The Southampton Initiative for Health: A Complex Intervention to Improve the Diets and Increase the Physical Activity Levels of Women from Disadvantaged Communities

The Southampton Initiative for Health is a training intervention with Sure Start Children’s Centre staff designed to improve the diets and physical activity levels of women of childbearing age. Training aims to help staff to support women in making changes to their lifestyles by improving three skil...

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Published in:Journal of health psychology 2011-01, Vol.16 (1), p.178-191
Main Authors: Barker, Mary, Baird, Janis, Lawrence, Wendy, Jarman, Megan, Black, Christina, Barnard, Katharine, Cradock, Sue, Davies, Jenny, Margetts, Barrie, Inskip, Hazel, Cooper, Cyrus
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Age
Biological and medical sciences
Children
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Diet
Diets
England
Female
Food
Goals
Health
Health Behavior
Health Promotion - methods
Humans
Life styles
Medical sciences
Mental health
Motor Activity
Nutrition
Physical activity
Physical training
Poverty Areas
Prevention. Health policy. Planification
Program Evaluation
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Self Efficacy
Social disadvantage
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Training
Women
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Summary:The Southampton Initiative for Health is a training intervention with Sure Start Children’s Centre staff designed to improve the diets and physical activity levels of women of childbearing age. Training aims to help staff to support women in making changes to their lifestyles by improving three skills: reflection on current practice; asking ‘open discovery’ questions; and goal-setting. The impact of the training on staff practice is being assessed. A before and after non-randomized controlled trial is being used to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the intervention in improving women’s diets and increasing their physical activity levels.
ISSN:1359-1053
1461-7277
DOI:10.1177/1359105310371397