Fries E, Meyer A, Danish S, Stanton C, Figueiredo M, Green S, Brunelle J, Townsend C, Buzzard M
Department of Psychology and the Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 23284, USA.
J Cancer Educ. 2001 Summer;16(2):99-104. doi: 10.1080/08858190109528741.
The Goals for Health project is designed to change the cancer-related behaviors of tobacco use and dietary fat and fiber consumption. The intervention teaches health and life skills to rural, minority sixth and seventh graders in rural Virginia and New York. This article presents the results of the pilot.
Participants were 129 sixth graders at one rural middle school who were surveyed prior to and following delivery of the pilot sixth-grade intervention.
Results include significant changes from pre- to post-intervention in several diet and smoking attitude and self-efficacy variables, dietary fat and fiber knowledge, high-fat snack consumption, and dietary fat scores. Multivariate analyses reveal important contributions of personal control over food choices and family and friend influence on change in dietary fat score from pre- to post-intervention.
These pilot program results suggest avenues for dietary and cancer prevention interventions in high-risk, rural adolescents.
健康目标项目旨在改变与癌症相关的行为,如吸烟以及饮食中脂肪和纤维的摄入量。该干预措施向弗吉尼亚州和纽约州农村地区的少数族裔六年级和七年级学生传授健康和生活技能。本文介绍了该试点项目的结果。
参与者为一所农村中学的129名六年级学生,在试点六年级干预措施实施之前和之后对他们进行了调查。
结果包括干预前后在几个饮食和吸烟态度及自我效能变量、膳食脂肪和纤维知识、高脂肪零食消费以及膳食脂肪得分方面的显著变化。多变量分析揭示了个人对食物选择的控制以及家人和朋友的影响对干预前后膳食脂肪得分变化的重要作用。
这些试点项目结果为针对高风险农村青少年的饮食和癌症预防干预措施提供了途径。