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Comparing resources for maladies
1. Choose a population
The population I have chosen is families with children with Phenylketonuria. Typically these families have young children, because symptoms of this condition manifest within months. The primary concern of these families is to get their children the care they need to have healthy lives. Those needs include proper dietary measures (Diesen, 2016, p. 1002) and ways to counteract the accumulation of phenylalanine (Jha et al, 2017, p. 187). This population needs to know what options are available.
2. I: The intervention is a web-based parent/child/family resource. When evaluating the chosen source, begin with these questions:
Is the chosen parent/child/family resource valuable? Does it serve a perceived need?
The web-based intervention selected is Mayo Clinic. This particular resource is of considerable value. It serves the perceived need of providing information that acts as the foundation for the assistance required of children who have Phenylketonuria. To that end it furnishes fairly comprehensive information. Specific information relates to pharmaceuticals, symptoms, risk factors, and other aspects of this condition. Its primary value is the broad array of information it contains.
Does the resource provide information or support...
Still, Mayo Clinic presents a bevy of information in one place that is readily accessible. Certainly, some of this information is found on other web sites or is accessible through medical practitioners. Nonetheless, information such as prevention may be less commonly found outside of this site.
Is the information in the resource current and accurate? Is it appropriately written for the population served?
The information contained in this resource is current. The page was either completed (or more than likely updated) on the 17th of October, 2017. Moreover, the information contained on this page is on the whole accurate. Perhaps one of the strengths of this resource is the tone and diction with which it was written. It is written in easy English and provides a degree of lucidity invaluable to its population.
Who is responsible for authoring, publishing, maintaining or otherwise running the resource? What are that person’s credentials?
There is a fair amount of ambiguity related to the author of this particular page on Mayo Clinic. The page itself is attributed to…
References
Diesen, Plata. (2016). ‘I feel lucky’: Gratitude among young adults with phenylketonuria (PKU). Journal of Genetic Counseling. 25(5), 1002-1009.
Jha, P., Chaudhaury, N., Abhinav, P. (2017). A case report: Phenylketonuria in a one year-old child from India. International Archives of Integrated Medicine. 4(9), 187-190.
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