Analysis of Health Research in Obesity Prevention

Running head: ANALYSIS OF HEALTH RESEARCH IN OBESITY PREVENTION
Analysis of Health Research in Obesity Prevention
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Purpose of the study.........................................................................................................................2
Method of the study.........................................................................................................................3
Evolution procedures.......................................................................................................................4
Measures..........................................................................................................................................5
Statistical analysis............................................................................................................................6
Discussion........................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The purpose of this article is to describe the importance of healthy eating and physical
activity in order to control the obesity of Latino children. The issue of obesity of school children
is really alarming and appropriate preventive measures should be taken as early as possible. This
paper broadly explains the analysis for the prevention of childhood obesity proceeds with
explaining the impact of the interventions conducted by the Community Health Advisor (also
known as promotora) for controlling and preventing the childhood overweight and obesity
(Rossen, 2014). These interventions are performed by randomizing some elementary schools in
Latin America. This type of intervention is known as promotora based behavioral intervention.
According to a study, about 25% of Mexican children of age group 6 to 11 years are suffered by
the problem of obesity where 19% of non-Hispanic Blacks and 19% of non-Hispanic Whites also
suffer from obesity and overweight issues. The proposed study proceeds through the application
of statistical analysis that is, factorial designs to evaluate the effect of the single-level and multi-
level interventions for modifying the ill practices causing obesity. The statistical measure z-
scores of the BMI (Basal Metabolic Rate) rates are calculated and then findings are analyzed to
accomplish the purpose of the study.
Purpose of the study
The study aims to provide solutions to control and prevent overweight and obesity related
issue of Latino children of 6-11 years of age in order to reduce the chance of life-threatening
diseases in future. Childhood obesity persists till the early adulthood period and the obesity is
also a cause of developing diabetes in the body of Latino children (Ndisang, Vannacci &
Rastogi, 2014). Moreover, Latino children are more prone to the risk of diabetes than non-

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Hispanic Blacks and Whites (Hoelscher et al., 2015). Therefore, the given study comes with a
social cause to provide solutions to prevent obesity. In addition to this, it will help to promote the
healthy habits that claim to reduce the obesity of the Latino children.
Method of the study
The study provides the significance of promotora based intervention on multi-level using
the factorial design experiment. For that purpose, it is required to collect the samples to conduct
the statistical analysis and therefore the data were collected. The study has used primary data
sources. Thus, the data were collected from thirteen schools selected randomly. The thirteen
schools were randomly gone through the Aventuras para Niños (APN) study which is a 3-year, 2
× 2 factorial design randomized controlled community subgroup trial and the schools were
divided into four sub-groups namely, Family (Fam-only), Community (Comm-only),
Combination of Family and Community (Fam+Comm), and subgroup of no-treatment control
(Ayeni et al., 2013). Initially, twenty-five schools were sorted out. Among the, five were not
eligible and seven were not interested for the study. 808 Latino parents and their children
participated in the study who were enrolled to the 2nd grade of the schools. The quantity that has
been taken into account, is the BMI rate of the parents and their children. The main targeted
variable is the parenting variable that causes the change in intervention of the Fam-only
subgroup. This statistical analysis utilizes the BMI z-scores (Flegaldi & Cole, 2013) to interpret
the multi-level promotora based impact. The schools had to satisfy certain eligibility criteria
which are as follows:
i. Minimum 70% enrollment of the Latino children.
ii. An attendance criteria has been defined.
iii. Teachers should not undergo any physical training program in the past four years.