- Identify your problem statement for conducting a community needs assessment before developing your program. (5 pts.)
The problem in the community is decreasing nutrition levels of the aging population because lack of education in nutrition, low levels of income to buy food and lack of transportation to access available fruits and vegetables.
- What information would you need from your community needs assessment to design a program that meets the community’s priorities and needs (i.e. what are the goals and objectives of your needs assessment and what data do you need to collect)? (10 pts.)
It will be important to have history information of the community in terms of nutrition information (Spark 352). For instance, what are some of the solutions that have been applied in the past to address this nutrition situation?
Goals
- Improvement of the nutritional status of the aging individuals
- Increase community involvement in health and nutrition education activities
Objectives
Data to be Collected
- Dietary patterns of the adding population
- Dietary restrictions
- Alcohol consumption levels
- Food allergies
- Shopping arrangements
- Medication history
- Current weights of the aging individuals
- Socioeconomic status
- Education level
- Living situation
- . Describe your target population. (2 pts.)
The target population is the aging individuals of over 60 years.
- How would you conduct a needs assessment of your target population? Describe the data you would collect and the method you would use to collect it. (9 pts.)
- Write a mission for your agency. (2 pts.)
Promotion of health levels of the individuals in the community
- Write one goal for your program. (2 pts.)
Improvement of the nutritional status of the aging individuals
- Write two outcomes objectives for your program. (4 pts.)
- After six months, the nutrition status of the aging individuals will have increased by over 50%.
- The average daily fruit and vegetable intake will increase among more than half of the target population after six months
- Write one process objective for your program. (2 pts.)
After three months, six educational programs will have been initiated and conducted.
- Write one structure objective for your program (2 pts.)
- Describe your intervention strategy including the level of intervention. Specify the format of your program. Why did you select this format? Explain how it will be effective for your audience. (6 pts)
The intervention strategy will be at the individual and community level. Intervention strategies will involve increasing access to fruits and vegetables. Additionally, there will be provision oral health and pharmacy services that will address the medical and allergy conditions of the aging population. Further nutrition education will be done to elaborate the relationship between diseases and nutrition (Bauer, Liou and Sokolik 132). The format to follow will begin with food and nutrition delivery, nutrition education and nutrition counseling and finally coordination of nutrition care. This format is effective since it will allow time for the aging population to get the required knowledge while after having their health status has been improved.
- How will you utilize/incorporate behavior change theories into your program? Explain - be specific. (6 pts)
Behavioral change theories such as cognitive behavioral theory will be applied in the initial assessment of food eating habits. Using this theory, the aging individual will taught how to increase and enjoy pleasure in eating healthy foods. This theory will also incorporate ways which individual will use to promote their use of fruits and vegetables.
Works Cited
Bauer, Kathleen, Doreen Liou, and Carol Sokolik. Nutrition Counseling and Education Skill
Development. Belmont: Cengage Learning, 2011. Print.
Clement, I. Manual of Community Health Nursing. New Delhi: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2012. Print.
Spark, Arlene J. Nutrition in public health principles, policies, and practice. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2007. Print.
