Question

A local health department is developing a program to help stop the childhood obesity epidemic in your county. The nurses, nutritionists, epidemiologists, social-workers and other public health officials at the health department recognize that obesity is a problem for children of all ages, not just school-age children. The public health officials are going to target their program to not only schools, but also to homes and day-care facilities. They want to see if the younger children participating in the program have better outcomes (less obesity) than the school-age participants. You are hired as a research consultant to help them with planning and especially with advertising this new program. What is the research problem in this situation? Your first task as the research consultant is to identify hypotheses and assumptions that underlie the research effort. In this case, you think the health department already has both. What is their likely hypothesis? Is it your hypothesis too, as the consultant? What are some of the assumptions that underlie this effort? As the research consultant, you searched the Internet and the library for information about childhood obesity interventions. There is a LOT out there: studies, summaries, reviews, and opinions. You then write a lengthy report summarizing your findings and present it to the health department. Did you engage in research? Why or why not? ( No Plagiarism).

Answer 1

ANSWERS :

1. To stop childhood obesity in childhood

2. HYPOTHESIS - Hypothesis is defined as a idea that can be test to study or experiment. It is based on reasoning without any assumption of truth factors.

- If there will be a significant difference between the younger children and school age children knowledge score on stopping of childhood obesity.

3. ASSUMPTION : Assumption is defined as a thing which is accepted it true or which will happen without proof

- Exposure to any kind of teaching leaning material will improve the knowledge of younger children regarding early identification of obesity related problems

- A planned interventions on childhood obesity prevention will help younger children to improve their knowledge.