dc.contributor.author | van Beurden, SB | |
dc.contributor.author | Simmons, SI | |
dc.contributor.author | Tang, JCH | |
dc.contributor.author | Mewse, AJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Abraham, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Greaves, CJ | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-05T13:43:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-02-12 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: 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. Methods: 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. Results: 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. Conclusions: 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. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Sally Simmons, Jason Tang, Charles Abraham and Colin Greaves’ input was supported by the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) through an Academic Clinical Fellowship, the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care in the South West Peninsula (PenCLAHRC) and a Career Development Fellowship (CDF-2012-05-259) respectively. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 5, article 7 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s40608-018-0184-6 | |
dc.identifier.other | 184 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31823 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29449953 | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/32127 | |
dc.rights | © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to
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(http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | en_GB |
dc.subject | E-health | en_GB |
dc.subject | Internet | en_GB |
dc.subject | Obesity | en_GB |
dc.subject | Primary care | en_GB |
dc.subject | Qualitative research | en_GB |
dc.subject | Weight loss | en_GB |
dc.title | Informing the development of online weight management interventions: a qualitative investigation of primary care patient perceptions | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-05T13:43:36Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2052-9538 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from BioMed Central via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | There is another ORE record for this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/32127 | |
dc.identifier.journal | BMC Obesity | en_GB |