Table 1 |
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Prompt guide for semi-structured interviews |
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Questions about healthcare professionals' current practice, training needs |
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Can you describe your role in relation to discussing diet with parents of children under 1 year old? |
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How do you think parents of children under 1 years old feel about your dietary advice? |
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Are there any aspects of your advice that parents are reluctant to implement or find difficult to implement? |
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Are there any parent characteristics that make it more likely that they will follow your advice about diet in children under 1? |
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Have you undertaken any training in relation to providing advice about diet to children under 1 year old? |
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Questions about identification of 'infants at risk' and healthcare professionals strategies |
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What do you think are the most important risk factors for childhood overweight/obesity? |
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Do you have infants or young children on your caseload that you think might become overweight/obese children? |
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How do you manage situations where an infant's growth increases disproportionately on the percentile charts? |
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For example, if an infant's growth went up from the 50th to the 90th percentile or crosses three percentiles with no corresponding rapid growth in head circumference or length? |
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What else might you need to know? |
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Have you found anything that makes it difficult to discuss with parents that their infant or young child is 'at risk' of becoming overweight? |
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What would help you to overcome this? |
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How do you find dealing with parents whose infants are overweight/obese? |
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Questions about weight management and intervention |
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Can you describe any intervention you have initiated with parents whose infants or young children have grown too quickly? |
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How might healthcare professionals work with parents of infants 'at risk' to prevent childhood overweight/obesity? |
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What type of intervention might be needed? |
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What information should an intervention contain to make it useful for healthcare professionals to use with parents? |
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In your view how could the information be presented clearly and consistently by different members of the PHCT? |
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Is there anything else you would like to mention that you think would be useful? |
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Thank you |
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Redsell et al. BMC Family Practice 2011 12:54 doi:10.1186/1471-2296-12-54 |
