Paul Aveyard

Biographic Data

ID179078
NAMEPaul Aveyard
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEAveyard
SIGNATUREAVEYARD P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Birmingham
ORCID0000-0002-1802-4217
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS58
TOTAL CITATIONS75
AUTHOR COUNT58
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Evaluation of the experience of people referred under the NHS enhanced service incentive for obesity to the NHS digital weight management programme

    Open AccessSimon Barrett, Stella Jp Haffner et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Background Internationally, guidelines recommend clinicians identify patients living with obesity and offer referral to weight management programmes, especially patients with related co-morbidities. In 2021, NHS England introduced the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme for people living with obesity and a diagnosis of hypertension or diabetes or both. The programme is offered at three levels of intensity with people triaged to the appropriat…

  • What is the effect of presenting evidence of the mental vs physical health benefits of quitting smoking on motivation to stop smoking? An online randomised controlled experiment

    Open AccessKatherine Sawyer, Adham Hanafi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    clinicaltrials.gov NCT06762756, on 19/12/2024. Retrospectively registered

  • The Basis of Patient Resistance to Opportunistic Discussions About Weight in Primary Care

    Open AccessMadeleine Tremblett, Helena Webb et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    Clinicians expect that talking to patients with obesity about potential/future weight loss will be a difficult conversation, especially if it is not the reason that a patient is seeking medical help. Despite this expectation, many governments ask clinicians to take every opportunity to talk to patients about weight to help manage increasing levels of obesity. Although this is recommended, little is known about what happens in consultations when c…

  • Identifying Key Moments in Type 2 Diabetes Management

    Open AccessJ B Joyce, Carolyn Newbert et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    OBJECTIVE: For people with type 2 diabetes who are overweight, weight loss increases the likelihood of achieving diabetes remission. The aim here was to draw on the experiences of people living with type 2 diabetes and coaches who deliver type 2 diabetes prevention and remission programmes. This was done to develop a service that increases the proportion of people who achieve remission by identifying an effective weight management service. RESEAR…

  • Conceptualising lifestyle “choices

    Open AccessTanisha Spratt, Anisa Hajizadeh et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2023

    As a complex condition that often arises due to numerous social, environmental and political factors, “obesity” can be understood by healthcare providers as a health outcome that is directly linked to issues that are outside of individual control. UK GPs who participated in a series of focus groups examining attitudes about the role of individual responsibility in weight loss often demonstrated contradictory beliefs when asked about the relations…

  • Acceptability of integrating smoking cessation treatment into routine care for people with mental illness

    Open AccessKatherine Sawyer, Kim Fredman Stein et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2023

    INTRODUCTION: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPTs) Services could offer smoking cessation treatment to improve physical and psychological outcomes for service users, but it currently does not. This study aimed to understand participants' views and experiences of receiving a novel smoking cessation intervention as part of the ESCAPE trial (intEgrating Smoking Cessation treatment As part of usual Psychological care for dEpression and…

  • Clinician resistance to broaching the topic of weight in primary care

    Open AccessAnisa Hajizadeh, Linda Heath et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Cited by: 1References: 29

    Clinical trials have shown that providing advice and support for people with excess weight can lead to meaningful weight loss. Despite this evidence and guidelines endorsing this approach, provision in real-world clinical settings remains low. We used Strong Structuration Theory (SST) to understand why people are often not offered weight management advice in primary care in England. Data from policy, clinical practice and focus groups were analys…

  • Talking delicately

    Open AccessMadeleine Tremblett, Helena Webb et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2022

    Obesity is a major worldwide public health problem. Clinicians are asked to communicate public health messages, including encouraging and supporting weight loss, during consultations with patients living with obesity. However, research shows that talking about weight with patients rarely happens and both parties find it difficult to initiate. Current guidelines on how to have such conversations do not include evidence-based examples of what to sa…

  • Brief opportunistic interventions by general practitioners to promote smoking cessation

    Open AccessHannah Wheat, Rebecca Barnes et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022References: 43

    Very brief opportunistic interventions for smoking cessation are effective, cost-saving for health systems, and universally recommended in guidelines. However, evidence suggests that clinicians are reluctant to intervene, citing interactional difficulties. Only one UK study has specifically examined smoking discussions, within naturally occurring primary care consultations. However smoking cessation treatment was not available at the time. We exa…

  • Views about integrating smoking cessation treatment within psychological services for patients with common mental illness

    Open AccessGemma Taylor, Katherine Sawyer et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2021

    BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking rates are significantly higher in people with common mental illness compared to those without. Smoking cessation treatment could be offered as part of usual outpatient psychological care, but currently is not. OBJECTIVE: To understand patient and health care professionals' views about integrating smoking cessation treatment into outpatient psychological services for common mental illness. DESIGN: Qualitative in-depth i…

  • A smartphone based attentive eating intervention for energy intake and weight loss

    Open AccessVictoria Whitelock, Inge Kersbergen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03602001 . Registered retrospectively on 26th July 2018. Prospectively registered on the Open Science Framework on 11th August 2017

  • Experiences of Self-Monitoring in Self-Directed Weight Loss and Weight Loss Maintenance

    Open AccessJamie Hartmann-Boyce, Anne-Marie Boylan et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2019

    The experience and role of self-monitoring in self-directed weight loss attempts may be distinctly different from that within formal interventions, and has yet to be fully explored. We systematically reviewed qualitative studies to examine experiences of self-monitoring as an aid to self-directed weight loss. Thematic synthesis was used to construct descriptive and analytical themes from the available data. In all, 22 studies (681 participants) w…

  • Two observational studies examining the effect of a social norm and a health message on the purchase of vegetables in student canteen settings

    Open AccessEmily I M Collins, Jason Thomas et al.ARTICLEAppetite2019Cited by: 12References: 33

    There is some evidence from laboratory-based studies that descriptive social-norm messages are associated with increased consumption of vegetables, but evidence of their effectiveness in real-world settings is limited. In two observational field studies taking an ecological approach, a vegetable-related social norm (e.g. "Did you know that most students here choose to eat vegetables with their meal?"), and a health message (e.g. "Did you know tha…

  • Optimising swaps to reduce the salt content of food purchases in a virtual online supermarket

    Open AccessSarah Payne, Sarah Payne Riches et al.ARTICLEAppetite2019Cited by: 2References: 13

    BACKGROUND: Offering consumers the opportunity to swap to lower-salt foods while shopping has potential to reduce salt intake. Offering a wider range of alternatives which are much lower in salt could increase the magnitude of salt reduction gained but may interfere with consumers' engagement and willingness to accept swaps. OBJECTIVES: To compare the salt reduction from offering swaps to a similar product but with minimally less salt to offering…

  • Meat consumption, health, and the environment

    Open AccessH Charles J Godfray, Paul Aveyard et al.ARTICLEScience2018

    The future of meat Meat consumption is rising annually as human populations grow and affluence increases. Godfray et al. review this trend, which has major negative consequences for land and water use and environmental change. Although meat is a concentrated source of nutrients for low-income families, it also enhances the risks of chronic ill health, such as from colorectal cancer and cardiovascular disease. Changing meat consumption habits is a…

  • English Stop-Smoking Services

    Open AccessLinda Bauld, Rosemary Hiscock et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2016

    The UK is a global leader in stop-smoking support-providing free behavioral support and cessation medication via stop smoking services (SSS) without charge to smokers. This study aimed to explore the client and service characteristics associated with abstinence 52 weeks after quitting. A prospective cohort study of 3057 SSS clients in nine different areas of England who began their quit attempt between March 2012 and March 2013 was conducted. Imp…

  • A new measure of unhealthy school environments and its implications for critical assessments of health promotion in schools

    Open AccessNichola Shackleton, Adam Fletcher et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2016

    The theory of human functioning and school organisation informed by Basil Bernstein’s sociology of education suggests that to gain the commitment and promote the health of students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, schools require radical transformations eroding various ‘boundaries’: between and among staff and students; between students’ academic learning and broader social development and welfare; and between schools and their…

  • Where next with theory and research on how the school environment influences young people's substance use

    Open AccessChris Bonell, Adam Fletcher et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2016References: 7

  • Using a descriptive norm message to increase vegetable selection in a workplace restaurant setting

    Open AccessJason Thomas, J M Thomas et al.ARTICLEAppetite2016Cited by: 1

  • Descriptive and liking social norm messages enhance the consumption of a cruciferous vegetable in healthy students

    Open AccessJason Thomas, J M Thomas et al.ARTICLEAppetite2016

  • Does deterioration in mental health after smoking cessation predict relapse to smoking

    Open AccessGemma Taylor, Allan Mcneill et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    People whose mental health worsens after smoking cessation are at no greater risk of subsequent relapse to smoking than those whose mental health stays the same or improves

  • Study protocol

    Open AccessClaire Madigan, Claire D Madigan et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    ISRCTN52341938 Date Registered: 31/03/2014

  • A systematic review of weight regain after behavioural weight management programme end

    Open AccessD J Johns, J Hartmann-Boyce et al.ARTICLEAppetite2015

  • Self-Help for Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese Adults

    Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Susan A Jebb et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2015

    We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the components and effectiveness of self-help weight-loss interventions and their applicability to less-advantaged populations. We searched (November 2013) for randomized controlled trials comparing self-help interventions with each other or with minimal controls in overweight and obese adults, with 6 months or longer follow-up. We calculated mean difference between intervention and…

  • Effect of behavioural techniques and delivery mode on effectiveness of weight management. Systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression

    Open AccessJamie Hartmann-Boyce, D J Johns et al.ARTICLEAppetite2015