Objectives
Project Title: Diabetes Prevention in Youth of Playford, South Australia
Goal: The main goal of this program is prevention of diabetes in youth.
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Strategies |
Process Indicators |
Data Collection Methods |
1. Managing a healthy weight in the next 30 days, because weight is significantly linked with diabetes. 2. Spreading awareness regarding diabetes and its consequences among youth in the next 30 days. 3. Improving overall quality of life. |
1a) Educating young people about the benefits of healthy eating. 1b) Providing training or classes on physical activity or exercise. 2a) Arranging local educational program on diabetes awareness through involving youth. 2b) Implementing educational class on schools and colleges by involving young people their teachers as well as parents. 3a) Making reflects or posters on diabetes with some effective and healthy strategies, by following those youth can help in reducing the risk of developing diabetes in society. 3b) Implementing community health care services for diabetes prevention by involving non-governmental organizations and community health care workers. |
Youth will able to get balanced body weight, as well as become able to take right choices for their diet. The rate of diabetes as well as pre-diabetes incidences will decreases. Quality of youth’s life will be improved. |
Survey, surveys by using E-platforms, one-to-one interviews are some significant ways of data collection process in this context. |
In this paper the discussion is about the process of a program implementation on the topic of diabetes prevention in youth. Diabetes is one of the common and significant diseases in today’s world. Throughout the world there are millions and millions people who are suffering with this medical condition. This is a medical condition that comes up with several comorbidities including cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, obesity and others (Dabelea, Hamman & Knowler, 2021). Hence there is a high need for implementing preventive measures in order to address this condition. The above-mentioned chart is about the planning and evaluation of a health promotion program for diabetes prevention in youth. In the flowing discussion part of this assignment a proper implementation and evaluation process will be discussed.
In order to plan for a health program there is a need to have proper idea about the issue on which the program will be implemented. Over the last few decades, the face of paediatric diabetes has changed dramatically. Type 1 diabetes prevalence has been growing worldwide, according to statistics, with substantial regional heterogeneity in actual risk. Similarly, type 2 diabetes has been developing at an unprecedented rate in indigenous kids in recent years (Dabelea, 2018). Hence, the first step of the program organizers in this context is to gather proper information about the issue and the reason why this implementation is important. In this context, the medical condition is diabetes. After recognizing the significant negative effect of this condition on people, this program can be helpful initiative towards reducing the incidence of diabetes cases in future. Spreading awareness among young children are very important here, through proper knowledge and education they can prevent this condition as well as able to identify its early signs and symptoms (Brooklyn & Sigmon, 2017). In order to develop any health care or other program three important resources are needed including funding, personnel as well as facilities.
Resources play a vital role in this type of program development. In this context the organizers should initiatives to collect fund from several governmental as well as non-governmental organizations. In addition, they can take help from local people, local community care workers as per their financial condition, with this individual organizers should take participate in giving financial support for the program development. Then the resources regarding personnel and facilities should be arranged by the program manager.
Program assessment or evaluation is one of the significant tools for project leaders want to upgrade the effectiveness of their programmes and the outcomes of any research for the youth they serve. Data from the process of evaluation may be utilized to enhance services and programs and addresses basic as well as relevant questions related to a program’s success (Abadie & Cattaneo, 2018). Evaluation is a systematic procedure for selecting, analysing, as well as implementing those information to find out relevant answers for significant questions those are relevant to a programme is called programme evaluation. Although there are many different forms of programme evaluations and many various names to characterize them, they are usually classified into two subgroups: process evaluations as well as result evaluations. Process assessments look at whether an initiative or programme model was executed according to plan, if the desired target audience was achieved, and what the significant hurdles and effective tactics were.
Strategies
Outcome assessments examine how and to what degree predicted improvements in child or youth results occur, and whether or not these changes can be traced back to the programme or programme activities. The methods will be used in this evaluation process are survey, interview. All of these methods have a significant role in gather results of the outcome (McDavid, Huse & Hawthorn, 2018). Both are reliable methods in the health care program evaluation process. Through this methods I can be determine where this program is effective in enhancing awareness or preventing this condition among children or not. Interviews and surveys both have a lot of punch when it comes to qualitative data collecting methods. Both can assist people in determining what your potential subjects are thinking, as well as how people make choices, act, and believe (Mertens & Wilson, 2018).
Stakeholders hold the vital part of the program developing process. Relevant stakeholders related to this program development process are, local nurses, diabetes educator, physicians, local community care providers, dietician, physical health educators young children, their parents as well as their teachers (Boaz et al., 2018). Local nurses and health care partitioners are important for explaining evidences regarding diabetes and its consequences, hence it can be stated that in order to implement evidence-based education program involvement of these stakeholders is necessary. In addition, the young children is the main stakeholders in this context, the program organizers should focus on involving more and more young people in this program (Guyadeen & Seasons, 2018). With young people their parents and their teachers also play a significant role here. According to several studies it has been noted that due to negligence of family members including parents can lead to significant harm to their child (Haldane et al., 2019). In addition, young population spent most of their time in schools and colleges, hence involving teachers is significantly significant to help the youth in reducing the risk of developing diabetes. In addition, involvement of dietician, diabetes educators, and physical health educators is very important for providing youth overall health as well as prevent this diabetes condition. Dietician and diabetes educators would help the youth in increasing their knowledge regarding appropriate diet and diabetes related information. Proper knowledge would help them in making appropriate health care decision against diabetes. Then physical health educators would help in managing body weight, and preventing obesity among child, as a result the chance of developing diabetes would also decrease (Char, Shah & Magnus, 2018).
The program manager may face different types of ethical challenges while developing this program. The challenges related to people’s confidentiality, cultural differences, individual people have individual issues, beneficence. Hence, before implementing this program the organizers should take proper consent from in order to avoid any type of ethical challenges during program implementation White, K. M., (Dudley-Brown & Terhaar, 2019).
Conclusion
After going through this paper it can be concluded that in order to conduct a successful health care program, proper preparation including program development to program evaluation is important. The topic of discussion in this article is the process of implementing a diabetes preventive programme for kids. In today’s society, diabetes is one of the most frequent and serious diseases. There are millions upon millions of people suffering from this medical disease all throughout the world. This program have several beneficial aspects, mainly it may help in reducing the rates of diabetes. In this form of programme development, resources are critical. In this setting, the organisers should take steps to get funding from a variety of government and non-governmental groups. When it comes to qualitative data collection, both interviews and surveys pack a punch. Both can help you figure out what the variety of people are considering and how they make decisions, act, and believe. Through this program people or youth enhance their health literacy level, so that they can prevent this condition easily.
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