Learning Outcome
Evaluate work that has already been done to solve a specified public health problem.
Assignment
Discuss what others have done to address the public health issue of Cyber Addiction in Adolescents in the United States (age range 10-19 years old). The discussion should include programs that currently exist in the US that focus on solving this public health problem. Include a discussion of the strengths and limitations of the programs.
Your discussion of current efforts should also include information about research that has been conducted in the same community or a similar demographic, that is targeted at solving the problem. It should include a description of any knowledge or policy gaps. This does not need to be a comprehensive overview of all current efforts. The program limitations, research gaps and policy gaps identified in this assignment will be basis for your proposed intervention(s).
Before you can write a comprehensive current efforts section, you need to be familiar with what programs and researchers have already done to solve the problem. As you did with the introduction assignment, do a search of public health databases such as PubMed, Academic Search Complete, and Google Scholar to find articles on programs and research that have been done to solve the problem.
This assignment has 5 steps: *See the attached document for formatting examples
Submit one document with steps 1 – 5 in order:
1. Determine the inclusion criteria for the papers that you want to use to write this section.
2. Create a flowchart of the search process (there is no minimum # of articles that should be used to write the current efforts, but you must review at least 15 abstracts).
3. Write your reasons for excluding the articles in the respective tables.
4. Create and outline
5. Write the current efforts section (Start with an outline of what you plan to cover in your paper).
Assignment Submission Requirements
· 4-5 pages, 12 pt font, double-spaced
· Use relevant references to support your arguments
| Inclusion Criteria and Flowchart | Completed all boxes in the flow chart correctly, including inclusion criteria and reasons for exclusion of articles. |
| Abstracts searched | Reviewed a minimum of 15 abstracts from peer reviewed articles |
| Paper Outline | Creates a clear outline that demonstrates a logical order of information or clearly groups similar ideas together. |
| Current Efforts | Clearly describes how others have addressed the issue in the community or population of interest. Discusses the strengths and limitations associated with each current effort described, using relevant references. |
| Research, knowledge gaps, and policy gaps | Discusses what research has been done on the topic using relevant references. |
| Writing Quality | Free of spelling errors and uses good grammar, uses good sentence structure throughout and written content flows well |
| Bibliography (AMA style) | Provides in-text citations for data and statements of fact. References are from peer reviewed journals, in proper AMA style including author names, article title, journal abbreviation, and punctuation. No more than 10% of references are from websites/government reports. |
