We wish to acknowledge funding for this study from the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme (project number 12/137/05). We would like to thank and acknowledge the children, parents and other family members and the NHS delivery staff who participated in the study. We acknowledge the support and collaboration of the BCHCT children’s weight management provider team and the Birmingham City Council Public Health team. We would like to thank all the administrative and research staff who contributed to the study: Andrea Anastassiou, Laura Ocansey, Aisha Ahmad, Minara Bibi, Salma Khan, David Sardar, Meanaz Akhtar, Nafiseh Chalabi Hagkarim, Janice Gunnell and Fyqa Gulzaib. We would also like to thank James Martin for his statistical advice and Andrea Roalfe for undertaking the randomisation.
Study Steering Committee
We would like to thank and acknowledge members of the external Study Steering Committee for overseeing the study: Dr Wendy Robertson (University of Warwick, Warwick, chairperson), Professor Mark Johnson (De Montfort University, Leicester), Dr Ruth Kipping (University of Bristol, Bristol) and Mrs Shahin Ashraf (public representative).
Parent Advisory Panel
We would like to thank and acknowledge members of the Parent Advisory Panel for their advice throughout the study: Mrs Zahida Arif, Mrs Shazia Begum and Mrs Masuma Chaudry.
Contributions of authors
Miranda Pallan (Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health) led the study as principal investigator. She led the design and conduct of the study throughout and prepared all chapters in the study report.
Tania Griffin (Research Fellow in Public Health) was the study co-ordinator for 25 months of the study and was a member of the study management team. She substantially contributed to the writing of Chapter 3.
Kiya L Hurley (Research Fellow in Public Health) was the study co-ordinator for the last 7 months of the study, and before this was a research assistant on the study team. She substantially contributed to the writing of Chapter 4 and prepared the results tables for Chapter 4.
Emma Lancashire (Senior Research Fellow in Public Health) was a co-investigator and member of the study management team. She contributed to the design and conduct of the study and the interpretation of the study findings.
Jacqueline Blissett (Professor in Childhood Eating Behaviour) was a co-investigator and contributed to the study design, intervention design, selection of outcome measures and interpretation of the study findings.
Emma Frew (Reader in Health Economics) was a co-investigator and contributed to the design, analysis and writing of the health economic components of the study.
Laura Griffith (Lecturer in the Anthropology of Healthcare) was a co-investigator and contributed to the design and analysis of the qualitative study in phase I.
Karla Hemming (Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics) was a co-investigator. She was the statistical advisor for the study and contributed to the study design and interpretation of the study findings.
Kate Jolly (Professor of Public Health and Primary Care) was a co-investigator and contributed to the study design and interpretation of the study findings.
Eleanor McGee (Public Health Nutrition Lead, BCHCT) was a co-investigator and the main NHS service provider contact. She had overall responsibility for the delivery of the intervention and comparator programmes in phase II and contributed to the study design and interpretation of the study findings.
Janice L Thompson (Professor of Public Health Nutrition and Exercise) was a co-investigator and contributed to the study design, selection of outcome measures and interpretation of the study findings.
Louise Jackson (Research Fellow in Health Economics) undertook the cost data analysis and wrote the health economic components presented in Chapter 4.
Paramjit Gill (Professor of General Practice) was a co-investigator and contributed to the study design and interpretation of the study findings.
Jayne Parry (Professor of Policy and Public Health) was a co-investigator and substantially contributed to the study conception and design.
Peymane Adab (Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Public Health) was a co-investigator and a member of the study management team. She contributed to the study conception, design, conduct and interpretation of the study findings.
All authors read and approved the final version of the report.
Publications
Pallan M, Griffin T, Lancashire E, Hurley K, Blissett J, Frew E, et al. Cultural adaptation of a children’s weight management programme for Bangladeshi and Pakistani families in the UK: a cluster-randomised feasibility study protocol. Pilot Feasibility Stud 2016;2:48.
Pallan M, Griffin T, Hurley K, Lancashire E, Blissett J, Frew E, et al. Cultural adaptation of a children’s weight management programme: Child weigHt mANaGement for Ethnically diverse communities (CHANGE) study. BMC Public Health 2019;19:848.
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