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Record W4408530503 · doi:10.1177/10901981251322391

Designing Gender-Responsive Health Promotion Programs for Men: A Scoping Review

2025· review· en· W4408530503 on OpenAlex
Paul Sharp, Caitlin Sankey, John L. Oliffe, Nico Schulenkorf, Cristina M. Caperchione

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueHealth Education & Behavior · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGender Roles and Identity Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsHealth promotionPsychological interventionParticipatory action researchPromotion (chess)Citizen journalismIntervention (counseling)PsychologyCommunity-based participatory researchBehavior changeAction (physics)Applied psychologyMedicineMedical educationGerontologyPublic relationsPublic healthNursingPolitical scienceSocial psychologySociology

Abstract

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Over the past decade, there has been an increased emphasis on tailoring men's health promotion programs. To optimize outcomes, participatory action research that involves and elicits feedback from end-users has been highlighted as important to creating gender-responsive interventions. In this scoping review, we examine (a) how participatory action research has been used to design health promotion interventions for men and (b) what constitutes a gender-responsive intervention design. Following a comprehensive search, 53 articles were included in the review, reporting on 35 men's health promotion programs. Our findings suggest that participatory action methods harness varying degrees of end-user involvement, with a large majority limited to post-intervention evaluations rather than co-design and consumer collaboration. In addition, there are inconsistencies for applying gender-responsive approaches within programs, particularly regarding how interventions are targeted, tailored, and promoted to men. We conclude that participatory action research methods translate to varying degrees of gender responsiveness in men's health promotion programs. That said, involving end-users at various stages of intervention design, implementation, and evaluation may increase the likelihood that programs are more attuned to masculinities and better engage participants in promoting healthy behavior change. Efforts to advance gender-responsive designs can benefit from inductively deriving and incorporating men's masculine values.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.737
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.371
GPT teacher head0.565
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it