The Henry III Study
Take part
We are looking for parents and local authorities to take part
If you are a parent of a child aged 0-5 and attend a children’s centre in one of the following areas, you may be eligible to take part:
Wolverhampton
Wakefield
Torbay
St Helens
Somerset
Parent benefits - those who take part receive an incentive (£30 per parent)
Please get in touch with Wendy.burton@york.ac.uk if you want to find out more.
For parents
If your local area is not taking part in the trial, there are other ways you can be involved.
Understanding of how HENRY fits with people’s everyday lives.
We are talking to different people to develop our understanding of how
HENRY fits within everyday lives. We know people face difficulties in supporting children to have healthier lives so we need to understand what challenges people face. We are doing this:
By holding workshops with parents, childcare provider staff, researchers and policy makers
Speaking to people on a one to one basis about their views (interviewing).
We will develop a diagram capturing people’s different views.
To date we have held one workshop and produced our initial diagram
If you are interested in providing your views please contact Alexis Foster, Researcher at the University of Sheffield on alexis.foster@sheffield.ac.uk
Talking to parents and staff at childcare centres about how they found the HENRY course.
If you take part in the trial you can also be involved in other activities. We will talk to people who took part in a HENRY programme to understand how they found it. We will speak with people who found HENRY helpful and those who did not.
This will help us understand how the HENRY course may be working but also how it could be improved.
We will also look at information such as the content of the course, how many people did not complete the sessions and take part in sessions to understand more about HENRY.
Areas can take part if they are able to nominate at least 2 centres that in the last 18 months have:
Not delivered a HENRY programme, or
Not attended training to deliver HENRY programmes
We will randomly select half of nominated centres to deliver HENRY (ensuring an even balance of centres according to area level deprivation, centre size and the population ethnicity). The other half will continue with any other existing or planned activity as normal. This is why areas nominate twice the number of centres that they wish to deliver HENRY programmes in.
If you have any questions, please contact the research team or HENRY.
For local authorities
We are recruiting 10-14 local authorities to take part in the HENRY III Study who already deliver HENRY programmes or are in the process of commissioning HENRY programmes, or those who are willing to commission HENRY training as part of the trial.
Benefits include:
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Learn more about HENRY outcomes in your area, including impact on BMI z-score (local findings returned)
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Discount on the costs of HENRY training ( £2,000 per area)
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Funding to support parent recruitment (about £2k to £3k per area, depending on volume of
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parent recruitment)
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Being part of a national flagship study on effective obesity prevention
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Children’s centre staff receive free research training (GCP short light touch)
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Reduction on HENRY partnership & support fee - 18 months for price of 12
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Opportunity to take part in systems work to learn more about local obesity prevention systems
Local Authorities will be asked to:
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Nominate an even number of of venues where programmes would be delivered, to support the study
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Tell us the dates that HENRY programmes will run in advance (over an 18-month period)
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Centre staff to attend a brief training session to learn about the trial and light touch GCP
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18 months (we will tell you when to start and stop)
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Provide us with the details of parents who want to take part using a secure online system
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Return consent forms to us in batches (3 time points in 18 months)
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Complete a brief questionnaire to tell us about your children’s centre or family hub policies
Optional extra activities for areas
1. Take part in systems workshop and interviews
2. Venue staff can volunteer to be participants
The HENRY III Study
The HENRY III Study is funded by the Public Health Research (PHR) Programme.
