Recommendations for approaching the introduction section of manuscripts and grant applications.

Research on dental and dental hygiene education is key to improving learning, teaching, and oral health care in academic dental institutions. Faculty should be able to write research proposals and reports properly to secure funding for research and share the findings of studies with stakeholders. Specifically, they should demonstrate why the study matters in the introduction section of their text.

Helping children and families to enrol in weight management: What can stakeholders do?

Many children and their families do not benefit from multidisciplinary clinical care (MCC) for paediatric weight management because they do not enrol in (initiate) treatment. The purpose of this report was to highlight practical recommendations to enhance the enrolment of Canadian children in MCC, which were drawn from multisite Canadian studies (quantitative and qualitative) that we completed recently. Recommendations to stakeholders, including primary care providers, MCC providers and decisions makers, were organized according to opportunities, motivation and barriers to enrol.

Predicting Enrollment in Multidisciplinary Clinical Care for Pediatric Weight Management.

Objectives: To characterize the children who were referred, determine the proportion of referred children who enrolled, and examine factors associated with enrollment in multidisciplinary clinical care for pediatric weight management.

Study Design: This cross-sectional study included the population of children (2-17 years of age; body mass index of ≥85th percentile) referred to 1 of 3 hospital-based multidisciplinary weight management clinics in Alberta, Canada, from April 2013 to April 2016. Referral and enrollment data were obtained from Alberta Health Services databases.

Parent Recommendations to Enhance Enrollment in Multidisciplinary Clinical Care for Pediatric Weight Management.

Objective: To explore parents' recommendations to enhance enrollment in multidisciplinary clinical care for managing pediatric obesity.

Study Design: Data for this interpretative description study were collected through individual, semistructured interviews that were audiorecorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed thematically. Parents (n = 79) were recruited from 4 multidisciplinary weight management clinics in Canada located in Edmonton, Hamilton, Montreal, and Vancouver.

Why do parents discontinue health services for managing paediatric obesity? A multi-centre, qualitative study.

Objective: To explore parents' reasons for discontinuing tertiary-level care for paediatric weight management.

Methods: Participants were parents of 10-17year olds (body mass index [BMI] ≥85th percentile) who were referred for paediatric weight management. Parents were recruited from three Canadian sites (Vancouver, BC; Edmonton, AB; Hamilton, ON) and were eligible if their children attended at least one clinical appointment and subsequently discontinued care.

Recommendations From Parents to Improve Health Services for Managing Pediatric Obesity in Canada.

Objective: Although parents are uniquely positioned to offer first-hand insights that can be used to improve health services for managing pediatric obesity, their perspective is underexplored. Our objective was to characterize parents' recommendations for enhancing tertiary-level health services for managing pediatric obesity in Canada.

Methods: Semistructured, one-on-one interviews were conducted with parents of children who initiated treatment at 1 of 4 Canadian tertiary-level, multidisciplinary weight management clinics.