Maternal Health and Wellbeing

Development of a guideline for health visitors to use with parents of infants at risk of developing childhood obesity

Project Duration

April 2012 – March 2013

Funder

Burdett Trust for Nursing

Project Staff

  • Dr Sarah Redsell (PI) 1
  • Dr Barrie Edmonds 1
  • Dr Judy Swift 1
  • Prof Chris Glazebrook 1
  • Prof Min Yang 2
  • Dr Dilip Nathan (DN) 3
  • Prof Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena 4

Staff Institutions

  1. The University of Nottingham
  2. Community Health Sciences, Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit, Nottingham Health Science Partners 
  3. CLAHRC Diffusion Fellow and Consultant Community Paediatrician, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust 
  4. University of Lincoln
 

Aims

This project will develop a clinical guideline for health visitors to use to manage infants identified as at risk of developing childhood obesity.

Methods

  • To assemble a Guideline Development Group (GDG) to include all stakeholders (healthcare professionals, parents and the academic team)
  • To develop the review protocol and undertake a systematic review of behavioural interventions to reduce the risk of childhood obesity that are delivered during infancy
  • To assemble the evidence and to prepare a guideline for health visitors for identifying and managing infants at risk of obesity in conjunction with advice from national and local stakeholders
  • To pilot the acceptability of the guideline in practice with a small sample of health visitors

Outcomes and Findings

This project is now complete. 

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Publications

www.nottingham.ac.uk/nmp
research/eppoc

Contact for further information

Barrie Edmonds

 

 

 

Maternal Health and Wellbeing Research Group

The University of Nottingham
School of Health Sciences
Queen's Medical Centre
Nottingham, NG7 2HA


telephone: +44 (0)115 823 0820
email: helen.spiby@nottingham.ac.uk