Development and feasibility testing of an interactive, educational programme to facilitate Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk)

• Professor Sarah Redsell, Professor of Public Health, Anglia Ruskin University
• Professor Cris Glazebrook, Professor of Health Psychology, University of Nottingham
• Professor Heather Wharrad, Professor of e-learning and Health Informatics, University of Nottingham
• Dr Judy Swift, Lecturer in Human Nutrition, University of Nottingham
• Dr Stephen Weng, Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
• Dr Dilip Nathan, Consultant Paediatrician, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Professor A N Siriwardena, Professor of Primary and Prehospital Health Care, Community and Health Research Unit, University of Lincoln
• Dr Ken Ong, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
• Dr Raj Lakshman, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, University of Cambridge
• Dr Fiona McMaster, Senior Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University

• Anglia Ruskin University
• University of Nottingham
• University of Lincoln
• Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

• To develop a complex intervention comprising an interactive, educational programme (ProAsk) for health practitioners to guide and enhance communication with parents of infants about obesity risk identification and prevention strategies. Secondary objectives

Secondary objectives

• To assess parents’ and health practitioners’ views about obesity risk communication and use a causal model to determine the fit between the intervention strategies and outcome measures, ascertain recruitment and retention rates, determine the availability of data and data collection methods to inform the design of a future definitive trial.

Outputs

• Redsell S, Rose J Weng S, Swift JA, Siriwardena AN, Nathan D, Wharrad H, Atkinson P, Watson V, McMaster F, Lakshman R, Ong K, Glazebrook C. Digital technology to facilitate proactive assessment of obesity risk during infancy (ProAsk): a feasibility study. BMJ Open 2017;7:e017694
• Rose J, Ablewhite J, Weng S, Swift J, Siriwardena AN, Nathan D, Wharrad H, Atkinson P, Watson V, McMaster F, Ong K, Lakshman R, Glazebrook C (2016). Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk): Communicating future risk of childhood overweight to parents through digital technology. European Journal of Pediatrics 2016 175: 1578.

Conference presentations:

• Redsell SA, Rose J, Ablewhite J, Swift J, Siriwardena AN, Nathan D, Weng S, Wharrad H, Atkinson P, Watson V, McMaster F. Ong K, Lakshman R, Glazebrook C. Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk): Using digital technology to raise obesity risk with parents of infants. Oral presentation at the Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association (CPHVA) conference, Telford, UK, 15th-16th November 2016.
• Rose J, Redsell SA, Wharrad H, Siriwardena AN, Swift JA, Nathan D, Weng SF, Atkinson PA, Ablewhite J, Watson V, Glazebrook C. Using interactive digital technology to predict and prevent childhood overweight. In: European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG). 15th-18th November 2017. Rome, Italy. Acta Paediatrica. 2017;106(Suppl 470),: OP02.
• Rose J, Glazebrook C, Ablewhite J, Swift J, Siriwardena AN, Nathan D, Weng S, Wharrad H, Atkinson P, Watson V, McMaster F. Ong K, Lakshman R, Redsell SA. Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk): Can UK Health Visitors deliver a targeted intervention prevention programme? Poster presentation at the Association for the Study of Obesity (ASO) conference, Nottingham, UK, 19th-20th September 2016.
• Redsell SA, Rose J, Ablewhite J, Weng S, Swift J, Siriwardena AN, Nathan D, Wharrad H, Atkinson P, Watson V, McMaster F, Ong K, Lakshman R, Glazebrook C. Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk): Communicating future risk of childhood overweight to parents through digital technology. Poster presented at The 6th Congress of the European Academy of Paediatric Societies (EAPS) Geneva, Switzerland, 21st-25th October 2016. Abstract published in European Journal of Pediatrics 2016, doi:10.1007/s00431-016-2785-8.

Invited and plenary presentations

• Redsell SA on behalf of the ProAsk team. Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy; the role of health professionals and health technology, British Nutrition Foundation Conference, New perspectives on first foods, complementary feeding and obesity, London 28th April 2015. https://www.nutrition.org.uk/bnfevents/pastevents/firstfoodsobesity.html
• Redsell SA on behalf of the ProAsk team. Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk). Presented at Food Matters Live, 23rd November 2016, London, Excel.
• Redsell SA on behalf of the ProAsk team. Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk): A feasibility study with parents and UK Health Visitors. Presented at the Journal of Family Health Conference, 28th March 2017, London, Ilec Conference Centre.
• Redsell SA on behalf of the ProAsk team. Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk): Association for the Study of Obesity Infant Conference, 4th-5th May 2017, Dublin, Ireland.