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Health Science 495
Capstone Assessment
Background
Imagine that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced a new, competitive grant that will fund the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a theory-based health intervention study aimed at reducing the incidence of obesity among Hispanic women. To have a chance at being funded and carrying out your intervention study, you must develop a proposal and submit it to the CDC. The CDC requires you to answer the questions below. By doing so, you will summarize your proposal of your theory-based health intervention study. Overall, your answers should convince the CDC reviewers that your proposed intervention is based on an appropriate health science or public health theory; that your plan to develop the intervention and carry it out is feasible and sound; and that your design of the study to evaluate the intervention is rigorous and appropriate. The CDC requires that you format all in-text citations and your reference list using APA format.
Question 1 : What is the theory upon which you will base your intervention? Include the name of the theory, followed by a citation of theory’s original authors (at least one citation):
Name of theory:
Citation(s):
Question 2 : In a paragraph (maximum one page, double spaced), summarize the basic theory. Your answer should describe the level of influence (i.e., intrapersonal, interpersonal, or community) and define the major theoretical constructs. Provide at least two appropriate in-text citations to convince the funder that you know what you are talking about.
Question 3: What is the name of your theory-based health intervention? Please write your specific, descriptive title in no more than 20 words:
Question 4: State the goal of your theory-based intervention by completing the sentence, below.
“The goal of my intervention is to… ”
Question 5: Choose two intervention strategies (e.g., health education, service provision, policy change) to use in your program. Develop 1-3 activities for each. For each strategy, write a paragraph that describes the strategy and the related activity(ies) that you will implement. Be sure to provide a citation for each strategy.
Question 6: Write one process objective that you will use in your evaluation. (Use the “when, how much, who, what” formula.)
Question 7: In two sentences, name two activities that you will carry out as part of your process evaluation concurrently with the implementation of your intervention.
Process evaluation activity 1:
Process evaluation activity 2:
Question 8: Write one outcome objective that you will use in your evaluation. (Use the “when, how much, who, what” formula.)
Question 9 : In one, clear sentence (no more than 30 words), state the hypothesis that you will test in your outcome evaluation. Make it a directional hypothesis, and be sure to name your independent variable, your dependent variable, and how you predict they will be associated.