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Table 1 The process of stakeholder’s analysis in childhood obesity prevention policies

From: Stakeholder analysis of childhood obesity prevention policies in Iran

stage

Name of stage

Processes of each stage

First stage

Planning the process

• Formation three sessions working group

• Definition the purpose of the analysis, determining the approximate timeline, how to conduct the interview process, determining the goals and how to use the results during the sessions

• Review relevant website, documents and articles

Second stage

Selecting and defining a policy

• Consulted a number of policy makers (to define child and adolescent obesity prevention policies)

• Coordination meeting with the research team

Third stage

Identifying key stakeholders

• Develop the priority stakeholders list with possible to be added in the next steps as snowballs

Forth stage

Adapting the tools

• Developed a standard questionnaire (open-end) for interviewing stakeholders

• Review existing information from possible sources (e.g. newspapers, institutional reports and publications, websites and other available documents)

• Develop the interview protocol: (conducted as pretest the interview guideline with 4 nonpriority stakeholders to determine the comfortable, understands the questions and the time line of interviews)

Fifth stage

Collecting and recording the information

• Conducting interviews (after previous coordination)

• Created a separate electronic file for each stakeholder

• Enter the stakeholder’s answers for each question into the computer (immediately following the interview)

Sixth stage

Filling in the stakeholder table

• Transferred the interview responses to the table (using the completed interview guidelines and electronic files for each of stakeholders)

Seventh stage

Analyzing the stakeholder table

• Analyze the findings in the results of interviews using policy maker and MAXQDA10 software.

• Divide the stakeholders into nine groups which are shown in the form of a matrix in Table 3.

Eighth stage

Using the information

• The results of the analysis were collected so that it could be used in various areas such as action plans to increase support for a reform policy, policymakers and policy providers