Evaluation Of A Single Subject Design Of Research Essay

The behaviour modified for this self-directed behaviour change project is smoking. Smoking was selected as the behaviour I wish to change because it is known that tobacco use is the leading cause of premature, preventable death and disease (Edwards, Bondy, Callaghan, & Mann, 2014). Smoking is a behaviour that has been recently initiated; I started smoking occasionally in August 2013 (one cigarette a few times a week) and intended to buy only the one pack. However over a period of several months, my smoking has increased. The rationale for this choosing this target behaviour is that it is still a relatively

The purpose of this assignment is to increase self-awareness of the student by analyzing personal nutritional intake and activity routine throughout the course. In turn, the student will be able to help others modify their diet and activity, and improve overall wellness. An examination of a personal food and activity assessment will provide the student with essential data from which to change their health and wellness behaviors.

HNUBS has a strict system for educational quality management. It includes three aspects, namely establishment of quality standard, implementation and control of quality standards, and quality verification. The Academic Committee of HNUBS is responsible for standards establishment and final quality verification. The Teaching Guidance Committee of HNUBS, various program-level teaching guidance committees, and relevant course groups review courses related to the majors. The teaching administration departments (including Undergraduate Teaching Administration Office and Postgraduate Teaching Administration Office, MBA Program Centre, EMBA Program Centre, the MPAcc Program Centre, and EDP Centre) have a special post for cultivation management, who is in charge of checking quality standards and controlling the teaching quality. In addition to the quality guidance and supervision from Hunan University, the Business School has to accept external quality audits from Hunan Provincial Education Department, relevant departments from the Ministry of Education in China, China Alumni Association, and AMBA. For example, we are under the latest round of discipline evaluation of Ministry of Education from May 2016.

The five day dietary assessment gave us a chance to see what the patient was consuming and how often. Five to six days a week the patient had fruits, juices, eggs, meat, fish, poultry, and vegetables other than starches during a meal time. Just as often she was having, milk, yogurt, potatoes, rice, other starches, cheese, and soda with sugar with both meals and snacks. In between meals she was enjoying cookies, cake, pies, and pastries at least three times a week, and sugar free gum every day. A few times a month the patient would have Coffee or tea with added sugar or flavorings, sports or energy drinks, and candy during both meals and snacks. Three things that she never consumes are cereals, diet soda, and gum with sugar. C.S. states she

The intervention was successful at increasing the participant’s consumption of water and enabled her to meet her initial goal of thirty-two ounces of water over the course of 5 sessions; however it is unknown how much of the success is due to awareness of monitoring or if the results will be maintained. One modification was made during the intervention due to the realization that coffee needed to be farther away from the participant. Initially it was not part of the intervention to remove it; however it was found that unless it was out of reach the participant would automatically grab the coffee even if the water was right next to it. After moving the coffee to the kitchen, it was no longer an issue. The initial intention was to complete an ABAB pattern intervention to display control but a

procedures to reduce dietary restraint and increase eating regularity. The last phase involves teaching people relapse-prevention

I consider only the first two practices as health promotion activities. So, to increase health promotion, I chose three activities that I could incorporate including, getting eight hours of sleep nightly, removing diet soda from my diet, and adding weight training three times a week. A full-time job, family responsibilities and class work are perceived barriers to getting adequate sleep and participating in strength training. My desire to do well in school conflicts with my fear that less time for class work results in lower grades. Pender’s model acknowledges the importance of personal perceptions by stating that they directly, and indirectly influence health behavior (Petiprin, 2016-b). To incorporate these two activities, I need to assess and document my daily time commitments and activities. This will show where I could fit these health practices into my life. Another possibility is asking family members to take over some of my responsibilities on certain days to free up my time. Abstaining from diet drinks may be more difficult because eating patterns and food/drink preferences are ingrained from past experiences. For example, if someone thinks pizza and a cola go together, then eating pizza while having a glass of water is less enjoyable. For me, the key to giving up diet drinks is finding an alternative beverage such as tea or fruit infused water that I could substitute when wanting something to drink other than water. To meet these goals, Pender’s model emphasizes the need to identify and commit to a strategy which will support healthy behaviors (Petiprin,

For this client, the target behavior is to increase the number of fruits and vegetables consumed per day, decrease the number of high sugar and high fat meals consumed per day, decrease the number of cigarettes

Experiment 2: Male and female subjects with long-term (6 months) HFCS access. 150 male and 150 female subjects with comparable BMI levels, daily activity levels and daily medications/vitamins are assigned the same standard diet to follow for a 6 month period. Subjects understand they are to refrain from signicant lifestyle changes during the period of study (includingbut not limited to pregnancy, other diets, exercise regime, new medications/vitamins, etc.). In addition to this standard diet the subjects are instructed to consume either a low level (Level 1) of HFCS each day in the form of a solution, a higher level (Level 2) of HFCS each day in the form of a solution, a low level (Level 1) of sucrose in the form of a solution, or no additions (no HFCS or sucrose). Water consumption is at subject’s discretion. HFCS and sucrose levels are measured daily and body weight is measured weekly. At the end of 6 months on this specied standard diet and HFCS/sucrose intake, blood samples are taken and examined for triglyceridesand insulin, and an updated BMI index is calculated.Data from all groups will be compared using ANOVAs or repeated measures

Respondent #1 drinks several Diet Pepsis per day, stating that he is constantly drinking it; if he is awake, he has a Diet Pepsi nearby, regardless of the activity. His main motivator in this choice is the taste. Although he is slightly concerned about the negative health effects from drinking cola, he is not going to quit drinking it, stating that if he is going to have a negative impact, it would have already happened. If he is at a venue that does not offer Diet Pepsi, he will drink an iced tea, or sometimes water. He started drinking Diet Pepsi over 30 years ago because that

Patient was told to reduce daily caffeine and sugary beverage intake such as Pepsi’s. Currently the patient is consuming 3-4 Pepsi’s a day. A recommended substitute for his soda intake was water.

A. Peter is a thirty-five year old single male with no children, who works at a sedentary work place five to six days a week. Peter lives at home with his elder parents and is responsible for their health and safety and seems to give less attention to his own health. Peter is overweight and has been diagnosed with obesity. Peter has a lifestyle that makes it difficult for him to commit to changing his bad food choices but tries to compensate by attending a fitness boot camp three times a week. Since he works five to six days a week as a billing agent his job places a lot of stress on him, so he spends his days off on the weekends to release some stress. Peter’s way of releasing stress is excessively drinking alcohol with his friends and going

There is a long list of organizations who support the reduction of SB intake as a means to decreasing the obesity rates of our nation. Much of this supports is based on recent research which shows the negative effects of over indulgence of SBs. In an article by Hu (2013), scientific associations who officially stated the need for a decrease in SB intake to decrease and prevent obesity and related diseases were identified. The scientific associations included were;

Although the investigation was able to provide more knowledge and understanding regarding the relationships between energy, activity levels and carbohydrate intake in order to contribute towards a solution to the problem of obesity, there were many limitations to this experiment that needed to be considered. For the personal data, the dietary observations collected over the two experimental days were not substantial to represent their lifestyle as a whole. Studies led by Burke et al., (2001) demonstrated that individuals can make inaccurate reports in various ways such as altering their dietary intake during period of recording, omitting or underestimating their intake and quantification errors of their consumption. As the group data was a collation of individual’s two-day dietary records, variability and inaccuracy increased considering the wide range of influences each individual may have been subjected to. There were 359 females and 195 males involved in the

The study for this thesis will be exploratory research using secondary data collected by the communication agency, MESH Planning. The agency developed an innovative approach called ‘real-time experience tracking’, which involves three stages of data collection. And both qualitative and quantitative data will be collected and used in this context in order to get an insight of critical incidents.