[{"id":93,"date":"2020-12-15T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2020-12-18T00:27:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T00:27:45","slug":"references","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/references\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<h3>WHY: Risk and Motivation<\/h3>\n<p>Looking for more information about potential risk, CVD prevalence, or motivation to being a heart health journey?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out these sites:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/heartdisease\/women.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC&#8217;s page for Women and Heart Disease<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goredforwomen.org\/en\/about-heart-disease-in-women\/facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Heart Association&#8217;s Go Red for Women Campaign\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.world-heart-federation.org\/resources\/women-cvd-facts-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Heart Federation&#8217;s Women and CVD Facts and Tips<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>WHAT: Dietary Understanding<\/h3>\n<p>Interested in learning more about the different types of fats, what foods contain fat, and how to increase healthy fat intake?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Try these sites:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/healthy-lifestyle\/nutrition-and-healthy-eating\/in-depth\/fat\/art-20045550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mayo Clinic&#8217;s Dietary Fats Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.choosemyplate.gov\/node\/5664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyPlate&#8217;s Dietary Fat Examples <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diet\/ss\/slideshow-healthy-fat-foods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WebMd&#8217;s Healthy Fats Breakdown <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>HOW: SMART Goals<\/h3>\n<p>Excited by SMART goals and want to learn more?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit these sites:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindtools.com\/pages\/article\/smart-goals.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MindTool&#8217;s SMART Toolkit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indeed.com\/career-advice\/career-development\/smart-goals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indeed&#8217;s SMART Examples<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcckc.edu\/counseling\/goal-setting\/docs\/SMARTGoalWorksheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SMART Goals Worksheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resources WHY: Risk and Motivation Looking for more information about potential risk, CVD prevalence, or motivation to being a heart health journey? Check out these sites: CDC&#8217;s page for Women and Heart Disease American Heart Association&#8217;s Go Red for Women Campaign\u00a0 World Heart Federation&#8217;s Women and CVD Facts and Tips &nbsp; WHAT: Dietary Understanding Interested &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3536,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-93","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":87,"date":"2020-12-15T22:08:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2020-12-17T22:06:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:06:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Us: Smart Start Program Summary<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Smart Start is a virtual program aimed at providing young adult women with the knowledge and skills needed to increase their healthy fat consumption in order to prevent the development or worsening symptoms of cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental component:<\/p>\n<p>An administration team will be responsible for marketing, registration, and scheduling. Posters that advertise the program and provide contact information will be produced and distributed to establishments frequented by this demographic such as grocery stores, boutiques, coffee shops, cafes, bars and restaurants. A social media campaign will be launched to draw a being audience. The accounts will provide contact information and links to register for the program.<\/p>\n<p>Curriculum component:<\/p>\n<p>The program will be comprised of 6 sessions, 1 session a week for 6 weeks. The curriculum is broken into three modules- Why: Risk Assessment and Motivation, What: Dietary Understanding, and How: Smart Goals- each being completed across the span of 2 sessions. Each session will be conducted virtually through Zoom and will last for approximately 60 minutes. Sessions will consist of one educator and no more than 5 women per group. The educators will be nutrition professionals and will be trained in the material and familiar with the lesson plans.<\/p>\n<p>The Why: Risk Assessment and Motivation will contain the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instructors will educate participants on cardiovascular disease (CVD), focusing on prevalence and risk for target demographic<\/li>\n<li>Instructors will provide the participants with a self-assessments of risky behaviors\/risk factors to be completed<\/li>\n<li>Instructors will facilitate group discussions to talk about the results of the self-assessments and give the participants a chance to connect and share like experiences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The What: Dietary Understanding<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instructors will educate participants on diet\u2019s role in CVD prevention<\/li>\n<li>Instructors will discuss the different types of fats and what foods in which they are found<\/li>\n<li>Instructors will provide ways to increase healthy fat consumption<\/li>\n<li>Instructors will facilitate group discussions to talk about current dietary habits, nutrition knowledge and give the participants a chance to connect and share like experiences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The How: SMART Goals<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instructors will discuss the importance of creating SMART goals to succeed in behavior changes<\/li>\n<li>Instructors will identify the components of SMART goals<\/li>\n<li>Instructors will facilitate the participants creation of personalized SMART goals<\/li>\n<li>Instructors will lead group discussions to share the personal SMART goals created and to provide feedback and support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Training component:<\/p>\n<p>The instructors will be nutrition professionals with a firm understanding of nutrition principles. They will require training sessions before the beginning of the program. Training will consist of two sessions and all necessary materials will be provided during theses sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Training will consist of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A technology literacy lesson, providing education on how to run the programs (i.e. Zoom, etc.) necessary for the program<\/li>\n<li>Coverage of lesson plan and topics to be discussed<\/li>\n<li>Demonstration of facilitation of assessments and discussions<\/li>\n<li>Involvement of instructors in role play and mock sessions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Us: Smart Start Program Summary Smart Start is a virtual program aimed at providing young adult women with the knowledge and skills needed to increase their healthy fat consumption in order to prevent the development or worsening symptoms of cardiovascular disease. Environmental component: An administration team will be responsible for marketing, registration, and scheduling. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3536,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":83,"date":"2020-12-15T22:04:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2020-12-15T22:04:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:04:33","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3536,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":78,"date":"2020-12-15T21:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2020-12-17T22:39:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:39:25","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Smart Start for a Healthy Heart:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2><strong>Helping Young Women Create a Heart Healthy Future<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Smart Start initiative focuses on providing young adult women with the tools and skills needed to cultivate and maintain a heart healthy lifestyle. Throughout this 6 week program, trained nutrition professionals will guide you through 3 different sessions: <a href=\"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/2020\/12\/16\/smart-start-why-what-and-how\/\">the Why, the What, and the How.<\/a> Each session will provide you with a different aspect necessary for starting your healthy heart journey.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;About <strong>1 in 16 women age 20 and older (6.2%) have coronary heart disease<\/strong>, the most common type of heart disease&#8221;- CDC<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ttfmake-embed-wrapper aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px;\"><iframe title=\"Go Red For Women \u2122 presents: &#039;Just a Little Heart Attack&#039;\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7wmPWTnDbE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer of women<\/strong>, causing 1 in 3 deaths each year&#8221;- American Heart Association<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chronic disease education tends to be targeted at older adult populations. We feel that young adult women are often over looked when it comes to heart health education, despite being part of an at risk population.<\/p>\n<h3>Smart Start aims to change that.<\/h3>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-110 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1778\/2020\/12\/Untitled-design-2-e1608236027665-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1778\/2020\/12\/Untitled-design-2-e1608236027665-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1778\/2020\/12\/Untitled-design-2-e1608236027665-1024x688.png 1024w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1778\/2020\/12\/Untitled-design-2-e1608236027665-768x516.png 768w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1778\/2020\/12\/Untitled-design-2-e1608236027665.png 1388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our &#8220;Why&#8221; provides women with risk assessment and education on CVD. We aim to provide motivation to begin to cultivate a heart healthy lifestyle as a form of prevention. The &#8220;What&#8221; portion addresses the role diet plays in CVD prevention. We discuss the different types of fats and how to increase healthy fat consumption. Finally, our &#8220;How&#8221; sessions provide women with the tools to create SMART goals so they can maintain the changes they started through Smart Start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart Start for a Healthy Heart: Helping Young Women Create a Heart Healthy Future The Smart Start initiative focuses on providing young adult women with the tools and skills needed to cultivate and maintain a heart healthy lifestyle. Throughout this 6 week program, trained nutrition professionals will guide you through 3 different sessions: the Why, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3536,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":16,"date":"2020-12-15T16:55:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2020-12-17T19:28:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:28:24","slug":"process-evaluation-plan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/about\/process-evaluation-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Process Evaluation Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Process Evaluation Plan:<\/h2>\n<p>Smart Start is committed to ensuring our participants&#8217; outcomes are successful long-term. Because of this, we have developed a plan to monitor program implementation. This plan will also help us understand the relationship between elements of the program and program outcomes.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\"><strong>Target of Question<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"144\"><strong>Process- Evaluation Question<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"144\"><strong>Method of Assessment for Question<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"144\"><strong>Resources Required<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">Recruitment<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">What did the instructors do to encourage the participants to refer the program to others?<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Interview with instructors<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Questionnaire with open-ended questions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">Reach<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">What percentage of those who registered completed all 6 sessions?<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Document and record head count for every session<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">List of participants, chart to record attendance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">Fidelity<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">To what extend was each of the modules implemented as stated in the complete and acceptable delivery?<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Assessment by instructor<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Checklist of topics to be covered\/ modules\u2019 objectives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">Context<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">What effect did the virtual setting have on the appeal of the program?<\/p>\n<p>Was the schedule and length of the program\u2019s sessions appropriate?<\/p>\n<p>What were any barriers or facilitators to the implementation of the program?<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Exit interview with participants<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Questionnaire with open-ended questions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">Dose Delivered<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Was the curriculum completed in full (i.e. were all 3 modules completed in full)?<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Assessment by instructor<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Checklist of topics to be covered\/ modules\u2019 objectives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">Dose Received<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Did the participants actively participate in the program?<\/p>\n<p>Did the participants enjoy the program?<\/p>\n<p>Did the participants change their dietary patterns as a result of the program?<\/p>\n<p>Were the instructors satisfied with the end results of the program?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Satisfaction scales and interviews immediately after the last session and one month following<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">Questionnaires using Likert scale and open-ended questions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Process Evaluation Plan: Smart Start is committed to ensuring our participants&#8217; outcomes are successful long-term. Because of this, we have developed a plan to monitor program implementation. This plan will also help us understand the relationship between elements of the program and program outcomes. 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Statement, Goals, and Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mission Statement, Goals, and Objectives<\/h2>\n<h3>&#8220;An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure&#8221; &#8211; Ben Franklin<\/h3>\n<p>We believe health goals should fit into your lifestyle! Our mission statement, goals, and objectives have been carefully created to ensure we provide young women with the tools necessary to succeed in their heart healthy goals while maintaining a lifestyle they enjoy.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Mission Statement<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-112 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1778\/2020\/12\/Untitled-design-3-e1608237684839-300x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1778\/2020\/12\/Untitled-design-3-e1608237684839-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1778\/2020\/12\/Untitled-design-3-e1608237684839-1024x706.png 1024w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1778\/2020\/12\/Untitled-design-3-e1608237684839-768x530.png 768w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1778\/2020\/12\/Untitled-design-3-e1608237684839.png 1393w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/>This program is aimed at providing young adult women with the knowledge and skills needed to increase their healthy fat consumption in order to prevent the development or worsening symptoms of cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide awareness of cardiovascular disease risk in young adult women<\/li>\n<li>Teach young adult women the skills needed to provide long-term health changes<\/li>\n<li>Help increase self-efficacy of dietary changes in young adult women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Objectives<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Participants will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fill out food frequency questionnaires at the beginning and end of the program to assess their healthy fat consumption (process)<\/li>\n<li>Be provided with health statistics to establish prevalence of cardiovascular disease amongst women and importance of healthy fat consumption (impact, learning)<\/li>\n<li>Reduce their perceived barriers of increasing healthy fat consumption (impact, learning)<\/li>\n<li>Develop and use SMART goals and action plans to help increase consumption of healthy fats (impact, behavioral)<\/li>\n<li>Sustain long-term consumption of healthy fats (outcome)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Statement, Goals, and Objectives &#8220;An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure&#8221; &#8211; Ben Franklin We believe health goals should fit into your lifestyle! Our mission statement, goals, and objectives have been carefully created to ensure we provide young women with the tools necessary to succeed in their heart healthy goals while &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3536,"featured_media":0,"parent":87,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":12,"date":"2020-12-15T16:55:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2020-12-17T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T21:52:14","slug":"program-rationale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/smartstart\/about\/program-rationale\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Rationale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>A Rationale for the Development of Smart Start<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death for women in the United States. In 2017, it was responsible for 299,578 female deaths, which equates to approximately 1 in every 5 deaths (CDC, 2020). Traditional risk factors for CVD include obesity, poor diet, lack of physical activity, excessive alcohol consumption, diabetes, and smoking (CDC, 2020). However, women with diabetes and those who smoke are at a higher risk of CVD than their male counterparts (Young &amp; Cho, 2019). Women are also susceptible to sex-specific risk factors such as pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, early menopause and autoimmune disease (Young &amp; Cho, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>While common perceptions associate chronic diseases with older adult populations, approximately 1 in 16 women age 20 and older have coronary heart disease and CVD mortality rates are on the rise in women ages 35-54 years old (CDC, 2020; Young &amp; Cho, 2019). Although only about half of women in the United States recognize that heart disease is their number 1 killer, even less recognize the prevalence in younger populations (CDC, 2020). Many of the risk factors can be identified and modified at an early age, specifically poor diet (Young &amp; Cho, 2019). While dietary recommendations have focused on decreasing saturated fat intake to lower CVD risk, studies have shown that replacing it with polyunsaturated fats even further reduces risk (Liu, et al., 2017).<\/p>\n<p>These statistics have identified a need for an education program that provides young adult women with knowledge of how to reduce their risk of CVD by adjusting their diet. Smart Start will be a virtual program that will consist of 1 session a week for 6 weeks. The curriculum will be broken into three modules- Why: Risk Assessment and Motivation, What: Dietary Understanding, and How: Smart Goals. At the end of the program, participants will be able to develop a heart healthy diet by identifying the differences in types of fats and the importance of increased consumption of healthy fats. They will learn how to use SMART goals and action plans that will allow them to succeed in implementing long lasting dietary changes.<\/p>\n<p>By adjusting their diets at an early age, these women can potentially reduce their risk of CVD, America\u2019s costliest disease. Not only are medical costs related to CVD currently totaling $318 billion, but indirect costs are totaling $237 billion (AHA, 2020). These indirect costs present to the community as a loss of days of work by employed individuals, a loss of work by those who are too sick to work, and a loss of home productivity (AHA, 2020). Total costs are estimated to continue to increase, reaching over $1 trillion by 2035 (AHA, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>This program will succeed because it emphasizes focusing on an underserved population. This group it is often left out of education programs since they are old enough to be considered educated and yet young enough to be excluded from being considered an at-risk population. It will provide awareness of the need for education, as well as nutrition and dietary knowledge, and teach the participants the skills needed to succeed in long term habit changes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p>American Heart Association. (2020). Cardiovascular Disease: A Costly Burden for America, Projections through 2035. Retrieved from <a href=\"https:\/\/healthmetrics.heart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Cardiovascular-Disease-A-Costly-Burden.pdf\">https:\/\/healthmetrics.heart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Cardiovascular-Disease-A-Costly-Burden.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020). Women and Heart Disease. Retrieved from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/heartdisease\/women.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/heartdisease\/women.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liu, A.G., Ford, N.A., Hu, F.B.\u00a0<em>et al.<\/em>\u00a0(2017) A healthy approach to dietary fats: understanding the science and taking action to reduce consumer confusion.\u00a0<em>Nutr J<\/em>\u00a0<strong>16,\u00a0<\/strong>53 (2017). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12937-017-0271-4\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12937-017-0271-4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Young, L., &amp; Cho, L. (2019). Unique cardiovascular risk factors in women. <em>Heart,<\/em> <em>105<\/em>(21), 1656-1660. doi:10.1136\/heartjnl-2018-314268<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rationale for the Development of Smart Start Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death for women in the United States. In 2017, it was responsible for 299,578 female deaths, which equates to approximately 1 in every 5 deaths (CDC, 2020). 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