Search the GCU Library and find two new health care articles that use quantitative research. Do not use articles from a previous assignment, or articles that appear in the Topic Materials or textbook.
Jane Chima
6/14/20
Article Analysis 1
| Article Citation and Permalink (APA format) | Article 1 Rao Deepa, P., Parth, P., Roberts Karen, C., & Wendy, T. (2018). Original quantitative research Obesity and healthy aging: social, functional and mental well-being among older Canadians. Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada: research, policy and practice, 38(12), 437. Link: here | Article 2 Larery, T. M. (2017). Combating Childhood Obesity with Provider Education: A Quantitative Study. Link: here | Article 3 Arnold, M., Jiang, L., Stefanick, M. L., Johnson, K. C., Lane, D. S., LeBlanc, E. S., ... & Zaslavsky, O. (2016). Duration of adulthood overweight, obesity, and cancer risk in the women’s health initiative: a longitudinal study from the United States. PLoS medicine, 13(8), e1002081. Link: here |
| Point | Description | Description | Description |
| Broad Topic Area/Title | This article shows how the older individual living with obesity are aging. | The use of donor education in combating obesity among the children. | It is an examination of the effects of the duration between overweight and obesity on the different types of cancers. |
| Identify Independent and Dependent Variables and Type of Data for the Variables | The Independent variable is aging and the dependent variable differed between socioeconomic characteristics, social health, health characteristics, mental health and wellbeing. This research used a primary qualitative data for the variables. | The dependent variable was obesity while the independent variable was educational program. Primary data was used. | Dependent variable in this was cancer while the independent variable was the period between the overweight and the obesity. This research used a primary qualitative data. |
| Population of Interest for the Study | Canadian people between the age of 55 to 85 years who are living with obesity. | The healthcare individuals, nurses and the students are the population of interest. | People who had challenges with overweight were the postmenopausal women and the obese. |
| Sample | A sample size of 21241 individuals | A sample size of 41 individuals | A sample size of 93675 individuals |
| Sampling Method | This are the people selected on the basis of the purposive sampling from the analyzed statistics Canadian Community Health Survey. | Individuals were randomly selected from the 4 states from the APN conference held. | There was a purposive sampling on Women Health Initiative. |
| Descriptive Statistics (Mean, Median, Mode; Standard Deviation) Identify examples of descriptive statistics in the article. | Approximately 50% of the male participants and 33.3% female age group 55 and 64 had income more than $50k | 66% of participants work with their children in family setting, 20% were specialty providers, and 14% were students and “other” 37% or practitioners have served for up to 3 years 93 percent of the participants were females | Standard deviation = 5.1 Mean of duration was 12.6 years 40% did not have overweight problem in their adulthood while 60% had overweight problems with at some point in their adulthood. Individuals recorded to be overweight, 50% did not become obese. |
| Inferential Statistics Identify examples of inferential statistics in the article. | Over 50% of older Canadians lives are individuals who have lower incomes. | The education program that was incorporated increased the knowledge of clinical practice guidelines and the criteria to be incorporated in the childhood obesity. | It’s concluded that being overweight for quite some time in adulthood also increases the risks of various types of cancer that is related to obesity by around 7%, endometrial cancer by up to17%, and postmenopausal breast cancer by 5%. |
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