Pediatric obesity negatively influences children’s health, educational achievement, and quality of life. Obese and overweight children have a high likelihood of proceeding with the problem into adulthood, in addition to the threat of chronic illnesses. Decrease of screen time, consumption of a balanced diet and minimal high-calorie foods, and augmented physical exercise are crucial strategies that have been found fruitful in lessening pediatric obesity amongst school-aged children (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018). Children should be allowed to participate in games with their peers, play, run, walk, and have other physical exercise practices. The evaluation of a program’s effectiveness is crucial since it assists in the development of successful interventions.
Complete Work Plan
Goals
- Decrease screen time for school-aged children to 2 hours per day for six months to prevent pediatric obesity.
- Enhance the physical exercise of at least 3 hours daily for six months among children to boost fitness and self-esteem.
- Promote healthy consumption among school-aged children for three meals each day within one year to prevent childhood obesity.
Measures of Success
- Parents will be encouraged to ensure a screen time of fewer than two hours each day for school-aged children from 6 to 11 years (Silva et al., 2019).
- Parents, schools, and governments will be advised to provide at least one playground for children in all regions across the United States.
- Schools and parents will offer a balanced diet for school-aged children from 6 to 11 years each day while providing less high-calorie food.
Objectives
- Children will be able to identify at least two practices of preventing pediatric obesity in a six months’ campaign.
- Activities Planned to Achieve this Objective: Health professionals will take possession, provide guidance, and engage parental obligation to address pediatric obesity through lessening screen time and upholding all preventive practices (Almutairi, 2020).
- Data measurement tools: Questionnaire.
- Timeframe: 6 months.
- Responsible person:
- Health professionals.
- Parents.
- Children will engage in at least 3 hours of daily physical exercise for six months.
- Activities Planned to Achieve this Objective: Organize contributions of parents, government departments, and institutions accountable for policies, encompassing, but not restricted to development, sport and recreation, planning, finance and revenue, communication, environmental management, and social affairs to ensure that playgrounds and other facilities are provided in all communities across the US.
- Data measurement tools: Watch.
- Timeframe: 6 months.
- Responsible person: Government.
- Children will maintain a balanced diet for all the three meals in a day in a period of one year.
- Activities Planned to Achieve this Objective: Develop school plans, recommendations, measures, and guidelines that suitably engage pertinent sectors –comprising the private segment, where appropriate to implement arrangements aimed at offering a balanced diet and promoting healthy consumption with less high-calorie food to reduce pediatric obesity.
- Data measurement tools: Questionnaire.
- Timeframe: One year.
- Responsible person: School administration.
Evaluate the Effectiveness of Program
The success of the program will be evaluated through a thorough check of the attainment of the set aims. The questionnaire will serve as a vital evaluation tool. It will comprise main intervention features, questions associated with the general plan of the program, such as set activities, and engaged stakeholders (Chriqui et al., 2010). Questions regarding implementation will assess performance, program organization, and the success of participation. With the aid of predefined criteria, the questionnaire will establish program that may be considered viable practice and could benefit future endeavors that aim to better consumption behavior, physical activity, and screen time to prevent obesity.
How to Know Effectiveness
In a 6-month awareness campaign, health professionals should have successfully encouraged parents to ensure a screen time of fewer than two hours daily for school-aged children from 6 to 11 years. Caregivers should have fruitfully advised parents, schools, and governments to offer at least one playground for children in all regions across the United States to have roughly 3 hours of daily physical exercise within six months. A scoring sheet will assist in the understanding of the program’s effectiveness through the calculation of the scores for each section and the entire plan (Mokdad & Remington, 2010). To begin with, the total score per section will be computed. The figure obtained will then be divided by the full marks for the section to give a score that is either one or less. A score that is 0.8 or more will indicate excellent performance, 0.6 to 0.8, acceptable plan, and 0.4 to 0.6, marginal suitability, while a figure that is less than 0.4 shows low effectiveness (Fry, Nikpay, Leslie, & Buntin, 2018). While establishing effectiveness, differentiation is made between essential questions and general inquiries. Greater weight is considered for essential questions than for the general ones because they are more critical in evaluating a program’s effectiveness.
Conclusion
Pediatric obesity undesirably sways children’s health, educational attainment, and quality of life. Lessening screen time, ensuring healthy consumption, and augmenting physical exercise are vital strategies that have been found productive in preventing pediatric obesity. The assessment of a program’s effectiveness is critical since it assists in the development of fruitful interventions. Among other preventing practices, parents will be encouraged to ensure that children have a screen time of fewer than two hours daily. A questionnaire will be crucial in the evaluation of the success of the program through an exhaustive check of the accomplishment of the set aims. A score of 0.8 and above will indicate outstanding performance.
References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2018). Developing process evaluation questions [Evaluation Briefs No. 4]. Web.
Chriqui, J. F., Schneider, L., Chaloupka, F. J., Gourdet, C., Bruursema, A., Ide, K., & Pugach, O. (2010). School district wellness policies: Evaluating progress and potential for improving children’s health three years after the federal mandate. School years 2006–07, 2007–08 and 2008–09 (Vol. 2). Chicago, IL: Bridging the Gap Program.
Fry, C. E., Nikpay, S. S., Leslie, E., & Buntin, M. B. (2018). Evaluating community-based health improvement programs. Health Affairs, 37(1), 22-29.
Mokdad, A. H., & Remington, P. (2010). Measuring health behaviors in populations. Preventing Chronic Disease, 7(4), A75.
Silva, D. F. O., Sena-Evangelista, K. C. M., Lyra, C. O., Pedrosa, L. F. C., Arrais, R. F., & Lima, S. C. V. C. (2019). Instruments for evaluation of motivations for weight loss in individuals with overweight and obesity: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. PloS One, 14(7), 1-13. Web.