Obstacles to following recommendations:

Question 1

What is an obstacle?

Answer 1

Something personal to an individual that blocks them moving forward or when action is prevented or made difficult.

Question 2

Types of obstacles:

Answer 2

• emotional/ psychological: lack of motivation, low self esteem
• time constraints: work/ study commitments, family commitments.
• availability of resources: financial resources (lack of money/ benefits), physical resources ( car, bathroom scales)
• unachievable targets: to difficult to achieve due to ability or timescale
• lack of support: single parent, live alone

Question 3

Emotional/ psychological:
1. example
2. explain how prevents
3. example of prevention
4. ways to overcome

Answer 3

1. Lack of motivation:
2. avoid making improvements to health and wellbeing
3. not eat healthy diet
4. use of support systems (family/ friends)
5. Low self esteem:
6. embarrassed mean avoid improvements to health and wellbeing
7. not performing physical activity/ ask for help
8. give chance of option to improve health

Question 4

Time constraints:
1. example
2. explain how prevents
3. ways to overcome

Answer 4

1.Work/ study commitments
2. full time job - hard to get to appointments
3. attend online meetings/ appointments, batch cook/ freeze nutritional meals

1. family commitments
2. family to look after - access childcare so hard to attend appointments
3. online/ telephone appointments, batch cook/ freeze nutritional meals

Question 5

Availability of resources:
1. example
2. explain how prevents
3. ways to overcome

Answer 5

1. financial
2. not enough money for gym membership/ buy nutritious food
3. free online classes
4. physical
5. no car so hard attend appointments due to relying on public transport, no bathroom scales to track weight loss/ exercise improving health and wellbeing
6. online appointments

Question 6

Unachievable targets:
1. example
2. explain how prevents
3. ways to overcome

Answer 6

1. difficult achieve due to ability or timescale
2. support worker expecting to much - feel overwhelmed/ give up, speech and language therapist physiotherapist set unachievable targets - demotivate
3. realistic targets, needs, wishes, circumstances considered

Question 7

Lack of support:
1. example
2. explain how prevents
3. ways to overcome

Answer 7

1. single parent
   2.challenging to access childcare so hard to attend appointments
2. online appointments
3. live alone
4. no motivation to improve health and wellbeing
5. attend group support sessions