Organizational Leadership, Evidence and Application
Organizational Leadership, Evidence and Application
Discuss organizational leadership evidence as it pertains to your childhood obesity
Although the project is intended to improve care outcome, support from the organization leadership is necessary for three reasons. Firstly, the project involves human subjects and the leadership must sign of on the project to show that it does not intentionally harm the participants and all possible actions would be undertaken to protect them. Secondly, the presence of organizational barriers are likely to derail the project. Finally, organization culture could influence the project, with successful organization likely to have systems in place to support the project while unsuccessful organizations are unlikely to have systems in place to support the project. In this respect, organizational leadership could influence the project by affecting its reception, support and other success factors (Colella, 2014). Organizational Leadership, Evidence and Application
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- Retrieve two peer-reviewed articles pertaining to organizational research on childhood obesity. Critique each article, highlighting the strengths and the weaknesses of each article. Interpret the statistical analysis and significance of results.
Ward et al. (2017) presented the results of a study that simulated the incidence of adult obesity for US children. Applying a quantitative research approach that recruited 41,567 participants who included children and adults taken through 176,720 observations. The study simulated the growth trajectories with 1 million children as the virtual population. The study determined that by the time they are 35 years, 57.3% (95% confidence interval, 55.2%-60.0%) of children in the United States will be obese. The implication is that there is a need to implement effective weight management strategies for children transitioning into adulthood to prevent obesity incidence. Although the study presents a good predictive model, it has the weakness of being a prediction that does not rely on actual data, particularly with regards to its use of a virtual population (Ward et al., 2017). Organizational Leadership, Evidence and Application
Trier et al. (2016) conducted a study to determine the prevalence of obesity among parents whose children were obese and undergoing treatment for the condition. The study recruited 2,210 participants of which 1,125 were children and adolescents while the remaining 1,085 participants were parents (479 fathers and 606 mothers) whose children were recruited in the program. The results noted that 70% of mothers and 80% of fathers were either overweight or obese. 60% of mothers and 58% of fathers lost weight when their children were undergoing obesity treatment for 2.5 years. Based on the study results, it can be determined that there is a high incidence of obesity among children whose parents are obese. The implication is that family-based treatments should be adopted for obesity management to ensure that parents are targeted for treatment even as their children are treated. The study can be considered very useful since it recruits a large number of participants who increase the results generalizability (Trier et al., 2016).
References
Colella, C. (2014). Communication: the heart of organizational leadership. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation.
Trier, C, Dahl, M., Stjernholm, T., Nielsen, T., Bøjsøe, C. … & Holm, J. (2016). Effects of a family-based childhood obesity treatment program on parental weight status. PLoS ONE, 11(8), e0161921. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161921
Ward, Z., Long, M., Resch, S., Giles, C., Cradock, A. & Gortmaker, S. (2017). Simulation of growth trajectories of childhood obesity into adulthood. The New England Journal of Medicine, 377, 2145-2153. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1703860 Organizational Leadership, Evidence and Application
