Family Intervention Analysis

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Description of the Intervention The intervention that will be performed, will be a 45 minutes’ walk on a treadmill four times per week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 5pm to 5:45pm, at a speed of 2 miles per hour. There will be a group that does this individually and there will be a group that does it was a family. Both groups will be given the same menu of food that they are allow to consume daily and must follow, the will also need to keep a food diary. Data Collection Procedures Participants include children, adolescent ages 12 to 18 years old and their families who have elected to participate and met the inclusion criteria of; having a child or adolescent with a BMI above the 85th percentile and one or both parents who …show more content…

Prior to the start of the study this writer will meet with the 80 participants and their families to obtain consents, record current height, weight and BMI. Their demographic information will be collected. During the pre-interview stage an in home assessment will be conducted and information on the current food and exercise material present in the home will be collected. There will also be a follow up interview schedule for post completion of the study. The initial interview will be conducted at pediatric association office located in Port St Lucie. Parents will be asked the following information, ethnicity, family composition, family income, educational level, eating habits, exercise habits, current height, weight and BMI The reason interview is the main source of data collection, is because that is the best method to obtain the information that is needed to conduct this study. After data information is collected from interviews, exercise intervention can be implemented in the study. Participants can then be interviewed again post study and results can be analyzed. Data Analysis …show more content…

For this research the Pearson coefficient will be used for data analyze of the study variables. This research is going to measure two groups of 12-18 years old. One group is going to exercise with their parents and one group is going to exercise independently. For both groups their BMI will be compared following the intervention to determine which group improved their BMI. There are two independent variables and one dependent variable. The independent variables are dichotomous and the dependent variable is continuous. The Pearson correlation coefficient will show the correlation between the variables, which will shows whether or not exercising with parent improves BMI. Thus help prove or disprove the

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