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HEBS obesity campaign: training needs assessment
Appendix 1. Interview schedule
Interview Schedule - Overweight and Obesity Management
Profession ____________________________ Location _______________________________
1) Is weight a matter for the individual to take responsibility for or a matter for professional intervention?
2) Is the management of overweight and obesity the responsibility of the primary care team?
3) Do patients expect to receive support from the primary care team in relation to weight issues?
4) Which profession(s) should/could take the lead role in relation to the management of overweight and obesity?
5) What priority does the management of overweight and obesity occupy in relation to other activities within the primary care team?
Knowledge
6) How comfortable are you with your own knowledge and expertise in relation to overweight and obesity management?
If not comfortable, What are you not comfortable with?
7) Are you aware of any local or national guidelines in relation to the management of overweight and obesity?
If yes,
Which?
What are the main recommendations of these guidelines?
8) Do you operate to these guidelines within your practice?
9) Have you accessed any training resources for overweight and obesity management?
Current Practice
10) Do you screen patients for overweight and obesity opportunistically or routinely?
If opportunistic,
What triggers you to raise the issue of weight with a patient?
11) Have you ever conducted an audit of overweight and obesity within your patient population?
12) Do you have a weight management programme within your practice (e.g. weight reduction clinic)?
If yes,
What are the criteria for referral/attendance (e.g. linked to diabetes management)?
What is the content of the programme?
Are any specific resources or materials used within the programme?
Who has responsibility for running the programme?
What objectives are set for patients?
If no,
Do you plan any such initiative for the future?
Do you refer patients elsewhere for weight management (e.g. referral to exercise scheme or commercial weight reduction clubs)?
13) Have you ever encouraged a patient to attend elsewhere for weight management? (e.g. commercial weight reduction clubs)?
14) What techniques have you personally adopted to encourage patients to tackle their weight problem (e.g. motivational interviewing, brief interventions, negotiating behaviour change techniques)?
15) How effective have you found your interventions to be?
Training Needs
16) What are your current training needs in relation to the management of overweight and obesity?
17) What would you look for in a training package on the management of overweight or obesity?
Hard facts/Up to date guidelines
Experiential Learning
Methods of Working with overweight and obesity
Examples of good practice
Multidisciplinary Training
Accreditation
Resources/Materials
18) Which would be more acceptable, topic focused or general skills training? Why?
19) What priority does training for the management of overweight and obesity occupy in relation to other training needs?
General
20) Do you think the new arrangements outlined in the recent White paper will make a difference to health promotion activities in primary care?
21) Are there any other comments you would like to make about overweight and obesity management issues?