Applying the Results and Conclusion of the Research Process to Problems in Health Care

Jerusha Palmer
University of Phoenix –HCS 465 Research Utilization
Dr. Joe Clift
October 1, 2012
Applying the Results and Conclusion of the Research Process to Problems in Health Care Data collection procedures are appropriate and very important for this study because it is the procedures that will be used based on the type of survey that was taken also based on the age group surveyed for pertinent information involving the research process. The appropriateness of the data collection procedures is based upon the eating habits of the children; the survey demonstrates that the children with poor eating habits are the children who also suffer
The strengths of the scientific merits are that a vast population of children that were researched over a wide geographical area that out of 10,000 surveyed the numbers shows that a healthy diet and proper exercise resulted in weight loss of the children surveyed. Weaknesses could have been a pre-existing medical condition and or the impact of hereditary traits on overweight children. The major limitations of the scientific merit of this study are the amount of time given for collecting samples and giving the analysis. If there was a broader time frame some of the results could have ended differently; an example would be that children in the age range that was surveyed may have been able to outgrow some of the overweight conditions; a weakness is that the results of the test may not have given a true assessment of the children surveyed based on the points cited (Murphy, 2007). The research question asks “what effects do the fried, processed, meals served in schools have on school aged children”? The findings prove that poor diet leads to unhealthy, overweight children; so the findings does support the research questions that poor diet does contribute to childhood obesity and other health related issues such as diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol respiratory and orthopedic problems. In conclusion, the contributing factor to childhood obesity can be