Obesity and healthcare interventions: Substantiating a multi-modal challenge through the lens of grounded theory.

CONCLUSIONS: This study helps to illustrate the underlying, multifaceted processes that lead to obese individuals feeling defeated or disempowered and categorically willing, yet unable to bring about healthy changes in their lives. We hope this study will prompt healthcare practitioners to take a holistic approach whilst conceiving and deploying healthcare intervention programmes. SO WHAT?: Current healthcare interventional programmes are not achieving optimum solutions for those in need. All future programmes need to acknowledge the roles played by an individual, as well as ecological factors, whilst deploying client-centric intervention solutions. Perhaps these programmes are in need of a team-based approach to offer a truly 'wrap-around' service provisioning strategy, rather than the traditional one-on-one consultative approaches in use at current times. PMID: 32304614 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Health Promotion Journal of Australia - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Health Promot J Austr Source Type: research