Please consider the following scenario. Lisa is an eighteen year old student who is an undergraduate student at Ferris State University. She comes from a low-income family and is the first one in her family to attend college. Lisa is 54 and weighs 180 pounds. She also comes from a family in which her parents and older brother all smoke. As a result, she started smoking when she was 15 years old and has really thought about quitting once she started college. She was able to quit for a month, but soon the stress of balancing college life (e.g. exams, harder classes, bigger workload) with a part-time job really got to her, and she started smoking a pack a day. This was fairly easy to do because she was 18 now and didnt need a fake ID anymore, and she and her co-workers at the local restaurant enjoyed taking smoke breaks together to commiserate over their stressful lives.
Also, due to the new time pressures associated with balancing college and a part-time job, Lisa found herself eating at McDonalds (which is right on campus and was relatively very cheap and quick) every day for lunch and at the fast food restaurant she worked for dinner. She also exercised much less than usual and found herself comfort-eating cookies and other sweet snacks during her study sessions. She found that her friends did the same, so she did not think it was a big deal that she gained 10 pounds within her first semester in college. Also, she thought, she is only 18, and issues like heart disease and diabetes only happened to much older people. On top of everything, she often felt depressed because she was so far away from home and missed her family and high school friends so much. Sometimes, smoking and overeating seemed the only ways to cope.
Please look back at Midterm Question #1 and consider Lisas situation. Imagine that you are working at the District 10 Health Department, and you are writing a grant to improve long-term chronic disease outcomes for college students, such as Lisa, in Mecosta County. Please describe how you would plan and evaluate an intervention to change one of her health behaviors in this rural setting. Please answer the following questions regarding your intervention: (10 pts)
- Which planning model (s) would you use and why?
- Describe the specific steps you will undergo in your planning process.
- Who are some key stakeholders you need to consider when planning your intervention, and how would you incorporate them in the planning and/or evaluation of your intervention?
- What are your SMART objectives for the intervention?
- What specific activities will be included in your intervention program? Which strategies will you use to evaluate your intervention? Do not forget to also include both formative and summative evaluation if relevant.
- Describe your evaluation plan in terms of study design.
Please summarize your responses in a 2-4 page double spaced typed paper using 12-pt. Arial or Times Roman font. Please be sure to cite your sources (both textbook and outside sources) in APA format.
