How will you communicate your research findings to key

Question

1. Analyze Food and Health Behaviors, Assets, and Needs to State Program Behavioral Goals (Step 1)
   • Identify high-priority health issues and primary intended audience
   • Identify high-priority health behaviors contributing to the selected issues
   • Statement of the program's behavioral or action goals
2. Identify Personal and Environmental Mediators of Change (Step 2)
   • Description of the socio-cultural audience in which your audience lives
   • List of current behaviors, practices, and environmental factors that are assets
   • List of thoughts, feelings, and skills that potentially mediate audiences motivation to act
   • List of potential actions for the program to take to provide environmental and policy supports
   • Description of audience characteristics and list of resource considerations
3. Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice (Step 3 and Step 4)
   • Program theoretical model
   • Statement of philosophy of nutrition education
   • Statement of personal perspective on nutrition content and issues
   • List of program components
   • Nutrition education program objectives for all components
4. Design Nutrition Education (Step 5)
   • List general educational objectives for each session
   • Describe the overall design plan for the session in the form of a matrix that links mediators, objectives, and activities
   • Write the narrative educational plan that translates the matrix into a form ready for teaching and presenting
   • Discuss how learning style research will be used for implementation of program
   • Include the two pieces of nutrition education material designed for the program - one visually based and one text-based to be delivered using the Web
   • Include the resource list that you developed
5. Implement Nutrition Education
   • Describe implementation plan for delivering the nutrition education program via the Internet and in a face to face setting
   • Including implementation timeline
6. Evaluate Nutrition Education (Step 6)
   • Diagram of conceptual framework for program evaluation
   • Indicators of and measures for evaluating individual level changes
   • Description of and hotlink to three surveys created to evaluated the three levels of change (mediators, behaviors, health outcomes)
   • Discussion of how the program and evaluation data could contribute to research in the field
   • How will you communicate your research findings to key stakeholders and community members?
7. Nutrition Educators as Change Agents
   • Explain the major roles and responsibilities of nutrition education professionals in planning, implementing, evaluating, and managing your health education intervention.
   Part 2

2a. Create an 8-10 slide PowerPoint presentation summarizing the main points of your intervention. Include the following key pieces of information:

• Nutrition issue and audience identified and justification
• Theory used and justification
• Program objectives
• Outline of sequenced educational activities
• Summary of environmental support plan, delivery plan, and evaluation plan
• Key points of the two pieces of nutrition education multimedia created