Reducing Obesity By Education of Health Professionals (ROBE HP)

Thank you for taking part in this survey which is for anyone working as a healthcare service provider (including teachers, police, social workers etc.) with children and their parents.  You may take part anonymously if you wish. Your participation in this group will be used to inform the content for a learning package intended to help healthcare workers (from primary care and community based settings) to reduce childhood overweight and obesity. This is your opportunity to say what information you would like to learn, to share your successes in their aspect of healthcare and to discuss your challenges with other healthcare workers. There is another focus group for parents which you can also participate in if there is information you wish to share in your capacity as a parent and health service user.

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* 1. What setting do you work in?

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* 2. What are your views on childhood obesity? Please share any personal experience or anecdotes.

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* 3. Do you make infant / childhood weight part of your routine health conversation with parents / patients? 

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* 4. How do you support parents and children to modify challenging behaviour? What works well for you?

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* 5. What are your concerns in relation to working with parent and children to provide weight and lifestyle advice?

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* 6. What support / information / training do you feel you need to help you encourage patients to acknowledge and address their overweight or obesity?

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* 7. What tools would help you support parents whose children are overweight or obese?

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* 8. How would you rate your confidence in terms of addressing a patient’s overweight / obesity healthcare needs? Choose a description and then rank it numerically with one being the lowest and three being the highest for each description.

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* 9. Please describe your positive experiences in this field of healthcare – what worked well?

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* 10. Please describe your negative experiences in this field of healthcare – what made it a negative experience for you / your patient?

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* 11. If your personal BMI is outside the healthy range – what strategies do you use to encourage patients to acknowledge their overweight or obesity, and to address their health needs?

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* 12. Safeguarding

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* 13. Confidence with the national childhood measurement programme

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* 14. What do you think an educational platform should offer in terms of functionality? 

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* 15. How and when do you think you would use a learning platform designed to support you with addressing overweight / obesity in children?

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* 16. Thank you for your participation in this webinar / survey. If you would like to be informed when the prototype is available for testing then please let me know here and leave me your email address so you can be contacted at that time.

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