Informing the development of online weight management interventions: a qualitative investigation of primary care patient perceptions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The internet is a potentially promising medium for delivering weight loss interventions. The current study sought to explore factors that might influence primary care patients' initial uptake and continued use (up to four-weeks) of such programmes to help inform the development of novel, or refinement of existing, weight management interventions.

Methods

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 patients purposively sampled based on age, gender and BMI from a single rural general practice. The interviews were conducted 4 weeks after recruitment at the general practice and focused on experiences with using one of three freely available weight loss websites. Thematic Analysis was used to analyse the data.

Results

Findings suggested that patients were

SUBMITTER: van Beurden SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5810085 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature