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 One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.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 One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.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

Increasing school meal uptake in the North East of England: Scoping report

Having previously established the target group for social marketing interventions as parents, in conjunction with head teachers. The objective of this study was to identify attitudes and behaviour patterns in relation to school food and healthy eating amongst this target group.

‘Up For It’ campaign: Evaluation Report

· Measure awareness, perceptions and engagement of the ‘Up For It’ brand and events

· Measure awareness of other health focused campaigns and whether they had any reported impact upon their lifestyle

· Gauge feedback on the ‘Did You Know?’ leaflet

· Measure perceptions about current health and behaviours relating to their own health, such as frequency of exercise and alcohol consumption

Happy and healthy in Dudley: Scoping report

This research aimed to:

· Identify the current issue in Dudley regarding fruit and vegetable consumption

· Understand the learning’s from national research

· Outline what is currently known about fruit and vegetable consumption in Dudley

· Conduct primary research looking at peoples knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in relation to fruit and vegetable consumption

· Pre-testing research to develop suitable interventions

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

MMR vaccine and parental views: Qualitative research

  1. To explore the factors that influence and motivate parents in respect of their decision to have their children immunised against MMR, particularly from hard to reach groups.
  2. The research to be used as the basis for a strategy for a local MMR social marketing campaign.

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.