One Stop Shop

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 One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.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 One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

Illicit tobacco: Qualitative research

  • To gain insight in to Barnsley residents who buy and sell cheap and illicit tobacco
  • To explore attitudes to buying and selling cheap and illicit tobacco
  • To measure the scale of the cheap and illicit tobacco problem in Barnsley
  • To clearly identify and define market segments within the target audience
  • To identify potential triggers, motivators and barriers to behaviour change

Teen pregnancy: Qualitative research with teenage mothers

The main objective of the research was to explore how young women responded to finding out they were pregnant, who they talked to, who supported them, and how their behaviours were influenced by local services, including access to sex education and contraception advice.

Specific objectives were to explore:

Project C Card. Research Presentation. Prepared for Teen Pregnancy Team, Wakefield PCT.

Research was required to find out primarily where young people would prefer to access free condoms, but to also explore the mechanics of how they want to access them and what types of condoms they would like to be made available as well as how awareness of the scheme should be raised.

Contraception and Sexual Health: Qualitative research

  1. Identify current levels of knowledge and understanding, reasons for not using contraception and attitudes to sexual health.
  2. Use the research results to inform social marketing communications.

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.

Physical activity: Consumer insight

In order to meet the business objectives outlined in the Background section (above), the specific research objectives were to:

Nutrition and oral health of vulnerable and at risk older people: Research report

  1. To understand the key factors that have a significant impact on the nutrition, oral and dental health of two communities – older, isolated people in Totley & Dore and older members of the Pakistani community in Darnall.
  2. Establish the most appropriate and potentially effective channels for communicating with older people about their nutritional and oral health needs.
  3. Understand the key issues and barriers to behavioural change.

Children and young people who use 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 children and young people 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 this aim, the research objectives were to:

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: