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- QUESTION
- Welcome to the Milestone 3 tutorial.
For the final assignment, Milestone 3: Intervention and Evaluation, you will create a PowerPoint. This PowerPoint outlines your intervention and evaluation plan and could be presented to community leaders in hopes of gaining their support to carry out this intervention.
3. Be sure to follow the guidelines carefully, and identify your role in this intervention, such as the school nurse, public health nurse, or other community nursing role.
4. Begin by introducing the, and provide data that shows why this is concerning in your area. You can use some of the most important data from Milestone 2.
Discuss your proposed nursing intervention, including all the points required on the guidelines. Be sure this is something a community health nurse would typically address. This section covers the who, what, how, and where of your intervention. You also need to discuss whether this is primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention.
Next, justify why this intervention is important. Discuss information from two scholarly journal articles that support this rationale. Cite these references on the slide with author and date, and then include the complete reference on the reference slide.
5. In the next section, discuss how you would evaluate this intervention to see if it worked. This section is worth 70 points, so don’t skimp here. Explain what you would measure to show that your intervention is working. Include how and when you would measure these items. Then discuss the short and long term impact of your intervention if it was successful.
On a summary slide, review your problem and the intervention, and thank your audience for their support.
Finally, include a reference slide with the full references of any sources you cited within the PowerPoint.
Remember, PowerPoints should have short bullet phrases, not long sentence or paragraphs. You can add more detail in the speaker notes at the bottom of each slide if necessary, for clarification. Use an interesting colored template, and include graphics, such as clip art or pictures to add interest.
6. Thanks so much for your time. Just a few last words of wisdom—be sure to ask your instructor questions using the Q & A forum or via e-mail. Read all announcements that are posted. Follow your guidelines closely because they are your road map. Finally, enjoy planning this presentation for your community.
- Welcome to the Milestone 3 tutorial.
- QUESTION
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Answer
Intervention and Evaluation
Community Organizing to Combat Obesity
Introduction
There is an obesity problem in St. Paul Minnesota
Currently, 27.6% of the population in St. Paul is obese.
The obesity rate in 1990 was 10.3% and in 2000 it was at 16.4%.
The obesity rate has increased drastically as the greater percentage of the population does not engage in physical activities (Olson, 2015).
The obese individuals are at risk of type-2 diabetes and other cardiovascular diseases.
There should be an intervention to combat the obesity problem in St. Paul.
Proposed nursing intervention
The health intervention chosen for this project is community organizing in order to combat obesity within St. Paul, Minnesota.
This intervention seeks to mobilize the population to engage in more physical activities as well as exercise.
This intervention involves community mobilization through education and the implementation of exercise groups within the society.
Public education campaigns shall be conducted by public health staff to educate the public on the importance of exercising
The community health nurses will organize exercise groups that shall be open to the general public where participants shall exercise together.
The bike sharing programs shall also be revived in the community as biking is a good form of physical exercise.
The exercise programs shall be coordinated by public health nurses as well as volunteer coaches.
These programs shall be open to the entire community.
Type of intervention
This is a primary intervention as it aims to prevent a disease even before it occurs (Backholer, et al, 2014).
The activities involved in this intervention include exercising and other physical activities that contribute to maintaining good health.
Secondary interventions aim to reduce the impact of a disease or other adverse effect after it has already happened (Tucker & Lanningham-Foster, 2015).
Tertiary interventions aim to soften the impact of an ongoing disease that has a lasting impact (Cheadle, Rauzon & Schwartz, 2014).
Justification for the intervention
According to Kozica, et al, (2015) the Healthy Lifestyle Program implemented by giving lifestyle advice to rural women works in reducing weight gain related to obesity.
Similar methods shall be applied in the obesity intervention being implemented in St. Paul through the acceptable methods identified in the above study.
Zulkepli, Abidin & Zaibidi, (2014) propose a systems dynamics model for combating obesity based on the qualitative and quantitative approaches taken to prevent obesity.
Aspects of the systems dynamics model shall be utilized in the obesity prevention intervention undertaken through this project.
Evaluation of the intervention
Firstly, the intervention must run for at least five years in order to collect adequate data on the increased physical activity, healthy eating and exercising.
Some of the evaluation methods include surveys of community residents and the analysis of data on the progress of the intervention (Reeve, Ashe, Farias & Gostin, 2015).
Periodic assessment of the participation in physical activities and exercises by community residents is another evaluation method.
The rate of weight loss among participants who are already obese is another method of evaluating the effectiveness of the intervention.
The participants in the intervention shall be required to keep daily logs of their physical activities including biking and exercising.
The participants and public health nurses shall submit monthly reports on the progress of the intervention.
Quarterly data on the weight loss of participants as well as the exercising and healthy eating habits of the participants shall be collected and analyzed in order to evaluate the success of the intervention.
Yearly data on the obesity levels within St. Paul shall also be analyzed in order to determine whether the intervention was effective at reducing obesity rates.
Short and long-term impact of the intervention
The short-term impact is that members of St. Paul's community shall start engaging in physical activities and exercising including bike riding.
Another short-term impact of the intervention is that the participating community shall be more knowledgeable about healthy living.
The purchases of healthy organic foods should also increase over both the short-term and the long-term.
The long-term impact of the intervention is that obesity rates in St. Paul should reduce significantly over the next five years.
Summary
In summary, obesity is a real issue within St. Paul’s community given the high obesity rates in the city.
The intervention discussed here aims to reduce the obesity rates and increase the engagement of the society in physical activities and exercising.
The success of the intervention can be measured through daily activity logs, monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
The long-term and short-term objectives of the intervention include raising awareness and participation in healthy living through exercising.
The overall goal of the intervention is to reduce the high obesity rates in the city of St. Paul.
References
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Kozica, S. L., Lombard, C. B., Ilic, D., Ng, S., Harrison, C. L., & Teede, H. J. (2015). Acceptability of delivery modes for lifestyle advice in a large scale randomised controlled obesity prevention trial. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 1-13. Zulkepli, J., Abidin, N. Z., & Zaibidi, N. Z. (2014). Obesity Prevention: Comparison of Techniques and Potential Solution. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1635(1), 677-683. Olson, J. (2015). Minnesota residents reversing obesity trend in a big way. Star Tribune. Retrieved 6 April 2016, from http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-residents-reversing-obesity-trend-in-a-big-way/300737081/ Backholer, K., Beauchamp, A., Ball, K., Turrell, G., Martin, J., Woods, J., & Peeters, A. (2014). A Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Obesity Prevention Strategies on Socioeconomic Inequalities in Weight. American Journal Of Public Health, 104(10), e43-e50. References Cont… Reeve, B., Ashe, M., Farias, R., & Gostin, L. (2015). State and Municipal Innovations in Obesity Policy: Why Localities Remain a Necessary Laboratory for Innovation. American Journal Of Public Health, 105(3), 442-450. Tucker, S., & Lanningham-Foster, L. M. (2015). Nurse-Led School-Based Child Obesity Prevention. Journal Of School Nursing, 31(6), 450-466. Cheadle, A., Rauzon, S., & Schwartz, P. M. (2014). Community-Level Obesity Prevention Initiatives. National Civic Review, 103(1), 35-39.
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