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a number of other illnesses (Huang et al, 2007). The nurse will be involved if these risks materialize and may also have...
Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...
This research paper presents an extensive discussion of childhood obesity that addresses prevalence, the negative effects of overw...
The prevalence of obesity has increased across the world over the last three decades. Effective programs to curb and prevent overw...
This literature review adds to a previous review that was formulated to address a PICO research question. The problem (P) address...
respiratory conditions, such as asthma and obstructive sleep apnea (Thorpe, et al, 2004). The long-term consequences of childhood ...
"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...
to play unsupervised or accompany them to a park. Immense social and economic changes have dictated shifts in how families ...
low self-esteem," but there are also serious health repercussions that can follow children into their adult years (Henry and Royer...
factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...
factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...
14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...
2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...
target children as their principle demographic also have Web sites that market to children (Cowdrey 19). A child who gets bored wi...
need to eat healthy food in order to feel good and, therefore, learn better. The American lifestyle of sedentary occupations and l...
and adolescents from 1990 to 2000. Furthermore, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey revealed that 7 percent of in...
Self-efficacy is a concept that refers to the degree to which individuals perceive themselves as having the ability and capability...
This paper offers an overview of the plans for a research study that pertains to childhood obesity. The study will target a specif...
This research paper presents a PICO question that pertains to the problem of childhood overweight/obesity. Six pages in length, fi...
This research paper argues that early childhood obesity prevention programs are the best approach. Four pages in length, six sourc...
This research paper pertains to the problem of childhood obesity. The writer discusses the need for intervention and describes an ...
It is no secret that a large percentage of the American population is overweight or obese. The tragedy is that a large proportion ...
of children, adolescents and adults at the same time. In setting up the research, the researcher would need to pinpoint subjects i...
negative health impacts are felt. This means that there is a lag in the conditions as well as the associated costs. The short term...
thirty-five percent of nonobese peers, with a higher number of those being boys of ethnic backgrounds. II. GERALD ET AL Th...
a history of child abuse has an effect on their marriages. Literature review While it is generally accepted by the vast majority...
The paper will start by consider the problem, looking at the issue and the current gaps; it is only when the context of the issue ...
the company with violating the Consumer Protection Act when their ads focused on the toys that came with the Happy Meal (Burke 200...
$1,109,950 in additional medical costs for the county (OSDoH, 2007). Additionally the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDoH)...
arguably around the world. 2. Approximately 22 million children worldwide who are under the age of five are thought to be obese...