Brief Public Health Interventions and Advice

Summary

Transcripts and topic guide for the following qualitative research project - Background - Public health improvement has long been an important focus for the United Kingdom Department of Health. The Allied Health Professions (AHP) Federation has 84,000 members, such a large number of AHP professionals should play a role in public health initiatives, but it is not clear if they or the AHP students who will be the future healthcare workforce feel themselves equipped to do so. Our aim was to understand the perceptions of AHP students about their role in delivering public health advice. Methods - AHP students were recruited in one teaching university from different departments. Participants were final year AHP students who had completed all clinical placements related to their course. All students were emailed an invitation to participate, and those interested were asked to contact the researchers to participate in one of several focus groups. Data were recorded, transcribed, and analysed using framework analysis by two independent researchers. Results - Nineteen students were recruited and participated in four focus groups. The main themes produced by the data analysis were: understanding of public health issues, perceptions of their role in this, challenges and opportunities to develop a public health role, and preparation for a public health role. Conclusions - AHP students felt that they had a role in public health advice-giving, but barriers to providing this advice included their own lack of confidence and knowledge, time, and the environment of the clinical placement. They considered that there should be more teaching on public health issues, and that these should feature in both the curriculum and on clinical placement.

Keywords:	Public health messages, Allied Health Professionals, students, qualitative study
Creators:	McLean, Sionnadh http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9307-8565 Charlesworth, Laura http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3584-2729 May, Stephen http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3748-9033 Pollard, Nick http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1995-6902
Academic units:	Faculty of Health and Wellbeing (HWB) > Academic Departments > Department of Allied Health Professions
Funders:	Funder Name Grant Number Funder ID Sheffield Hallam University UNSPECIFIED
Copyright Holders:	Sheffield Hallam University
Publisher of the data:	SHU Research Data Archive (SHURDA)
Publication date:	4 May 2018
Data last accessed:	2 December 2022
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.17032/shu-180002
SHURDA URI:	https://shurda.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/73
Additional details Additional details Types of data: Dataset Collection period: From To 2014 UNSPECIFIED Resource language: English Metadata language: English Depositing User: Laura Pattinson Date Deposited: 04 May 2018 08:25 Last Modified: 02 Dec 2022 12:38