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1 | Addressing Excess Weight in a Busy Women's Clinic | Hill, Liezle | 2016 | The number of adults with obesity has been rising at an alarming rate, and clinicians are challenged to increase efforts to address this condition. Over 1.6 billion adults in the world are overweight. This causes secondary conditions that ultimately lead to severe morbidity and increased mortality. ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP | |
2 | Motivational Interviewing for Health Care Change: Implementing Clinical Guidelines in the Treatment of Obesity | Dodd-Cardon, Catherine | 2015 | As the obesity epidemic continues to escalate in this country and with it the increased risk of chronic conditions and the ever-increasing expense those conditions impose upon our healthcare system, evidence-based interventions delivered by providers becomes increasingly imperative. Research shows u... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP | |
3 | An Exploration of the Use of Social Media for Weight Loss | Bolton, Kylie | 2013 | Being overweight or obese is the second most preventable cause of death behind tobacco use (Mokdad, Marks, Stroup, and Gerberding, 2004), and now obesity and being overweight has become one of America's top health crises. An estimated 155 million Americans are overweight or obese (Go et al., 2012). ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS |