Understanding opportunistic health promotion practices– a programme of research exploring healthcare professional views and experiences.
Our research examines the challenges of delivering health behaviour change interventions in routine clinical practice, particularly during times of crisis when healthcare priorities may shift. We aim to identify key barriers and enablers influencing their implementation and explore strategies to better support healthcare professionals in integrating these interventions into routine practice.
We have a number of peer-reviewed journal articles which are all free to access and published in across a number of multi-disciplinary journals. These papers cover a range of methodologies including qualitative studies (such as interviews) and quantitative studies (such as nationally representative surveys).
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We are a research collaboration between the University of Leeds and University of Manchester, with a range of expertise in the areas of health and social psychology, clinical psychology, and health services research. Our team has a wide range of expertise in many areas of applied health research.
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Research shows that if healthcare professionals can spot situations in which they can talk to patients about their health behaviours (e.g. doing more physical activity, stopping smoking) then they may be much more likely to discuss health behaviours during routine consultations. Based on the research data we have collected over several years, we have developed an interactive tool to support healthcare professionals to deliver health behaviour change interventions to patients during routine medical consultations. The tool is free to access, and can be found here alongside additional supporting information.
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