Cholesterol: Risk Factors, Intervention and Teaching Plan

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CHOLESTEROL
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Introduction:
The health disorder that has been recognized in the family is high blood cholesterol level.
Obesity with poor diet and lack of physical exercises is mainly seen to be the contributing factors
for the disorder. Therefore, this assignment would show how the risk factor is contributing to the
disorder and the intervention that can be allocated for overcoming the disorder. A teaching plan
would be also developed for educating patients about the way to maintain a healthy lifestyle free
from high cholesterol complications.
Preventable Disease Overview:
Cholesterol is a waxy substance that is found in the lipid content of the blood. Studies are
of the opinion that body requires cholesterol for the development of healthy living cells.
However, too much of this compound can result in increasing the risk of heart disorders. When
individuals are seen to have high cholesterol level, fatty deposits would be found in the blood
vessels (Woodruff et al., 2015). This makes it difficult for enough blood to flow in the arteries.
Heart will not be able to have enough oxygen-rich blood as it needs. This increases the risk of
the heart disorders. Poor diet like eating of saturated fat present in animal products as well as
Trans-fat increases the cholesterol level. Exercise boosts the development of good cholesterol
and increases the size of particles making the bad cholesterol. In this way, exercise makes the
situation less harmful. Therefore, poor diet and lack of exercises increases the chance of
cholesterol. Symptoms and signs are not present as such and cholesterol tests are done to identify
their levels in blood. When this is found beyond the normal range, the patient may be seen to
suffer from complications.

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Description of this intervention:
Apart from the various pharmacological interventions, researches also show the
importance of management of lifestyles as an effective intervention for high cholesterol
management. Two important steps that should be included in the lifestyle management sessions
is eating of heart-healthy food and exercise on most of the days of the week and increase
physical activity. The researchers had described the importance of the reduction of the saturated
foods, elimination of the trans fat as well as eating of the foods that are rich in omega-3 fatty
acids. Increasing soluble fiber as well as adding whey protein was also recommended
(Colantonio et al., 2015). The studies have stated the important of adding physical activities in
short intervals several times a day and this can help in losing weight and controlling obesity.
This would help in the controlling of the modifiable risks factors of poor diet and poor physical
activities. The short-term goals would be developing the health literacy of the patients regarding
the risks associated with the disorder. The long-term goals would be modification of their
lifestyle regarding the diet and weight management (Dasseux et al., 2014).
Implementation: Teaching Plan:
The teaching plan would be mainly based on the teach-back method. Initially the patient
would be discussed in details about the disorder in a nonprofessional language without the use of
any technical jargons. The patient should be discussed about the modifiable risk factors and state
how they result in the development of the disorder. The patient would be motivated to identify
his own lifestyle that contributes to the development (Kelly et al., 2015). Through motivational
interviewing, the patient would be motivated to change the risk factors. Studies are of the