Effective Dietary Interventions

Effective Dietary Interventions for Overweight and Obese Children

Research is important to nursing because it plays an important part of knowledge in nursing about issues, research activities to develop, refine and extend the nursing science. Nurses use research as an academic and professional discipline such as educating clinicians and administration of nursing serves. Nurses that use clinical decisions on scientifically documented information are acting in a professional manner and can help define the identity of nursing and promote excellence in practice through knowledge development. “Research is a systematic inquiry into a subject that uses various approaches (quantitative and qualitative methods) to answer questions.” (Fain, 2015,

It relates to patient care. Clinical thinking and decision making comes from clinicians making an effort to integrate research findings. Nurses improve the practice of nursing by applying the best research evidence available. ”The importance of nursing is established in reality; it is no longer necessary to justify its value. Nurses must focus on improving their understanding of the research process and fostering the development of research designs that provide the information needed to explain change, and expand the nursing practice.” (Fain, 2015, p. 5) Evidenced-based practiced is critical appraisal of research findings and decisions. It is a problem solving approach to the nurse’s current clinical experience and brings together the best available research by combining research with knowledge and theory. (Fain, 2015, p. 47) “ There are three limitations to evidences based practiced. They are shortage of coherent, consistent scientific evidence; difficulties in applying any evidence of care of individual patients; and barriers to any practice of high-quality medicine.”(Fain, 2015, p.

The hierarchies have different approaches to grading evidence or the use of a rating scale. ” The RCT’s are ranked the strongest and provide the best possible evidence for the effective use for an intervention with results being generalized to different population, settings, and circumstances.” (Fain, 2015, p. 57) In the article, eight RTC’s have both dietary components and control group showed that interventions containing a dietary component effective in achieving weight loss in overweight, obese children and adolescents. Then, one study showed post intervention reductions in percent body fat (3-6%) in obese adolescents, while another study noted that 20 weeks of treatment including diet and behavior change resulted in a loss of approximately 3% body fat. (Blackwell Publishing, 2007, p.