Date of Award

12-1-2022

Document Type

Scholarly Project

Degree Name

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

Department

Nursing

First Advisor

Hilary Morgan, PhD, CNM, CNE

Second Advisor

Joy Sessa, PhD, RN, CCRN, SCRN, CNE

Abstract

Practice Problem: The citizens of the United States are known for being overweight or obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2021) reported that approximately 74% of adults are either overweight or obese. PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was In overweight adults (P), does telemonitoring weekly for counseling and weigh-in (I) compared to current practice (C) decrease BMI over an 8-week period of time (T)? Evidence: The citizens of the United States are known for being overweight or obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2021) reported that approximately 74% of adults are either overweight or obese and it is hard to lose weight. Lifestyle interventions are more effective if the patient has one on one support with a medical provider (Kempf et al., 2018). Intervention: The intervention to improve BMI is weekly weigh-ins through weekly telemonitoring visits with the medical provider. Outcome: The results showed there is not a statistically significant improvement in BMI using telehealth for weekly weigh-ins over an eight-week period of time. Conclusion: This project was to use telehealth for weekly weigh-ins and support to reduce BMI by one point over an eight-week period of time. The results did not show a statistically significant improvement in BMI even though there was an overall improvement in the average BMI and weight of the participants. To improve this project in the future, further research will need to be conducted to identify additional interventions that may yield better results. One of the changes I would suggest is a longer period of time (than 8 weeks) for the project to be conducted to get better results.

Comments

Scholarly project submitted to the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Nursing Practice

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