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Abstract

Background

Social networks are an important, although overlooked, component of community-based health promotion. Advances in social network research have highlighted different social network intervention (SNI) strategies to improve community-based health promotion. The aim of this project is to collaborate with community and policy stakeholders to explore how to best apply these SNI strategies to improve the resilience, health and well-being of adults in Amsterdam, and more broadly in the Netherlands.

Methods and analysis

To this end, we will collaboratively develop an intervention planning tool called the ‘Health in All Networks Simulator (HANS)’. This tool will be capable of virtually testing different SNI strategies and forecasting their possible impact on resilience, health and well-being. Taking a mixed-methods approach consisting of a combination of interviews, group model building workshops and agent-based modelling with members of two communities in Amsterdam and policy stakeholders, we will foster a shared learning process while ensuring ownership and relevance of HANS to ongoing community-based health promotion practice.

Ethics and dissemination

The research project has been approved by the research ethics committee of Wageningen University (approval numbers: 2024-039; 2024-226). HANS will be shared directly with stakeholders. The results will be made available to the public via open-access publications and conferences.

Details

Title
Health in All Networks Simulator: mixed-methods protocol to test social network interventions for resilience, health and well-being of adults in Amsterdam
Author
Kaan, Jiri 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ulug, Ciska 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Thompson, Kristina 1 ; Khaluf, Yara 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Wagemakers, Annemarie 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Moore, Spencer 1 

 Health & Society, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands 
 Information Technology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands 
First page
e100703
Section
Public health
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group LTD
e-ISSN
20446055
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3200386752
Copyright
© 2025 Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See:  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.