TY - JOUR
T1 - Residents’ insights on their local food environment and dietary behaviors
T2 - A cross-city comparison using photovoice in Spain
AU - Gravina, Leyre
AU - Jauregi, Amets
AU - Fernández-Aedo, Irrintzi
AU - Díez, Julia
AU - Gittelsohn, Joel
AU - Colón-Ramos, Uriyoan
AU - Franco, Manuel
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by The European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013/ERC Starting Grant Heart Healthy Hoods Agreement no. 336893) and the University of the Basque Country (16/35, 2016). “The Photovoice project in Madrid was co-funded by an “Ignacio Hernando de Llarramendi” research grant 2014 of the MAPFRE Foundation” We would first thank the 41 residents in both cities Madrid and Bilbao for participating in the Photovoice projects and for their contribution to this research. We would like to thank the technical and nursing professionals who collaborated in both studies. Special thanks also go to the photographers who brought the two Photovoice projects to life. Thanks to the public administrations (city council and other public entities) who have listened to the voices of the citizens to improve the place where they live.
Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by The European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013/ERC Starting Grant Heart Healthy Hoods Agreement no. 336893) and the University of the Basque Country (16/35, 2016). “The Photovoice project in Madrid was co-funded by an “Ignacio Hernando de Llarramendi” research grant 2014 of the MAPFRE Foundation” Institutional Review Board Statement: We conducted this study in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and received ethical approval for both Photovoice projects (project identification 22.17 CEICHUB) (The Ethics Research Committee of the Madrid Health Care System, and the Ethics Committee of Clinical Research of Basurto University Hospital in Bilbao).
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PY - 2021/10/1
Y1 - 2021/10/1
N2 - Perceptions of local food environments and the ability of citizens to engage in participatory research may vary, even if participants share similar cultural and socioeconomic contexts. In this study, we aimed to describe participants’ narratives about their local food environment in two cities in Spain. We used the participatory methodology of Photovoice to engage participants in Madrid (n = 24) and Bilbao (n = 17) who took and discussed photographs about their local food environment (Madrid; n = 163 and Bilbao; n = 70). Common themes emerged across both cities (food insecurity, poverty, use of public spaces for eating and social gathering, cultural diversity and overconsumption of unhealthy foods); however, in Bilbao citizens perceived that there was sufficient availability of healthy foods despite that living in impoverished communities. Photovoice was a useful tool to engage participating citizens to improve their local food environments in both cities. This new approach allowed for a photovoice cross-city comparison that could be useful to fully understand the complexity and diversity of residents’ perceptions regardless of their place of residence.
AB - Perceptions of local food environments and the ability of citizens to engage in participatory research may vary, even if participants share similar cultural and socioeconomic contexts. In this study, we aimed to describe participants’ narratives about their local food environment in two cities in Spain. We used the participatory methodology of Photovoice to engage participants in Madrid (n = 24) and Bilbao (n = 17) who took and discussed photographs about their local food environment (Madrid; n = 163 and Bilbao; n = 70). Common themes emerged across both cities (food insecurity, poverty, use of public spaces for eating and social gathering, cultural diversity and overconsumption of unhealthy foods); however, in Bilbao citizens perceived that there was sufficient availability of healthy foods despite that living in impoverished communities. Photovoice was a useful tool to engage participating citizens to improve their local food environments in both cities. This new approach allowed for a photovoice cross-city comparison that could be useful to fully understand the complexity and diversity of residents’ perceptions regardless of their place of residence.
KW - Food environment
KW - Inequities
KW - Participatory action research
KW - Photovoice
KW - Spain
KW - Urban health
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph181910134
DO - 10.3390/ijerph181910134
M3 - Article
C2 - 34639435
AN - SCOPUS:85115806729
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 18
JO - International journal of environmental research and public health
JF - International journal of environmental research and public health
IS - 19
M1 - 134
ER -