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Article 1

Rao Deepa, P., Parth, P., Roberts Karen, C., & Wendy, T. (2018). Original quantitative research Obesity and healthy aging: social, functional and mental well-being among older Canadians. Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada: research, policy and practice, 38(12), 437.

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Article 2

Larery, T. M. (2017). Combating Childhood Obesity with Provider Education: A Quantitative Study.

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Article 3

Arnold, M., Jiang, L., Stefanick, M. L., Johnson, K. C., Lane, D. S., LeBlanc, E. S., ... & Zaslavsky, O. (2016). Duration of adulthood overweight, obesity, and cancer risk in the women’s health initiative: a longitudinal study from the United States. PLoS medicine, 13(8), e1002081.

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Broad Topic Area/Title

This article shows how the older individual living with obesity are aging.

The use of donor education in combating obesity among the children.

It is an examination of the effects of the duration between overweight and obesity on the different types of cancers.

Identify Independent and Dependent Variables and Type of Data for the Variables Comment by Parixit modi: Types of data for the variables:Categorical: nominal or ordinal?Numerical: continuous or discrete?

The Independent variable is aging and the dependent variable differed between socioeconomic characteristics, social health, health characteristics, mental health and wellbeing. This research used a primary qualitative data for the variables.

The dependent variable was obesity while the independent variable was educational program.

Primary data was used.

Dependent variable in this was cancer while the independent variable was the period between the overweight and the obesity.

This research used a primary qualitative data.

Population of Interest for the Study

Canadian people between the age of 55 to 85 years who are living with obesity.

The healthcare individuals, nurses and the students are the population of interest.

People who had challenges with overweight were the postmenopausal women and the obese.

Sample

A sample size of 21241 individuals

A sample size of 41 individuals

A sample size of 93675 individuals

Sampling Method

This are the people selected on the basis of the purposive sampling from the analyzed statistics Canadian Community Health Survey.

Individuals were randomly selected from the 4 states from the APN conference held.

There was a purposive sampling on Women Health Initiative.

Descriptive Statistics (Mean, Median, Mode; Standard Deviation)

Identify examples of descriptive statistics in the article.

Approximately 50% of the male participants and 33.3% female age group 55 and 64 had income more than $50k

66% of participants work with their children in family setting, 20% were specialty providers, and 14% were students and “other”

37% or practitioners have served for up to 3 years

93 percent of the participants were females

Standard deviation = 5.1

Mean of duration was 12.6 years

40% did not have overweight problem in their adulthood while 60% had overweight problems with at some point in their adulthood.

Individuals recorded to be overweight, 50% did not become obese.

Inferential Statistics Comment by Parixit modi: p-values are needed to infer decision.

Identify examples of inferential statistics in the article.

Over 50% of older Canadians lives are individuals who have lower incomes.

The education program that was incorporated increased the knowledge of clinical practice guidelines and the criteria to be incorporated in the childhood obesity.

It’s concluded that being overweight for quite some time in adulthood also increases the risks of various types of cancer that is related to obesity by around 7%, endometrial cancer by up to17%, and postmenopausal breast cancer by 5%.