Integrating the Lived Experience and Voices of Children and Young People in Weight Management

This session will provide an overview of the why and how the voices of young people are so critical in weight management research and service evaluation. We will share learning from the NIHR funded ENHANCE study which has evaluated the NHS complications in excess weight clinics for children and young people including:

• How they set up the ENHANCE ARROWS – lived experience group of diverse young people, and how they have been integral to every stage of the study.
• Discuss practical considerations and learning from the work
• Showcase the outputs and impacts generated by the ARROWS

The session will finish with an introduction to the Obesity Voices Hub – a lived experience hub that promotes and supports the meaningful integration of lived experience into policy, practice and research, and how we hope the ARROWS will help to expand this hub to further represent young people’s voices in future work.

Next steps and further information:

You can register using the following link: Webinar Registration – Zoom

Once registration closes, further details will be sent to everyone who has reserved a ticket.

The event lasts for 1 hour with a 30-minute presentation and 30 minutes allocated for Q&A.

The event will be recorded and shared with those who have registered as well as publicly on our NIHR platforms and may be downloaded in countries where data protection legislation differs from the UK.

For any queries please contact netspublic@nihr.ac.uk