Evaluating the Research Process-Childhood Obesity and Schools
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Evaluating the Research Process-Childhood Obesity and Schools
By: Sarah Knoll
April 1, 2012
University of Phoenix
HCS/465
The rise of childhood obesity has brought national alarm, and has been receiving increased attention. The rise of childhood obesity of children 6 to 11 has expanded to more than twice as many over the past twenty years, rising from 6.5 percent in 1980 to 17 percent in 2006. For children aged 12 to 19 the obesity rate has tripled in the past twenty years, from a steady 5 percent in 1980 to a whopping 17.6 percent in 2006. Obesity does not only play a major role in the dangerous health trends carrying extra weight brings on, but it also affects social and emotional health that it needed for children and adolescents. The research is geared towards public school lunch and breakfast programs having an impacting effect on the rise of obese children; as well as the relationships between childhood obesity and family, school, and community influences.
The children for the study are picked at random. Doing this involved selecting a collection of home phone numbers and randomly selecting the child to observe done by the National Center for Health Statistics. After the phone survey the Abt Associates incorporated and their subcontractors managed all of the interviews for the plan. The amount of BMI is used in the study to determine obesity in the children selected for the study. The children are separated by ages ranging from 6 to 11 and 12 to 19 with a total of 62,880 reflections of dissimilar homes are searched. The analysis of the influences such as school, family, social environment, and daily activities of the children are obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics. A diagram is recorded with all of the factors that come into play with the child. Income level is looked at as well as the child’s qualifications for free or reduced school lunch and breakfast program. Age, race, language spoken, parents highest level of education,...
