TENTPEGS in action
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TENTPEGS is versatile. As it has been developed from a broad evidence-base about changing various health-related behaviours, it can be tailored and applied across health settings, and used by a range of health professionals who are want to have conversations about making health-related behaviour changes.
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TENTPEGS has been applied to a range of settings
undergraduate and postgraduate medical education; midwife training; GP training; mental health trust as part of their ‘Making Every Contact Count’ public health training; paediatric obesity service training; dental care practice.
Some examples of recent/ongoing projects
undergraduate and postgraduate medical education; midwife training; GP training; mental health trust as part of their ‘Making Every Contact Count’ public health training; paediatric obesity service training; dental care practice.
Some examples of recent/ongoing projects
Medical EducationWhy? Medical schools are expected to equip graduating students with skills to be able to help patients to change health-related behaviours but this is challenging, and medical education often doesn’t involve theory-based or evidence-based education on this topic.
What? A1-day training course was delivered by GPs to 4th and 5th year medical students. It gave students the chance to learn about what we know works and what doesn’t work when trying to support people to make behavioural changes, and to practice using the TENTPEGS techniques and get feedback on their performance. Take home messages? Following training medical students’ reported increased confidence and intentions to discuss obesity with patients; and felt the training was useful and well delivered. GPs delivering the training also told us that they found the TENTPEGS toolkit useful for their own practice. |
TENTPEGS@CHAMP
Why? CHAMP is a weight monitoring programme aimed to help identify children at risk of developing obesity. This programme elicits important opportunities for health professionals to have meaningful discussions with parents about child weight.
TENTPEGS is being integrated into this service to ensure behaviour change conversations are constructive and based on existing knowledge of what is most likely to support people to make behavioural changes. What? We are observing existing weight management practices, and talking to those involved in delivering CHAMP-based services to identify how TENTPEGS should be adapted for use in this setting. Next steps? TENTPEGS will be adapted for use within this child weight monitoring programme and we will evaluate how health professionals use it in their practice. |
Making Every Contact Count
Why? MECC is a public health strategy to encourage behaviour change conversations between health professionals and patients. The TENTPEGS provides training for health professionals in order to meet the criteria for Level 2 training competencies set by MECC.
What? Training is delivered to health professionals via a 45-minute online module. This has been evaluated amongst staff within a Northwest NHS Trust as part of their Level 2 MECC training. A sample of nearly 500 staff engaged with the training. Following training they reported higher confidence and motivation to have conversations with patients. Next steps? This online TENTPEGS training will be evaluated with a view to identifying how this training may change health professional practice and a range of patient outcomes. |