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If you work on a public sector health campaign, the chances are that someone else somewhere is working on the same issue. One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

If you work on a public sector health campaign, the chances are that someone else somewhere is working on the same issue. One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

Decreasing kerbside drinking among young people in North Tyneside: Scoping report

· To outline patterns and trends of alcohol consumption among young people in England, the North East, and North Tyneside.

· To review the political context in which this intervention on public drinking and young people exists.

· To outline current work in North Tyneside that addresses issues related to alcohol misuse and young people.

· To establish an evidence base of good practice from various other strategies that aimed to address public drinking among young people.

Reducing obesity among students aged 16-24: Programme evaluation

The social marketing objectives of the programme were to achieve:

  • A halt in the year-on-year rise in overweight and obesity levels within16- to 24-year-olds
  • Movement of the target group from sedentary behaviour to more active behaviour
  • Exchange of unhealthy food for quick and healthy food options

The objective of this evaluation was to understand the effectiveness of the interventions that were implemented to achieve these social marketing objectives.

Young people and their health: Qualitative research

Not specified, but appear to have been to explore young people’s awareness, attitudes and behaviours with regard a number of health-related topics, including:

  • diet and exercise
  • weight
  • emotional health
  • bullying
  • smoking
  • alcohol
  • drugs

Teen pregnancy: Qualitative research with teenage mothers

The main objective of the research was to explore how young women responded to finding out they were pregnant, who they talked to, who supported them, and how their behaviours were influenced by local services, including access to sex education and contraception advice.

Specific objectives were to explore:

Project C Card. Research Presentation. Prepared for Teen Pregnancy Team, Wakefield PCT.

Research was required to find out primarily where young people would prefer to access free condoms, but to also explore the mechanics of how they want to access them and what types of condoms they would like to be made available as well as how awareness of the scheme should be raised.

Contraception and Sexual Health: Qualitative research

  1. Identify current levels of knowledge and understanding, reasons for not using contraception and attitudes to sexual health.
  2. Use the research results to inform social marketing communications.

Young people's and their health: Research to inform the development of a specific health micro-site

The research objectives were to explore young people’s reactions to:

  • the concept of a micro-side aimed specifically at people in Humberside
  • a sexual health poster encouraging them to ‘Text SAM’ or access the micro-site directly
  • the relative effectiveness of a range of posters in terms of impact, appeal, relevance, etc.
  • the appeal and relevance of a screenshot from the micro-site.

To provide context, young people’s attitudes to sexual health and health in general were briefly explored.

Children and young people who use weight management services: Qualitative research

The aim of the project was to:

  • Prevent year-on-year weight gain and to achieve weight loss that results in health benefits within the children and young people of Kirklees.

The research aim was to:

  • Scope the behaviours and motivational issues related to weight management with the chosen target audience to inform current and future weight management provision in Kirklees.

Within this aim, the research objectives were to:

University students and Alcohol: Qualitative research

This research aims to give further insight into the motivations and values of first year students at Huddersfield University with regard to alcohol consumption.

The Joint Alcohol Initiative wish to understand:

Alcohol consumption among young people in Hull: Qualitative research

  • Help understand the scope and level of alcohol consumption among the younger population of those living and spending time in Hull.
  • Identify some of the characteristics of Hull’s young people who drink and to compare the findings against other research undertaken around this subject.
  • Identify suitable ways to educate, help and provide interventions (where appropriate) around the subject of alcohol misuse for young people in Hull.