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Weighing in to the literacy debate: the role of ICTs for weight management

Weighing in to the literacy debate: the role of ICTs for weight management . Audrey Marshall. NHS Research Ethics Committee: 07/Q1907/54 . The Net.Weight study. DH funded – two years

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Weighing in to the literacy debate: the role of ICTs for weight management

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  1. Weighing in to the literacy debate: the role of ICTs for weight management Audrey Marshall NHS Research Ethics Committee: 07/Q1907/54

  2. The Net.Weight study • DH funded – two years • Investigating the potential for increased, innovative and effective uses of ICTs in the self-management of weight • The role that information and ICTS play in weight management • The role that they might play after an intervention – participatory learning workshops • Local focus – city of Brighton & Hove Net.Weight Project

  3. Net.Weight team members Net.Weight Project

  4. Intersection of health policy agendas Net.Weight Project

  5. Intersection of different literacies Net.Weight Project

  6. Net.Weight study: 2007-2009 • Complex study • Inter-linking research strands • User mapping (survey) • Learning workshops • Evaluation Net.Weight Project

  7. The Net.Weight user survey Questionnaire: • Your health • Managing your weight • Information and support for weight management • Use of computers and the internet • Demographics Target group: • Over the healthy weight for their height • Taking steps to lose weight • A resident of Brighton & Hove • Aged 16 or over Net.Weight Project

  8. Survey distribution • NHS • GP practices • Clinics • Public libraries • Community venues • Commercial outlets • Pharmacies • Rosemary Conley fitness classes • Employers via Occupational Health staff Net.Weight Project

  9. Usefulness of Information Sources Net.Weight Project

  10. Use of the internet to support weight management Net.Weight Project

  11. Information skills Net.Weight Project

  12. Skills in using the internet for weight management Net.Weight Project

  13. Participatory Learning Workshops Net.Weight Project

  14. Net.Weight.Community Community website for the Net.Weight project Welcome to the Net.Weight community Net.Weight Project

  15. Information guided tour • National flagship site • Local site Net.Weight Project

  16. Evaluation skills • Evaluation tools • Common sense • Presentation • Factual nature • Authority • Commercial sites Net.Weight Project

  17. Interviews: information behaviour Changes in information behaviour • Specific websites e.g. carbohydrate content • “the one area that I did sort of notice a change was in researching recipes, and the way to do that” (Amanda) • “Well I … go to the net, you know to BBC, and I’ve put in the Net. Weight things and I go through there and see what’s what” (Sandy) Net.Weight Project

  18. Interviews: evaluation skills Changes in evaluation skills • Intuitive: “You look at it and think well this is a load of rubbish”(Olivia) • “I’m more specific in what I attempt to find out. I’m more focused when I’m doing weight loss things. I’ll be specific and find out what I originally set out to find out” (Virginia) • “well they made me more wary, you know, before maybe I would have just read something and thought ‘oh that sounds good and just gone ahead’, but now I sort of think, you know, ‘well should I…you know, do I know enough about it’?” (Isabelle) Net.Weight Project

  19. Interviews: Interactions with healthcare professionals • Negative interactions • Too busy • Resistant “Yes, but she’s… she’s a lovely doctor but she doesn’t like you, you know, coming there with things that you’ve read about, you know, she doesn’t like that at all” (Isabelle) • Some positive: ‘not just taking my word for it any more…which is good’ Net.Weight Project

  20. Interviews: Trusted sites • Presentation “I mean I love that website for the BBC… I don’t know, I just think it’s so well laid out, and so easy” (Natasha) • Authority • The NHS, BBC, Local Authority “…if you’re going via the NHS, the BBC, the Net.Weight, you’re not going to be misguided” (Alex) • Commercial sites “I do avoid the ones that ask me for money up front before I do anything” (Sasha) Net.Weight Project

  21. Impact “I went mad with the internet and the laptop for those first couple of workshops, trying to explore and extract all that information… it has sort of, it’s given me another dimension to my life really” (Alex) Net.Weight Project

  22. Impact “If I hadn’t have done Net .Weight I would never, ever have gone anywhere near a computer, I know that … that’s the two good things, I’m losing weight and I’m on a computer, and I think at the beginning I was not losing weight and I was not using the computer, so come on, you’ve got to say that’s to the good” (Natasha) Net.Weight Project

  23. Implications of the findings • Health information policy • people use a range of sources • People need specific information • The role of healthcare professionals • What makes people trust information • Importance of social support • Contribution to information literacy theory Net.Weight Project

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