Delivering key messages in public health - an interactive and innovative approach
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Author(s)
Joanne Locker, Julie Foxton and Ruth Finlay
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Joanne Locker Delivery Manager, NCSCT CIC |
Abstract 13 seminars took place across the South East reaching an audience of over 500 people who worked in, or managed, services that had the potential to influence parents of young children. Each seminar comprised presentations on infant feeding, physical activity and tobacco control delivered in the morning with the afternoon dedicated to teaching and practising behaviour change techniques.
Aims:
Protect infants and children from second-hand smoke
Reduce the number of children who become smokers
Promote breast feeding
Awareness and uptake of the Healthy Start vitamins
Raise awareness of physical activity in the early years
Raise awareness of the new guidelines on physical activity
Provide practitioners with basic behaviour change training and the opportunity to practice these techniques.
The target audience comprised key Children Centre staff and other relevant health professional and community staff.
The majority of delegates found the day’s event very useful (75%) or useful (25%). The practical session on behaviour change using motivational interviewing techniques was relevant to all the disciplines covered during the days teaching and helped to prepare practitioners to discuss and resolve issues when talking to their clients.
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Source of funding: Regional Tobacco Control and Regional Healthy Weight programme funding.
Department of Health South East.
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Declaration of interest: None
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