Weight management: lifestyle services for overweight or obese children and young people

Recommendation ID: PH47/3
Question: Recommendation 3 Barriers and facilitators. Who should take action? Research councils, commissioners and funders. Researchers and investigators.
Any explanatory notes (if applicable): What action should they take?
-Determine any variation in the barriers to, and facilitators for, participating in lifestyle weight management programmes for overweight and obese children and young people and their families (including beliefs about obesity). Include:
- ethnicity and cultural aspects
- socioeconomic group
- gender (boys in particular)
- age
Ask parents, carers and families of children younger than 6 what factors encourage or discourage overweight and obese children to participate (or not) in lifestyle weight management programmes. Determine how these might be addressed. Investigate the barriers to, and facilitators for, implementing lifestyle weight management
services for overweight and obese children and young people with special needs. Determine how these might be addressed.

Source guidance details

Comes from guidance: Weight management: lifestyle services for overweight or obese children and young people
Number: PH47
Date issued: October 2013

Is this a recommendation for the use of a technology only in the context of research?	No
Is it a recommendation that suggests collection of data or the establishment of a register?	No
Last Reviewed	14/11/2013