To partner with healthcare professionals and other stakeholders to identify top 10 research priorities within universal child and adolescent health promotion and disease preventive services.

The study used an adapted James Lind Alliance (JLA) approach. This included a priority setting partnership within the field of municipal health promotion and preventive services for children and adolescents, the gathering of research needs as reported by a national sample of healthcare professionals and other stakeholders and the sorting, evidence checking and final prioritisation of two top 10 lists corresponding with the two municipal service areas: (1) pregnancy care and child health centres 0–5 years and (2) school health service and youth health centres. The research needs were collected using an online survey asking: ‘In your opinion, what should scientific communities in Norway conduct research on to enhance child and adolescent health promotion and preventive services?’. Suggested needs framed as topics were sorted and categorised in Microsoft Excel. The digital survey Nettskjema was applied for final prioritisation by voting.

Municipal child and adolescent health promotion and disease prevention services in Norway.

Altogether, 1141 healthcare professionals and other stakeholders (government administrators and university staff).

The participants submitted a total of 1780 research needs. Following the steps of the JLA priority setting process, the two final top 10 lists were generated. The lists include research priorities relating to, for example, health literacy, mental health promotion, counselling and teaching, follow-up of children and families in vulnerable positions and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Research priorities for child and adolescent health promotion and preventive services were identified through structured user involvement of healthcare professionals and other stakeholders using the JLA framework. The two lists address key knowledge gaps and reflect current societal and professional challenges. The findings can enhance research relevance, foster collaboration and guide research and research funding.

We aimed to explore the patient-related and organisational characteristics associated with late cancellations and non-attendance in diabetes outpatient care and present our findings organised as a risk matrix based on these characteristics.

A cross-sectional study.

Our study was conducted at an endocrinology outpatient clinic based on data extracted between January and December 2019 from electronic medical records.

Adult patients with type 1 diabetes with late cancellations or non-attendance. We compared our sample with national data for comparison and to assess representativeness.

Main outcome was late cancellations or non-attendance, while secondary outcomes included type of cancellations and reason for cancellation.

In total, 541 patients had late cancellations or non-attendance across 5040 diabetes consultations. These patients had a mean age of 43 years, 57.9% were men and half (n=301, 55%) were employed. The mean diabetes duration was 18 years, and the mean HbA1c level was elevated at 72 mmol/L. The outpatient clinic had a higher number of consultations, but the patient characteristics were comparable to the national average. Half of the patients (n=258, 52.3%) had late cancellations ahead of their consultations. Most cancellations occurred during the winter, mainly due to illness being the most frequent reason. Unemployed men with poorly regulated diabetes were more likely not to attend compared with employed females.

Characteristics such as being male, unemployed and having elevated HbA1c levels were significantly associated with non-attendance. Our findings contribute to understanding the reasons for at-risk patients missing consultations.