OSE4ALL

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Obesity Stigma Education for All (OSE4ALL): co-design of an inter-professional e-learning resource to support destigmatisation of obesity among healthcare professionals.

Through our research we aim to contribute to improving healthcare for people with obesity by educating healthcare professionals.

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About the Programme

This is a Health Research Board of Ireland funded Applied Partnership Award (APA), awarded in 2023 for a two-year programme of research beginning March 2024 and ending February 2026.

Knowledge users and researchers together to conduct research that address a specific need within the Irish health or social care system.

This research recognises that obesity is a chronic progressive disease of enormous national and global significance. Weight stigmatisation results in significantly poorer overall treatment outcomes for people with obesity. Notably these poorer outcomes are associated with stigmatisation more so than obesity itself, highlighting the importance of tackling weight stigma and its causes amongst healthcare professionals.

The OSE4ALL programme seeks to support obesity destigmatisation in healthcare by co-designing an evidence-based e-learning resource for healthcare professionals in collaboration with people with obesity which will equip healthcare professionals, students and educators with knowledge and skills to recognise and address weight bias in healthcare and thereby improve patient care and outcomes for people living with obesity.

The OSE4ALL partnership includes people living with obesity as core partners, and senior interdisciplinary academics and clinicians from a range of backgrounds to provide an appropriate blend of expert programme management, knowledge and support to co-design an e-learning resource, and the opportunity to embed the resource in national graduate and undergraduate national curricula and continuing professional development.

This programme will develop a cost effective and easily accessible interdisciplinary e-learning resource which can equip healthcare professionals, students and educators with the necessary knowledge and skills to support effective care of people living with obesity.

It is supported by national partners, experienced interdisciplinary obesity academic researchers, clinicians, people living with obesity and educators.

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