Health Literacy to Address Overweight and Obesity

Health Literacy to Address Overweight and Obesity
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Health Literacy to Address Overweight and Obesity
Zarcadoolas et al.’s (2011) “Health Literacy at Work to Address Overweight and Obesity in Adults: The Development of the Obesity Action Kit” focuses on how an ecological model can be applied to understand more about obesity and overweight. Obesity and overweight affect about 31.7% of children aged between 2 and 19 years and 68% of adults in the United States of America (USA) (Zarcadoolas et al., 2011). The paper emphasizes the communication research method and critiques the quality of the sample used in Zarcadoolas et al.’s article.
In lecture two, it was clear that quantitative research is scientific-based and involves identifying variables and numbers. In contrast, qualitative research entails the general understanding of things in the world and is experience-driven (Lecture 2, 2022). The communication research method used by Zarcadoolas et al. was a qualitative and ethnographic study approach. Between August and December 2007, researchers conducted in-depth interviews with healthcare providers and frontline staff. In addition, they used six consumer focus groups involving 62 overweight women and men (Zarcadoolas et al., 2011). The questions asked included the cause of patients’ weight issues, how to maintain weight loss, the best co...