SOUTH WEST PUBLIC HEALTH
SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE 2018
Tuesday 13th March 2018
Mercure Bristol Holland House Hotel, Bristol
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You are invited to submit abstracts for Oral and Poster presentation at the South West Public Health Scientific Conference to be held on Tuesday 13th March 2018.
The aim of the conference isto showcase both service and university based public health research and evaluation from across the South West.
You are invited to submit abstracts of your work from across the full range of public health and from all related disciplines. Abstracts should clearly include your research question, methodology and results, even if they are consistent with the null hypothesis. Abstracts that merely describe an on-going project with no results (or to be presented by the time of the conference) will not be acceptable. Conceptual or theoretical papers that do not present analyses from either quantitative or qualitative analyses are acceptable if they present ideas that contribute to enhancing public health. To help with the submission of abstracts, guidance and an example abstract are attached.
Abstracts should be sent to the conference organisers via: PublicHealth.SW@hee.nhs.uk and be received by 17.00 hours on Monday 27th November 2017.
f you would like to discuss the content of your abstract please contact one of the following members of the conference abstract committee:
Dr Ruth Kipping Tel: 0117 3314584
Senior Research Fellow in Public Health Email: Ruth.Kipping@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Paul Pilkington Tel: 0117 328 8860
Senior Lecturer in Public Health Email: Paul.Pilkington@uwe.ac.uk
Dr Iain Lang Tel: 01392 726087
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health Email: I.lang@exeter.ac.uk
The SW Public Health Conference is funded by the School of Public Health at Health Education South West, DECIPHer andthe National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)’s School for Public Health Research (SPHR)
EXAMPLE ABSTRACT:
Association between perceived neighbourhood environment and weight loss in overweight and obese adults
Manley, P
Specialty Registrar in Public Health
Aim: This study examined whether objectively measured loss of body weight was associated with perceived neighbourhood environment characteristics, using longitudinal data collected over a 12-month follow-up of overweight/obese adults of Camden, London, as part of a CAMWEL (Camden Weight Loss Programme) randomised controlled trial.
Background: Several studies have demonstrated associations between some aspects of built environment (e.g. distance, convenience, accessibility and aesthetics of activity resources), and physical activity / obesity.
Methodology: 217 participants followed-up in the CAMWEL trial were analysed as a fixed-length cohort. The weight loss outcome was dichotomised comparing individuals who lost ≥ 5% of body weight over the follow-up, to individuals who did not. The neighbourhood characteristics were collected in a self-administered standardised questionnaire. Analysis was conducted in STATA 12.1, using Mantel-Haenszel methods and logistic regression. Multiple imputation was performed to account for missing data of the neighbourhood variables.
Results: Weight loss was associated with two of eight studied perceived neighbourhood characteristics. After adjustment for confounders and trial allocation, participants who agreed that walking was unsafe because of neighbourhood traffic had 80% lower odds of weight loss than those who disagreed with it (OR of 0.20; 95% CI 0.05-0.81); and participants who agreed that their neighbourhood was unsafe because of crime during the night had 59% lower odds of weight loss than those who disagreed with it (OR of 0.41; 95% CI 0.16-1.04). The results based on multiple imputations yielded similar findings.
Conclusions: Despite some limitations, the study by its unique design provided new evidence into the research of obesogenic built environment in the UK that has so far been limited. It demonstrated the potential to collect environmental data at a relatively low cost during an experimental study. The findings could strengthen the evidence base which local government needs for regulatory actions tackling obesogenic environment.
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Please indicate the type of abstract submission you are making:
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Oral presentation abstract |
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Poster presentation abstract |
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Abstract to be considered for both oral and poster presentation |
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In which setting was this work undertaken (predominantly or completed):
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Please return to PublicHealth.SW@hee.nhs.uk by 17.00 hours on Monday 27th November 2017 quoting Scientific Conference Abstract in the email subject line