Community Education Proposal: Childhood Obesity Prevention Plan

This project presents a community education proposal designed to address childhood obesity within the Bloom-valley community. It begins with a detailed planning phase, including the identification of the target audience (parents of children aged 5-19), estimated costs, and necessary materials. The proposal identifies childhood obesity as a critical health concern, supported by epidemiological data highlighting its prevalence and associated health risks like high blood pressure, diabetes, and psychological issues. The teaching plan incorporates the Social Constructivism theory, emphasizing interactive learning and facilitator-led discussions. The plan sets a goal to manage children's nutrition and weight, aligning with Healthy People 2020 objectives and Alma Ata's Health for All initiatives. The behavioral objectives outline strategies for educating parents on the consequences of obesity, weight management, and preventative measures through pamphlets, documentaries, and PowerPoint presentations. Evaluation methods include quizzes, questionnaires, social media group participation, and follow-up sessions to assess knowledge retention, satisfaction, and behavior changes. The proposal also addresses potential barriers like children's restlessness and language barriers, suggesting therapeutic communication strategies to ensure effective information delivery and parent engagement.

Running head: COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROPOSAL
COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROPOSAL
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
Author note:

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Planning Before Teaching:
Name and Credentials of Teacher:
Estimated Time Teaching Will Last:
2 hours
Location of Teaching:
Bloom-valley community
Supplies, Material, Equipment Needed:
Chairs, tables, pens, writing pads,
projectors, laptop
Estimated Cost:
10000 $
Community and Target Aggregate:
Parents of children and adolescents from 5 to 19 (children may also accompany who
cannot arrange for babysitters for their children)
Topic:
Community Teaching for prevention of childhood obesity
Identification of Focus for Community Teaching (Topic Selection): (89)
The community will be educated about the health concern of obesity in children and the
ways it can affect the present as well as the future lives of the children in nation. The community
health promotion would also educate about the strategies that can be adopted by the parents,
teachers and associated professionals so that they can influence the choices and health behaviors
of children. In this way, the community teaching plan would help in reducing the prevalence of
childhood obesity in the community and thus in the nation.

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Epidemiological Rationale for Topic (Statistics Related to Topic): (117)
Childhood obesity has become a serious problem in the nation which had put children as
well adolescents at risk for poor health. it has been found that children ranging from age of two
to that of 19 are severely affected with the prevalence of obesity being 13.9% among 2- to 5-
year-olds, 18.4% among 6- to 11-year-olds, and 20.6% among 12- to 19-year-olds (Eldredge et
al., 2016). It was found that obesity was higher among the children and adolescents aged 2 to 19
years in the lowest income group and about 19.9 % in the middle income groups and 10.9% in
the highest income group. In the year 2014, about 14.5% of children aged 2 to 4 years of age had
obesity (Lobstein et al., 2015).
TEACHING PLAN CRITERIA:
Nursing Diagnosis:
Obesity during childhood has been found to be associated with high blood pressure,
cholesterol, impairment of glucose tolerance and insulin resistance. Breathing problems and
asthma, joint problems, musculoskeletal discomfort and others can take place. Many of the
studies have revealed childhood obesity is also associated with fatty liver, gallstones and even
gastro-esophageal reflux like heartburn (Waters et al., 2018). Childhood obesity is also found to
be associated with psychological problems like that of anxiety and depression and even low self
esteem and lower self-reported quality of life. Social problems such as bullying and stigma are
also faced by children who are obese. Children who are obese are more likely to grow into adults
who have obesity (Hills et al., 2015). Adult obesity is in turn associated with increased risk of
different serious health conditions like heart disorders, type 2-diabetes as well as cancer.

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Psychological issues are also faced by such adults with issues of bullying, conflicts in personal
lives, body-image issues and others
Readiness for Learning:
Parents of young children as well as adolescents would be the main audience. Children
above the age of 5 to that of 19 should be also included in the adolescence. Such parents and
children are found to be in the contemplation stage. This is the stage of trans-theoretical model
where the targeted individuals are thinking about a change but they yet have taken no action
(Dias et al., 2016). A social analysis of the issue has found that the parents and family members
of the obese children are aware that obesity is a health concern for their child as such children
have disrupted life at schools and colleges where they are bullied and stigmatized. Moreover,
they cannot participate in many sports and extra-curricular activities and that they are often
found to feel tired. Hence, the parents are well aware about the health concern but they are found
not to be motivated enough as they cannot determine the negative consequences it might have on
the lives of the children as they grow up. Therefore, the factors can be lack of motivation, lack of
supports by educated professionals, lack of health literacy and healthcare knowledge. The fear of
being stigmatized and bullied also prevents them from asking for help or asking for social
support. All such needs need to be handled to ensure successful participation in health promotion
plan.

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Learning Theory to Be Utilized:
Social constructivism theory states that the social worlds develop when individuals are
seen to interact with culture and society. Knowledge can be seen to evolve with the help of the
process of social negotiation as well as evaluation of the viability of individual understanding.
Every encounter or conversation between people presents an opportunity to learn new things
(Naidoo et al., 2016). This theory teaches that all knowledge develops because of social
interaction and language use and can be therefore shared rather than individual experience.
Knowledge is not only resulting of observing world but results from processes and interactions.
Here journey is stated to be as much important as destination. Here the educator will act not as
“people who teach” but mainly as “facilitators of learning.” A good educator would be
questioning the answers of the target audience without regarding whether they are right or wrong
but making sure that the audience has a group grasp of concept (William et al., 2015).
Additionally, educators would ask audience to explain the answers they give and not allow
audience to use words or equations without explanations. Audience should be encouraged to
reflect their own answers.
Goal:
The main goal would be to manage the nutrition and weight status of the children in the
nation. The main objective would be reduction in the proportion of children as well as
adolescents who are considered obese (NWS -10)
How Does This HP2020 Objective Relate to Alma Ata’s Health for All Global Initiatives
The goal set for the community education program aligns well with the VII numbered
initiatives in the Alma Ata’s Health for All Global Initiatives. The goal can successfully help in

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addressing one of the main health problems in the community along with providing promotive as
well as preventive and curative services. This goal also successfully helps in educating the
prevailing health problems and providing methods of preventing and controlling the health
issues. Hence, this HP2020 Objective relates to Alma Ata’s Health for All Global Initiatives.
Develop Behavioral Objectives (Including Domains), Content, and Strategies/Methods
(200)
Behavioral Objective
and Domain
Content Strategies/Methods

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1. Parents will be able to
successfully identify three to
five health consequences that
might occur due to childhood
obesity in their children.
the pamphlets would be
comprising of all the
important health
consequences like the
following:
 blood pressure,
 cholesterol,
 impairment of glucose
tolerance and
 Insulin resistance.
 Breathing problems
and
 asthma,
 Joint problems,
 musculoskeletal
 fatty liver,
 gallstones and even
 Gastro-esophageal
reflux like heartburn.
 psychological
problems like that of
anxiety and
depression and even
Pamphlets would be handed
out to the parents while
discussing the consequences
of childhood obesity in
details; the parents should be
instructed to follow the
pamphlets, the pamphlets
would also have
diagrammatic representation
for easy understanding by the
parents

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low self esteem and
 Lower self-reported
quality of life.
 Social problems such
as bullying and stigma
2. Parents would be able to
understand how not
controlling and managing the
issues of weight and
nutritional status can lead to
calorie gain and excessive
weight gain by their children
Parents would be shown
small documentaries where
experiences of parents are
shown. The experiences in
the documentary should
reveal how their inefficiency
to take correct measures at
the right time had made their
child obese and making them
suffer from huge number of
disorders
The documentaries would be
prepared by collecting
interviews of parents who
have suffered because they
had not taken interventions to
care for their child at right
moment making their child
suffer. The documentaries
would be 5 minutes each. The
parents in the audiences
would then be asked to reflect
on their feeling in order to
find out whether they have
been able to understand the
depth of the health concern
3. Parents should be able to
identify the risky health
behaviors of their child and
A PowerPoint presentation
would be provided where
risky behaviors like eating
At first the educators should
discuss the PowerPoint
presentation in details, then

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take necessary precautions. fast foods and sweetened
beverages, not consuming
vegetables and fibrous foods,
too much engaged in
videogames, too much time
spent on social media, not
going out to play in the park,
not having any extracurricular
activities in lives, and other
should be discussed
they will allocate timing for
an interactive sessions where
educators would use a teach-
back method to understand
whether parents are able to
grasp the content or not.
Creativity:
The entire teaching process would be based on audio-visual learning content. Not only
the content would be discussed verbally, but at the same time, parent should be shown
PowerPoint presentation, documentaries as well as pamphlets. All these visual aspects would be
developed with bright pictures so that parents scan easily understand them.

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Planned Evaluation of Objectives
1. Parents would be first provided with easy quiz type questionnaires which will have
questions on the content that were discussed in the sessions after very classes. The
performance of the parents in the quiz can help in determining how well they have
retained the knowledge discussed in the sessions
2. Parents would be provided questionnaires which would be based on how parents much
each of the parents had liked the sessions and how much they had been helped by
developing their health literacy. Their satisfaction level can help in understanding how
much they were benefitted
3. Parents would be asked to join a social media group prepared by educators. Their
participation in the social media group can help in understanding whether they are
moving through the six stages of trans-theoretical theory. This evaluation would help in
understanding whether they are proceeding in right direction.
Planned Evaluation of Goal
The parents would be called after a period of 6 months for a feedback and discussion
session. The attendance of the parents and their feedback along with measuring the weight of the
child can help in understanding the success of the program.

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Planned Evaluation of Lesson and Teacher
A questionnaire would be handed to parents that would have questions which will give an
idea about their satisfaction level and how they were benefitted from the education session. This
will help to know whether the program was liked by parents and that whether they would follow
the advises provided
Barriers:
As children would be also included in the sessions they might get restless in the midst of
the sessions which might make parents fidgety or they might have to leave the class for some
minutes. This might make the parents lose important piece of information shared when they
leave the session. Others might also feel distracted when one child interrupts the class thereby
affecting their concentration.
Therapeutic Communication:
Not all the parents would have similar literacy levels and many of them might also not be
with English language background. Therefore, the communication strategy should be such that it
would avoid difficult healthcare terms and technical jargons. The educator should maintain a
slow pace to ensure everyone has understood her point (TenHoor et al., 2016). While, parents
would be discussing her child’s problem, educators should be empathetic and compassionate.
She should never show judgmental behaviors or blame the parents for her child’s condition. The
educator should also maintain a body language that should not seem dominating over the
audience and should be more accepting of the audience. This would ensure effective completion
of the sessions making the parents happier and satisfied.

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