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Informing the development of online weight management interventions: a qualitative investigation of primary care patient perceptions

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Obesity, February 2018
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Title
Informing the development of online weight management interventions: a qualitative investigation of primary care patient perceptions
Published in
BMC Obesity, February 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40608-018-0184-6
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Samantha B. van Beurden, Sally I. Simmons, Jason C. H. Tang, Avril J. Mewse, Charles Abraham, Colin J. Greaves

Abstract

The internet is a potentially promising medium for delivering weight loss interventions. The current study sought to explore factors that might influence primary care patients' initial uptake and continued use (up to four-weeks) of such programmes to help inform the development of novel, or refinement of existing, weight management interventions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 patients purposively sampled based on age, gender and BMI from a single rural general practice. The interviews were conducted 4 weeks after recruitment at the general practice and focused on experiences with using one of three freely available weight loss websites. Thematic Analysis was used to analyse the data. Findings suggested that patients were initially motivated to engage with internet-based weight loss programmes by their accessibility and novelty. However, continued use was influenced by substantial facilitators and barriers, such as time and effort involved, reaction to prompts/reminders, and usefulness of information. Facilitation by face-to-face consultations with the GP was reported to be helpful in supporting change. Although primary care patients may not be ready yet to solely depend on online interventions for weight loss, their willingness to use them shows potential for use alongside face-to-face weight management advice or intervention. Recommendations to minimise barriers to engagement are provided.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 22%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 12%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Other 3 6%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 15 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 9 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 8%
Social Sciences 4 8%
Computer Science 3 6%
Other 9 18%
Unknown 14 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 April 2018.
All research outputs
#13,028,525
of 23,306,612 outputs
Outputs from BMC Obesity
#97
of 184 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#206,491
of 446,709 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Obesity
#5
of 6 outputs
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