It perhaps goes without saying that these theories
of change are not new. Rather, articulated in various
ways, they have long been enshrined as central tenets
of health promotion and several of its contributory
disciplines. This does not mean, however, that identifying
and exploring them in the context of this
evaluation was simply ‘reinventing the wheel’. On
the contrary, precisely because psychosocial theories
are so embedded within health promotion, they
have arguably become taken for granted and unquestioned.
In addition, they do not appear to have
been extensively explored in relation to health promoting
activities designed for and experienced by
this age group.