5As Team obesity intervention in primary care: development and evaluation of shared decision-making weight management tools.

ABSTRACT: Despite several clinical practice guidelines, there remains a considerable gap in prevention and management of obesity in primary care. To address the need for changing provider behaviour, a randomized controlled trial with convergent mixed method evaluation, the 5As Team (5AsT) study, was conducted. As part of the 5AsT intervention, the 5AsT tool kit was developed. This paper describes the development process and evaluation of these tools. Tools were co-developed by the multidisciplinary research team and the 5AsT, which included registered nurses/nurse practitioners (n = 15), mental health workers (n = 7) and registered dieticians (n = 7), who were previously randomized to the 5AsT intervention group at a primary care network in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The 5AsT tool development occurr

SUBMITTER: Osunlana AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4755160 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature