NUR 212 - Health Promotion Expo: Internet Addiction in Young People

This health promotion expo plan addresses the critical health priority of internet addiction among youths, outlining the significance of this issue for the target audience and detailing a comprehensive health promotion activity. The plan identifies short-term and long-term health consequences of internet addiction, such as anxiety, weight gain, backache, and vision problems, emphasizing the vulnerability of young people due to their developmental stage and desire for social connection. The planned health promotion activity includes seminars, free treatment services, informative pamphlets, and promotion of physical activity. Key policies informing the activity focus on online posting regulations, moderation of harmful content, and ensuring privacy and confidentiality. The plan incorporates health promotion principles such as developing personal skills, creating supportive environments, and strengthening community action. Required resources include stationery, equipment, and decorations to effectively deliver the health promotion message. This project highlights the importance of addressing internet addiction to foster the overall health and well-being of young people.

NUR 212 Context of practice: Caring for child, youth and family
Task 2 - Health promotion expo plan (Approximately 1000 words)
Use this template to document your health promotion expo plan. The idea of the expo plan is
to provide a brief overview of the health issue, the target audience, why this is an important
issue to the target audience and the expo activity. Submit your plan as one document per
group to the tutor prior to the presentation of your expo in week 9.
Health promotion expo title: Internet Addiction In Youths
Group members
Asmita
Samira
Paviter kaur
1)What key health priority is being addressed by this expo?
Internet addiction has become the global problem, especially for Youths. There are several
key health priorities is being addressed by this expo, some of them are short-term such as
unfinished tasks, forgotten responsibilities and weight gain, anxiety. Another long-term
health priorities of internet addiction among youths includes backache, neck pain, vision
problem, carpel tunnel syndrome, (American Addiction Resource centre, online, 2018).
2)Who is the target audience?
Our target audience is Youth. The Young people are at the higher number of developing
problematic behaviours because of immaturity and lack of guidance, they spend more time
online to develop their identity to get famous, play online games.
3)Why is the health issue significant to this target audience? (some statistics on the
health issue in that age group e.g. tooth decay rates in under 5s, amount of time spent playing
“screen-based games” in teens, amount of activity in 5-10 age group)
According to our research, Youths are significant impacted from this Internet addiction
disorder (IAD), they are facing a broad range of changes in their bodies and their feelings
through the transition from childhood to adulthood. They often explore sexual identities and
identity of gender They may be exploring their identities in terms of their sexuality or gender
identity. In this period of their age, they easily attracted to new things either positive or
negative. They want to try new stuff and willing to get an either good relationship or name
and fame. They can easily have distracted from their track because of immaturity and lack of

guidance. Although growing up is an exciting experience for the youths, this phase offers a
rather challenging opportunity for engaging in risky behaviours, (CNBC, online, 2018).
Teens are more likely to being on social sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat,
WhatsApp, YouTube, as compare to others. They want to share their life-time moments with
everyone by posting memories online or sharing by messaging, and then their curiosity to
know about others lead them to stay online. Unprecedently, they become target of many
health issues occurred by IAD, (Young, 2004, pp 402-415).
4)What is the planned health promotion activity?
 Spreading awareness by conducting seminars at universities or in local community
through adults being a living example for the youth.
 Providing free services or treatment to some teens who cannot afford such as creating
time for learning skills management, setting of goals and personal inventory
development, counselling and support groups or family therapy
 Giving pamphlets or relevant booklets to parents and children giving information
about effects, risks and hazards of internet usage (in preferred language to different
communities)
 Promote more physical activity and sports
5) What key policies are informing the activity?
Online posting and commenting
The Youth Solution media need to adhere to set regulations and guidelines when using Youth
Solutions social media platform. Conforming policies and guidelines to be adhered to
include; all posts adhering to copyrights issue, fair use and disclosure guidelines and making
of slanderous references to the users of the platform. Using proper way of decorum when
raising concerns and making complaints regarding the use of the social media platform, being
polite, courteous and using appropriate language and finally considering positive morals and
beliefs.
Moderation
Youth led media solutions have the reservations rights on the use in social media platforms.
Posts which portray negative defamatory language or harm influence on public users ought to
be deleted as soon as possible. Further, posts which go against breach of data protection
guidelines, spams and links promotion to other sites and information advocating legal activity
needs to be monitored.
Privacy and confidentiality
There is need for ensuring privacy for personal information and posting reasonable on the
media platforms. Thus to safeguard personal data, advise posting personal details should be
discouraged. Disclosure of personal information can lead to invasion of privacy and leads to
location of the victim which might lead to victimization. Such practices cannot be entertained
in Youth media solutions, (DHHS Victoria state Government, online 2018).

6) Which health promotion principles are being used in this expo?
Developing personal skills among the youth
Youth media solutions will embed health education and influencing positive behaviour
towards developing personal behaviour when using media. Improvement of personal skills is
geared towards improving the self esteem, self efficacy, and communication and life skills of
protecting individual rights while on social media. This will improve overall health status.
Creating supporting environments
Youth media solutions will ensure that positive supporting environment is in place which
offers guidelines on policy and ensuring safe use of the platform which offers privacy and
respects rights of other users. This will be build through creating youth led media influencers
in the social platform which in turns promotes good use of the platform and improves general
health of the users by not allowing extreme content to be aired on the platform.
Strengthening of community action
Youth media solutions will ensure creation of alliances with other organizations with the
ability to have positive influence on the use of media within the youth network, which is
geared towards delivering positive of media, (National Youth Program, online 2018)..
7)What equipment and resources are required to deliver/implement this health
promotion activity?
Stationery
Stationery materials which will be needed include blue tack, sticky tape, pencils, pens,
highlighters, ruler , erasers, print resource materials, paper weights, participation certificates
and business cards detailing business contact details of the team running the station stall.
Equipment
Required equipments include tables and table clothes, water containers, cups and electric
equipments such as the computer.
Decorations
Some of the required decoration effects include posters, banners, photos make up themes and
appropriate music entertainment.

References
American Addiction Resource centre. Computer/ Internet Addiction symptoms, causes and
effects. Available at ;https://www.psychguides.com/guides/computerinternet-addiction-
symptoms-causes-and-effects/. Accessed on 02/09/2018.
CNBC, Internet Addiction is Sweeping America Affecting millions, online. Available at :
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/us-addresses-internet-addiction-with-funded-
research.html. Accessed on 02/09/2018.
DHHS, Victoria State Government, 2014. Teenage Health, Online. Available at :
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/teenage-health. (Accessed on
02/09/2018).
National Youth Program, online. Principles of Health Promotion. Available at;
http://www.youthhealth.ie/content/principles-health-promotion. Accessed on 02/09/2018.
Young, K., Internet addiction. American Behavioural Scientist, 2004. 48: p. 402-415,
available at : https://www.crchealth.com/troubled-teenagers/internet-addiction-teenagers/,
Accessed on 01/09/2018.