Plan
The plan is to find an appropriate intervention to promote the population’s health against CVD. This section sees it best to use community-based facilitators as a way of promoting positive health seeking behavior. These individuals will use education as a tool to train the community on the importance of various health behaviors in tackling the CVD problem. They work as part of a major campaign that promotes instances such as proper dieting, constant physical exercises, and reductions in tobacco and alcohol intake.
This plan comprises of three areas of interest in its description of dieting and exercise. These areas include intensity, frequency and duration. Duration would refer the time facilitators take to train target groups on various tasks and their importance in health promotion. Frequency means the number of times these facilitators make participants perform an activity of interest. Finally, intensity describes the extent to which mediators present an activity as a way of solving CVD as a health promotion problem (Allen, et al., 2011).
Intervention
According to Allen et al. (2011), proper dieting and exercise exist as important parts of everyone’s lifestyle. Nonetheless, it is the level of mental and physical exertion that is different among individuals. For this target population, it would be appropriate to introduce educational plans as the primary intervention in health seeking behavior to reduce chances of CVDs. This program includes sessions that train individuals on the importance of leading healthy lifestyles through exercising and proper dieting.
Numerous studies show that there is a positive correlation between appropriate diet, exercise, and good health. For instance, Allen et al. (2011) show a significant relationship between physical activity and life changing behavior concerning cardiovascular diseases. That is, increased physical activities eliminates the chance of developing CVD and vice versa. Furthermore, decreased cholesterol intake as well constant clinical evaluations show positive results in the campaign to mitigate the risk of CVD among a population (Allen, et al., 2011).
Approaches to Evaluation
The researcher proposes the use of questionnaires and pretest and posttest surveys as ways of measuring the success of the program. As stated above, the program encompasses the use of community-based facilitators to guide the community through various health activities around CVD. Questionnaires as data collection tools are vital in collecting information on the perceptions of individuals in the intervention. The tool will target both members of the community and the health experts. The pre-and post-test sample collection will focus on changes in essential body measurements before and after the intervention. Both tools are useful for tracking changes in behavior before and after intervention (Allen, et al., 2011).
Evaluation Plan
The tools of evaluation include questionnaires and pretest and post-test data. The surveys will be useful in the collection of information from both the community health facilitators and program participants on their pre and post intervention perceptions of healthy living. The researcher hopes that this tool is adequate for tracking changes in behavior along trend. Pre- and posttest data collected would touch on the main body indices such as weight and BP. The facilitator will collect periodic information on such indicators to track their effects on CVD cases (Craig, 2012).
The data analysis segment would require a correlational quantitative measurement to evaluate chances of a significant difference between pre- and post-test results. Data would include collecting BP profiles as well as cases of disease occurrence before and after the intervention. The analysis is vital in providing insight into possible consequences of exercise and proper dieting. The comparison acts an indication of the existence of statistical significance between two data sets (Craig, 2012).
References
Allen, J., Dennison, C., Szanton, S., Bone, L., Hill, M., Levine, D., . . . Anderson, K. (2011). Community Outreach and Cardiovascular Health (COACH) Trial: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Nurse Practitioner/Community Health Worker Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction in Urban Community Health Centers. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 4, 595-602.
Craig, P. (2012). Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions: new MRC guidance. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 66 (12), 1182–1186.
