For this Assignment, you will consider the validity and reliability of different assessment tools and diagnostic tests. You will explore issues such as sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values. You will also consider examples of children with various weight issues. You will explore how you could effectively gather information and encourage parents and caregivers to be proactive about their children’s health and weight.
To Prepare
Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider factors that impact the validity and reliability of various assessment tools and diagnostic tests. You also will review examples of pediatric patients and their families as it relates to BMI.
By Day 1 of this week, you will be assigned to one of the following Assignment options by your Instructor: Adult Assessment Tools or Diagnostic Tests (option 1), or Child Health Case (Option 2). This has been modified to make sense for you. THIS MAY NOT BE WHAT IT READS CURRENTLY UNDER WEEK 3 REQUIREMENTS.
Based on the Assignment option assigned to you, your Instructor will also assign you assessment tools or diagnostic tests to apply to either an adult or the child health example assigned to you.
Search the Walden Library and credible sources for resources explaining the tool or test you were assigned. What is its purpose, how is it conducted, and what information does it gather?
Also, as you search the Walden library and credible sources, consider what the literature discusses regarding the validity, reliability, sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, ethical dilemmas, and controversies related to the test or tool.
If you are assigned Assignment Option 2 (Child), consider what health issues and risks may be relevant to the child in the health example.
Based on the risks you identified, consider what further information you would need to gain a full understanding of the child’s health. Think about how you could gather this information in a sensitive fashion.
Consider how you could encourage parents or caregivers to be proactive toward the child’s health.
The Assignment
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Last names A-M Assignment Option 1: Adult Assessment Tools/Diagnostic Tests (Choose one of the cases listed below)
Assignment (3–4 pages, not including title and reference pages):
Assignment Option 1: Adult Assessment Tools or Diagnostic Tests:
Assessment Tool/Diagnostic tool : PSA
Diagnostic Tool: Mammogram
Diagnostic Tool: PapSmear
Include the following:
A description of how the assessment tool or diagnostic test you were assigned is used in healthcare.
What is its purpose?
How is it conducted?
What information does it gather?
Based on your research, evaluate the test or the tool’s validity and reliability, and explain any issues with sensitivity, reliability, and predictive values. Include references in appropriate APA formatting.
Solution:
Adult Assessment Tools/ Diagnostic Tests: PSA
Patient care delivery involves the use of various assessment and diagnostic tools and tests. These help to determine what the patients suffer from and guide a treatment plan. Healthcare providers need to be completely knowledgeable of the different assessment and diagnostic tests applied in clinical practice. With this in mind, this paper discusses one of the diagnostic tools used in clinical practice, the prostate-specific antigen (PSA). It describes how it is used, its purpose, procedure of how to conduct it, the information it collects, its reliability and validity, and issues concerning sensitivity, reliability, and predictive values.
PSA Test Description
PSA, as described by Fletcher (2019), is a protein found in men’s semen, produced by the prostate and released in small quantities into the bloodstream. However, when in develops diseases e.g. infection, cancer, or enlarged prostate, the prostate begins to release more than normal (small) PSA quantities into the bloodstream. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) (2021) recommends that men aged 40-45 years at high risk and those aged 50 at moderate risk should have a PSA test to screen for prostate cancer. The American Urological Association (AUA) recommends prostate screening for 50-to 54-year-old men with an average risk for prostate cancer. However, those with a high risk need to consult with their physician to decide on having the PSA test or not. The AUA also recommends for 55-to 69-year-old men to undergo PSA screening if their physicians suggest it (Fletcher, 2019). Men aged 70 years or who have 10-15 life expectancy years do not have to undergo PSA screening. Other recommendations are those of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (UPSTF) who have it that 55-69-year-old men with prostate cancer risk may have to undergo PSA screening for prostate cancer (Tikkinen et al., 2018).
Purpose of PSA
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