Screening, gender and age-specific care

The screening process in health care is essential to catch and treat illnesses early. Many studies have been done in order to study who needs certain screenings completed. Different diseases are more prevalent in those of a certain age or gender as well as ethnicity or culture. The screening process is different depending on which illness is being screened. Some start with a questionnaire and depending on risk factors screenings are completed. Others once someone reaches certain age screenings are automatically ordered and recommended. For some, it depends on gender, age, and risk factors. If someone has a family history of a certain disease they might be advised to start screenings earlier than others.

An example of a gender-related screening would be in females for breast cancer. While men can also get breast cancer the prevalence is much lower and so the screenings are not performed on them unless other risk factors exist. Breast cancer screenings are not only gender-specific they are also age-specific. Like many screenings, there is an age at which women start to get mammograms to check for signs of breast cancer.  The recommended age is 40 and then is done annually after that. Like previously mentioned, if there is a family history of breast cancer the recommendations for mammograms will begin earlier.

A screening related to age would be a colonoscopy. This is recommended to be at age 50, or ten years earlier than the youngest family member colon cancer was diagnosed. If there are normal results from this screening they can then be done every ten years.

Different ethnicities are more prone to certain diseases, and because of this, screening should be more recommended and followed upon. A screening related to ethnicity would be checking for sickle cell disease, a hemoglobin disorder, this is more common in those of African, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mediterranean region heritage.

Important information for writing discussion questions and participation

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Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.

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Hi Class,

Please read through the following information on writing a Discussion question response and participation posts.

Contact me if you have any questions.

Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
• Here are some helpful links
• The is a great resource

Reference:

Al-Awadhi, A., Adekile, A., & Marouf, R. (2021). Relationship of Thrombospondin 1 to von Willebrand Factor and ADAMTS-13 in Sickle Cell Disease Patients of Arab Ethnicity. Acta Haematologica, 144(2), 182–189. https://doi.org/10.1159/000508521

Gawron, A. J., Yao, Y., Gupta, S., Cole, G., Whooley, M. A., Dominitz, J. A., & Kaltenbach, T. (2021). Simplifying Measurement of Adenoma Detection Rates for Colonoscopy. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 66(9), 3149–3155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-020-06627-2

Ishii, K., Tabuchi, T., & Iso, H. (2021). Combined patterns of participation in cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screenings and factors for non-participation in each screening among women in Japan. Preventive Medicine: An International Journal Devoted to Practice and Theory, 150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106627

Value: 100 points

Due: Initial post by Day 3, and reply to your peers by Day 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Initial Post

Please choose one of the following topics and respond to the thread corresponding to the question you select. Please include at least three scholarly sources within your initial post.

Note: As you are choosing a topic, please try to make sure that all topics are chosen at least by one person. You can see this by noting if anyone has posted to the topic within the corresponding threads.

1. Screening, gender- and age-specific. Discuss the screening process and upcoming possibilities for screening options. Be sure to provide examples of three different health screens (one related to age, one related to gender, and one related to ethnicity or culture).
2. Keeping patients healthy and preventative care. Include statistics regarding population-specific preventative care as well as those diseases that are caught early with better outcomes, not only to the patient but to the healthcare system (for example, independence, financial cost). Discuss three preventative care opportunities that can have a significant impact on the life and health of the patient. Focus primarily on immunizations.
3. Health counseling and education barriers to preventative care (for example, inadequate reimbursement, insufficient time, healthcare literacy). Discuss three barriers and offer suggestions as to how an APRN can address these barriers.
4. Levels of prevention (primary prevention is most important in adult learning). Review the five levels of prevention and then focus on primary prevention. Offer three innovative ways in which to engage the adult population.
5. Secondary prevention screening in the general adult population age 18–64 (diabetes, HIV, Hep C, etc.). Discuss current literature and statistics regarding secondary screening: success, failure, and cost. Review what is considered secondary screening and provide three examples.
6. Screening tools as part of health promotion and disease prevention, etc. Discuss screening tools that should be used in most healthcare settings. Some of these tools may be age-, gender-, or situation-specific. Discuss three screening tools you use daily as you engage with patients. Do you think there are benefits to using these screening tools? Why or why not?
7. Mental health care is lacking in almost every community in our country. Discuss three issues that the United States faces in terms of mental health care as related to health promotion and disease prevention. What challenges do you see in your own community?

Reply Posts

As an educational opportunity, respond to two of your peers who chose two different topics and briefly summarize a scholarly article related to the topic that provides additional information to the discussion. Reply on two separate days (minimum) utilizing at least two scholarly references (the scholarly article you are summarizing and one additional reference) per peer post.

Please refer to the for details on how this activity will be graded.

Posting to the Discussion Forum

1. Select the appropriate Thread.
2. Select Reply.
3. Create your post.
4. Select Post to Forum.

Discussion Question Rubric

Note: Scholarly resources are defined as evidence-based practice, peer-reviewed journals; textbook (do not rely solely on your textbook as a reference); and National Standard Guidelines. Review assignment instructions, as this will provide any additional requirements that are not specifically listed on the rubric.

Note: The value of each of the criterion on this rubric represents a point range. (example: 17-0 points)