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Problem
You will analyse an international project reported in an academic research journal. This primary source will be a scholarly journal article/paper will be an evaluation of the project.
An evaluation report should tell you to what extent the intervention made a difference. You want to find out whether the project in fact reduced risks or strengthened children's protective factors, and what were the activities that seemed to make things better for children and their families. The paper will be from peer reviewed journals and not just a report from the organisation saying ...'look we did a great job'. You need to find an evaluation report that is peer-reviewed, rigorous and well researched.
This is one example to find peer-review artilce
Your focus area is children with a chronic illness or who have experienced long term hospitalisation. Get the instant assignment help.
You can explore this vulnerability in more than one way, remember that during the tutorials and lectures we discussed the concept of intervening early or preventing the impact of risk factors (ACE) so as to enhance the child's outcomes and that finding the right services requires some lateral thinking.
Your research could focus on one chronic illness such asthma or you could answer one of the following and think about which programs might help:
1. How do we reduce the impact of the subsequent risk factors for children who are hospitalised due to ill health- eg poor school attendance, loss of friendships, isolation, parent stress?
2. How do we reduce the impact of hospitalisation (at hospital) on children's well-being e.g. play therapy, music therapy, family support?
3. How do we prevent children needing to go to hospital for long periods of time or acquiring a chronic illness - programs such as awareness programs- Sunsmart, prevention of obesity, nutrition, playground safety?