ActEarly is a UK Preventative Research Partnership funded consortium working on the early promotion of health and wellbeing in two contrasting areas with high rates of child poverty, Bradford in West Yorkshire, and the Borough of Tower Hamlets, in London. Core outcomes sets (COS) for the ActEarly project are needed to enable the measurement and evaluation of the overall impact of the approach. To establish the COS for the project, we plan to conduct a modified DELPHI study consisting of two rounds of a consensus survey administered to experts and stakeholders, followed by a consultation of community members at both study sites. The resulting COS will be used by ActEarly consortium researchers in the design and evaluation of their studies. Later, the data collected on the core outcomes will form the basis of the meta-evaluation of the project as well as inform the long-term economic modelling that has been planned as part of the program.
ContributorsPI: Dr Maria Bryant, University of York
Bradford Institute for Health Research
Bradford Council
Borough of Tower Hamlets Council
Bromley-by-Bow Centre (London)
Disease Category: Public health
Disease Name: N/A
Age Range: 0 - 18
Sex: Either
Nature of Intervention: Other
- Clinical experts
- Consumers (caregivers)
- Epidemiologists
- Families
- Governmental agencies
- Methodologists
- Patient/ support group representatives
- Policy makers
- Researchers
- Service commissioners
- Service providers
- Service users
- Statisticians
- COS for clinical trials or clinical research
- Delphi process
- Literature review
- Nominal group technique (NGT)
- Other
- Survey
2-round consensus survey (Delphi process), followed by a community consultation.