NUR212 Contexts Of Practice

Task 2 Health promotion expo plan 

Use this template to document your health promotion expo plan. The idea of the expo plan is to provide a brief overview of the health issue, the target audience, why this is an important issue to the target audience and the expo activity. Submit your plan as one document per group to the tutor prior to the presentation of your expo in week 9.

Health promotion expo title:               Internet Addiction In Youths

Group members

 1)What key health priority is being addressed by this expo?

Internet addiction has become the global problem, especially for Youths. There are several key health priorities is being addressed by this expo, some of them are short-term such as unfinished tasks, forgotten responsibilities and weight gain, anxiety. Another long-term health priorities of internet addiction among youths includes backache, neck pain, vision problem, carpel tunnel syndrome, (American Addiction Resource centre, online, 2018).

2)Who is the target audience?

Our target audience is Youth. The Young people are at the higher number of developing problematic behaviours because of immaturity and lack of guidance, they spend more time online to develop their identity to get famous, play online games.

3)Why is the health issue significant to this target audience?  (some statistics on the health issue in that age group e.g. tooth decay rates in under 5s, amount of time spent playing “screen-based games” in teens, amount of activity in 5-10 age group)

According to our research, Youths are significant impacted from this Internet addiction disorder (IAD), they are facing a broad range of changes in their bodies and their feelings through the transition from childhood to adulthood. They often explore sexual identities and identity of gender They may be exploring their identities in terms of their sexuality or gender identity. In this period of their age, they easily attracted to new things either positive or negative. They want to try new stuff and willing to get an either good relationship or name and fame. They can easily have distracted from their track because of immaturity and lack of guidance. Although growing up is an exciting experience for the youths, this phase offers a rather challenging opportunity for engaging in risky behaviours, (CNBC, online, 2018).

Teens are more likely to being on social sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, YouTube, as compare to others. They want to share their life-time moments with everyone by posting memories online or sharing by messaging, and then their curiosity to know about others lead them to stay online. Unprecedently, they become target of many health issues occurred by IAD, (Young, 2004, pp 402-415).

4)What is the planned health promotion activity?

• Spreading awareness by conducting seminars at universities or in local community through adults being a living example for the youth.
• Providing free services or treatment to some teens who cannot afford such as creating time for learning skills management, setting of goals and personal inventory development, counselling and support groups or family therapy
• Giving pamphlets or relevant booklets to parents and children giving information about effects, risks and hazards of internet usage (in preferred language to different communities)
• Promote more physical activity and sports

5) What key policies are informing the activity?

Online posting and commenting

The Youth Solution media need to adhere to set regulations and guidelines when using Youth Solutions social media platform. Conforming policies and guidelines to be adhered to include; all posts adhering to copyrights issue, fair use and disclosure guidelines and making of slanderous references to the users of the platform. Using proper way of decorum when raising concerns and making complaints regarding the use of the social media platform, being polite, courteous and using appropriate language and finally considering positive morals and beliefs.

Moderation

Youth led media solutions have the reservations rights on the use in social media platforms. Posts which portray negative defamatory language or harm influence on public users ought to be deleted as soon as possible. Further, posts which go against breach of data protection guidelines, spams and links promotion to other sites and information advocating legal activity needs to be monitored.

Privacy and confidentiality

There is need for ensuring privacy for personal information and posting reasonable on the media platforms. Thus to safeguard personal data, advise posting personal details should be discouraged. Disclosure of personal information can lead to invasion of privacy and leads to location of the victim which might lead to victimization. Such practices cannot be entertained in Youth media solutions, (DHHS Victoria state Government, online 2018).

6) Which health promotion principles are being used in this expo?

Developing personal skills among the youth

Youth media solutions will embed health education and influencing positive behaviour towards developing personal behaviour when using media. Improvement of personal skills is geared towards improving the self esteem, self efficacy, and communication and life skills of protecting individual rights while on social media. This will improve overall health status.

Creating supporting environments

Youth media solutions will ensure that positive supporting environment is in place which offers guidelines on policy and ensuring safe use of the platform which offers privacy and respects rights of other users. This will be build through creating youth led media influencers in the social platform which in turns promotes good use of the platform and improves general health of the users by not allowing extreme content to be aired on the platform.

Strengthening of community action

Youth media solutions will ensure creation of alliances with other organizations with the ability to have positive influence on the use of media within the youth network, which is geared towards delivering positive of media, (National Youth Program, online 2018)..

7)What equipment and resources are required to deliver/implement this health promotion activity?

Stationery

Stationery materials which will be needed include blue tack, sticky tape, pencils, pens, highlighters, ruler , erasers, print resource materials, paper weights, participation certificates and business cards detailing business contact details of the team running the station stall.

Equipment

Required equipments include tables and table clothes, water containers, cups and electric equipments such as the computer.

Decorations

Some of the required decoration effects include posters, banners, photos make up themes and appropriate music entertainment.

References

American Addiction Resource centre. Computer/ Internet Addiction symptoms, causes and effects. Available at ;https://www.psychguides.com/guides/computerinternet-addiction-symptoms-causes-and-effects/. Accessed on 02/09/2018.

CNBC, Internet Addiction is Sweeping America Affecting millions, online. Available at : https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/us-addresses-internet-addiction-with-funded-research.html. Accessed on 02/09/2018.

DHHS, Victoria State Government, 2014. Teenage Health, Online. Available at : https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/teenage-health. (Accessed on 02/09/2018).

National Youth Program, online. Principles of Health Promotion. Available at; https://www.youthhealth.ie/content/principles-health-promotion. Accessed on 02/09/2018.

Young, K., Internet addiction. American Behavioural Scientist, 2004. 48: p. 402-415, available at : https://www.crchealth.com/troubled-teenagers/internet-addiction-teenagers/, Accessed on 01/09/2018.