The impact of childhood obesity as a risk to premature development of chronic illnesses
Question
The impact of childhood obesity as a risk to premature development of chronic illnesses
Crtiteria assignment
1. Manuscript problem to be addressed
2. background support
3. one sentence purpose
4. Select a topic for your planned systematic review manuscript based on an area about which you
are passionate.
o It may relate to your current idea for your scholarly project, but it will not be your scholarly
project.
o A systematic review addresses a specific clinical question through a comprehensive
search of the literature.
5. one-page document that presents your selected topic, describes the problem you plan to address
in your manuscript, and defines the purpose of the manuscript in one sentence. You will share
two potential journals for use in your manuscript.
6. Succinctly describe the problem you plan to address in your manuscript by providing a brief
literature supported background.
o Use of the PICOS framework will help organize your problem and purpose statements.
o PICOS includes participants, interventions, comparison interventions, outcomes, and
study designs.
o Do not write an actual PICOS statement, but rather include those variables in your
purpose statement.
7. Define the purpose of the manuscript in one sentence.
o For example, if the problem is medication adherence for HIV positive people, the purpose
statement (which includes the PICOS elements) might be: The purpose of this systematic
review (study design) is to assess the state of the literature related to medication
adherence (outcome) by HIV positive individuals (participants/population) who receive
medication reminders via text messaging (intervention), compared (comparison) to other
reminder systems
Journals
1. Journal 1
Primary prevention of overweight and obesity in adolescents: An overview of
systematic reviews PMID: 32677208
DOI: 10.1111/obr.13102
2. Journal 2
Association of Childhood Obesity and the Immune System: A Systematic Review
of Reviews PMID: 28604080
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2016.0176
