University of Worcester Worcester Research and Publications
 
  USER PANEL:
  ABOUT THE COLLECTION:
  CONTACT DETAILS:

Recommendations for Commissioners of Weight Management Programmes for Children and Families.

Upton, Penney and Upton, Dominic (2010) Recommendations for Commissioners of Weight Management Programmes for Children and Families. Documentation. Department of Health West Midlands.

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Abstract

Numerous interventions have been implemented across the UK In response to the increasing prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents. However, few of these interventions have been systematically evaluated and their effectiveness documented. Childhood obesity presents a particular problem in the West Midlands where prevalence rates are significantly higher than the national average. The Department of Health West Midlands (DHWM) therefore commissioned an evaluation of child and family weight management programmes (N=7) that were in place in the West Midlands region during July 2007-July 2009 with the aim of determining:
•The benefits to participating children and families in terms of health improvement and behaviour change;
•Possible barriers to change for children and families undertaking treatment programmes;
•The range of short and longer term support (programme content) available for programme participants;
•The cost effectiveness of each intervention.
This paper presents a number of recommendations for commissioners when planning their weight management provision for children and families based on these findings.

Item Type: Report (Documentation)
Additional Information:

The electronic full-text cannot be supplied for this item. Please check availability with your local library or Interlibrary Requests Service.

Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: childhood obesity, weight management programmes, recommendations.
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions: College of Business, Psychology and Sport > School of Psychology
Depositing User: Charlotte Taylor
Date Deposited: 26 Feb 2013 11:35
Last Modified: 17 Jun 2020 16:58
URI: https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/2165

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item
 
     
Worcester Research and Publications is powered by EPrints 3 which is developed by the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. More information and software credits.