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Public health practitioners’ views of the ‘Making Every Contact Count’ initiative and standards for its evaluation [PDF]

Journal of Public Health, 2018
National Health Service England encourages staff to use everyday interactions with patients to discuss healthy lifestyle changes as part of the 'Making Every Contact Count' (MECC) approach. Although healthcare, government and public health organisations are now expected to adopt this approach, evidence is lacking about how MECC is currently implemented
A Chisholm, P Ang-Chen, S Peters, J Hart, J Beenstock   +4 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Developing an Implementation Plan for the Health Behaviour Change Framework - Making Every Contact Count

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2017
Introduction: Ireland, in common with other developed countries, is reforming its health services to meet the challenge of tackling the cost of chronic diseases.   An essential element in addressing this is engaging health professionals in preventative activities as part of their routine clinical consultations.Description of practice change implemented:
Maria O'Brien, Máiréad Gleeson, Orlaith O'Reilly   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Making every contact count with seldom-heard groups? A qualitative evaluation of voluntary and community sector (VCS) implementation of a public health behaviour change programme in England. [PDF]

Health Soc Care Community, 2022
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is a national, long-term public health strategy in England. It supports public-facing workers to use opportunities during routine contacts to enable healthy lifestyle changes.
Harrison D, Wilson R, Graham A, Brown K, Hesselgreaves H, Ciesielska M.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Optimizing Making Every Contact Count (MECC) interventions: A strategic behavioral analysis. [PDF]

Health Psychology, 2021
This Strategic Behavioral Analysis aimed to: identify barriers and facilitators to health care professionals' implementation of Making Every Contact Count (MECC); code behavioral components of nationally delivered interventions to improve MECC implementation; assess the extent to which these components are theoretically congruent with identified ...
Catherine Haighton, Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Caroline Durlik, Anna Sallis, Tim Chadborn, Lucy Porter, Mandy Harling, Angela Rodrigues   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Patients' experiences of behaviour change interventions delivered by general practitioners during routine consultations: A nationally representative survey

Health Expectations, 2021
Background Consistent with the ‘Making Every Contact Count’ UK public health policy, general practitioners (GPs) are expected to provide patients with behaviour change interventions opportunistically. However, there is a belief widely held among GPs that
Chris Keyworth, Tracy Epton, Joanna Goldthorpe, Rachel Calam, Christopher J. Armitage   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of Smoke Free Start Initiative

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2023
Introduction Smoking in pregnancy is a leading public health challenge. National and international studies highlight the urgent need to improve stop smoking care in pregnancy.
Edward Murphy, Aishling Sheridan, Paul Kavanagh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘I can feel myself coming out of the rut’: a brief intervention for supporting behaviour change is acceptable to patients with chronic musculoskeletal conditions

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2023
Aim To a) understand the perceptions and experiences of patients with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions in relation to their physiotherapy care and their acceptability of ‘Making Every Contact Count Healthy Conversation Skills’ (MECC HCS) as a brief ...
Amelia Parchment, Wendy Lawrence, Em Rahman, Nick Townsend, Elaine Wainwright, David Wainwright   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Obesity: unrecognised or avoided? We are missing opportunities to ‘make every contact count’ [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2019
Obesity, ‘one of the biggest public health threats facing the UK’, is highlighted by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health as one of seven key priorities for children’s health and well-being.1 The statistics are shocking: One-third of children aged 10–11 years and one-fifth of children aged 4–5 years in England are overweight or obese.1 In ...
Elspeth Clare Ferguson, Emily K Stewart, Claire Hannah, Charlotte Jane Elder   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Identifying barriers to the educational role of midwives in Cyprus and defining determinants in behaviour terms using the Behaviour Change Wheel: a mixed-method formative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Τhe Baby Buddy Cyprus webapp was co-created with parents and health professionals within a Participatory Action Research framework. While using Baby Buddy in routine consultations can support the educational role of mother–child healthcare ...
Nicos Middleton, Eleni Hadjigeorgiou, Ourania Kolokotroni, Veronika Christodoulides, Ioanna Koliandri, Christiana Nicolaou, Maria Papadopoulou, Christiana Kouta, Maria Karanikola, Alison Baum, the Baby Buddy Forward team   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing a national undergraduate standardized curriculum for future healthcare professionals on "Making Every Contact Count" for chronic disease prevention in the Republic of Ireland [PDF]

, 2019
This report describes the development of the first national undergraduate interprofessional standardized curriculum in chronic disease prevention for healthcare professionals in the Republic of Ireland.
Connolly, Deirdre, Fitzpatrick, Patricia, Savage, Eileen, Marie Killeen (12595687), O’Reilly, Orlaith, Michelle Flood (7945040), Lisa Mellon (7512764), Aileen Patterson, Patricia Fitzpatrick (9293786), Maria O’ Brien, Field, Catherine Anne, Orlaith O’Reilly, Orlaith O'Reilly (12595690), Catherine Anne Field, Mary Rose Sweeney (10887483), Celine Murrin, Michelle Flood, O\u27Brien, Maria, Killeen, Marie, Celine Murrin (4928083), O\u27Reilly, Orlaith, Deirdre Connolly (7945691), Dawn Sinclair, Patricia Fitzpatrick, Eileen Savage, Lisa Mellon, O’Reilly, Anthony, Murrin, Celine, Maria O'Brien (12595681), Flood, Michelle, Eileen Savage (4184572), Denieffe, Suzanne, Mullaney, Carmel, O'Reilly, Orlaith, Mary Rose Sweeney, O'Reilly, Anthony, Sinclair, Dawn, Suzanne Denieffe (5880647), Elmusharaf, Khalifa; id_orcid, Elmusharaf, Khalifa, Hickey, Anne, Marie Killeen, O\u27Reilly, Anthony, Suzanne Denieffe, Khalifa Elmusharaf (12351079), Patterson, Aileen, Anne Hickey, Mellon, Lisa, Sweeney, Mary Rose, O’ Brien, Maria, Anne Hickey (748611), Carmel Mullaney (7760531), Khalifa Elmusharaf, Dawn Sinclair (12595678), Aileen Patterson (12595693), Deirdre Connolly, Catherine Anne Field (12594076), O'Brien, Maria, Carmel Mullaney, Anthony O'Reilly (12595684), Anthony O’Reilly   +60 more
core   +1 more source