NHS Shetland would like to find out more about how services for families could be improved. We would particularly like to hear about services who provide early years advice and advice for leading a healthy lifestyle for the whole family.
In this survey we would like to hear your experiences and collect feedback to help improve services and support for families in Shetland. Particularly where services could provide support and/or advice on healthy lifestyle and making healthy changes as a family.
This survey is split into 3 sections:
Section 1: During pregnancy and the early years (ages 0-5 yrs).
Section 2: Challenges to living a healthy lifestyle.
Section 3: Your experiences with the Child Screening Process.

The survey contains a mix of tick box and comment box answers, taking approximately 10-15 mins to complete. 
 
 
This survey will be available for 4 weeks and will close on 22nd-September-2020
If you would like to take part in our prize draw to win a £50.00 Aa Fired Up voucher, please enter your contact information at the end of the survey.
 
No personal information that identifies you will be published and the views you express will remain anonymous.
Section 1-Birth to 5 years.

The early years are an important part of child development and can have a long-term influence on health. Habits formed in these early years are more likely to stick with us, so by developing healthy habits we are given the best start in life.
This section looks to gain an understanding of your experiences of advice and/or support during your child's early years (birth-5 years) 

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* 1. During pregnancy did you, or your partner, receive advice and/or support on having a healthy lifestyle from the different services involved? 

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* 2. If yes, what was helpful about these inputs?

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* 3. What input or advice would have been helpful?

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* 4. During this time, who were the key people involved who offered you/your family support and advice on providing/having a healthy lifestyle?
Choose all that apply.

Section 2-Challenges to living a healthy lifestyle.

For children to be healthy and happy they need to develop well, grow well and feel well. Our lifestyle and daily habits can have a really positive impact on our health as we are growing and developing. Our lifestyle is made up of lots of different factors, for example our eating, sleeping and activity habits; how we spend our ‘off’ time and family time – the list goes on!

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* 5. How confident do you feel about providing a healthy lifestyle to your family?

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* 6. What makes you feel this way?

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* 7. How active are you as a family?

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* 8. Would you and your family like to be more active?

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* 9. If yes, what type of activities would you and your family like to do more of?

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* 10. Are there any challenges or barriers to providing your child and family with a healthy lifestyle?

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* 11. If yes, can you tell us a bit more about those challenges or barriers?

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* 12. What are the 3 main things you think would support families towards a healthier lifestyle?

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* 13. If you had a question about making healthy lifestyle changes, where would you look/go for the answer?
You can select as many as you like.

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* 14. What makes this a good source of support/advice?

Considering the current climate we are aware that there may be additional worries that families may be facing. The following question is to have a better understanding of the financial worries on families in order to make available appropriate support/advice from our Child Health Services.

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* 15. On a scale of 1-10, how much do you worry about finances?
1 = finances are not a concern, 10 = finances are a concern.

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* 16. What makes you feel this way

Section 3 Your experience with the Child Screening Programme.

The ‘National Child Monitoring Surveillance System’ is a Scotland-wide programme which measures school age children at Primary 1, Primary 7 and Secondary 3. This is also called Child Screening. Height and weight measurements are taken at each point in a child’s development.

If your child has been at a Shetland school during the above years, you may have received written communication regarding the programme. This may have included information on your child’s height, weight and Body Mass Index (BMI).

We appreciate weight is a personal and sensitive topic to discuss, particularly when this relates to ourselves or our family. In this section we would like to understand your experiences with the above programme and how we can best discuss weight in a sensitive and supportive manner with families.

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* 17. Has your child/children been measured as part of the child screening programme?

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* 18. What was your experience of the process? For instance, were you invited to attend the screening?

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* 19. Were you given information and support?

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* 20. Did someone contact you to discuss the results?

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* 21. Were you given any feedback from the appointment?

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* 22. If yes, was it possible to action this feedback/advice?

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* 23. If no, what would have been helpful advice or support for you?

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* 24. It is important that if weight is being discussed, this is part of a supportive and sensitive conversation inclusive of wider health and well-being. If a healthcare professional were to talk with you about your child’s weight, how could they do this and to ensure you feel most comfortable?

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* 25. We would like to find out more about you and your family.  We are asking a selection of questions to ensure we get feedback from a cross section of families in Shetland .
Please select your own age bracket from the list below.

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* 26. Please tell us which area of Shetland you live in?

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* 27. How many children do you care for in these age ranges?

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* 28. Please could you tell us your employment status?
Please tick all that apply.

Thank you for taking the time to answer and complete this survey. Your feedback is important to us and will help shape the future of our services for children and young people. If you would like to add any other information, including any ideas how future child health programmes can be delivered, then please leave your comments below. Although we have covered many aspects; we appreciate we couldn’t cover everything – please use the space below to leave any further thoughts, comments and ideas that would be helpful to support families living healthy and well.

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* 29. Please leave any additional information below

If you would like the chance of winning a £50.00 gift voucher for Aa Fired Up, please leave your contact details below

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* 30. Please leave your contact details below:

For more information about this survey please contact: joanne.williams@nhs.net

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