Written Assignment 3
Research question
The research attempts to answer some questions on childhood obesity. A survey that addresses the research questions was offered to healthcare providers across Mississippi to collect information concerning their growth monitoring processes for the obese children.
1. What is the perception of the healthcare providers on childhood obesity prevalence associated with their practice? This question will also include the most concerned age group and the barriers to the treatment and possible opportunities to reverse the trends for the overweight children.
2. Exploring the major reasons for childhood obesity being a challenge. This question will involve some ideas such as physical activity, lifestyle conditions, and the extent of parental care.
Plan of action
A plan for action for childhood obesity in Mississippi will be to address the issue of childhood obesity within the next one decade. The focus is to encourage the industries to cut down the levels of sugar in products, establishing healthier environments, and allowing the primary school children to stay active and eat healthily. The most major policies incorporate a plan and levy for soft drinks and to have the manufacturers volunteer to reduce 20 percent of the sugar from the products. The supportive research will allow business to ensure their products are safe. Healthier environment and options are also of great concern. The public will be offered healthy options.
The government will offer support through the cost of the healthy food especially for those who need it. There could also be apps that will ensure people understand the idea of enhanced eating decisions. Schools should also allow the children opportunity for physical activity on a daily basis. Physical activity will be essential within the schools to ensure the children become physically active. Therefore, schools should be in a position to coordinate physical activity programs and sports. The meals offered in schools should be healthier and meet the dietary needs. In essence, the plan for action requires that all stakeholders and interested parties associated with the issue of childhood obesity should work as a team to ensure the successful prevention of the menace.
Research methodology for data collection for research and applied projects
The section describes the approach through which the study was carried out and the method of collecting the data. The section focuses on some parts such as study design, study population and area, sampling procedures, and the data collection procedures and tools.
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Study design and Area
The cross-sectional research will be used in the research. Therefore, the subjects will be assessed in single time within the cross-sectional research design. Cross-sectional research takes less time and incorporates testing some groups at a similar point which will make a large number of subjects to get tested at little cost. The cross-sectional design will allow the determination and the risk factors associated with obesity among the children in Mississippi. The research will be based in Mississippi. The area has been chosen because it has the greatest rates of childhood obesity prevalence. Besides, Mississippi is populous with people characterized by varied economic, cultural, and social backgrounds. The study will be acrid out in both public and private schools within Mississippi. The day schools children are selected since the children attend the schools and are often exposed to varying modern lifestyles and indulge in expanded diets.
Study population
The study population will be composed of children within primary school both male and female attending public and private schools. The children aged between seven to ten years create the targeted population. The range of age was selected since the research carried out across the world has demonstrated that managing obesity at the early age has a great impact compared to adulthood. The class teachers in respective classes will be included in the study. The inclusion criteria will involve the children whose parents have offered consent. Besides, it will include children between the age of 7 and 10 years. Additionally, the study will include children who have been to the school for not less than one year.
Sampling Procedure
Simple random sampling is utilized to pick the children in day schools. The simple random sampling is desirable because it allows every member of the targeted population to have an equal opportunity of being included within the sample of the selected public and day schools in Mississippi. Purposive sampling will be used to select the study area in this case Mississippi. Systematic sampling will be used to get the number of children from every school. The sampling frame will be derived from children aged between 7 and 10 years. Additionally, systematic sampling will be used to select respondents. Permission to gather the data will be sort from the state of Mississippi. Participation will be voluntarily using informed consent, especially from the respondents.
Data collection instruments
The data will be collected through an interactive process involving the researcher and the respondents. The questionnaires will have both unstructured and structured questions. Besides, observation checklist will be gotten from the interview schedules. The questionnaire will be administered to the children containing unstructured and structures questions to obtain in-depth response to satisfy the designed goals of the study. Some of the information collected includes the type of food consumed with the children, factors that influence the eating habits, levels of the physical activity, and the dietary patterns. An observation checklist will help collect the information on the kind of food consumed with the school children and the type of activities that they get engaged.
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Sample population
Since the prevalence of obesity seems to be unequally distributed within population groups, the study intends to access the families from wide-ranging social circumstances. The study intends to handpick three demographically varied primary schools in Mississippi. All the children are expected to agree in participating the study. The study will be carried out between November-December. The children will be boys and girls in Grades 2 and 5 that include the 7 to 10 age bracket respectively. The goal is to have an all-inclusive representation of the population to assess the level of childhood obesity in the area. The sample population will help to answer the research question especially on the rate of prevalence.
Sampling the children
Focus groups that are semi-structured will be held simultaneously during the class sessions within every grade. The focus groups will be led by members of the research team. The focus groups will be comprised of children around the age of 7. The sampling is expected to be exploratory and structured around activities that accompany the questions to elicit the discussion. Children are often at ease when conversing with the peers compared to adults. The goal is designed to enable an unprompted discussion among the children. The researcher will be operating as the facilitator and observer. The initial activity will involve prioritizing a range of healthy and the unhealthy foods.
The second activity will involve soring the sedentary and active, outdoor and indoor activities. The third activity will involve a scrutiny of the overweight children. Some photographs will be used to encourage the children to participate in the discussion. The team members will keep a record of the discussion of respective focus groups such as facilitator observations and children responses. The goal will be to establish what the children like to do at their free time. It will be possible to create the observations that are associated with obesity. The things that are expected to be done to make school life healthy will be determined. In essence, the analysis will help answer the research questions.
Organization and analysis of data
Data analysis will be done using the statistical package for social sciences. The data analysis method will help to analyze the anthropometric data to establish the body mass index. The data will help classify the children as obese, overweight, underweight, and normal. The body mass index values will be transferred to the statistical package for social sciences to analyze the relationship between obesity as the independent and dependent variables. The variables will include the socio-demographic attributes for the children, the kinds of food consumed, and the extent of the physical activity. The link between the variables will be tested using the Pearson product, T-test, and chi-square tests. Descriptive statistics in the form of percentages and mean will be used in describing the data within the study. The results gathered will be presented in the form of graphs and tables.
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