TIGO- A tailored cluster RCT intervention
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A cluster RCT of a tailored intervention to improve the management of obesity/overweight in primary care
IRAS ID
117669
Contact name
Richard Baker
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Leicester
Research summary
The aim of our study is to improve the quality of obesity care delivered by primary healthcare teams. Traditional interventions such as educational sessions for healthcare professionals related to NICE guidelines on obesity have only limited effectiveness. We have developed valid, feasible and efficient methods of tailoring implementation to the treatment of obesity. Tailoring involves designing an intervention to overcome the specific limiting factors or barriers experienced by a particular group of health care professionals to providing improved health care, which in this case is care in accordance with the NICE guidelines for Obesity. This study has developed and will examine a tailored intervention of improving the implementation of the NICE guidelines for Obesity in primary care practices.
REC name
London - Camden & Kings Cross Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
13/LO/1157
Date of REC Opinion
18 Jul 2013
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion