Table 4 Contents of the BIB training programme for practitioners
Session | Description of content |
|---|---|
Background | The background and context for the BIB obesity intervention study |
Overview | An overview of the HAPPY programme, an introduction to the 'Family Links’ parenting programme |
Intervention mapping | An introduction to intervention mapping. A lay explanation about how the intervention mapping approach was used as the foundation of the HAPPY intervention |
BIB and Family Links | How the intervention has been carefully woven into the existing family links programme |
Evidence based practical education on the key messages | Ensuring clear understanding and consistent approach to the nutrition, infant feeding and physical activity elements of the programme (new to these parenting practitioners), and their delivery using the manual and activities including cultural adaptation delivered by specialist practitioners (dietician , infant feeding and PA specialists) |
The manual | Time to familiarise themselves with the manual and resources |
Boundaries and scope | An overview of boundaries, scope, roles and responsibilities |
Difficult questions | Information about how to deal with difficult questions |
Time to have a go | Participation in activities included in the manual |
Sticking to the manual | An explanation of the importance of adhering to the manual in order to obtain a true test of the impact of the intervention (and that there would be times whereby the BIB team would be monitoring sessions to assess intervention fidelity) |
Recording delivery experiences | Information about how to log details about the way they delivered the intervention in order to determine which components of the intervention were delivered consistently, which were not, and the reasons for any discrepancies. |