GESUND! (= HEALTH!) was a participatory project where academic researchers were doing research together with people with intellectual disabilities. The research project focused on health education and health promotion for and with people with intellectual disabilities.
Our main questions were:
- How can (municipal) health promotion be realized for and together with people with lintellectual disabilities?
- How can participatory health research be realized with people with intellectual disabilities?
In order to answer these questions, we planned various studies and developed different activities during the course of the project:
1st funding period (2015-2018):
In the first funding period of GESUND! we developed and implemented a health education program and realized four inclusive research projects: two smaller projects in a workshop for adapted work (sheltered workplace), a Photovoice study in the district of Berlin-Lichtenberg (Germany), and an evaluating writing workshop.
2nd funding period (2018-2021):
In the course of the second funding period, four health education seminars were jointly developed, tested in a sheltered workshop, evaluated for their practicability and comprehensibility, and prepared for publication. The seminars deal with topics such as heart health, healthy nutrition and relaxation, and combine these topics with aspects of sustainability and environmental protection.
We have made four explanatory videos for our seminars. These videos are compiled on this page (English subtitles available).
