Thesis
Child and Adolescent Obesity Management in the Primary Care Setting: Integrating Concepts into Practice
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
05/2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3088
Abstract
As children pass the goal of adequate body weight, they begin to experience devastating consequences in health. Childhood obesity represents a leading threat to the long term health of the entire population, "even rivaling smoking in its potential impact" (Homer, 2009, p. S253). This literature review encompassed the latest information on assessment, prevention, and treatment of childhood and adolescent obesity. While respected guidelines and recommendations are plentiful, strategies integrating these guidelines into practice are addressed less frequently. The objective of this paper was to examine recommendations from national organizations for management of childhood and adolescent obesity and to propose specific strategies that enable the advanced practice nurse to assess and prescribe clear interventions for those children and adolescents who are overweight or obese. The literature was found to be lacking in three main areas: One, a lack of well defined, validated and preventive therapeutic interventions was noted. Two, there are no validated measures to evaluate patient and family readiness. And three, there is a need for chronic disease practice applications that apply to obesity. In addition, four types of barriers to implementation were found to be significant: psychosocial, time constraints, logistics and lack of resources. Implications for the Advanced Nurse Practitioner require applying the recommendations with solutions to these barriers, which includes educating themselves on prevention, management, and treatment of the problem of child and adolescent overweight and obesity, educating all patients in healthy lifestyle and weight management, and collaborating with other healthcare providers and institutions to provide obesity services to patients and communities.
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- Title
- Child and Adolescent Obesity Management in the Primary Care Setting
- Creators
- Valerie B. Harding Lodge
- Contributors
- Ruth Bindler (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Research Projects, College of Nursing
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Spokane, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900591147801842
- Copyright
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis