Project duration: 01.10.2022 to 31.03.2023

Project management: Prof. Dr. Anja Voss, Prof. Dr. Claudia Hruška

The research approach focuses on the increasing importance of digitalization for integrated health promotion in daycare centers. Health-promoting work structures and behaviors of professionals are to be implemented in perspective, taking digital technologies into account. In this explorative phase, a well-founded initial situation is to be established via a systematic review and a focus group interview with actors from the field and networking is to be initiated.

You can find detailed information on the research project here: https: //www.ifaf-berlin.de/projekte/eheki/

Project duration:December 2020-June 2021

Project management: Prof. Dr. Anja Voss

The coronavirus pandemic has significantly changed everyday life for and with children since March 2020: Daycare centers and schools keep closing completely or partially or are only open for emergency care. Playgrounds and sports facilities are closed or only accessible to a certain number of people, and many sports clubs and commercial sports and exercise providers have suspended their activities. Everyday life is characterized by contact restrictions, hygiene and social distancing rules and life has shifted to the private sphere.

The project focuses on the physical activity behavior of 3-6 year old children in Marzahn-Hellersdorf during the Corona lockdowns 2020/2021 and deals with the question of whether and how the physical activity behavior of children changes during this time. Both the connection between spatial conditions and physical activity play a role, but also between physical activity and media use as well as the use of social space.

The methodological design follows a "mixed methods" approach and thus a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Specifically, the research design consists of a questionnaire survey (n=800) as well as interviews with children and drawings by children.

Project duration: 2016-2018

Project management: Prof. Dr. Anja Voss

The "Promoting physical activity in public spaces" project is embedded in the "Socially Integrative City" funding program as a sub-program of the "Future Neighbourhood Initiative" and is financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The overarching goal is to promote physical and mental health through exercise.

From 2016 to 2018, people in various neighbourhoods in Berlin's Mitte district, where there is a risk of exclusion in various respects (e.g. with regard to a high concentration of socially difficult living conditions such as unemployment, structural disadvantages in the labour market or child poverty), were introduced to exercise and sport beyond gyms and sports clubs at a low threshold and with participatory opportunities. Under the auspices of bwgt e.V.(https://www.bwgt.org/), the first step was to identify existing exercise areas/elements in the project area. Pilot sites were then defined and specific, target group-oriented exercise programs were initiated in public green spaces and installed on a long-term basis. In addition, a network of participating stakeholders was established in the social space. The physical activity programs set up during the project period were scientifically monitored as part of internal and external evaluations (questionnaires, focus group discussions).

Project duration: 2016

Project management: Prof. Dr. Anja Voss, Prof. Dr. Gesine Bär

Project staff: Dr. Michael Noweski, Maria Ihm (M.A.), Laura Fricke

In health prevention, a standardization process of the quality of measures is currently taking place by setting new quality standards. The aim of the project is to analyze the prerequisites for an inter-agency communication process on common standards in obesity prevention for children.
The project is based on the QuAK project (2015 - 2016), which compiled an inventory of existing standards. On the one hand, the QuAK project was able to identify a basic consensus between scientific publications and practice-relevant actors in quality assurance in the above-mentioned field of action, but on the other hand, there was still a need for development of existing criteria catalogs and a lack of mutual reception.
The follow-up project PräKiT builds on these results. The aim is to determine the necessary prerequisites for the targeted development of quality standards. In-depth knowledge of the problems, attitudes, needs and potential for action of the stakeholders is crucial, as their perspectives have a decisive influence on the field. As part of the project, the team conducts interviews with experts from relevant cost and measure providers. On the basis of these interviews, the PräKiT project analyses the attitudes and resources for action in the organizations and formulates recommendations for shaping the communication process. The focus is on questions regarding the conditions under which a standardization of quality standards is supported and how this consensus process could be shaped from the perspective of the stakeholders.

Project duration: 2015 - 2016

Project management: Prof. Dr. Anja Voss, Prof. Dr. Gesine Bär

Project staff: Dr. Michael Noweski, Maria Ihm

A standardization process of the quality of measures is currently taking place in health prevention by setting new quality standards. The aim of the project is to take stock of the current quality standards for primary obesity prevention measures for children. Data will be collected through a systematic literature search in relevant databases and search engines (Medline, Springer Link, Thieme Connect, Google Scholar), as well as an analysis of relevant documents from science and practice. Although various organizations and specialist disciplines are involved in the standardization of the quality of measures, it is expected that, in addition to different concepts, there will also be similarities in terms of content. The results of the inventory are intended to show ways of developing common standards that can be established as part of a nationwide consensus process.

Further information can be found in the ASH Berlin research database.

Project duration: 2010 - 2012

Project management:Prof. Dr. Anja Voss (ASH Berlin), Prof. Dr. Susanne Viernickel (Leipzig University)

Project staff:
Dipl. Psych. Elvira Mauz, MPH, Frauke Gerstenberg B.A. Early Childhood Education, Maria Schumann, MPH

Cooperation partners:
Unfallkasse Nordrhein-Westfalen
Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung (German Social Accident Insurance)

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