Development of a core patient-centred outcome set for adults living with obesity: a modified delphi-based international consensus.

Background: Obesity is a chronic disease linked to over 200 health conditions, reduced quality of life, and increased mortality. Despite the availability of multimodal treatments, there is a lack of standardised, patient-centred outcome measures to effectively assess and improve clinical care. This project aimed to define a core set of standardised outcome measures for adults with obesity, incorporating both patient-reported and clinician-reported outcomes.

Personal Narratives of Mental Illness: From Hostage to Survivor.

This study has delved into personal narratives extracted from online blogs to build a systematic view of mental illness trajectory through the portrayal offered by bloggers. One hundred and thirty-three blogs were reviewed and narrative analysis was used to interpret a final sample of 12 blogs. The results offer two main narratives-the hostage and the survivor-which illustrate, within the context of social and self-stigma, the need for an identity reformulation in order to reach recovery.

Distinguishing factors that influence attendance and behaviour change in family-based treatment of childhood obesity: A qualitative study.

Objectives: For the effective treatment of childhood obesity, intervention attendance and behaviour change at home are both important. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively explore influences on attendance and behaviour change during a family-based intervention to treat childhood obesity in the North West of England (Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started (GOALS)).

Design: Focus groups with children and parents/carers as part of a broader mixed-methods evaluation.

A systematic review of hand-hygiene and environmental-disinfection interventions in settings with children.

Background: Helping adults and children develop better hygiene habits is an important public health focus. As infection causing bacteria can live on one's body and in the surrounding environment, more effective interventions should simultaneously encourage personal-hygiene (e.g.

Qualitative Analysis of Factors Influencing Patient Persistence and Adherence to Prescribed Overactive Bladder Medication in UK Primary Care.

Introduction: Pharmacotherapy for overactive bladder (OAB) is generally associated with low rates of persistence and adherence. This study was conducted to explore the patient journey in a UK primary care setting (experiences, perceptions, attitudes, and levels of engagement and expectations) and identify self-reported reasons for patient non-adherence and/or non-persistence to medications for OAB.

Methods: This was a qualitative, non-interventional study involving one-to-one semi-structured, face-to-face or phone interviews with individuals aged 40-80 years, diagnosed with OAB, and currently taking, or having taken, either antimuscarinic or β-adrenoceptor agonist medications within the last 12 months.

Service evaluation of the GOALS family-based childhood obesity treatment intervention during the first 3 years of implementation.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of the GOALS (Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started) family-based childhood obesity treatment intervention during the first 3 years of implementation.

Design: Single-group repeated measures with qualitative questionnaires.

Setting: Community venues in a socioeconomically deprived, urban location in the North-West of England.

Key stakeholders' perspectives towards childhood obesity treatment: a qualitative study.

Over the past three decades, there has been a dramatic global increase in childhood obesity. A better understanding of stakeholders' perceptions of intervention requirements could contribute to developing more effective interventions for childhood obesity. This study provides a qualitative, in-depth, analysis of stakeholders' (children, parents and health professionals) perspectives toward the efficacy of childhood obesity treatment interventions.

A whole family approach to childhood obesity management (GOALS): relationship between adult and child BMI change.

Background: A growing body of evidence advocates a multidisciplinary, family-focused approach to childhood obesity management, but there is a need to explore familial factors associated with intervention success.

Aim: This study explored the relationship between adult BMI change and child BMI SDS change following completion of a community-based, lifestyle change intervention for obese children and families (Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started (GOALS)).

Method: Sixty of 121 families with overweight children completed the GOALS intervention between September 2006 and March 2009.