What Is Telephone Follow-Up Intervention

Background & Audience Relevance: Childhood Obesity can have an impact on a child’s physical, social, and emotional health. That is why you should be informed and know the outcomes when a child is obese.

Childhood Obesity can lead to a wide variety of health problems that can be both immediate and/or long-term. Obesity is the condition of

The objective of this study was to determine the efficacy of motivational interviewing in a child’s BMI percentile provided by primary care providers (PCPs) and registered dietitians (RDs) to overweight children between the ages of 2 and 8 years old over a two-year period. The researchers decided to undergo this study because motivational interviewing (MI) has been shown to promote healthy behavior change. There have also been very few studies done that show a positive correlation between MI on the long term effects of a child’s BMI. Therefore, the researchers were curious to conduct a study to determine if there was a relationship between motivational interviewing in counseling childhood obesity.

I developed the PICOT question, in adults with a diagnosis of obesity, how effective is behavioral counselling compared to education on diet and nutrition in reducing the body mass index. To answer the PICOT question this paper will explore published articles that report the results from research that showed a reduction in body mass index from education on diet, exercise and behavioral counselling. As a clinician, along with my peers, we will be at the forefront in treating patients who suffer from obesity and its contributing health problems. Researching effective management will be beneficial to the Practitioner practice as well as the patients we serve.

The proposed intervention to help combat childhood obesity in low-income families will be an interactive nutrition education program for both the children and their families. This program will be needed in rural, low income areas, that otherwise would not have access to this information. Patient education is of the utmost importance when combatting the development of chronic illnesses, especially one as prevalent as obesity is the United States. A health improvement plan must include realistic interventions that are appropriate for the target population.

This section of the evaluation describes the population and sample, sampling procedures, instrumentation, data collection procedures, and analysis process of the evaluation. Given the enormity of the obesity epidemic, the question arises as to where efforts should be focused to most effectively address to the problem. The most effective strategy to combat the obesity epidemic would be to develop and employ prevention and intervention plan targeted towards children and adolescents. As it has been found that behavioral change is an essential component of both prevention and management programs for childhood obesity, we identify this age group as these are the formative years in setting the foundation for better life choices. By targeting this group, research has found that they are far more receptive and responsive to efforts directed at changing behavior, increases the likelihood that positive results will be achieved. In this effort we have gathered quantitative and qualitative data that has produced the best methods for this evaluation; and it will enable further design and development of other programs and initiatives at the conclusion of this assessment.

The first study is a randomized clinical trial that aimed to compare the effectiveness of school based intervention with family based intervention in the treatment of childhood obesity. The review determined and compared the two strategies, school- and family-based interventions using components

Obesity is a condition that negatively impacts health and it’s association with various negative health conditions, as well as holds negative social and psychological consequences. Since overweight/obesity develops to unhealthy lifestyle habits, it makes sense to intervene with effective programs as early as possible. This is most beneficial since behaviors are just being learned and adopted into children’s life. “Both the HC2 intervention and the ToyBox intervention appear to have a comprehensive design that considers all the elements that previous research as associated with successful programs.” (Androutsos, et al., 2014). Most importantly, however, these programs are designed to meet the needs of extremely young children who are at a stage

Lastly, early intervention to offer help to families of children affected by obesity and further research into the most effective interventions. The report has poor credibility as the initiatives of the plan are of what are already in place; the Healthy Start scheme, breakfast clubs, initiatives to help children walk to school (Department of Health. 2016). Conversely, there are schemes in process from September 2017 that offer exercise programmes to schools and an online interactive tool aiding schools to recognize gaps in their delivery, with a menu of choices to choose from (Department of Health. 2016).

Obesity, along with over weight, have rapidly risen over the past years. In particularly obesity within children has nearly doubled causing an increase in intervention and treatments to reduce this epidemic. Obesity is linked to the development of different health issues, including heart problems, cholesterol, and diabetes. In order to reduce these health risk factors, it is important to introduce those at risk to weight loss interventions and treatments. But implementating some weight loss interventions and treatments to children may be difficult. Most interventions and treatment require the involvement of the caregiver to change and promote a healthy lifestyle. In addition, the interventions and treatments require resources, time and support

In this study, researchers sought to use known and effective intervention components to design a common practice intervention program that is designed to improve the physical fitness and reduce the weight of obese children. The participants to the program were elementary school students who were either referred by their parents or by a physician or school nurse with parental approval. The intervention was planned and developed by an interdisciplinary team that included physical therapists, medical, nutritionists, and exercise and fitness specialists. They setup a facility that had a fully equipped (adult and children) exercise room, fitness center, educational/meeting room, and restroom/changing room. After a 2-week pre-intervention assessment,

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide. It is currently plaguing both adults and children in the United States. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that

The main purpose of this paper is to help gain an understanding of what obesity is. Also to look at obesity as a specific kind of problem with which we can then attack and improve. The problem of obesity across the nation is of epidemic proportions and needs to be put at the forefront of people’s minds in order to get something done about it. The methods used to compile information for this paper were simple and easy. The main way that I found information was through the academic search complete database. I found articles on interventions as well as other articles that were very relevant to the point that was made. The interventions were then looked at in more detail in the results stage and they were discussed. The intervention that I proposed

This paper aims to develop an evidence-based decision-making framework relevant to overweight and obesity prevention in children. It builds upon an existing framework developed by Keleher and Murphy and is defined by five key policy and program levels of intervention. These levels of intervention include; disease prevention, communication strategies, health education and skill development, community and health development as well as setting up supportive environments that facilitate change.4 Unlike other causes of preventable death and disability, there are currently no exemplary populations in which overweight and obesity have been reversed by public health measures.2 This absence depicts the necessity for coordinated approaches across primary care, behaviour and socio-ecological tiers, with a priority on reduction of the supply-side

To prevent obesity in children, Carprio (2006), states that strategies should be more effective in treating this disease and obesity should be taking seriously. Some ways to prevent child obesity is to improve diet, exercise more, and change your environment, and so forth. For example, watch less television and play soccer or basketball. Children should be moving their body and getting their heart rate up. This disease has gotten out of control and has grown to be a problem in today’s society. Treating obesity should begin immediately. According to the article Preventing Childhood Obesity (2014), studies have shown that there has been a decline in child obesity among low-income children (ages 2-4) who participate in the Special Supplemental