If you work on a public sector health campaign, the chances are that someone else somewhere is working on the same issue. One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

If you work on a public sector health campaign, the chances are that someone else somewhere is working on the same issue. One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

Users of weight management services: Qualitative research

The aim of the project was to:

  • Prevent year on year weight gain and to achieve weight loss that results in health benefits within the adult population of 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.

Within these aims, the research objectives were to:

Obesity: Scoping research

Overall aim:

To provide an understanding of the population highlighted as having high levels of obesity and to provide insight on their characteristics, motivations and behaviours to help inform the development of focused interventions and social marketing campaigns.

Detail objectives:

To explore:

Experiences and attitudes towards obesity: Exploratory research

Research objectives were to understand:

  • Current behaviour around diet and activity
  • Attitudes to losing weight
  • Needs/ preferences about initiatives to help weight loss in Halifax: what should Healthy Halifax be?

Obesity and men aged 50-64: Qualitative research

  • Understand motivational factors that will encourage respondents to take control of their diet
  • Gain insight into their current relationship with health professionals and their understanding of weight services available
  • Evaluate previous attempts at maintaining a healthy lifestyle and barriers to keeping their lifestyle healthy
  • Gain knowledge of the respondents environment, socially, in the workplace and in the home

The health of women of child bearing age (WOCBA): Exploratory research

The research set out to understand women’s behaviour and attitudes in four areas which have been identified as key drivers affecting foetal health – diet, physical activity and exercise, smoking and drinking alcohol.

In each case objectives were specifically to determine:

'Strength to change' - male perpetrators of domestic violence: Qualitative research

This research aimed to inform the social marketing campaign planned for Hull, which is underpinned by three key objectives:

  • To increase the safety of women and children in Hull affected by domestic violence.
  • To develop a model for engaging with perpetrators of domestic violence in a proactive and productive manner.
  • To evidence, through the implementation of a robust and longitudinal evaluation process, a reduction in incidence and type of domestic violence offending/re offending in Hull.

'Strength to change' - male perpetrators of domestic violence: Evaluation report

The main objectives of this evaluation were to ensure that the advertising strategy was on track and make recommendations to fine-tune either the creative strategy or media strategy, if required.

COPD and Stroke: Evaluation and Scoping Research

The overall aim of the research was to identify ways forward in developing effective strategies to improve recognition of, and reactions to, symptoms of COPD, Stroke and TIA to ensure appropriate and timely referral into the relevant care pathways in Hull is achieved.

Specific areas for exploration included:

COPD: Quantitative analysis to identify most at risk groups and Qualitative research with them

The objective of the quantitative analysis was to identify and profile key target audiences in Doncaster who are most risk of COPD.

The objectives of the qualitative research were to: