ASO Scotland Network Natter July 2023
When: Monday, 31st July 2023, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
For July we have Gina Wren, who is a 2021 Oxford-MRC DTP Enterprise iCASE PhD scholar in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences under the supervision of Professor Susan Jebb, Dr Dimitrios Koutoukidis, and Dr Jadine Scragg. Her project is in partnership with Second Nature, a digital weight management service provider commissioned by NHS England. Accordingly, her doctoral research project focusses on using behavioural insights to improve the effectiveness of digital weight loss interventions. Over the course of her PhD, Gina will focus on developing and testing new intervention components aiming to foster participant engagement.
Gina’s talk is entitled ‘Optimisation of a digitally-delivered behavioural weight loss programme’. Gina will provide an overview of a novel approach for optimising complex interventions to support behaviour change. The approach, guided by the multiphase optimisation strategy (MOST), employs highly efficient randomised experimentation to identify an optimal intervention prior to a definitive evaluation. Gina will describe how the MOST framework can be used to develop effective interventions in relation to weight loss. Specifically outlining a trial aimed at optimising the clinical effectiveness of a digitally-delivered behavioural weight loss programme run by Second Nature.
This event will be in the format of a short presentation followed by a Q&A/discussion amongst attendees.
The ASO Scotland Network Natter is an online networking event to provide anyone working in the field of obesity prevention and treatment an opportunity to come together for a chat, to share ideas and support.
We would like to embrace the new way of networking with this online Zoom event.
What will the ASO Scotland Network Natter event involve?
We want to create a relaxed and fun networking session to give us an opportunity to ‘e-meet’ colleagues in Scotland.
Register and you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the Networking event.