A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Barriers and Facilitators to Evidence-Based Practices for Obesity Prevention in Head Start.

Objective: To identify positive and negative deviant cases using quantitative fidelity data from a previous implementation of a nutrition intervention, Together, We Inspire Smart Eating (WISE), and to determine barriers and facilitators to fidelity by conducting qualitative interviews with deviant cases.

Design: Explanatory sequential mixed methods.

Setting: Head Start Program agencies in 2 southern US states.

Availability of services for subjects of sexual assault in genitourinary medicine clinics.

The aim of this study is to gain an understanding of the services available to subjects of sexual assault at genitourinary medicine (GU medicine) clinics throughout the United Kingdom, and to determine whether these services are adequate. By means of a questionnaire, consultants in 106 clinics provided information on the number of patients who reported sexual assault and the services available to them. The study found a marked regional variation in attendances by subjects of sexual assault.