Advocacy for Autonomy and Social Justice for Individuals and Diverse Populations
Assessment Description
Review your problem or issue and the cultural assessment. Consider how the findings connect to your topic and intervention for your capstone change project. Write a list of three to five objectives for your proposed intervention. Below each objective, provide a one or two sentence rationale.
After writing your objectives, provide a rationale for how your proposed project and objectives advocate for autonomy and social justice for individuals and diverse populations.
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Benchmark Information
This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:
RN to BSN
2.5: Advocate for autonomy and social justice for individuals and diverse populations.
Advocacy for Autonomy and Social Justice for Individuals and Diverse Populations
Regarding the proposed capstone project, the selected topic was type 2 diabetes. The PICOT question was: In patients residing in high prevalence areas (P), what are the impact of community-based diabetes and healthy lifestyle education (I) compared to no education (C) on the disease knowledge and prevalence (O) over six months (T)? This study aims to understand how community-based diabetes and healthy lifestyle education can affect residents’ diabetes knowledge and prevalence within six months.
Diabetes affects people of all ages and its prevalence is relatively high in some cultures than others. According to Sari et al. (2022), cultural beliefs play a significant role in diabetes self-management. Some cultures eat certain foods that could escalate type 2 diabetes prevalence. In Indonesia, some people believe that consuming large amounts of cold rice would not lead to diabetes. In some communities, they believe that eating a lot of palm sugar cannot lead to diabetes (Sari et al., 2022). Education would help high-risk people change their behavior and in turn prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. These findings support the need for education and lifestyle changes to prevent diabetes (Himalowa et al., 2020). The intervention in the proposed study includes diabetes and lifestyle education to enhance participants’ knowledge and reduce prevalence.
Objectives
- To educate the community members about diabetes and recommended lifestyle changes.
- To improve the knowledge of the community regarding diabetes and prevention.
- To reduce type 2 diabetes prevalence within the community.
- To enhance behavior change among the members to allow them to embrace healthy lifestyle practices.
The proposed project and objectives advocate for autonomy and social justice for individuals and diverse populations in one way or the other. The project objectives include improving the knowledge of individuals regarding diabetes including prevention through lifestyle and behavior change. The project also aims to reduce the prevalence of type 2 diabetes among high-risk individuals. All these objectives are geared towards enhancing social justice for individuals and the entire population. Education is one of the ways to promote social justice increasing public knowledge that will help reduce diabetes incidences (Gutierrez, 2020). Patient autonomy is highly appreciated in the proposed study. Before the research study, the researchers will identify potential participants and explain to them about the study. Furthermore, they will be offered a consent form to sign to show that they agreed voluntarily to participate. Therefore, the study promotes patient autonomy and social justice for individuals and populations.
This study is relevant based on the findings of Shirvani et al. (2021), that diabetes education is effective in reducing disease incidences in the community. The authors stated further that public education is perceived as a powerful tool in the primary prevention of diabetes. Public knowledge bears are a crucial component of health literacy and bear importance in enhancing the prevention of diabetes.
In summary, the project capstone aims to identify people at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes and provide diabetes and healthy lifestyle education to improve participants’ knowledge as well as reduced diabetes incidences. Therefore, study supports social justice and the autonomy of individuals and populations.
References
Gutierrez, C. (2020). Improving the care of students with diabetes in rural schools utilizing an online diabetes education program for school personnel. Rural and Remote Health, 20(1). . https://doi.org/10.22605/RRH5596
Himalowa, S., Mweshi, M. M., Banda, M., Frantz, J., & Kunda, R. (2020). Original Paper Strategies to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus among School Children: A Systematic Review. Research in Health Science. 5. P64. https://doi.org/10.22158/rhs.v5n2p64.
Shirvani, T., Javadivala, Z., Azimi, S., Shaghaghi, A., Fathifar, Z., Devender Bhalla, H. D. R., & Nadrian, H. (2021). Community-based educational interventions for prevention of type II diabetes: a global systematic review and meta-analysis. Systematic reviews, 10(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01619-3
Sari, Y., Yusuf, S., Kusumawardani, L. H., Sumeru, A., & Sutrisna, E. (2022). The cultural beliefs and practices of diabetes self-management in Javanese diabetic patients: An ethnographic study. Heliyon, 8(2), e08873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e08873