Literature Review

Running head: CAPSTONE PROJECT TOPIC 1

Obesity Among African American Children

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Obesity Among African American Children

Avery Bryan

Professor Tammy Gray

NRS-490

December 8th, 2019

The project will focus on reducing the prevalence of obesity among African American children. There have been an increasing number of African American children with obesity over the past few years. Obesity is a major health concern. This is because children who have obesity, compared to those with normal weight are at high risk of getting many serious health complications. These health complications include high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, low quality of life and stroke and low. Generally, obesity is a growing health concern in the US not only among the African American children but also among the adults and adolescents of all races. Individuals in the low income bracket are mostly affected. The project will therefore focus on educating families on practicing healthy lifestyle in order to reduce the prevalence of obesity among the African American children. Comment by Tammy Gray: When you state facts in academic papers you must use a reference Comment by Tammy Gray: Spacing must be consistently double spaced through the entire paper APA papers require the use of headings. Use the assignment requirements as headings

Obesity is prevalent among the African American children. Most of the African American families are low income earners. This results to them not to be able to purchase healthy foods. There is a perception that healthy foods are expensive. Their food consumption to a large extent consists of proteins from genetically modified organisms (GMOs), larger amounts of refined grains and sugars and high level of fructose corn syrup. They consume junky foods that are cheaper to buy. The African American children who consume these foods end up becoming obese.

Obesity is not a disease in itself. However, it leads to an increased risk of individuals to develop other illnesses that are chronic. These chronic diseases include some types of cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke, osteoarthritis, type 2 diabetes and other complicated health conditions. A myriad of social and physical negative consequences are associated with obesity. The conditions associated with obesity carry both short term and long term negative consequences that are extremely expensive to treat both at individual and societal level. It is less expensive to prevent obesity than to cure it. It is therefore important to address the problem of obesity by implementing effective preventive measures.

Obesity has several impacts on the work environment, the quality of care provided by the staff and patient outcomes. Obesity has a negative impact on work environment and the quality of care offered by the staff in that obese staff may not be able to undertake their duties as required. This can lead undesired patient outcomes.

Addressing the issue of obesity among is significant. This is because it will lead to a reduction in prevalence of illnesses and conditions associated with childhood obesity. It will also contribute to improved quality of life among the African American children. The issue of addressing the prevalence of obesity has implications on nursing in that it will lead to implementation of new EBP practices that are going to prevent the prevalence of obesity.

The proposed solution to addressing the prevalence of obesity is to educate the African American families on the importance of consuming healthy foods and practicing healthy living. This can go a long way in reducing the prevalence of obesity among the African Americans. The proposed EBP project aims at reducing the prevalence of childhood obesity among the African Americans by 10%.

References Comment by Tammy Gray: Start references on separate page

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Brown, C. L., Halvorson, E. E., Cohen, G. M., Lazorick, S., & Skelton, J. A. (2015). Addressing childhood obesity: opportunities for prevention. Pediatric Clinics, 62(5), 1241-1261.

Gunnarsdottir, T., Njardvik, U., Olafsdottir, A. S., Craighead, L. W., & Bjarnason, R. (2011). The Role of parental motivation in family‐based treatment for childhood obesity. Obesity, 19(8), 1654-1662.

Hesketh, K., Waters, E., Green, J., Salmon, L., & Williams, J. (2005). Healthy eating, activity and obesity prevention: a qualitative study of parent and child perceptions in Australia. Health promotion international, 20(1), 19-26. Comment by Tammy Gray: Capitalize all words except prepositions in journal titles A minimum of 8 articles is required

Lindsay, A. C., Sussner, K. M., Kim, J., & Gortmaker, S. L. (2006). The role of parents in preventing childhood obesity. The Future of children, 16(1), 169-186.

Natale, R. A., Messiah, S. E., Asfour, L., Uhlhorn, S. B., Delamater, A., & Arheart, K. L. (2014). Role modeling as an early childhood obesity prevention strategy: effect of parents and teachers on preschool children's healthy lifestyle habits. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 35(6), 378-387.

Skouteris, H., McCabe, M., Swinburn, B., Newgreen, V., Sacher, P., & Chadwick, P. (2011). Parental influence and obesity prevention in pre‐schoolers: a systematic review of interventions. Obesity reviews, 12(5), 315-328.