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Table 1 Survey items assessing participant priorities for change and preferences for types of support

From: Ready, set, go: a cross-sectional survey to understand priorities and preferences for multiple health behaviour change in a highly disadvantaged group

Item

Response options

1. If you could get help, are there any of these changes you would like to make?

Lose weight

Stop or cut down smoking

Drink less alcohol

Get more exercise

Eat more fruit and veg

Stop or cut down on drug use

Find ways to feel less sad or depressed

None of these < skip to end>

2. When do you think you will try to < INSERT response/s from Q1 > ?

I’m already trying to < INSERT response/s from Q1 > a

In the next month

In the next 2–6 months

Sometime, but not in the next 6 months

3. If you could get help (e.g. from your doctor or a health worker), what would be the best way for you to make these changes?

<For those selecting two or more changes in Q1>

I would finish making one change before I

started on the next one

Once I started to get somewhere with one

change, I would start on the next one

I would try to make some or all of these

changes at the same time

4. Would you use any of these services to help you make this health change (or changes)?

<For those selecting at least one change in Q1>

Advice and help from my doctor or Health

Worker, who checks how I’m going

My doctor or Health Worker arranging for

me to see a specialist (like a dietician,

exercise coach, counsellor)

I arrange to see a specialist myself (like a

dietician, exercise coach, counsellor)

None of these

5. Would you want this help to be:

<For those selecting at least one service in Q4>

Just for me

For me and one support person (like my

partner, a parent, sibling or friend)

For me and other members of my family or

my friends

Not sure

6. Would you use any of these services to help you make this health change (or changes)?

<For those selecting at least one change in Q1>

Go to face to face support group meetings

with others also trying to change

Use a computer to get emails or on-line

advice and support

Call a telephone support service for advice

and support

Take home books or DVDs with information

and advice

Use a phone app and text messages for

advice and support

None of these

7. Would you want this help to be:

<For those selecting at least one service in Q4 or 6>

Just for me

For me and one support person (like my

partner, a parent, sibling or friend)

For me and other members of my family or

my friends

Not sure

  1. aFor depression, this response option was “I’m already getting help”