Unit name | Physical Activity and Nutrition Interventions: Conceptualisation and Design |
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Unit code | PHEDM4015 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Russ Jago |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School for Policy Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit will focus specifically on the issues associated with designing diet and physical activity interventions for different target groups. The course will demonstrate how the MRC guidelines for complex behavioural interventions can be used to design and evaluate diet and physical activity interventions for children, adults, and seniors. The module will include discussion and analysis of formative research, process evaluations, media campaigns, environmental interventions, randomised controlled interventions and will address issues related to cost-effectiveness of interventions. Case studies of key interventions related to specific lifestyle conditions as well as their successes and failures will be presented and used to facilitate the students development of their own interventions.
Aims:
The unit will be delivered through blended learning involving a combination of lectures, group discussion and self-directed exercises.
Assessment will be in two parts. Part 1: Peer assessment of group designed diet or physical activity intervention (25%)
Part 2: Provide a report in which a new diet or physical activity intervention (for different group to part 1) is designed. Report will include an overview of the theory used to design the interventions, rationale for the target group, selection of the study design, hypothesised mediators and moderators of the intervention, description of the intervention and evaluation (including resource implications, process evaluation and cost-effectiveness) and dissemination plan. (3000 words - 75%.)