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Increasing Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors In Cargo Drivers, Ronda L. Bell
Increasing Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors In Cargo Drivers, Ronda L. Bell
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this project was to examine the extent to which lifestyle behaviors of transportation drivers in North Texas can be improved with health education. This research study was conducted to examine the health behaviors of transportation drivers as a result of an educational partnership between nursing and the transportation industry. The goal was to improve healthy lifestyles through education to decrease chronic illness and comorbid conditions of a significantly at-risk occupational population. The impact of this education was immediate and verified with quantitative measurement and statistical analysis. Results demonstrated that after nurse-led health education, transportation drivers reported significant …
Increasing Staff Knowledge On Obesity In Pediatric Patients With Asthma, Oluwakemi Taiwo
Increasing Staff Knowledge On Obesity In Pediatric Patients With Asthma, Oluwakemi Taiwo
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Asthma is a chronic life-long lung disease that contributes to morbidity and mortality around the world. The increased prevalence of asthma, particularly in children who are obese, inadequate assessment of obesity in pediatric patients, and a gap in staff knowledge regarding the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) body mass index (BMI) percentiles resulted in a need for strategies to minimize this health concern. The purpose of this staff education project was to increase staff’s knowledge about identifying asthma patients who are clinically obese using the CDC BMI percentiles. The framework for the project was based on Knowles’s adult …