Evidence-based primary health care and local research: a necessary but problematic partnership

Abbott, Stephen; Bickerton, Jane; Daly, Mary-Louise; Procter, Susan

doi:10.1017/s146342360800073x

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“…Research findings from some time ago may thus be unhelpful in supporting health promotion initiatives. For example, Abbott et al 27 found that earlier evidence of strong/weak as a key category in how Bangladeshis think about food had lost its salience less than 10 years later. More generally, significant improvements in general health in second generation compared with first generation Bangladeshis have been reported.…”

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Attitudes to childhood overweight and obesity: The limits of cultural explanations

Chakrabarti

Abbott

2011

Health Education Journal

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Objectives: To explore attitudes to and beliefs about childhood overweight and obesity among Bangladeshi mothers and to check maternal perceptions of their children’s weight status. Design: Mixed methods cross-sectional study. Setting: A general practice in East London, UK. Methods: Qualitative interviews with 14 mothers; weighing and measuring 22 children. Results: Mothers were generally aware of broad health promotion messages about diet and exercise, but many tended to under-estimate their children’s weight status. Differences in view did not reflect in any simple way English language skills, and the range of views reflected those in the majority population. Conclusion: Health promotion initiatives should assess individual needs; membership of a Bangladeshi community does not necessarily predict knowledge, beliefs or behaviour, and assumptions that this community is different from others are misleading.

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Attitudes to childhood overweight and obesity: The limits of cultural explanations

Chakrabarti

Abbott

2011

Health Education Journal

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“…Such challenges and study limitations have been reported elsewhere (eg, Abbott et al ., 2008). They mean that the role of such collaborative studies is to generate ‘locally useful’ information that compliments rather than replaces evidence that is generated by studies which are based on more rigorous research designs.…”

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Promoting evidence informed service development: a study of falls services in Cheshire

Beech

DeVilliers

Thorniley-Jones

et al. 2010

Primary Health Care

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Background: This study investigated two initiatives for preventing falls in Cheshire: public events to raise population awareness about falls and ways of preventing falls, a programme of falls assessments and falls prevention classes. Aim: The study aimed to support service development by generating local learning about: the falls risk status of older people attending the public events and their use of services for preventing falls, the efficiency and effectiveness of the falls programme. Methods: A local adaptation of an instrument used in similar research was administered to assess the falls risk status of older people attending the public events. This instrument captures data about the age, sex, gait, sensory deficit, falls history, current medication, medical history, mobility and living situation of respondents. Attendees were also asked about their current use of falls services. To evaluate the falls programme data were collected about the characteristics and referral sources of service users and, for users of the falls prevention classes: their mobility and balance on joining and completing the classes; their fear of falling and confidence linked to falls at the start of the classes and six months later; the number of falls they experienced in the six months before starting and after completing the classes. Findings: Of the 453 attendees screened, 64.3% were at medium risk of falling or above and 34.3% had suffered previous falls. None were accessing falls prevention services. During its first year, 324 individuals were referred to the falls programme. Overall, among those individuals who provided data for analysis, there was a statistically significant improvement in the 'clinical' outcomes assessed and a statistically significant reduction in the occurrence of falls. The majority of respondents indicated that they achieved an improved confidence linked to falls and a reduced fear of falling. Conclusions: Studies of this type can provide a valuable contribution to local learning but the characteristics of the research collaborations developed can affect study designs and the quality of the information generated.

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Evidence-based primary health care and local research: a necessary but problematic partnership

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Attitudes to childhood overweight and obesity: The limits of cultural explanations

Attitudes to childhood overweight and obesity: The limits of cultural explanations

Promoting evidence informed service development: a study of falls services in Cheshire

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