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 One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.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 One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

Sexual health 'retail therapy' pilot: Evaluation research

The main objective was to evaluate initial “design and content” ideas for the pilot to assist the development of intervention activity/processes that are as effective as possible.

Baby and toddler nutrition: Qualitative research with key ethnic minority groups

The primary objective for the above qualitative research was to provide insight into attitudes and behaviours surrounding early feeding amongst five ethnic minority communities and to look at any barriers that currently exist around safe feeding with the view to ultimately designing interventions aimed at parents.

More specific research objectives were identified to facilitate understanding of:

South Asian sexual health: Scoping study

The main objective for the scoping study amongst stakeholders was to provide insight into the attitudes and behaviour amongst young South Asians. More specifically, to gauge:

  • general attitudes to sex, sexual health and condoms;
  • current sexual behaviour amongst this target group and likely condom usage;
  • what types of interventions could create behaviour change;
  • whether further research is required to test hypotheses directly with the target group.

Condom campaign targeting African people living in England: Qualitative research

To test how well a sexual health advertising campaign (including press adverts, posters, and corresponding leaflets) targeting African people living in England, performed against the following strategic objectives:

Research with key BME communities around childhood obesity: Qualitative research

The purpose of this study was to provide practical guidelines on developing culturally appropriate interventions targeted at priority ethnic minority communities. It looked at understanding by the Black African, the Bangladeshi and the Pakistani communities in terms of:

  • The issues relevant to obesity, such as eating a healthy diet and taking physical exercise, risks of childhood obesity and sources of information on these
  • Current eating and physical activity behaviours
  • How it would be possible to change behaviour