Health and Social
Leeds Primary Care Trust - Working with staff to inform professional development
NHS Leeds wished to ensure that front line staff are equipped and supported to work effectively with families wanting to adopt healthier lifestyles, thus contributing to the delivery of the ‘Can’t Wait to be Healthy’ strategy in Leeds.
Enventure were commissioned to undertake research to scope front line staff’s experiences, perceptions and personal beliefs about obesity.
In-depth interviews were conducted with school nursing teams, practice nurses, members of health visiting teams and children’s centre staff.
The research findings will be used to inform the planning and delivery of professional development.
Tackling Obesity in Kirklees
The Kirklees Partnership, representing all the main partners’ organisations in Kirklees has identified obesity as a major health challenge for the area. An Obesity Programme Plan has been developed to ensure there is a coordinated set of actions in place to tackle obesity. The Plan recognises the partners must invest in social marketing approaches to ensure that local interventions reflect the needs of the target groups.
Kirklees PCT, on behalf of the Council and its partners, commissioned qualitative research to assist in the development of a marketing and communications strategy, focussing specifically on people living in Kirklees.
The research aim was to scope the behaviours and motivational issues related to weight management with the chosen target audience to inform current and future weight management provision in Kirklees.
Enventure conducted a programme of qualitative research to achieve the research objective, this included in depth interviews in respondents own homes and focus groups.
The research findings were used to inform the development of weight management provision in Kirklees and communication with the target audience, thus encouraging participation in appropriate weight management activity.
Evaluating the Impact of Brief Interventions Training into Alcohol Misuse
Safer Communities Bradford is delivering training to professionals to enable them to deliver effective brief interventions to patients/clients/customers/arrestees whose presenting health, social or behavioural problems are suspected to be related to misuse of alcohol. Enventure was appointed to evaluate the impact of the training.
The objectives of the evaluation were to:
- Ascertain whether there has been an increase in the level of brief interventions provided in the settings on completion of the staff training.
- Gain feedback from staff regarding the perceived value of the training, in terms of putting their training into practice.
- Gain feedback from a limited number of consenting recipients to evaluate the impact on their attitudes and behaviour.
Enventure is conducting both quantitative and qualitative research in the form of an e-survey and in-depth interviews. The evaluation findings will be used to ensure future training is conducted effectively.