Overcoming Barriers to Achieve Health Goals: TOSCA Project Impact Case Study

The Technology to Support Change (TOSCA) project was awarded a grant by UEA Health and Social Care Partners in 2022 to run a series of focus groups aimed at understanding the views of young people with complications of obesity around technology to support their journey within the Complications from Excessive Weight (CEW) service.

The CEW clinic patients (aged 10-16 years) and their adult family members took part in focus groups and design workshops.

These groups explored young people’s health priorities, the barriers and facilitators of health behavioural change and co-designed ways in which technology could be used to support young people in overcoming these barriers to achieve their health goals.