1. Football Fans in Training
Who? Men who were overweight or obese
What? Healthy living and weight loss programme
Where? Professional football clubs

2. FFIT trial
No Bellies
Get fit, lose your belly and get behind the scenes at your local club, all for free.
The Football Fans in Training (FFIT) programme is a healthy living and weight loss programme that was carefully designed to appeal to men, which has been developed and successfully evaluated in a major research project led by the University of Glasgow. It was developed to include the latest scientific approaches to weight loss, physical activity and diet.
FFIT is delivered by community coaches at Scotland’s top professional football clubs to groups of men aged who are obese, or at high risk of becoming obese. Men attend 12 weekly sessions at their local club to learn useful skills and techniques to help them improve their levels of physical activity and diet. Each meeting involves time in the classroom and also a training session with the coaches. Once the 12 sessions end, the men receive regular reminder s and attend a reunion session at the club 9 months after they began FFIT.

3. Group exercise – 20mins
We would like you to split up into groups of 6 people
There are copies of PRECIS-2 toolkit and the Lancet paper FFIT for each person. Also usb stick if some people want to use their laptop
Focus on 3 PRECIS-2 domains and complete the table for your group with score and rationale

4. Football Fans in Training (FFIT)

5. Useful Websites and References
PRECIS-2:
Trial Forge:
Users' Guide to Pragmatic Trials
Research to Reality Discussion:
NIH website
NIHR website:
Loudon K. Treweek S, Sullivan P, Donnan P, Thorpe KE, Zwarenstein M. The PRECIS-2 tool: Designing trials that are fit for purpose. BMJ 2015;350:h2147.
Johnson KE et al, Use of PRECIS ratings in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory. Trials 2016; 17:32
Zwarenstein M, Loudon K, Treweek S. Understanding pragmatism and PRECIS- 2 J Clin Epi 2017
Colorado Research and Implementation Science Program (CRISP) submitting a workshop on PRECIS-2 for the joint conference for the Society of Clinical trials and the International Clinical Trials Methodology conference 7-10th May 2017 with presenters from both sides of the pond working in pragmatic trial design.

6. Advice using PRECIS-2 Best to have expertise in the field
Need to know what usual care is
Need to know the intervention
details of operational and technical aspects
Need understanding of PRECIS-2 domains
Discussion helps score the domains
Retrospective use often missing information

7. Thank you for coming! Kirsty Loudon: kirsty.loudon@stir.ac.uk