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Developing a Holistic Plan of Care Summarize Mr. Brune’s issues and needs from a holistic perspective. Explain a plan of care that will address the dimensions of wellness that are having the greatest impact on Mr. Brune’s ability to manage his diabetes. As part of your care plan, identify at least two community resources or other health professionals you would refer Mr. Brune to and […]

Identifying Dimensions of Wellness Write a brief profile of patient Gordon Brune based on what you know about him from the avatar scenario. Describe the dimensions of wellness that are influencing Mr. Brune’s situation and condition. For those that you do not identify as factors, explain why. Emotional Physical Intellectual Occupational Spiritual Social Identifying Dimensions of Wellness Write a brief profile of patient Gordon Brune […]

Using the Data to Perform a Hypothesis Test This part will make use of the body data set created in ST3001. All computations must be done in Excel and provided in the final assessment document. Be sure to provide an explanation for each of your answers and include supporting evidence from the text and/or Learning Resources. Comparing BMI by smoking status You are interested in […]

Hypothesis Testing in Research Articles This part makes use of the following article, available in the Walden Library. This article compares the health profile of African Americans raising their grandchildren solo compared to African American single parents. References Whitley, D., & Fuller-Thomson, E. (2017). African-American solo grandparents raising grandchildren: A representative profile of their health status. Journal of Community Health, 42(2), 312–323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-016-0257-8 This part focuses on two […]

Creating Confidence Intervals Using the information from Part 2 above, calculate a 90%, 95%, and 99% confidence interval for both groups and complete the following table: Group 90% confidence interval 95% confidence interval 99% confidence interval Smokers       Nonsmokers         As the level of confidence increases, what happens to the width of the confidence interval: Does it increase or decrease? […]

Using the Normal Distribution Open the Body Data file created in ST3001 and use this to address the following questions. Given that BMI is approximately normally distributed, present the following summary statistics for BMI of smokers and nonsmokers (Hint: Think about ST3001.).   Smokers Nonsmokers Mean     Standard deviation     Sample size (n)       Use this table to answer the following […]

Confidence Intervals in Research This part will make use of the following article, which explores how prevalent depression, anxiety, and stress are in healthcare workers at COVID 19 isolation sites in Botswana: Siamisang, K., Kebadiretse, D., Tjirare, L. T., Muyela, C., Gare, K., & Masupe, T. (2022). Prevalence and predictors of depression, anxiety and stress among frontline healthcare workers at COVID-19 isolation sites in Gaborone, […]

Relationships Between Health Factors As a medical researcher, you attempt to relate key health factors to each other. Are those with higher BMIs more likely to have higher or lower HDL and LDL cholesterol levels? How are factors such as age systolic blood pressure and BMI related to pulse rate? Looking at the correlation between variables will help assess the relationship between key health factors. […]

Correlation in Research For this part, you will be making use of the following article from the Walden Library: References Slavic, D., Jakovljevic, D. K., Zubnar, A., Tapavicki, B., Aleksandric, T., & Drapsin, M. (2019). Effects of different types of training on weight loss. Medicinski Pregled/Medical Review, 72(9/10), 272–279. https://doi.org/10.2298/MPNS1910272S On page 277 in this journal, there are six scatter plots. Use these scatter plots […]

To prepare for this part: Go to your welcome message from your SME in which you were assigned a random number greater than 50. Download the original Excel file titled BODY DATA. Start a new Excel file. Copy/paste all column names from the original document. Using the random number provided from your SME, go to that row of the BODY DATA file. Copy and paste the […]