Problem, Purpose, and the Question: Evidence-Based-Practice Proposal

Evidence-Based Practice
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Childhood Obesity Picot Statement
Is childhood obesity bad? Childhood obesity is an emerging point of concern for various healthcare experts and parents. According to the statistical data from the Center for Disease Control (2018), every two out of ten school-going children, aging from 6 to 19, are obese. This problem is important for my practice because I have found that there is a lack of intervention. Obesity is directly or indirectly associated with diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular problems, high blood pressure, and sleeping disorders. Obese children are likely to develop these illnesses at a fast speed, and they may also develop some mental disorders like stress, depression, and anxiety. Thus, there is a strong need for finding suitable mechanisms that can be used to tackle the disease in school-going children. This PICOT statement intends to evaluate the incidences of obesity in schools in the United States.
Population
A study conducted by Cunningham, Narayan, and Kramer (2014) about school-going students indicate that a large number of children aging from five to fourteen are overweight. In 2016, a survey was conducted by Cheung, Cunningham, Naryan, and Kramer on school-going girls that revealed that girls have higher chances of becoming obese than boys of the same age (2016). All over the United States, the problem of childhood obesity has taken a serious form.
Intervention
Evidence-based intervention strategies need to target schools all over the country, even though there are cases of parents contributing to these incidences. Children, aging from 4 to 19, are in the learning process and they can quickly be targeted by obesity other health complications given that they increase their ...