The Impact of Lifestyle Intervention by Community Nurses

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Introduction
Harris, M. F., Chan, B. C., Laws, R. A., Williams, A. M., Davies, G. P., Jayasinghe, U.
W., ... & Milat, A. (2013). The impact of a brief lifestyle intervention delivered by
generalist community nurses (CN SNAP trial). BMC Public Health, 13(1), 375.
According to Harris et al., (2013), in Australia, the chronic diseases like diabetes and
heart disease are the major reason behind the cases of death and disability in the population.
Primary health care (PHC) service is one of the important healthcare setting which addresses
lifestyle risk factors associated with the population for its availability, stability, and
inclusiveness of the healthcare provided. The research out comes showed that the district
physical condition nurses considered the delivery of way of life intervention as an essential
part of their responsibility and it was found to be accepted by clients in a positive manner
(Harris et al., 2013).
The assignment will focus on the review article in order to understand, asses and
discuss the force of way of life intervention delivery by generalist community nurses with
evaluating the research plan, the method used and the implication of the intervention in
clinical exercise.
Evaluation of research design
Evaluation of a Research design is a multifaceted and multidimensional process. The
research design process is having different criteria for respective field in which the research is
performed, and the evaluation process of research design differs from one research to
another. Although, there are few basic principles of research design which guides the
researchers to conduct the research design according to the disciplines. The guiding
principles include significance, procedure, association, beliefs and originality of the topic.

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These standards help the researcher to perform the study in an organized manner(Harris et al.,
2013).
In the article, the learning was directed within four common community nursing
services in the New South Wales of Australia. These four forces were enlisted by circulation
of concern mailed to every Area Health Services (AHS) in the region of New South Wales
using Pest Analysis (n = 8). The research plan was a quasi-experimental process, where the
services were aimlessly assigned to a group of ‘early intervention’ (EI) or a group of ‘late
intervention’ (LI) which was used for comparison (Harris et al., 2013). Early Intervention
forces were accommodated with teaching facilities and maintain system for the nurses in
classifying patients with the high-risk and contributing brief smoking, nourishment, alcohol
and activity and overweight (SNAPW) interference during their habit discussions. One nurse
from individual early intervention group was backed in order to work with the researcher to
develop the healthcare interventions and to implicate them to the local population. The nurses
first studied the risk factors of the population and then implemented educational intervention
to them and developed a mind-set in them to adapt according to change, for the SNAPW risk
factors. This took about two to three visiting. People who were more susceptible to the
danger factors were referred for further concentrated intervention (Harris et al., 2013).
The ethical considerations in the study was maintained by authorizing it by the
University of New South Wales Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and also
approving the project from Hunter New England Human Research Ethics Committee and the
Human Research Ethics Committees in every participating Area Health Services. The study
was performed by obeying the rules and policies of these Committees and the Helsinki
statement. All the participants gave a written consent on publishing the article (De Smit et al.,
2016).