Implementation Plan

Implementation Plan

Step One: Identification of Stakeholders

The management and treatment of obesity among children is a comprehensive process that requires the collaboration of various professionals (Feng et al., 2017).  The stakeholders will mainly include healthcare workers such as pharmacists, primary care physicians, registered nurses, dieticians, professional counselors, exercise psychologists, and a general surgeon. These professionals will combine their skills to improve the wellbeing of children.  We will then contact them to ensure that they will avail themselves of the research. We will also ensure that our study does not interfere with their clinical responsibilities.

Step Two: Identify Potential Barriers

Potential hindrances of the study include parents refusing to sign consent forms for the children to participate in the study. Parents may fear that they may negatively affect the psychological health of the children by allowing them to participate (Liu et al., 2019). We will overcome this by assuring the parents that children will undergo a counseling session before they participate in the research.  The research may also interfere with the learning programs of the children. However, to have many participants, we plan to create schedules that will not interfere with the school activities of the children.

 Step Three: Identifying Tools That Can Measure Change

The research will occur within twelve months, and it will involve monthly health education sessions.  The children will also participate in weekly physical activities that will help them to lose weight.  A total of forty pupils from two schools will participate in the study. The effectiveness of the approach used will be determined by checking whoever has lost weight. We will also investigate if the children are responding to physical activities positively.

The objective of this research is to determine if school-based strategies are effective in helping children to lose their weight by 5% within twelve months.

1. Three months

Introduction to school-based strategies such as health education, use of proper diets, and physical exercise to children.

Increased consumption of vegetables and fruits among the children

2. Six months

Investigate the impacts of school-based physical exercises among children

Compare the reliability of physical activities and proper diets in managing obesity in children

3. Nine months

The gaps in using school-based strategies in reducing the prevalence of obesity in children

Proper health diets and lifestyles

4. Twelve Months

Ways of managing and treating obesity

The roles of parents in reducing obesity incidence in children

References

Feng, L., Wei, D. M., Lin, S. T., Maddison, R., Mhurchu, C. N., Jiang, Y., & Wang, H. J. (2017). Systematic review and meta-analysis of school-based obesity interventions in mainland China. PloS one, 12(9), e0184704.

Liu, Z., Wu, Y., Niu, W. Y., Feng, X., Lin, Y., Gao, A.,& Wang, H. (2019). A school-based, multi-faceted health promotion program to prevent obesity among children: protocol of a cluster-randomized controlled trial (the DECIDE-Children study). BMJ Open, 9(11).