Fiona Gillison

Dados Biográficos

ID1562296
NOMEFiona Gillison
PRENOMESFiona
SOBRENOMEGillison
ASSINATURAGILLISON F
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Bath
ORCID0000-0002-6461-7638
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS34
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES20
TOTAL COMO AUTOR34
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2006
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Involving community members in designing behavioural weight management programmes

    Open AccessThomas H Moore, Theresa HM Moore et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Our review identified substantial levels of community involvement (leadership or collaboration) in planning BWMPs, but less so in their delivery, and rarely in evaluation. Greater involvement of communities in evaluation would ensure programmes focus on what matters most to them. Reporting of community involvement, especially costs and time involved, should be improved to allow for shared learning

  • Children’s views on weight measurement and talking about weight

    Open AccessRobert L Herbert, Ryan Herbert et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Children's views about how and whether to talk about weight varied, but appeared underpinned by the awareness of stigma and belief in individual responsibility and capability for controlling body weight

  • Co-designing adult weight management services

    Open AccessRebecca Langford, Rowan Brockman et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Co-design is an increasingly popular approach to designing health in services but can be difficult to achieve within traditional funding and commissioning practices. Drawing on our case studies, we present key considerations for those wanting to co-design health services, noting the importance of building strong relationships, creating supportive organisational cultures, and developing the evidence base

  • The use of technology to address loneliness and social isolation among older adults

    Open AccessElisabeth Grey, Fran Baber et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Technology was employed in a variety of ways during the pandemic to address loneliness and social isolation among older adults; many service providers continue to use technology in a hybrid system of care now that pandemic-related social restrictions have been lifted. Our findings emphasise a need for technology-assisted interventions to be designed and deployed in alignment with service users' values, motivations and capabilities. Further, there…

  • The systematic development of guidance for parents on talking to children of primary school age about weight

    Open AccessFiona B Gillison, Fiona Gillison et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Consensus on the content of guidance for parents on talking to children about weight was achieved through a process of evidence review and stakeholder and expert engagement. The next steps are to measure the impact of the resource on improving the experience of parents and children in communicating about weight

  • Life in lockdown

    Open AccessTania Griffin, Elisabeth Grey et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Whilst many participants found the UK lockdown challenging, adaptations to cope with the restrictions presented some positive changes related to physical activity and diet behaviours. Helping people sustain their new healthier activities since restrictions have lifted is a challenge but presents an opportunity for public health promotion

  • The acceptability of evidence-informed guidance for parents in talking to their children about weight

    Open AccessFran Baber, Fiona B Gillison et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    The guidance was perceived as relevant and needed; it showed potential to reduce parents' negative affect and concerns, and improve confidence around talking to children about weight

  • Life in lockdown

    Open AccessEmma Solomon-Moore, Jeffrey Lambert et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    While healthy eating habits worsened in the 12 months since the onset of the pandemic, anxiety and mental wellbeing improved. However, anxiety may have increased for parents of secondary school aged children

  • The impact of Covid-19 on the eating habits of families engaged in a healthy eating pilot trial

    Open AccessLucy Porter, Jennifer Cox et al.ARTICLEAppetite2022

  • Does adjusting for biological maturity when calculating child weight status improve the accuracy of predicting future health risk

    Open AccessFiona Gillison, Elisabeth Grey et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The traditional method of categorising adolescents into a BMI category may over-predict overweight and obesity, particularly in girls. Adjusting for biological maturity when estimating weight status through calculating adolescents' BMI classification was equivalent to standard approaches in predicting other cardiovascular risk at age 17

  • The understanding, acceptability, and relevance of personalised multidimensional physical activity feedback among urban adults

    Open AccessCarukshi Arambepola, Madhawa Perera et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Multidimensional physical activity feedback was considered understandable and acceptable and has the potential to support behaviour change among urban Sri Lankans with or without identified health risk. These findings highlight the feasibility of this technology-enabled approach as a personalised intervention to improve knowledge and motivation for physical activity behaviour

  • Exploring the influences on men’s engagement with weight loss services

    Open AccessMegan Elliott, Fiona Gillison et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    A medical diagnosis or referral serves as a strong motivator for men to engage with weight loss services by invoking fear of negative consequences of not losing weight. Men perceived weight loss services to be feminised spaces, in which they felt self-conscious and out of place. As a result, men were deterred from engaging and considered their options were limited. Implications for service design and commissioning are discussed. Involving men in …

  • A meta-analysis of techniques to promote motivation for health behaviour change from a self-determination theory perspective

    Fiona Gillison, Peter Rouse et al.ARTICLEHealth Psychology Review2019

  • Evaluation of an intervention to promote walking during the commute to work

    Open AccessSuzanne Audrey, Hilary Fisher et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    ISRCTN15009100 . Prospectively registered. (Date assigned: 10/12/2014)

  • Association between breakfast frequency and physical activity and sedentary time

    Open AccessJulia K Zakrzewski-Fruer, Fiona B Gillison et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    The International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE) is registered at (Identifier NCT01722500 )

  • Comparing and contrasting responses to tobacco control and obesity policies

    Open AccessDorota Juszczyk, Fiona GillisonARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2019

    Objective To explore people’s perceptions of, and responses to, obesity and tobacco policies with a particular focus on motivation; and to compare and contrast responses to explore the potential for translating learning across domains. Design A theoretically informed comparative qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with two groups of participants (smokers and ex-smokers; those who have previously or are currently attempting to l…

  • Is children’s weight a public health or a private family issue? A qualitative analysis of online discussion about National Child Measurement Programme feedback in England

    Open AccessBeáta E Kovács, Fiona Gillison et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    This study provides novel insight into peer-to-peer debates about the NCMP, including the arguments parents find convincing and acceptable for and against a national programme to weigh children and provide feedback to parents about their weight. Online fora were used as an opportunity to express criticism or distress, but also to seek advice from peers regarding concerns about whether or not to opt-out. Thus, both general issues related to the le…

  • The home electronic media environment and parental safety concerns

    Open AccessHannah J Wilkie, Martyn Standage et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Our results suggest that specific groups of children are less likely to spend their free time outside, and it would seem that only prolonged recreational computer use has a negative association with children's outdoor time after school. Further research is needed to explore potential underlying mechanisms, and parental safety concerns in more detail

  • How behavioural science can contribute to health partnerships

    Open AccessLucie Byrne-Davis, Lucie M T Byrne-Davis et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Health partnerships often use health professional training to change practice with the aim of improving quality of care. Interventions to change practice can learn from behavioural science and focus not only on improving the competence and capability of health professionals but also their opportunity and motivation to make changes in practice. We describe a project that used behavioural scientist volunteers to enable health partnershi…

  • Life transitions and relevance of healthy living in late adolescence

    Open AccessStefan Koehn, Fiona Gillison et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2016Citada por: 3Referências: 23

    Using a cross-sectional qualitative design involving focus groups and interviews, we sought to gain a more detailed understanding of adolescents' physical activity, eating habits and health perceptions during the transition from secondary school (or high school) to work. Based on thematic analyses, three themes were extracted: (1) perceptions of lifestyle and health, (2) changes in priorities and (3) passive acceptance of internal and external in…

  • Mixed method evaluation of a community-based physical activity program using the RE-AIM framework

    Open AccessHarriet Koorts, Fiona GillisonARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    This research highlighted important methodological constraints associated with the use of RE-AIM in practice settings. Future evaluators wishing to use RE-AIM may benefit from a mixed-method triangulation approach to offset challenges with data availability and reliability

  • Study protocol

    Open AccessSuzanne Audrey, Ashley R Cooper et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    ISRCTN15009100 (10 December 2014)

  • A cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to promote healthy lifestyle habits to school leavers

    Open AccessFiona Gillison, Martyn Standage et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    The trial is registered as Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN55839517

  • Exploring the basis for parents’ negative reactions to being informed that their child is overweight

    Open AccessFiona Gillison, Fay Beck et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2014

    Objective Increasing parental awareness of childhood obesity is an important part of tackling the issue. However, parents’ negative reactions to being informed that their children are overweight or obese can hinder their engagement with relevant services. The present study aimed to develop a deeper understanding of why parents react negatively, to help commissioners and service providers design services that are more acceptable to them. Design Op…

  • Are you still on that stupid diet

    Open AccessKatie Whale, Fiona B Gillison et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2014Citada por: 6Referências: 32

    This study investigated how people's attitudes and motivations towards losing weight are influenced by societal pressures surrounding weight loss, their interaction with the obesogenic environment and individuals' attitudes and motivations towards weight. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 10 women currently attending commercial weight-loss programmes. Participants experienced conflicting messages regarding weight norms, w…