Page 84 - Issue 112 May-June 2021

84 The groups of people taking part in the study are: • Children and young people aged 12-25 years, who are unable to walk (or only walk using a body support walker) due to a lifelong disability, and live in the UK • Family members of children and young people who are under 25 years of age and are unable to walk due to a lifelong disability (or only walk using a body support walker) • Education and healthcare professionals who work with these children and young people in the UK • Experts and academics interested in disability, sedentary behaviour and physical activity, behaviour change, intervention development or digital health interventions from anywhere in the world. Participants are contributing to a series of online workshops, involving anonymous conversations or virtual focus groups. We intend to include use of technology in the programme we develop. Our first of four workshops, which focuses on understanding the problem of sedentary behaviour in this group of young people, is currently open. Teachers and teaching assistants working with non-ambulant young people can visit our website to find out more, get involved, and encourage young people they support and their families to do the same. A small group of children and young people will test the intervention we develop. The intervention will include young people wearing sensors that record body movements, giving feedback about how much they are moving. In addition to this, there will be content based on behaviour change techniques, to support the children and young people to move more during their daily routines. We are following an intervention development model, called the Six Steps of Quality Intervention Development. This model will help us to select which behaviour change techniques will be most effective via our online co-design, and how the techniques will be delivered as part of the intervention. This is the first time a complex intervention development has been carried out online. Want a digital version of SEN Magazine? Each issue of SEN Magazine is now available online at issuu.com/senmagazine Just £6 per issue or £24 for the next six issues Back issues also available Get your digital SEN Magazine now at issuu.com/senmagazine SEN112 senmagazine.co.uk For print subscriptions, see page 102 Long-term disability About the author Marilyn Bradbury is the Chief Investigator of the DoMore Study and a community paediatric physiotherapist. do-more.org.uk @Marilynpaedsahp bit.ly/2PI4XRE