Focus groups & interviews with patients, clinicians & commissioners
Research type
Research Study
Full title
What are the views of patients', clinicians' and commissioners' with regards to the role of physical activity following weight loss surgery and what are the required functions of an intervention that can facilitate increases and maintenance of physical activity from the perspectives of patients', clinicians' and commissioners'?
IRAS ID
265797
Contact name
John Wilding
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University Hospital Aintree NHSFT
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
N/A, N/A
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 4 days
Research summary
This research is part of the development work that will be used to inform the design of an intervention to help patients who have had weight loss surgery [WLS] to be more physically active. This is important because there is research that shows that patients who are more active get better results after surgery. The research proposed here will help to ensure that the final intervention is realistic for patients and is acceptable for staff in the NHS who will either deliver it or commission it.
There are three parts to this research. The first involves talking with patients who have had surgery to find out what they think about the role of physical activity after surgery, the things that make it easier or difficult and also what they think would help them. The second part involves talking to clinicians who work with these patients, to find out what they know about the role of physical activity after surgery, what they currently do and what they think would help patients. The final part will be to find out what commissioners –the people who commission or direct NHS funding towards patient services- think about physical activity after surgery and what is important to them when deciding what services to commission. All of the participants will either be patients or staff within the NHS.
The research with the patients will be done using focus groups, with follow up interviews if required. Groups can be helpful in generating discussion and on the basis of previous work it is anticipated that patients are likely to feel comfortable discussing this topic in a group setting. Clinicians and commissioners will be interviewed individually on a one to one basis as this is more realistic and practicable than meeting with them in a group setting.
REC name
North West - Preston Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/NW/0477
Date of REC Opinion
19 Aug 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion