Health professionals providing childhood services (e.g. health workers, medical, nursing, practice nurse and allied health professionals) can upskill in best-practice prevention, treatment and management of children and adolescents with overweight or obesity and their families to provide specialist care, locally.
Our ECHO® Learning Series ‘Healthy Kids’ focuses on supporting professionals to deliver best-practice care to the families in their communities. The series provides mentoring, evidence-based advice, and support to professionals who consult with children and young people who may have overweight or obesity, so they can deliver care with empathy, confidence and success.
Our Clincians Hub Podcast series discuss practical integration of prevention and treatment into daily clinical practice. The series explores how to raise health concerns with families, how to complete brief health behaviour assessments and how to provide advice and support for families across Queensland.
The Referral Pathway is a quick reference guide that supports primary health care providers to monitor and assess child growth, refer patients to appropriate services, and deliver interventions.
Further resources to upskill in prevention, treatment and management of paediatric overweight and obesity can be found below:
Resources below can assist you to raise the topic of weight with families, and accurately measure growth:
CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE
Project ECHO - Healthy Kids Series
Online Platform
Health and Wellbeing Queensland
Referral Pathway
PDF
Health and Wellbeing Queensland
Weight4Kids
eLearning modules
NSW Government
How can health services strengthen support for children affected by overweight and obesity and their families?
Journal Article
Public Health Research and Practice
Tackling Childhood obesity – Part 1 Video
Video
RACGP & NSW health
5As of paediatric obesity management
Videos
Obesity Canada
Appraisal of Clinical Care Practices for Child Obesity Treatment. Part I: Interventions
Journal Article
AAP
Appraisal of Clinical Care Practices for Child Obesity Treatment. Part II: Interventions
Journal Article
AAP
Childhood Obesity: From diagnosis to treatment
E-Learning
WorldObesity
Child Growth E-learning
eLearning
RCH Melbourne
Implementing routine growth assessments
eLearning
NSW Government
How to accurately use a stadiometer
PDF
NSW Health
How to plot and interpret growth charts
Webpage
RCH Melbourne
Z scores explained
Webpage
Ellyn Satter Institute
Plotting BMI for kids
Video
NSW Health
ADOLESCENCE
Risk taking behaviour in adolescents
Webpage
RACGP
RACGP - Adolescent Overweight and Obesity management
PDF
RACGP
RACGP - Engaging with adolescents about healthy weight and lifestyle
Video
RACGP
Youth Friendly communication
Video
NSW Government
EATING DISORDERS
Understanding Eating Disorders
PDF
EDQ
Eating Disorders Core Skills for GPs
eLearning
National EDC
Eating disorders - a professional resource for GPs
PDF
National EDC
GENERAL SKILLS
5As: Ask, assess, advise, assist and arrange
PDF
RACGP
5As of Obesity Management
Video
Obesity Canada
SCOPE E-learning for obesity
E-learning
WorldObesity
Brief interventions for a healthy lifestyle
E-learning
Insight - Qhealth
Brief Interventions: Nutrition and Physical Activity
E-learning
Insight - Qhealth
Motivational Interviewing RACGP
Journal Article
RACGP
Motivational Interviewing
Webpage and videos
Healthify He Puna Waira
Weight stigma and obesity
Video
Yale University
EQUITY
Working with people with a disability
PDF
Metro South