Evaluation of the Young@Heart outreach health clinic
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Programme of evaluation of the mobile Young@Heart outreach health check clinic.
IRAS ID
347589
Contact name
Angela Long
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Newcastle University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 25 days
Research summary
Mobile health clinics have been used to provide a range of health care services to underserved communities as a strategy to address some of the barriers to healthcare that the traditional health care system is unable to tackle. The Young@Heart initiative is a mobile health clinic that offers work-based experience for pharmacy students providing the equivalent of NHS health checks (measurement of blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose, height and weight) under the supervision of a professionally qualified nurse educator to members of the public and people from local community groups who are particularly at risk of health inequalities.
Currently, the clinical impact of the mobile health clinic is not clear as there is no measure to understand the effect the initiative has on reducing undetected disease risk, addressing behavioural and lifestyle factors or uptake of onward referrals.
This research aims to address this gap by developing an evaluation framework using the RE-AIM planning and evaluation model that evaluates five domains critical to programme impact: Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance. The research aims to do this by:
• Use routinely collected service activity data to determine the reach, usage, and impact of the Yong@Heart mobile clinic.
• Collect referral data to onward third sector services from clinic and from referral sources to monitor referral uptake.
• Explore the views, experiences and uptake of advice of clinic users who received a referral/signposting to additional support via interviews.
• Observations of clinics to ensure fidelity of clinic delivery.REC name
London - Queen Square Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/PR/1440
Date of REC Opinion
29 Jan 2025
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion