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✅   'My first thoughts are...: a Framework Method analysis of UK general practice healthcare professionals internal dialogue and clinical reasoning processes when seeing patients living with obesity in primary care

Objectives To use vignettes to facilitate exploration of the internal dialogue and clinical reasoning processes of general practice healthcare professionals (GPHCPs) during interactions with patients living with obesity. Design This study used an exploratory qualitative research design. Data were collected using semistructured interviews. Interviews were transcribed verbatim, and data analysed using Framework Method analysis. Five vignettes were presented to participants, showing a patient’s photograph, name, age and body mass index. Participants were asked to describe their first impressions of each fictionalised patient. Setting Interviews were conducted remotely via Skype between August and September 2019. Participants A convenience sample of UK GPHCPs was recruited via a targeted social media strategy, using virtual snowball sampling.

BMJ     Apr 03, 2025