Childhood Obesity Health Forum

Website Link: https://econnal.wixsite.com/website

APN 745 Reflection:

For my capstone portfolio in APN 745 I chose to include the website and nutrition guide handout from my educational campaign. I chose the website because it shows that I have the ability to create audience appropriate forums for illustrating health and wellness information in a creative way that is easy to navigate. The website also includes blog posts that showcase the results of the extensive amount of research that I performed for the development of the proposed interventions and the handout included in the educational campaign. The website is also something that I have never done before for any of my other coursework, so being able to include this shows that I do have experience working with social media and creating these types of materials for educational purposes. The handout was included in this capstone portfolio along with the website because it shows my ability to provide short and simple educational material for a specific target population. Comparing the handout to my previous coursework, it shows that I am more capable of providing health and wellness tips in a format that is specific to a target population and is also presented in a vibrant and appealing manner.   

After completing these pieces I feel I am more knowledgeable about how to address populations struggling with obesity and the obesity determinates. I am also improving my ability to develop educational materials, which are extremely important when sharing important but lengthy information with patients or clients. Before this course, I have always had trouble computing the knowledge I receive from journal articles into materials that are suited for any audience. 

If I could improve on this piece I would include my handout on a separate page on my website in order for the audience to access all of my educational materials in one place. I would have done this when creating the website. However, I was having technical difficulties when trying to create a subpage for the handout. In the future, I will use another website generator in order to achieve the finished product that I originally wanted. In the blog portion of the website, I would include a blog more suited for providing educational material on specifically on physical activity. Most of my blog information includes information that is more related to news stories or new nutrition concepts and less related to changing behavior or lifestyle habits. 


I think this piece reflects my professional growth by allowing me to create materials that I would use in a real-world situation. I chose the “Low-Income Families in Rural Maine” target because the subject was unfamiliar to me and I wanted to see what the differences were in the issues of a population that was predominantly white. I also wanted to see my abilities to work with a different population other than my own or another ethnic culture. I feel like professionally and academically this piece has helped me to improve my approach when it comes to obesity trend, determinants, comorbidities, and initiating behavior changes to reduce the occurrence of obesity. 

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