Abstract
Introduction
The essence of the definition of health promotion, both from the Ottawa Charter and its modification from WHO, is that people engage in behaviors that benefit health, both in the form of prevention and health maintenance behaviors. Organizational theory provides insight into how facilitating the adoption or institutionalization of certain evidence-based interventions within an organization can into positive health behaviors and prevention. This theory is rarely used in health promotion or public health programs such as a social psychological theory which is easier to use individual behavior change. Despite the program’s focus on changing individual behavior explained by psychological theory, organizational theory remains relevant. The Community Coalition Action Theory was developed and developed from the IOR theory of partnership building by Butterfoss and Kegler. 1 Two of them focus on community building and community development, while the other focuses on the development and structure of collaborative organizational relationships within the community. Membership of community coalitions varies in size and variety of professional and grassroots organizations as well as individual members. Employment relationships and role expectations range from formal (e.g. making rules and contractual relationships) to informal (e.g. using employment agreements) and can change over time. Coalitions can promote health agendas or issues, prevent disease, or improve societal problems by analyzing issues or problems, assessing needs and assets, developing action plans, implementing strategies, achieving community-level results, and creating social change. The CCAT is used to identify internal coalition factors and processes that lead to strategy implementation and community change. 2
One of the five Ottawa Charter action tools is the concept of healthy public policy which is a health promotion approach that integrates with public policy. Learning from addiction problems that have long existed, such as tobacco, alcohol, drugs, unhealthy food and gambling, collaboration from various stakeholders and organizations is needed to develop effective policy and program responses to address health problems such as video games (including online games). This commodity has a serious impact on adolescents. 3 The purpose of this study was to find state of the art research related to stakeholder synergy in policies to prevent online game addiction in adolescents. This study discusses in detail about health promotion policies or regulations as a form of intervention on a problem from articles in various countries that use the Community Coalition Action Theory (CCAT) organizational change theory.
Materials and methods
Search strategy and selection criteria
References and literature were collected from the Proquest, ScienceDirect, Pubmed, and Google Scholar databases with the range of published articles between 2012 and 2022 (the last 10 years). Searches are in titles, abstracts, or keywords, even though the main topic is about online game addiction prevention policies in adolescents, search keywords are not included because there is still very limited research on this topic. So that in the end the search for articles focused on health promotion policies with analysis using CCAT theory, but also selected articles related to policy recommendations for online games, related to mental health related to online game addiction in adolescents and related to self-regulation in online game addicts as additional information and knowledge regarding policies that can be made for health promotion policies to prevent online game addiction. Keywords Policy OR Regulation AND Health Promotion AND Community Coalition Action Theory.
Inclusion criteria in the literature study are: (1) public health area; (2) All types of articles (3) articles in English; (4) articles are available in full text. Exclusion criteria (1) Articles are not in English, (2) Full text is not available, (3) Topics are not relevant to PICO. A total of 20 articles was identified for this article (Figure 1).

PRISMA flow chart diagram of the process of identifying and including studies.
Inter-reviewer agreement
Articles from the identified studies were reviewed and selected (excluded) with the assistance of Mendeley by three readers (EP, IN, and MZ). Articles that do not match the keywords are excluded (Topics are not relevant to PICO).
Quality store assessment
The methodological quality of each evaluation study as described above, namely with the help of Mendeley, articles that do not match keywords will be excluded. Selection of articles inclusion is assisted by boolean phrases “OR” and “AND,” features in the body of the journal such as article year range, English, full text available.
Data extraction and analysis
The data extracted from the selected studies included the name of the first author, country, year of publication, sample, research methods and research instruments and research outcomes. Twenty articles were obtained by double selection based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. As previously explained, articles from studies that were identified by applying the inclusion criteria in the database were then reviewed and selected (excluded) with the help of Mendeley where articles that did not match the keywords would be excluded (Topics are not relevant to PICO). To build a state of the art without missing important information from various databases, articles were selected with various designs, both quantitative, qualitative, literature reviews and systematic reviews.
Results
The results of a systematic review of stakeholder synergy in health promotion policies to prevent online game addiction in adolescents are the most published in 2021 (Table 1), namely 25%. The country of origin of the most selected articles was from England at 15%, from Uruguay at 10% and Hungary at 10%.
General characteristic of selected studies (
Of the twenty selected articles (Table 2), three articles use the Coalition/partnership dimension of the CCAT theory.4–6 Four articles use the stakeholder dimension7–10 Two articles use the collaborative dimension.11,12 Five articles discuss school health policy, prevention and regulation of internet game disorder, public policy evaluation and literature review of video game addiction policy responses, policymaking interventions and policy strategies for substance abuse in adolescents.13–17 One article on the analysis of the Juvenile Contraception Law, 18 one article on the literature review on the prevention of mental health disorders. 19 One article systematically reviewed health promotion interventions. 20 Two articles on risk factor dimensions and self-regulation focus on online gaming addiction.21,22
Description of studies Policy or regulation health promotion with Community Coalition Action.
The development of youth health promotion media is the responsibility of various stakeholders who have programs targeting youth groups. Adolescent health is a comprehensive health degree from physical, mental, social, economic, and spiritual. Therefore, it is not only the health sector that is responsible, but all sectors from all walks of life (decision makers, providers, users, and representatives). Efforts to synergize through optimizing roles is one of the successful strategies in developing youth health promotion media. 7 An innovative intervention design has been developed in three European countries for public health policymaking, focusing on collaboration within policymaking networks. 16 Lillefjell and Mass research, 2022 examines multi-sector involvement and collaboration in implementing health promotion principles at the local level. 11 The level of participation and support of Hepatitis C policy-making in Iran was investigated, the conclusion of the study indicated that involvement in Hepatitis C Virus related stakeholder policy-making is generally low and has implications for policymakers and decisions regarding the adoption of more profitable and effective strategies. 8 Literature Review by Kuss, 14 concluded about the importance of relevant government policies for the prevention of IGD (Internet gaming Disorder).
Discussion
This systematic review digs deeper into the synergies of policies related to health promotion that already exist and are not yet specific, such as health promotion prevention of online game addiction and existing policies related to youth. We also observe the process of making a public health policy that involves many stakeholders, the importance of the stakeholder provider (main) in planning to implementation and evaluation of a policy. Most studies report that coalitions/partnerships in a policy synergy are very important in the planning, implementation and evaluation processes of a policy. An interdisciplinary approach to the policy-making process to facilitate the development of integrated public health policies. This type of policy will be more effective,26,27 especially if it is supported by the best available evidence (big data).28,29 In addition, it is also necessary to absorb various sources of knowledge into policy, namely scientific evidence, stakeholder expertise and other knowledge.30,31
The challenge identified by policymakers is the lack of adequate capacity to access policy-relevant evidence and convert that evidence into policy. Policy makers suggest using systematic reviews, policy summaries and rapid response mechanisms and engaging policymakers in research as a way to increase the uptake of evidence for policy. 10 Policies related to adolescents that already exist in countries such as policies related to adolescent reproduction, policies in schools related to healthy canteens and physical activity, and policies related to health promotion to prevent online game addiction are still not widely discussed in journals. Kiraly recommends that policies related to online game addiction prevention be classified into three main groups: (i) policy actions that limit the availability of video games (e.g. shutdown policies, fatigue systems, and parental controls), (ii) actions aimed at reducing risks and hazards (e.g. warning messages), and (iii) measures taken to provide assistance services to gamers. 32
Karaca’s research, 2020 found that working parents can be a risk factor for children being addicted to online games, so in health promotion to prevent online game addiction in adolescents and children it is necessary to involve parents in monitoring efforts when children are at home and involve schools when children are at school. However, for the existence of a specific policy, there is no specific big data related to online game addiction and it also concerns the priority of government program policies, usually on economic improvement, so sometimes (for funding) health promotion media is not considered important. 7 In a systematic review regarding online game addiction and adolescent mental health, it was found that there is a relationship between mental health and online game addiction in adolescents. 33 So that it is very important to make health promotion policies to prevent online game addiction, it is very important to have integration with mental health policies for adolescents.
Conclusion
As a conclusion, this study looks at partnerships from a synergy perspective that can help leaders and managers of partnerships appreciate and optimize the role of community stakeholders. Synergy is the key to successful collaborative processes. Coalitions/partnerships create synergies by combining complementary knowledge, skills and resources from different people and organizations. Synergy can be defined as a breakthrough in thought and action that is produced when the collaborative process successfully combines the complementary knowledge, skills and resources of a group of participants. 3
The limitation of this research is that there are still limited articles discussing policies specifically related to health promotion policies for preventing online game addiction in adolescents, so the authors also include articles related to health promotion policies in addition to prevention of online game addiction in adolescents.
Supplemental Material
sj-pdf-1-phj-10.1177_22799036231153479 – Supplemental material for Systematic review of health promotion policies or regulations with CCAT theory
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-phj-10.1177_22799036231153479 for Systematic review of health promotion policies or regulations with CCAT theory by Eni Purwaningsih, Ira Nurmala and Mohammad Zainal Fatah in Journal of Public Health Research
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