Self-Assessment Reflection: Smoking Intervention Plan

This assignment presents a comprehensive smoking intervention plan developed by a student, focusing on addressing smoking habits in pregnant women. The plan includes a detailed self-assessment of the student's performance, evaluating various criteria such as content, theoretical framework, methodology, ethics, evaluation, and quality of management. The student provides a reflection on their thought process, discussing the context, feelings, evaluation, analysis, and conclusions drawn from the experience of creating the intervention plan. The reflection highlights the challenges faced, such as the time constraints and the need for individual behavioral therapy, and suggests potential improvements, including the integration of community or group-based intervention plans. The assignment aims to educate pregnant women about the health consequences of smoking and propose effective intervention strategies based on behavioral theories.

The total word count is 700 words +/- 10% it is up to you how you use this word count.
STUDENT NAME:
STUDENT ID
INTERVENTION TITLE:
INSTRUCTIONS
Part A
Identify for each criterion what grade you think you should be awarded. You should then
write comments against each one to defend the grade you have awarded yourself. You must
be more specific, i.e. how did you meet that threshold? What evidence is there to support
this? You should also provide the overall grade in the box provided.
Part B
Provide a reflection on your performance. Detailed guidance is provided to help you with this
task. You should aim to link your reflection to the self-assessment and ensure to indicate
strengths and ways you can improve performance. Try not to be less descriptive in your
reflections ‘I felt like’, ‘I enjoyed’, ‘I found it difficult to’ but instead engage in a higher level of
critical thinking e.g. ‘What did this mean?’ ‘What did you learn?’ ‘So what?’.

Self-assessment
Marking criteria GRADE (PLEASE HIGHLIGHT)
Content: Background & Aims F E D C B A Comments
Evidence area has been reviewed from literature
(references given). Primary sources are used to base
knowledge. The background shows a clear need for
intervention. Aims of intervention clear.
Sufficient evidence has been provided regarding the
consequences of smoking during pregnancy,
supported by literature. The background provides a
clear need of intervention by highlighting the major
health consequences caused by smoking during
pregnancy. Clear representation of the aim of the
project is ensured. All the aspects of the aim, including
key subjects, intervention and outcome has been
mentioned.
Content: Theoretical framework F E D C B A Comments
Has detailed knowledge of well-established theories
and concepts. Demonstrates an awareness of different
ideas, contexts and frameworks and recognises those
areas where the knowledge base is most secure.
Intervention method had been recommended, post
reviewing the efficiency and adequateness. The
intervention, that is, undertaking of behavioural
therapy is supported by behavioural theory and clear
target behaviour for the subject is identified.
Content: Method & Ethics F E D C B A Comments
You must outline the intervention in detail. In particular
the methods to be employed. You should outline the
design, sample, materials and protocols. Provides
overview of ethical issues. Is aware of personal
responsibility and professional codes of conduct.
The intervention strategy is outlined in detail along
with information on the design, execution, methods,
sample and protocol. Brief overview of the potential
ethical issues that may arise are given. These ethical
issues recognised post critical analysis of the
recommended intervention strategy.
Content: Evaluation F E D C B A Comments
Selects appropriate techniques/criteria for evaluation
and discriminates between the relative relevance and
significance of data/evidence collected. Proposes ways
to determine success of intervention. Considers
limitations & need for future research.
Appropriate technique to be implemented for
evaluation of the intervention has been presented.
Reduction in the count of cigarette smoking is a critical
indicator of success and has been included as an
evaluative measure.
Quality of Management & Delivery & Communication F E D C B A Comments
Relates to pacing of presentation. Effective use of visual
aids, whiteboard, hand-outs as appropriate and good
organization /structure of material. Adapts
interpersonal and communication skills to a range of
situations, audiences and degrees of complexity. Good
clarity of presentation. Appropriate use of body
language e.g. eye contact. Relevant level of
professionalism.
The presentation has been kept simple and easy to
understand, clear from any sort of clutter. The
presentation is well-structured with headings to aid
the viewers. The clarity and to the point presentation
of the key information is ensured in the presentation,
to help the readers get a clear understanding of the
subject and refrain from deterring off the topic.
Reflection F E D C B A
Undertakes complex and non-routine performance
tasks. Analyses performance of self and suggests
improvements. Assesses own capabilities using
justifiable criteria set by others taking the wider needs
of the context into account. Can evaluate own
strengths and weakness, challenge received opinion and
develop own criteria and judgement.
The reflection provides detailed overview of the
thought process while developing the intervention
plan along with the key barriers that occurred during
that time.

Overall grade B
Reflection
Context: What happened? What is the context behind your reflection?
Feelings: What were your feelings? What were you thinking and feeling at the
time? How have those feelings changed? Evaluation: What was good and bad
about the experience? Analysis: What sense can you make of the situation?
Explore details & the 'why' of your judgments. What challenged you?
Conclusion: What did you learn? What else could you have done? Assess the
impact on you & on your future actions?
Smoking is one of the most notable habit that has severe consequences on health of an individual.
When associated with pregnancy, it becomes extremely important that the health outcomes are
understood and the pregnant women are educated about the health consequences, which will
also be affecting the health of their child. This is a critical topic development of an intervention
plan is very crucial as per my opinion.
The context behind this reflection is to present an overview of my though process while
creating an intervention plan to address the issue of smoking in pregnant women. I feel that even
though the pregnant women have the right of autonomy and they can pick up whatever behavior
they want, smoking should not be considered as their personal choice, as in this regard, they are
also risking the health of their infant.
While developing the intervention plan, I thought that creating a group-based or
community health promotion plan will not work. According to me, individuals may feel low in
accepting their bad behaviour or may want to keep such things private. For this, I opted for an
individual behavioral therapy program, in which the clients will be looked after individually and
personally.
Working to address such a critical issue was a good experience and helped me to get
detailed insight on the issue. However, developing an action plan with the aim of getting results
such quickly had been a poor experience and resulted in a bit of chaos.
However, overcoming the major issue of changing the thought process of the concerned
subjects challenged me. Such individual behavioural session therapy will take time, before
resulting to be effective and it is evident that pregnant women do not have much time to opt for
slow induction of behavioral changes in them.
Developing an intervention plan to address such a critical issue has been challenging as
well as informative experience. In addition to the individual behavior therapy sessions, I should
have added a provision for community or group-based intervention plan, which could have been
conducted post taking consent from the concerned pregnant female.
The experience of working on development of intervention plan had been very edifying
and helped to gain insights on how to gather or look up to resources for addressing a health issue.