Uncontrollable eating: Empowering booklet for service users and providers
Vilen, Susanna (2020)
Vilen, Susanna
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020112323906
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020112323906
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The aim of this product-based thesis was to create a booklet that offers inspiration and
empowerment to Finnish speaking service users who are suffering from uncontrollable eating, but it can also be empowerment tool for service providers helping their clients.
Uncontrollable eating can hinder physical and mental health of a person. Someone suffering from uncontrollable eating can experience social problems and emotional pain. Uncontrollable eating can disturb people coming from diverse backgrounds, levels of education and income. It can burden adults, children as well as young people.
The working life partner of this thesis was R&R project (Ruoka ja riippuvuus –hanke) which provides information and support for people suffering from uncontrollable eating and food addiction. Many of their clients have stated that they have not received the help, time and understanding they need from the public health care sector and social workers. The needs of those clients were the inspiration of this thesis. Four of the R&R project’s clients were interviewed and the booklet is based on the advice and experiences shared by them. The booklet contains questions about uncontrollable eating, for example: What are the issues behind your uncontrollable eating, what empowered you on your paths to recovery and what message do you want to deliver to professionals?
The type of evaluation used in this thesis was self-evaluation. The methods used for self-evaluation were project diary, timetables, goals and SMART objectives and SWOT analysis. The different elements in the project plan were compared to project implementation phase, the positive and negative points were analyzed and identified, and the evaluation was based on that. Recommendations for similar future projects
include extensive literature and data research prior starting the thesis writing process, investing plenty of time to planning phase and risk management: it is possible that something unexpected happens, and creativity and flexibility is needed.
empowerment to Finnish speaking service users who are suffering from uncontrollable eating, but it can also be empowerment tool for service providers helping their clients.
Uncontrollable eating can hinder physical and mental health of a person. Someone suffering from uncontrollable eating can experience social problems and emotional pain. Uncontrollable eating can disturb people coming from diverse backgrounds, levels of education and income. It can burden adults, children as well as young people.
The working life partner of this thesis was R&R project (Ruoka ja riippuvuus –hanke) which provides information and support for people suffering from uncontrollable eating and food addiction. Many of their clients have stated that they have not received the help, time and understanding they need from the public health care sector and social workers. The needs of those clients were the inspiration of this thesis. Four of the R&R project’s clients were interviewed and the booklet is based on the advice and experiences shared by them. The booklet contains questions about uncontrollable eating, for example: What are the issues behind your uncontrollable eating, what empowered you on your paths to recovery and what message do you want to deliver to professionals?
The type of evaluation used in this thesis was self-evaluation. The methods used for self-evaluation were project diary, timetables, goals and SMART objectives and SWOT analysis. The different elements in the project plan were compared to project implementation phase, the positive and negative points were analyzed and identified, and the evaluation was based on that. Recommendations for similar future projects
include extensive literature and data research prior starting the thesis writing process, investing plenty of time to planning phase and risk management: it is possible that something unexpected happens, and creativity and flexibility is needed.