Table 1.

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

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