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Étude APS-ONE

Comprehensive and descriptive research on the effects of the Académie Populaire de la Santé in Seine-Saint-Denis on health literacy and the representation of health engagement

Project overview Since January 2021, the department of Seine Saint Denis has created a Popular Health Academy. The aim of this academy is to welcome a promotion, composed of inhabitants and health professionals of the Seine-Saint-Denis (recruited on a voluntary basis, after an information campaign). The participants follow a one-year training program, consisting of ten one-day training sessions.
These participants work both on developing their health skills and on designing communication tools in order to become health "ambassadors" able to transmit information within their social circles. The pedagogical engineering is provided by Codes93, an association under the law of 1901 whose objective is to develop health education in Seine-Saint-Denis.
As part of this project, the Laboratoire Éducation et Pratiques de Santé UR 3412 of the Université Sorbonne Paris-Nord will conduct qualitative research to understand and describe the effects of PSA:
On learners' health literacy via the administration of a health literacy questionnaire (the HLS-eu Q at the beginning and end of training) ;
On the representation of all the stakeholders on the concept of "engagement of people in health" via the development of conceptual maps at the beginning and end of the training.
The results should allow us to deepen our knowledge of the perceptions and conditions that support people's engagement and the links with health literacy.

Collaboration Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis
CODES 93

Valuation already in place London, M., Quesnay, P., Pastor, M., Gross, O., Margat A. (2022, May). Early conceptions of "people's engagement in health" of participants in the Seine-Saint-Denis popular health academy. 9th SETE Congress, Toulouse.

Research team

Aurore MARGAT

Aurore MARGAT

Professeure des universités ; Directrice LEPS UR 3412 UFR SMBH ; Directrice EUR SIePS

Aurore Margat joined Sorbonne Paris Nord University in 2019 as a Senior Lecturer before being appointed University Professor in the Éducations et Promotion de la Santé Laboratory (LEPS - UR 3412), of which she is now Director.
She also heads the École Universitaire de Recherche en Sciences Infirmières et Promotion de la Santé (EUR SIePS), the first EUR in nursing sciences in France.

Activités récentes :
Research areas
Her research focuses on understanding health literacy as a lever for reducing social inequalities in health and improving individual autonomy. She designs and evaluates innovative therapeutic education programs and, more broadly, health promotion programs, integrating the participation of the people concerned and the principles of epistemic justice.
She is also interested in the implementation of new professional practices, such as advanced practice nursing, and develops pedagogical models for the training of healthcare professionals.
Institutional and scientific commitment
- Director of EUR SIePS and LEPS UR 3412
- Scientific integrity correspondent and member of the USPN Research Ethics Committee (CER)
- Vice-President of the CNU health section (Nursing - 92) and of the Collège Français des Enseignants-Chercheurs Universitaires en Sciences Infirmières (CoFECSI)
- Jury member and expert for PHRIP, ANSM, ANR and SSHRC (Canada)
- Elected to the Board of Directors of the European Therapeutic Education Society
Teaching activities
She is responsible for several training programs at USPN:
- Master 2 Health Engineering - Health Training Engineering and Research and Innovations in Care courses
- IPA State Diploma (Emergencies and Stabilized Chronic Diseases)

Publications récentes : Nokovitch, L., El Hajj, H., Deneuve, S., De Andrade, V., Gagnayre, R., Margat, A. (2025). Visual–spatial abilities enhancement and spatial anatomy learning: A systematic review. Medical Education.
Havard, C. et al. (2025). Use of an observer tool to enhance learning of anaesthesia resident’s non-technical skills during high-fidelity simulation. BMC Medical Education, 25(1), 97.
Pétré, B., Gagnayre, R., Margat, A. (2025). Therapeutic patient education and health promotion: A forgotten link in the new WHO guidelines ? Education Thérapeutique du Patient – Therapeutic Patient Education, 17(1), 10301.
Margat, A. (2024). Une école universitaire de recherche : Quelles perspectives pour le développement des sciences infirmières ? Éducation Permanente, 241(4), 103-114.
Quesnay, P., Margat, A. (2024). L’Académie Populaire de la Santé : formation par et pour les personnes concernées. Éducation et Socialisation, 71.
Buscail, C., Margat, A. (co-first) et al. (2018). Fruits and vegetables at home (FLAM): A randomized controlled trial… BMC Public Health, 18(1), 1065.
Margat, A., Gagnayre, R., Lombrail, P., De Andrade, V., Azogui-Levy, S. (2017). Interventions en littératie en santé et éducation thérapeutique : une revue de la littérature. Santé Publique, 29(6), 811-820.

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Research themes

Individual and collective skills to support empowerment
Health Promoting Environments
Reorientation of health services and professional training

Technical data

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Funding
Yes
Period of realization
In preparation
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