Health Promotions and Disease Prevention

Below are the instructions and requirements for the paper and each of its sections.
Part I is due July 9,
Part I & II July 30,
Part, I, II, III, IV are due Aug 20th

Maximum # pages is 9 Excluding the cover page and references

Guidelines for the Student Health
Promotion and Disease Prevention Project (SHPDPP)
Introduction and requirements:
The Student Health Promotion &
Disease Prevention Project (SHPDPP) assignment affords students the opportunity
to apply health promotion concepts and demonstrate achievement of the course
objectives. Students will follow the same steps of the nursing process that are
used with an individual patient, but with communities i.e., assessment,
analysis, planning, intervention, and evaluation. Scholarly papers including
all components of the student’s project are required and described in the
SHPDPP Paper Guidelines document. All work must be written using APA 7th
edition format. The paper should
follow the order of the outline below but should be written in narrative
(paragraph form).
Students will identify a community
or population (aggregate) of interest. For this project, two or more persons are required to make up a community or
aggregate.
Examples of
communities you might consider include:
·
employees
at your current place of employment,
·
individuals
at a homeless shelter,
·
a
school class (any level) or religious education class,
·
parent
group members,
·
nursing
home residents or adult day care participants,
·
faith
community members,
·
teen
groups,
·
refugee
or immigrant group members,
·
fire
and rescue personnel and police officers,
·
factory
workers, food service workers, etc.
Students will assess the aggregate,
identify and prioritize health needs and problems of the aggregate, chose a
priority health need or problem for attention, create a plan of action, describe
potential implementation of the plan, and describe how the plan would be evaluated.
Examples of possible health topics
include:
·
alcohol,
tobacco, and other drug use disorders
·
arthritis
·
bed
bugs
·
bone
health and osteoporosis
·
diabetes
·
environmental
health
·
food
security
·
heart
disease
·
hygiene,
hand washing
·
hypertension
·
immunizations
·
infectious
diseases
·
nutrition
·
obesity
prevention and reduction
·
pregnancy
and prenatal care
·
rodent
control
·
sexually
transmitted infections
·
stress
and anxiety
·
suicide
·
serious
and persistent mental illnesses
·
violence
(domestic or community)
·
viral
illnesses
The SHDPP contains four parts (paper
1=part I; paper 2=part II; final paper=parts I, II, III, and IV)
Paper 1 is Part I (assessment and analysis)—3 pages maximum
for this section, excluding title page, reference list, and appendices (if
applicable).
Part 1 Identify the health needs of a community (aggregate)
·
Describe
community and why it was chosen
·
Conduct
a needs assessment and analysis
o Ask the right
questions; identify important community leaders
o Population
health concerns
o Barriers to
healthy behaviors
o Community
resources
o Possible
solutions
·
Present
the results of the above health needs assessment and analysis, and describe the
collaborative process used to obtain this information.
·
Gather
information (collaboration)
o What do you want
and need to know, and over what time period?
o Qualitative
methods
§ Public meetings,
informal or formal
§ Focus groups
§ Interviews
·
Quantitative
methods
o Surveys (place
in appendix)
·
Present
the results of the health needs assessment and analysis and describe the
collaborative process. Make sense of what you learned – make nursing diagnosis
and chose a priority health problem or need. Present all findings, subjective
and objective.
Paper 2 is
Part II Health Promotion Plan (Planning)—maximum 3 pages for this section,
excluding title page, references, and appendices (if applicable)
[Submit
revised part II as well as the new Part II; only Part II will be given feedback
and graded in this installment]

Part
II:
Choose target audience, based on one or more of the following:
·
Health
or social vulnerabilities
·
Demographics
·
Geography
·
Physical
and personal history
·
Beliefs
and attitudes about specific issues
·
Behavior
you want to change
o How much people
know about the specific problem?
o Do they believe
the health problem is important?
o How much they
want to change the behavior?
o Do they believe
they can change their behavior?
·
Determine
target audience’s understanding of the health concern
o What does target
audience know and think about the health concern?
o How does target
audience make health decisions?
o What issues keep
you target audience from addressing or changing their health behaviors?
·
Select
your program efforts
o Determine the
goals (realistic, measurable, consistent with social/ cultural aspects of the
community; goals should focus on primary prevention and reflect use of the
epidemiologic triangle)
o Select the best
program activities for your target audience [Identify from the literature what
has worked, to justify choice]
§ Activities can
focus on:
§ Communication
§ Providing or
improving a service
§ Developing or
adapting a product
§ Changing policy
through advocacy and community mobilization to reduce barriers to service
§ Some combination
of the above
·
Identify
appropriate resources in the community (state how they were included in the
process), such as:
o A person
o A building or
place
o A local business
o Anything else in
the community
·
Give
rationale for plan (knowledge alone does not equal a change in behavior)
Final Paper is Parts I, II, III (implementation), and IV
(evaluation)—3 pages maximum for parts III and IV together, excluding title
page, reference list, and appendices (if applicable). The TOTAL page length
should not exceed 9 pages excluding the title page, reference list, and
appendices (if applicable). Please do
not exceed total maximum pages; material after page 9 will not be read/
counted.
[Submit revised parts I and II as well as new parts III and
IV for this installment; the total paper will be reviewed/ graded in this final
installment]
Part III Implementation
·
Publicize
the program—submit a poster or flyer or other means of publication that you
would use (put in appendix)
·
Describe
in detail how you would conduct your program [you are not actually conducting
the program]. What you would do, where you would do it, how you would do it.
Place any relevant materials you would use in the appendix.
Part IV Evaluation [describe hypothetically how you would evaluate
each of these elements and give hypothetical findings for the evaluation, to
show you know the process and how to describe it.] How do you assess whether
measurable goals stated earlier were achieved?
If they were not achieved, what would be some ideas for changes?
·
Formative
evaluation
·
Process
evaluation
·
Impact
evaluation
·
Outcome
evaluation

Paper
Requirements for the Student Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Project
(SHPDPP)
The SHPDPP requires three papers.
Students are expected to adhere to APA 7th edition guidelines and demonstrate
scholarly, undergraduate-level writing skills. Students are encouraged to use
headers as outlined in the APA 7th edition manual. The paper needs to be
submitted in the course Brightspace drop-box as a Microsoft Word document with
one-inch margins, double-spaced, and 12-point Times New Roman font. For more
information on how your written assignment will be graded, please see the
Scholarly Paper Rubric.
The SHPDPP will be completed and
graded by way of three papers.
Paper 1: will include the assessment and analysis, and the health
promotion plan of action:
·
The
assessment (1- 3 pages) and analysis (1-2 pages).
Ø Identification
of the aggregate
Ø Methods used to
determine the health priorities
Ø Results of
health need assessment
o Begin with a
description of your community and an explanation of why you chose this
community to assess.
o Discuss how you
determined who the important community leaders were and how you connected with
them early in the project.
o Discuss how you
collaborated with the community.
o Present all of
your assessment findings, all of your data – objective and subjective
o Include copies
of all tools or instruments.
o Provide a
systematic discussion of all of your assessment data with interpretation of the
data.
·
The
health promotion plan of action (1- 2 pages) a thorough description including a
complete description of any materials to be created or used in the implement of
the project.
o Present your
goals – they should be realistic, measurable, and consistent with social/cultural
aspects of the community; they should focus on primary prevention, and reflect
use of the epidemiologic triangle.
o Discuss
resources available to complete the project and a budget for the project.
o Discuss how you
included the community and community leaders in the planning process.
o Describe what
has been shown to “work” with your population to help change behavior (from
literature).
o Explain why you
chose this plan; the rationale should be grounded in research of health
education literature. The plan should demonstrate an understanding that
knowledge does not equal change in behavior.
Paper 2 will include: The implementation of the project (1-2
pages).
Describe exactly what you did,
where, when, and how. Please provide copies of handouts or other methods
used in an appendix.

Final Paper 3 (5-11 pages excluding title/reference pages) will include
the complete health promotion project:
Final versions of assessment
and analysis, the health promotion plan of action, and the implementation
of the project to read as one cohesive and comprehensive paper (4-9 pages)
excluding title/reference pages and handouts/surveys/tools.
The evaluation of the project
(1-2 pages).

Explain whether your community
met (or did not meet) the measurable goals set forth in the plan. Provide
a copy of the evaluation tool (or describe the evaluation technique if a
written tool was not used) and include a discussion of your evaluation
findings with original evaluation data in an appendix.
Be sure to include a
discussion of what might have worked better or what you would do
differently next time.

Discuss how you shared the
evaluation findings with the community and with the community leaders,
especially those who

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