Essay Instructions: Task 1. Normative and Felt Needs Assessment
Scenario
You can assume that you are a dietitian-nutritionist and that your health service has
received a number of requests to promote vegetables and fruit as a preventive strategy
for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). You can also assume that a literature review
summarising the epidemiological evidence on this issue has already been done.
To determine the need for a community intervention and to set a case for program
development and funding, you will select one of the following target groups upon which
to structure a Normative Needs Assessment and Felt Needs Assessment Plan. Here,
you will utilise relevant health indicator data to explore the magnitude and significance
of T2DM to public health in Australia and locally for your chosen target group. Having
profiled your local community, you will then submit a Felt Needs Assessment Plan and
survey tool for enquiring about community perceptions of T2DM, vegetable and fruit
consumption and their opinion of appropriate nutrition interventions.
You can choose to focus your Needs Assessment on the population at risk of
developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (prevention) or the population with Type 2
Diabetes at risk of developing complications (management). The target groups are:
1-Aboriginal men and women aged 25 - 54 years, living in City of Playford
www.playford.sa.gov.au
Or
2- Overweight men and women aged 25 - 64 years, from low-income families
(<$21, 000 per annum) living in the City of Onkaparinga.
www.onkaparinga.sa.gov.au ...<<<
Guidelines for this Assessment Task
Maximum length is 12 A-4 pages, 2cm margins, 1.5-spaced, tables, figures, survey
tool included. The reference list can be in addition to the page limit and single spaced.
The Normative Needs Assessment should:
1) Provide a concise presentation of relevant health indicator data (prevalence,
incidence, burden of disease) to demonstrate the magnitude and significance of T2DM
for the general population and relevant high risk sub-groups in Australia. Identify
relevant Nutrition and Health Policies that support a public health intervention.
2) Having defined the health problem on a national level, you now want to position the
problem as it relates to your chosen target group and their Local Government Area. To
demonstrate a clear understanding of your target group, the profile should include:
A description of the Local Government Area and relevant socio-demographic
characteristics of the population.
Relevant health status information including the prevalence of T2DM and
related risk factors amongst this group.
Information on their vegetable and fruit consumption.
A profile of relevant health & community services and community infrastructure
in the local government area (with a view of highlighting accessibility or gaps in
services and opportunities for potential collaboration and partnerships).
The Felt Needs Assessment Plan should:
1) Describe the selected method for surveying the felt needs of your target group, how
it is to be implemented, how data will be collected & analysed and how results will be
communicated to key stakeholders and used to inform the next stage in the program
development cycle. The selected method for surveying the felt needs of your target
group should be culturally appropriate and justified within primary health care
principles. The plan should also take into consideration any potential limitations of the
selected survey method and barriers to implementation.
2) Include the tool that will be used to enquire about community perceptions. The tool
should demonstrate that it has been designed to suit the needs of your target group
with regards to selected method, content, layout and use of language. The enquiry into
vegetable and fruit consumption (ie the questions included in the survey tool) should
consider a combination of (a) individual factors eg. knowledge, attitudes, and
behaviours, (b) environmental factors eg. availability, cost, access, policy, community
services, and (c) social factors eg. cultural practices, peer influences, social support,
equipment.
Assessment Criteria (30 marks)
1. Normative needs assessment (14 marks)
1.1 Overview of the magnitude and significance of the problem (6 marks)
Complete range of data, adequate depth. Australian data used, data is current,
accurate, relevant and appropriately referenced.
Succinct, minimal repetition tables/figures and text.
Appropriate conclusions reached.
Evidence of wider reading.
1.2 Profile of Target group and LGA (8 marks)
Comprehensive presentation of available data, relevant, succinct.
Appropriate conclusions reached.
Evidence of wider reading.
2. Felt needs assessment (14 marks)
2.1 Plan for conducting the Felt Needs Assessment (8 marks)
Plan is appropriate for target group and justified within primary health care
principles.
Methods for implementation, data collection & analysis and communication of
results are clearly described, practical and logical.
2.2 Survey Tool (6 marks)
Tool is appropriate for target group with regards to selected method, content,
layout and language used.
Survey questions consider individual, environmental & social factors affecting
fruit and vegetable consumption.
Survey questions are relevant, useful and logical.
3. Overall presentation & referencing (2 marks)
Assignment is well organised, logical, flows well.
Appropriate language, grammar, and spelling.
Within page limit.
Referencing system correctly and consistently applied (Harvard system).
Statements, facts and figures are appropriately referenced in text and listed in
the reference list.
Data presentation creative.
I choose this one :
Overweight men and women aged 25 - 64 years, from low-income families
(<$21, 000 per annum) living in the City of Onkaparinga.
www.onkaparinga.sa.gov.au ...<<<
when do you make the refrences you must make like this:
For example:
In tex refrences
(Kelehare & MacDougall 2009, pp.3-16)
In the list refrences
Keleher, H & MacDougall, C 2009, 'Understanding health', in H Keleher & C MacDougall (eds) , Understanding health a determinants approach, 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp.3-16.
Also ,
In tex refrence
(WHO 2010)
In the list
World Health Organisation 2010, Social determinants of health, n.d., viewed 18 April 2010,< http://www.who.int/social_determinants/en/>.
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