Description
Discuss your final project research experience thus far by addressing the following questions:
What parts of your research are going well?
What challenges have you incurred in your research thus far?
What lessons have you learned about the research process and about your specific health issue?
What has surprised you in your research?
Ask specific questions of your peers for research assistance and/or feedback.
SCENARIO USED FOR PROJECT Scenario Three: Obesity in an Adolescent
Michelle is 15 years old and has always been the “big” girl in class. She is much taller than her fellow classmates and is also bigger in size. According to
her doctor, she is in the morbidly obese category based on the body mass index (BMI) chart. Michelle gets her exercise from gym class, which she has
every Wednesday afternoon. She does not eat breakfast but does eat the school lunches. When she gets home, she tends to fix a bowl of cereal to hold
her over until dinner.
This individual belongs to an age-specific population that is affected by this health issue. You will write a health analysis paper in which you analyze both
the individual and the age-specific population affected by the health issue for symptoms, causes, and data to inform potential prevention options. For
example, if your profile describes a middle-aged individual dealing with high blood pressure, your analysis paper will consider both that specific
individual and the entire population of middle-aged adults dealing with high blood pressure.
You will then develop a presentation directed at a particular audience that could enact some of these prevention options in the hopes of helping both
the individual from the profile and the age-specific population in dealing with this health issue. For example, if your individual and population are
middle-aged adults dealing with high blood pressure, you would cater your presentation to an audience that could help address the issue and potentially
enact some of the prevention options you have recommended
