Sebastien Francois Martin Chastin

Sebastien Francois Martin Chastin
Glasgow Caledonian University | GCU · School of Health and Life Sciences

PhD

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August 2018 - present
Glasgow Caledonian University
Position
  • Professor
September 2016 - present
Ghent University
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  • Professor
January 2011 - August 2015
Glasgow Caledonian University
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  • Tenured Senior Research Fellow

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Publications (352)
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In recent years, co-creation has gained significant traction as a methodological approach across various research fields. However, despite its broad application, the study of co-creation remains somewhat fragmented, with a scarcity of theory-driven frameworks to guide its systematic development. To address this gap, we undertook a comprehensive exa...
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BACKGROUND Blood pressure (BP)–lowering effects of structured exercise are well-established. Effects of 24-hour movement behaviors captured in free-living settings have received less attention. This cross-sectional study investigated associations between a 24-hour behavior composition comprising 6 parts (sleeping, sedentary behavior, standing, slow...
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Background Co-creation aims to democratize research and bridge the gap between research and practice. Key characteristics like empowerment and meaningful participation shape sustainable outcomes. However, existing frameworks like Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation broadly overlook individual method contributions. This study aims to address...
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Background Co-creation offers a promising approach to public health innovation, particularly for tackling complex issues. However, the lack of a standardized methodology limits its reliability and reproducibility, especially across diverse contexts. This study explores co-creation methods used by researchers and practitioners, aiming to shed light...
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For the second activity, participants will be invited to break into smaller facilitated groups for a ‘peer-to-peer’ session where they will share further and discuss lessons learned and how they would do things differently going forward. They will do this by either working with one of their own failure stories/cases, or a predetermined case around...
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Our workshop commences with a short presentation about what co-creation is, and the power that lies in learning from failures. Then, the facilitator will open the sharing session with the aim to set a safe space by presenting some ground rules for engagement. Then, the participants will be invited to step forward and share their story of failure. E...
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Background Co-creation is seen as a way to ensure all relevant needs and perspectives are included and to increase its potential for beneficial effects and uptake process evaluation is crucial. However, existing process evaluation frameworks have been built on practices characterised by top-down developed and implemented interventions and may be li...
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With the popularity of co-creation research in public health and other fields, there is a need to strengthen its evidence-base by developing a framework based on meta-theoretical principles. The lack of applying meta-theoretical principles in co-creation research impedes the theory- and evidence building. Critical realism seems a promising candidat...
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The use of Personalised Interactive Music Systems (PIMS) may provide benefits in promoting physical activity levels. This systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to assess the overall impact of PIMS in physical activity and exercise domains. Separate random effects meta-analyses were conducted for outcomes in physical activity levels, phy...
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The use of Personalised Interactive Music Systems (PIMS) may provide benefits in promoting physical activity levels. This systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to assess the overall impact of PIMS in physical activity and exercise domains. Separate random effects meta-analyses were conducted for outcomes in physical activity levels, phy...
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This realist review aims to identify the working mechanisms and contextual preconditions for sedentary behavior (SB) change in older adults to guide the development of future interventions. The review followed the iterative process of Pawson et al. (1997). First, research questions were defined and an initial program theory (IPT) was established. S...
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Background Socioeconomic differences in movement behaviours may contribute to health inequalities. The aim of this descriptive study was to investigate socioeconomic patterns in device-measured 24-hour movement and assess whether patterns differ between weekdays and weekends. Methods 4894 individuals aged 46 years from the 1970 British Cohort Stud...
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BACKGROUND Co-creation has emerged as a strategy for cultivating collaboration and driving innovation across diverse fields, proving particularly promising in addressing complex and wicked problems in public health. There is a growing recognition of co-creation as a valuable methodology, yet, to date there is no standardized methodology or recommen...
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Background Co-creation is increasingly recognized for its potential to generate innovative solutions, particularly in addressing complex and wicked problems in public health. Despite this growing recognition, there are no standards or recommendations for method use in co-creation, leading to confusion and inconsistency. While some studies have exam...
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Given the aging population, finding solutions to retain optimal cognitive capacity is a research priority. The potential of physical activity to reduce the risk of cognitive decline and to enhance cognitive functioning is established. Combining physical with cognitive activity has been put forward as a potentially even more effective way to promote...
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Background By including the needs and perspectives of relevant stakeholders, co-creation is seen as a promising approach for tackling complex public health problems. However, recommendations and guidance on how to plan and implement co-creation are lacking. By identifying and analysing existing implementation and evaluation frameworks for public he...
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Background Increasingly, public health faces challenges requiring complex, multifaceted and multi-sectoral responses. This calls for systems-based approaches that facilitate the kind of collective and collaborative thinking and working required to address complexity. While the literature on systems thinking, system dynamics and the associated metho...
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This chapter challenges our current thinking about sedentary behaviour and offers new paradigms to move forward to understand the complex nature of sedentary behaviours and their determinants. Sedentary behaviours are ubiquitous and changing in nature over time: with advances in media and IT technology, television (TV) time is decreasing, but overa...
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Background : Investigating the effects of breaking up sedentary behavior with short bouts of Yoga and Tai-Chi on glycemic control, concentration, and well-being in healthy individuals. Methods : In this randomized balanced incomplete block study, 15 adults (age = 26 [2.50] y, 8 females) completed 2 of 3 protocols: uninterrupted sitting (Control), s...
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Katrina Messiha's PhD study explores co-creation approaches in public health research, addressing the need for a clear meta-theoretical framework to understand underlying assumptions and principles. Co-creation research currently lacks clearly defined meta-theoretical foundations. In contrast, critical realism emerges as a compelling advocate, prop...
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Background and Aims Physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour (SB), and inadequate sleep are key behavioural risk factors of cardiometabolic diseases. Each behaviour is mainly considered in isolation, despite clear behavioural and biological interdependencies. The aim of this study was to investigate associations of five-part movement compositions w...
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Background Co-creation is a promising approach attempting to bridge the knowledge translation gap between research and practice to tackle complex and wicked public health problems. While implementation and evaluation frameworks for public health interventions are numerous and include relevant elements, recommendations are lacking on how to apply th...
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Purpose Developing strategies to promote healthy cognitive ageing is a priority given the growing ageing population. Recent research has shown that cognitive activity (CA) combined with physical activity (PA) improves cognitive functioning. However, most studies on PA+CA have been conducted in controlled settings, and there is a need for real-life...
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Objective To identify the optimal dose and type of physical activity to improve functional capacity and reduce adverse events in acutely hospitalised older adults. Design Systematic review and Bayesian model-based network meta-analysis. Data sources Four databases were searched from inception to 20 June 2022. Eligibility criteria for selecting s...
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Background/Aims Physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour (SB) and inadequate sleep are key behavioural risk factors of cardiometabolic diseases; each is mainly considered in isolation. The study aim was to investigate associations of five movement behaviour compositions with adiposity and cardiometabolic biomarkers. Methods Cross-sectional data fr...
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Background: Physical activity is important for secondary stroke prevention. Currently there is inconsistency of outcomes and tools used to measure physical activity following stroke. Aims: To establish internationally agreed recommendations to enable consistent measurement of post-stroke physical activity. Methods: Stroke survivors and carers...
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The associations between different types and contexts of stepping behaviours and cardiometabolic (CM) health markers are unclear. This study aimed to examine the associations of daily total, walking, stair, incidental and purposeful steps with cardiometabolic risk. A total of 943 women (mean age±SD = 44.1±1.6 years) from the Australian Longitudinal...
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Nature-based social prescribing such as “blue prescription” promotes public health and health improvement of individuals with long-term health conditions. However, there is limited evidence explaining the relationship of contexts, mechanisms, and outcomes of implementing blue prescription programmes (BPPs) in health and social care settings that co...
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Background: There is a need to systematically identify and summarise the contemporary theories and theoretical frameworks used for co-creation, co-design and co-production in public health research. Methods: The reporting of this systematic review follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. Given substantial int...
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Purpose: Previous research has focused on device-based measures of activity compensation, with little understanding of how children perceive potential compensatory responses to activity or inactivity, or whether these change following periods of activity or inactivity. The aim of this study was to (a) explore the alignment between children's self-...
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The benefits of physical activity (PA) and the negative impacts of sedentary time (SED) on both short- and long-term health in youth are well established. However, uncertainty remains about how PA and SED jointly influence maximal oxygen uptake (V˙O2max). Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the joint influence of PA and SED on V˙O2max...
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Background: Incorporating co-creation processes may improve the quality of outcome interventions. However, there is a lack of synthesis of co-creation practices in the development of Non-Pharmacological Interventions (NPIs) for people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), that could inform future co-creation practice and research for...
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Background Fathers are important in establishing healthy behaviors in their children, but are rarely engaged in lifestyle programs. Focusing on physical activity (PA) of both fathers and their children by engaging them together in PA (i.e. “co-PA”) is therefore a promising novel strategy for interventions. The study aim was to investigate the effec...
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Background Movement behaviours (eg, sedentary behaviour (SB), moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA), light intensity physical activity (LIPA) and sleep) are linked to cognition, yet the relative importance of each component is unclear, and not yet explored with compositional methodologies. Objective To (i) assess the associations of diffe...
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Introduction: Understanding daily movement patterns (i.e., the relative proportion of time spent on Sedentary behaviour (SB), light physical activity (LPA), moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sleep) to establish links with chronic diseases is a contemporary topic. Little research has looked at the effects of 24-hour movement behaviour o...
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BACKGROUND Co-creation is increasingly seen as a way to democratize research and bridge the implementation gap between research and practice. Despite promises of increased effectiveness, relevance, and uptake of health interventions, progress is hindered by the lack of comprehensive and consolidated knowledge about co-creation. Assembling this know...
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Background: Co-creation is an approach that aims to democratize research and bridge the gap between research and practice, but the potential fragmentation of knowledge about co-creation has hindered progress. A comprehensive database of published literature from multidisciplinary sources can address this fragmentation through the integration of di...
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Urban blue spaces are defined as all natural and manmade surface water in urban environments. This paper draws on how the concepts of experienced, symbolic, social, and activity space combine to position urban blue spaces as therapeutic landscapes. We conducted 203 intercept interviews between 12 October 2019 and 10 November 2019. Although safety c...
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Previous research has shown that the temporal dynamics of human activity recorded by accelerometers share a similar structure with music. This opens the possibility to use musical sonification of accelerometry data to raise awareness of daily physical activity. In this study a method was developed for quantifying the daily structure of human activi...
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The Feel4Diabetes project conducted a 2-year intervention aiming to encourage healthy behaviours in families in six European countries. Within this paper, the intervention effect was evaluated after the first intervention year on 24-hour physical behaviour composition in Belgian families at risk for type 2 diabetes. Parents’ and children’s levels o...
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Background: The incidence of mental health disorders in urban areas is increasing and there is a growing interest in using urban blue spaces as nature-based therapy to prevent and manage mental health. However, there is a dearth of longitudinal evidence of the mechanisms and effect of blue spaces on clinical markers of mental health to support and...
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Background: Nature-based social prescribing programmes, such as Blue Prescription Programmes (BPPs), promote public health and the health improvement of individuals with long-term conditions. However, there is little evidence that explains the context and mechanisms of implementing BPPs in health and social care settings that could inform policy a...
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Background: The benefits of moderate to vigorous physical activity(MVPA) in lowering depression risk are well established, but there is mixed evidence on sleep, sedentary behaviour(SB), and light-intensity physical activity(LIPA). These behaviours are often considered in isolation, neglecting their behavioural and biological interdependences. We i...
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The benefits of physical activity (PA) and the negative impacts of sedentary time (SED) on both short- and long-term health in youth are well established. However, uncertainty remains about how PA and SED jointly influence maximal oxygen uptake (V˙O 2max ). Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the joint influence of PA and SED on peak...
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Background Transition to retirement is shown to affect sleep, sedentary time and physical activity, but no previous studies have examined how retirement changes the distribution of time spent daily in these movement behaviors. The aim of this study was to examine longitudinally how the composition of 24-h movement behaviors changes during the trans...
Conference Paper
Background Studies exploring device-measured physical activity (PA) and cognition are lacking outside of older age, prior to prodromic cognitive decline. Further, existing studies in midlife do not account for the interdependence between the full spectrum of movement behaviours and primarily rely on self-reported PA measures. Limited evidence point...
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The incidence of mental health disorders in urban areas is increasing and there is a growing interest in using urban blue spaces (urban waterways, canals, lakes, ponds, coasts, etc.) as a tool to manage and mitigate mental health inequalities in the population. However, there is a dearth of longitudinal evidence of the mechanisms and impact of blue...
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Purpose: This study aimed to identify and characterize joint profiles of sedentary time and physical activity among adults and investigate how these profiles are associated with markers of cardiometabolic health. Methods: The participants included 3,702 of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 at age 46 years, who wore a hip-worn accelerometer...
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IMPORTANCE Movement behaviours (e.g. sedentary behaviour (SB), moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA), light intensity physical activity (LIPA) and sleep) are linked to cognition, yet the relative importance of each component is unclear, and not yet explored with compositional methodologies. OBJECTIVE To examine how time spent in one behav...
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Background It is unknown if and how children’s movement behaviour accumulation patterns change as a result of physical activity and/or sedentary behaviour interventions. It is important to establish the effectiveness of interventions targeting changes in such accumulation patterns. This study aimed to investigate the effect of the Transform-Us! sch...
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ABSTRACT. Introduction: If physical activity was music, how would it sound? The daily physical activity of two elder subjects was recored. One recording shows more physical activity than the other. We measured and segmented the physical activity in different time-scales. Following this, musical sounds were mapped to the segmented data. This result...
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Chronic non-communicable diseases are leading causes of poor health and mortality worldwide, disproportionately affecting people in highly deprived areas. We undertook a population-based, retrospective study of 137,032 residents in Glasgow, Scotland, to investigate the association between proximity to urban blue spaces and incident chronic health c...
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Background Research in controlled laboratory settings shows that physical activity programs enriched with cognitive challenges enhance the benefits of physical activity on cognition in older adults. This translational study aimed to conceptualise a real-life, cognitively enriched walking program for older adults (65+) by investigating (a) which cog...
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Purpose: Information about mobility, and physical function may be encoded in the complexity of daily activity pattern. Therefore, daily activity pattern complexity metrics could provide novel insight regarding the relationship between daily activity behaviour and health. The purpose of the present study was to examine the association between the c...
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Background We examined associations of total duration and pattern of accumulation of objectively-measured sedentary behaviour (SB) with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality among older adults. Methods Total sedentary time and eight sedentary accumulation pattern metrics were extracted from accelerometer data of 3991 Whiteh...
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Chronic non-communicable diseases are leading causes of poor health and mortality worldwide, disproportionately affecting people in highly deprived areas. We undertook a population-based, retrospective study of 137,032 residents in Glasgow, Scotland, to investigate the association between proximity to urban blue spaces and incident chronic health c...
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Urban blue spaces may have salutogenic health benefits. It is crucial to understand the factors that influence the use of urban blue spaces so that urban populations can benefit equitably. A system map of factors influencing usage was developed by qualitatively analysing 203 intercept interviews conducted with people actively using the towpath alon...
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Abstract Background Recent evidence suggests that prolonged sitting and its adverse impact on glycaemic indicators appear to be proportional to the degree of insulin resistance. To investigate this finding in a free-living context, we aimed to examine associations of device-measured 24-h time-use compositions of sitting, standing, stepping, and sle...
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Blue spaces, defined as all forms of natural and manmade surface water, are an integral part of cities. This is the first quantitative synthesis of the health impacts of urban blue spaces. Research exploring the health benefits of blue spaces in urban contexts is emergent and, thus, a systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence is deemed ti...
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Introduction Lifestyle behaviours, including sedentary behaviour, have been listed as key modifiable factors to promote healthy ageing. Sedentary behaviour is ubiquitous in older adults and has a strong link with age-related functional declines and chronic health conditions. Although several interventions have been developed aimed at the reduction...