The thesis document is available here!

zaguan.unizar.es/record/163978

If you have any comments, doubts or something like that you can contact me directly. I'd love to hear from others working in the field !

Thanks also to my examiners Jorge Lizandra Mora, Maria José Camacho Miñano, Gwendolijn Boonekamp.

Article links (some of them are under review or preparation):
Study 1: Study Protocol
Study 2: Diagnostic Evaluation
Study 3: Effectiveness Evaluation
Study 4: Process Evaluation

This journey has been both challenging and rewarding, and only made possible thanks to the support of my supervisors Sonia Asun Dieste, Julien Bois, Léna Lhuisset & José Antonio Julián Clemente, the collaboration of #2PASS-4Health partners, #EFYPAF and #MEPS colleagues.

Key milestone achieved 🎯

I'm very glad to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis.

This thesis is based on a three-year implementation of a school-based intervention programme aiming at promoting healthy behaviours among adolescents with special focus on programme #sustainability