Maureen Allan

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• Maureen Allan
• Public Health Nurse Bellshill Locality, North CHP
• Fiona Muir
• Youth Worker, Bellshill YMCA

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Overview of Presentation

• Why Evaluate
• Background
• Diary Functions
• The Diary

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• Why Evaluate?
• What to Measure?
• How do we Analyse?

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Our Objectives

• Provide a confidential service
• Provide health information about smoking
• Provide a holistic approach / presenting issues
• Stimulate and enable young people to challenge
  their own perception of health
• To ascertain young peoples views on smoking,
  drugs, alcohol, physical activity, mental health
  and nutrition
• To reduce the number of young people smoking
• Reduction in adult smoking rates (long term).

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Diary Tool

• Assessment
• Engages the young person
• Records the YP views
• Records the YP progress
• Allows the YP to monitor their progress

• Facilitators view
• Provides qualitative and quantitative data
• Can identify problematic areas
• Use within prevention and/or cessation work
• Provide health information

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The Challenges?

• Once information gathered where to send it for
  analysis?
• The continued cost of printing.
• Information Sharing Protocol making sure the YP
  understands what the diary will be used for
  gain their consent.
• Wasted diaries? If only attended a couple of
  weeks.

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The Stop Smoking Diary
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Thank You

• Questions
• Contact Details
• Maureen.Allan_at_lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk