Charlotte Haynes
Health promotion services for lifestyle development within a UK hospital – Patients' experiences and views
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
uk public health policy requires hospitals place health promotion services enable patients improve health adopting healthy behaviours ie health education study investigated hospitalised patients experiences health education smoking alcohol use diet physical activity weight views concerning appropriateness hospitals setting delivery health education services recently discharged adult hospital patients n 322 sent questionnaire asking smoking alcohol use diet physical activity weight risk factors participants asked whether agreed screening risk factor whether received health education whether helpful wanted change behaviour participants also asked set general questions concerning health education within hospitals 190 patients responded 59 80 agreed screening risk factors 80 smokers 52 consuming alcohol recommended limits 86 obese 66 consuming less five fruit vegetables day 61 physically inactive participants wanted change respective behaviour however third reported receiving health education 60 patients wanted health education around discharge majority receiving health education admission majority agreed hospital good place patients receive health education 87 hospital provide patients details community organisations provide health education 83 minority 31 reported preference health education gp instead hospital delivery health education patients within hospital poor hospitals viewed patients appropriate cases preferred setting screening risk factors delivery health education