Côté Jean, Coletti Jennifer, McGuire Cailie S, Erickson Karl, Saizew Kelsey, Maw Alex, Primeau Chris, Wolff Meredith, Ladd Brandy, Martin Luc J
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada.
Children (Basel). 2023 Apr 28;10(5):799. doi: 10.3390/children10050799.
The 1616 Program is a newly developed and evidence-informed story-based positive youth development (PYD) program for young ice hockey players (10-12 years of age) in North America. The program uses elite ice hockey players as role models-through story-telling-to serve as inspirational figures to engage youth athletes and important social agents (i.e., parents, coaches) with evidence-informed PYD concepts. The objective of this study was to use a Proof-of-Concept evaluation to assess whether the 1616 Program 'worked' in enhancing PYD outcomes and to determine if the concepts were engaging and enjoyable for youth, their parents, and coaches. The 5 week Proof-of-Concept evaluation was conducted with 11 ice hockey teams ( = 160 youths, 93 parents, and 11 coaches), encompassing both qualitative (e.g., focus groups) and quantitative (e.g., retrospective pretest-posttest questionnaires) processes and outcome assessments. Results showed that the program was well received by participants and positively impacted the intended outcomes. Overall, the data presented in this Proof-of-Concept evaluation was deemed to support the development and implementation of the full-scale 1616 Program for a more comprehensive evaluation.
1616项目是一项新开发的、基于证据且以故事为基础的北美青少年冰球运动员（10至12岁）积极青年发展（PYD）项目。该项目通过讲述故事，以精英冰球运动员为榜样，作为激励人物，让青少年运动员以及重要社会主体（即家长、教练）参与到基于证据的积极青年发展概念中来。本研究的目的是通过概念验证评估，来评估1616项目在提升积极青年发展成果方面是否“有效”，并确定这些概念对青少年、他们的家长和教练而言是否具有吸引力且令人愉快。对11支冰球队（共160名青少年、93名家长和11名教练）进行了为期5周的概念验证评估，评估涵盖定性（如焦点小组）和定量（如回顾性前测-后测问卷）过程及结果评估。结果表明，该项目受到参与者的好评，并对预期成果产生了积极影响。总体而言，本次概念验证评估中呈现的数据被认为支持全面开展1616项目以进行更全面评估的开发和实施。
