Evidence Based Practice – Task 2 Health, Medicine, Nursing Term Paper

Evidence Based Practice – Task 2
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Evidence Based Practice – Task 2
Significance and Background
Research evidence suggests that Black Hispanic adult women are highly predisposed to overweight/obesity as compared to their white counterparts (Yanovski & Yanovski, 2012). This difference in susceptibility levels is important since it indicates a generic risk exposure that is unrelated to other risk factors such as lifestyle and nutrition. Statistics further indicate that non-Hispanic blacks are highly susceptible due to a number of risk factors. Black Hispanic women are the most vulnerable minority group at 47.8% followed by Non-Hispanic Black women at 42.5%. Still, research indicates that the most at risk American population constituting 39.5% of the total population (NCHS, 2016). The study is important since CDC findings suggest that the leading ten states have high incidence levels of blood pressure, cholesterol, depression, and diabetes and heart attack. (Ogden et al., 2016). These findings suggest the importance of studying the problem of overweight and obesity.
Research literature suggests that African American women are more likely to be obese as 1 out of 4 is either obese or overweight (Johnson et al., 2014). The study determines how obesity risk factors predispose Black Hispanic adult women.
Primary Healthcare Problem Description
The Black Hispanic neighborhoods lack gyms, bicycle lanes and racks thus suggesting that the population is highly predisposed to a wide range of obesity risk factors due to their predominantly sedentary lifestyles. It was also established that most Black Hispanic women preferred to use motor transport as opposed to walking even on extremely short distances. Thus they are highly vulnerable to overweight and obesity related health complications.
PICOT Question Formulation
PICO Table

Example:

P (patient/problem)

Overweight and obesity risk factors among black Hispanic women

I (intervention/indicator)

Integrated Intervention

C (comparison)

White middle income non-Hispanic women

O (outcome)

Reduced overweight/obesity prevalence/incidence levels among Black Hispanic adult women

PICO question: How does the low income Black Hispanic women and their White middle income counterparts susceptibility to overweight and obesity risk factors compare as observed within a three month study period?
Search Strategy
A search was conducted in Proquest using a combination of different keywords. Initially, a search was conducted using Obesity, Overweight, Black Hispanic adult women. The search returned 1,111 results as follows: Scholarly Journals (‎602); Dissertations & Theses (‎158), Magazines (‎22), Newspapers (‎17), Trade Journals (‎57). The search keyword combination were “Obesity, Overweight, Black Hispanic low income adult women” and returned 854 results as follows Scholarly Journals (‎474), Dissertations & Theses (‎144), Magazines (‎11), Newspapers (‎4) and Trade Journals (‎30). A second search was conducted with a peer reviewed journal filter on, using the same search keywords. The s...