psy 625 grant proposal evaluation

Effects of Unhealthy Eating Habits in society

PSY625: Biological Bases of Behavior

Instructor: Roxanne Beharie

February 3, 2018

Effects of unhealthy eating habits

Specific Aims

1). Concise statement of goals I would like to work with individuals experiencing health problems due to unhealthy eating habits, and inactivity. The purpose is to see if participants would agree to attend the program for 5 days to learn about healthy diet, food, exercise, food preparation, calorie count, and if they would use resources available to help them with their diet and exercise.

2). Novel Design

Chart #1: Displays the numbers of people eating fruits, vegetables, and consuming a low cal diet, vegetarians, dieters, unhealthy eaters

Chart #2: Displays the five categories that I will use to create manuals for participants to review to learn about the socio demographics, psychosocial knowledge and how beliefs attitudes and norms are part of self-efficacy and it establishes behavior patterns.

Per: Raghunathan, Rajagopal, et al. “The Unhealthy = Tasty Intuition and Its Effects on Taste Inferences, Enjoyment, and Choice of Food Products. “Journal of Marketing, vol.70, no. 4 (2006), pp. 170-184

3). solve a specific problem

I would like to design a comprehensive program on a community or state level that addresses poor eating habits, poor nutrition, and physical inactivity. Within the State of Maryland we have a large amount of chronic diseases and death per year due to the poor diets that people have become comfortable with, and the lack of physical activity which also contributes to the high rates of sugar diabetes, osteoporosis, obesity, and stroke. This is a serious matter when you think about it 1 out of 10 people suffer from one or more of the chronic diseases listed. I would like to have a facility where I can teaching people how to eat by using scales to measure the portion of meats, vegetables, fruits, measuring the amount of calories, carbohydrates, saturated fats, total fat, what foods to eat, how to prepare them. If I can encourage families to join us for a day to enjoy fun exercise activities, along with healthy meal made using fresh fruits and vegetables. Families will want to come again enthused to improve their dietary patterns and activities. Within this facility I would like a gym and track to allow them to exercise because this will boots their energy and if we meet with them three times a week to teach regular physical activity. The object is to show them how to improve their muscle strength and boost their endurance. The gym would afford them the resource needed to exercise. The exercise gives them great benefits to deliver oxygen and nutrients to their tissues and improve their cardiovascular system. The nutrition program and the exercise stem together would make this efficient. By showing participants end results that reflect a healthier heart and lung they will feel good and have more energy to live a healthy lifestyle. I would like to have nutritious meals to feed the participants, a facility with a kitchen to prepare/ teach, the gym to train and exercise all are the specific goals of my program.

Center for Civic Partnerships. (2002). Fresh ideas for community nutrition and physical activity. Sacramento, CA: Public Health Institute.

Background

Doctors are reporting high volumes of high cholesterol, sugar diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks, and other chronic disease that all stem from what people are eating. People are eating foods, and putting on calories that contribute to behavior. Eating is something that we must do to survive but everyone will not or cannot survive eating foods that will cause you to gain weight, or take on too much, carbohydrates that may lead to changes to your body function. For this reason doctors believe that knowledge may help improve societies eating habits. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore which factors influence nationalities residing within the United States specifically the state of Maryland citizens eating behavior by utilizing patients identified through the Maryland Physicians Care who want to improve their health by participating in a 5 day study. I am ready to bring together thoughts and suggestions from professional: dieticians, physicians, motivators, advocates, and weight instructors to guide me in the course of facilitating the expansion of a well-organized, in good physical shape, eating nutritious meals, and routine activity curriculum for the residents, to think of as: a customized involved agenda designed to improve healthy eating habits in society. As well as prevention of overweight, high blood sugars, heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular performance.

Per: Wendell, Susan, “Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities. “Hypatia, vol. 16, no. 4, 2001.pp. 17-33 page.23 section 2

Significance

What people eat on a regular basis is very important to how the individual will feel physically and mentally. However; what people eat is something that people must pay close attention. Do people think about what they eat, and if it is good for the body? I wonder but by conducting this program and observing the participants collaborating on their thoughts and ideas concerning their diets. I believe that most people eat whatever they want totally over looking that eating poorly usually results in low energy levels, fatigue, and this can raise your chances of becoming a potential candidate of a chronic disease, and this reduces your longevity. Although; one critical barrier to progress in this specific field would be one participants may not have enough time to attend the programs. This may be due to competing priorities; which supports how most people have a mindset in terms of attending something that is not of an interest. Let’s just say it is an interest but the individual works and has kids. This could be a barrier for them to engage in this program. If we could come to employer’s to allow them to join during work hours to introduce the program to hard workers. This project can improve poor eating habits, physical and mental health problems as well as illness relating to obesity or many diseases. Scientific research has revealed that poor nutrition and lack of exercise are contributing factors to your physical health. The scientific knowledge in terms of this program would identify what factors influence eating habits of women, men and children from the perspective of environmental behavior. I feel that if I conduct things according to children, parents, caretakers, or guardians I can develop a theoretical support for family to learn how to change eating behavior. The clinical study design should start with observation of 50 participants focusing on children of all ages ranging from 5-18 years old, focus groups = 12, N (participants) = 50), parents (n- 5, N= 20, and random professionals from local business (n = 5, N = 20) in rural and urban Americans. The semi-structure will answer questions surrounding the basis of development according the attitudes, social influences and self-efficacy. I can use technology to introduce participants to knowledge b y identifying the mediators such as social influences.

Per: Wister, Andrew V. Baby Boomer Health Dynamics: How Are We Aging? Buffalo: London, University of Toronto Press, 2005

Proposed Study

Twenty candidates will be selected from a referral data base provided by state and local health care providers, including ten families that sign up on our website interesting in changing their eating habits. All candidates will come to the On call Wellness center for 3 days to interact and assessed each participant to get an understanding of what health issues they have, and what they feel caused the problem during this session we will provide an assortment of meals to choose from, each candidate will fill out the form listing what they selected, why, and they will take home a digital calorie counter and journal to write down how they feel after eating, and return the next evening for a prepared nutritious meal, and exercise program. The will learn something new each day pertaining to health and eating habits.

Procedures:

This study will be conducted on the urban 10 low, 10 middle class, and 10 wealthy population. The procedure involves attending the facility for assessments, meals, surveys, disclose, and consent form. Individuals will require written approval from the primary and or specialist physicians team to approve of the participant eating the list of foods, and utilizing exercise equipment, conducting strenuous activities. At any rate we will need a licensed dietician, chief, weight instructor, physical education instructor. The doctor will examine each individual to observe their physical and mental appearance for participation. If we fail to conduct the physical examine we may have some issues with participants being unhealthy to participate. Personnel must be sure to send each individual to the doctor prior to attending.

Hypotheses & Analysis:

How does unhealthy eating affect individuals experiencing health problems due to unhealthy eating habits, and inactivity. The purpose is to see if participants would agree to attend the program for 5 days to learn about healthy diet, food, exercise, food preparation, calorie count, and if they would use resources available to help them with their diet and exercise. I will analyze the candidates: income, family size, family health history, eating habits, current help concerns, relate them to their diagnoses, explain the importance of healthy eating and exercise.

Method Section

To identify the needed participants I used a semi structured question guide, 3 focus group discussions were conducted consisting of 5 adult men, 5 adult women from the local community college with various eating habits, with a mean age of 24.5+18 years. Using Nvivo9, which is an inductive thematic advance used to determine data analysis.

Per: Von Ah D, Ebert S, Ngamvitroj A, Park N, Kang DH. Predictors of health behaviors in college students. J Adv Nurs. 2004;48(5):463-474.doi:10.111/j.1365-2648.2004.03229.x.

Budget Justification

The funds that I am requesting will be used to pay the full time research assistant to: assist with academic lines of investigation, editing and preparation of manuscripts, duties related to the production of academic journals, each characteristic of subject recruitment, training, and data collection. Additional funding of 30% is requested for the primary examiner that organizes the study and performs statistical psychoanalysis and publication of end results.

Financial travel support is needed for the Primary Investigator to be present at one nationalized conference to provide the finale outcome of the clinical trial. I am requesting supplementary funds will cover the transportation fee for the research assistant to visit the participant’s home. I would like to pay each partaker $40 (50 total) is requested to compensate individuals for their involvement.

I will need an Apple MacBook Pro 13, 2.3GHz dual core 7th – generation Intel Core i5 processor, 1 TB hard drive) to perform data collection and analysis. Additional funding will be used to purchase : groceries, cooking materials, paper plates, forks, cups, measuring cups, spoons, scales, serving materials, gym equipment, Avaya telephone system, digital quality of Life weight scales, office materials, monitoring security system, security identification badge cards with the finger print chip, and entering /exiting door devices.

Per: Forbes Entrepreneurs

1. Senior Personnel

The proposed Principle investigator, will spend 12 months or 15.0% of my academic year time on the project. The $11, 286 requested is 15.0% of my base salary of $75,241.

Constance Ares, Ed. D., the proposed Project Director, will spend 30.0% of her time on the project for 9 months. The $17, 160 requested is 30% of her annual salary of $57, 200. Total salaries: $28, 446.

2. Other Personnel

Graduate Assistants salary of $36,000 is requested to support 4 students for 9 months at 20 hours per week (2 semesters). The stipend for full time GA’s is $4500 per semester (4 students x 2 semesters each x $4500 = $36,000. Full time GA’s also receive 18 credits tuition waiver at $362.27 per credit. Total tuition waiver cost:$26,084 (4 students x 18 credits x 362.27= $26,084. The total stipend and tuition waiver = $62,084 (4 students stipends $36,000 + 4 students total tuition waiver $26,084). Graduate Assistants will administer phone surveys in Phase I, review patient records.

3. Total Direct Costs

The total direct costs requested for this project are $140,316

4. Indirect Costs

The Indirect Cost rate for Minnesota State University, Mankato is 46%.

Total Indirect costs being requested are $48,706.

5. Total Direct and Indirect Costs $216,672.

Per: GROVE, LAUREL K. “ Finding Funding: Writing Winning Proposals for Research Funds. “ Technical Communication, vol. 52, no. 1, 2004 pp. 25-35 page 33 section 1

Per: Forbes Entrepreneurs

Per: Quickbooks.intuit.com

References

Raghunathan, Rajagopal, et al. “The Unhealthy = Tasty Intuition and Its Effects on Taste Inferences, Enjoyment, and Choice of Food Products. “Journal of Marketing, vol.70, no. 4 (2006), pp. 170-184

Center for Civic Partnerships. (2002). Fresh ideas for community nutrition and physical activity. Sacramento, CA: Public Health Institute.

Wendell, Susan, “Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities. “Hypatia, vol. 16, no. 4, 2001.pp. 17-33 page.23 section 2

Wister, Andrew V. Baby Boomer Health Dynamics: How Are We Aging? Buffalo: London, University of Toronto Press, 2005

GROVE, LAUREL K. “ Finding Funding: Writing Winning Proposals for Research Funds. “ Technical Communication, vol. 52, no. 1, 2004 pp. 25-35 page 33 section 1

Donald, Gael. “Business Ethics: Practical Proposals for Organizations. “ Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 19, no. 2, 1999.

Ustravel.org

Forbes Entrepreneurs

Quickbooks.intuit.com

Von Ah D, Ebert S, Ngamvitroj A, Park N, Kang DH. Predictors of health behaviors in college students. J Adv Nurs. 2004;48(5):463-474.doi:10.111/j.1365-2648.2004.03229.x.

*Socio-demographic

*Behavioral beliefs & outcome evaluationn

*Normattive behliefs & motivation to comply

*Control beliefs & percieved power

*Attitudes

*Norms

*Self-Efficacy

*Environmental constraitnts

*Intentions

*Skills, Objective Knowledge

Behavior

Other psychosocial variables

Subjective Knowledge

Involvement

Intervention

Series 1 unhealthy eaters Dieter vegetarians Fruits/veg/low cal 4.3 2.5 3.5 4.5 Series 2 unhealthy eaters Dieter vegetarians Fruits/veg/low cal 2.4 4.4000000000000004 1.8 2.8 Series 3 unhealthy eaters Dieter vegetarians Fruits/veg/low cal 2 2 3 5

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