@article{ref1,
title="Pre-pregnancy community-based intervention for couples in Malaysia: application of intervention mapping",
journal="BMC public health",
year="2016",
author="Norris, Shane A. and Ho, Julius Cheah Chee and Rashed, Aswir Abd and Vinding, Vibeke and Skau, Jutta K. H. and Biesma, Regien and Aagaard-Hansen, Jens and Hanson, Mark and Matzen, Priya",
volume="16",
number="1",
pages="e1167-e1167",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Malaysia is experiencing a nutrition transition with burgeoning obesity, particularly in women, and a growing prevalence of non-communicable disease. These health burdens have severe implications not only for adult health but also across generations. Pre-conception health promotion could address the intergenerational risk of metabolic disease. This paper describes the development of the &quot;Jom Mama&quot; intervention using Intervention Mapping (IM). The Jom Mama intervention aims to improve the health of young adult couples in Malaysia prior to conception. <br><br>METHODS: IM comprises of five steps prior to the last one, which involves the evaluation of the intervention. We used the five steps to develop the Jom Mama intervention. <br><br>RESULTS: Both the process and evidence is documented providing the rationale to the selection of the key objectives of the intervention: (i) increasing healthy dietary practice; (ii) increasing physical activity levels, (iii) reducing sedentary activity; and (iv) improving social support to offset stressful lifestyles. From the IM process, Jom Mama will be health-system centred approach that uniquely combines both community health promoters and an electronic-health platform to deliver the complex intervention. <br><br>CONCLUSION: IM is an iterative process that systematically gathers &quot;best&quot; evidence, selects appropriate theories of behaviour change, and facilitates formative research so as to develop a complex intervention. Though the IM process is time consuming, complex, and costly, it has enriched the Jom Mama intervention with a number of notable advantages: (i) intervention fashioned on formative work with stakeholders and in the target group; (ii) intervention combines research evidence with theory; (iii) intervention acknowledges multiple dynamics of influence; and (iv) intervention is embedded within health service priorities in Malaysia for greater scale-up possibility.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1471-2458",
doi="10.1186/s12889-016-3827-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3827-x"
}