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 One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.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 One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

Young people and their health: Qualitative research

Not specified, but appear to have been to explore young people’s awareness, attitudes and behaviours with regard a number of health-related topics, including:

  • diet and exercise
  • weight
  • emotional health
  • bullying
  • smoking
  • alcohol
  • drugs

Young people's and their health: Research to inform the development of a specific health micro-site

The research objectives were to explore young people’s reactions to:

  • the concept of a micro-side aimed specifically at people in Humberside
  • a sexual health poster encouraging them to ‘Text SAM’ or access the micro-site directly
  • the relative effectiveness of a range of posters in terms of impact, appeal, relevance, etc.
  • the appeal and relevance of a screenshot from the micro-site.

To provide context, young people’s attitudes to sexual health and health in general were briefly explored.

FRANK: Evaluation with those who work with children and young people

The broad objectives of the research were to explore the extent to which front line workers involved with looked-after children and young people feel that FRANK:

Youth facing websites: Qualitative research

The business objective for this research was to provide evidence to inform a decision on whether the websites for two campaigns (“Know Your Limits” – alcohol campaign and “Condoms: Essential Wear” – sexual health campaign) could feasibly be incorporated into a potential ‘Youth Portal’ site. The Youth Portal site would potentially contain information on various topics from government departments. The overarching research objective was to understand the strengths and weaknesses of hosting information on a potential portal-type website, compared to the current arrangements.

FRANK: Qualitative research with vulnerable young people

The research was designed to explore the views of a cross-section of vulnerable young people with a view to:

Frequent and heavy cannabis users: Qualitative research

The specific objectives for this research were to explore, with actual and potential heavy/frequent cannabis users:

FRANK: Desk research on vulnerable young people

The key focus of the study was to address the question: “Can FRANK make a greater contribution towards increasing the take up of treatment services among vulnerable young people?”

Five specific objectives were identified for the study:

The drugs supply chain: Qualitative research

This research looked at young peoples views on the drug supply chain in terms of:

  • The process used to produce drugs
  • Transport of drugs
  • How the drugs are broken down
  • Sale to the end user

The main aims of the research were to:

  • Understand current awareness and attitudes to the ‘supply chain’
  • Understand in particular, attitudes and feelings towards drug users’ suppliers
  • Gain reactions to descriptions and statements regarding various elements and issues surrounding the supply chain

Comparative analysis of national information helplines

This report provides a comparative overview of results of a study designed to evaluate levels of caller satisfaction with four government helplines.