Knight J, Grantham-McGregor S, Ismail S, Ashley D
Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica.
Child Care Health Dev. 1991 Jan-Feb;17(1):49-58. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1991.tb00678.x.
A child-to-child programme was carried out in six rural schools in Jamaica. School children in grades 4 and 5 were taught concepts of nutrition, environmental and personal hygiene, and child development. The children were encouraged to take messages home to their parents and improve the care of their younger siblings. Four hundred and twenty-three children and 90 mothers and guardians from four of the project schools were evaluated and compared with 199 children and 47 parents from two control schools. The project children showed higher scores on a test of knowledge in the topics at the end of the year. They also improved in some practices at home. The mothers improved in knowledge in some areas but not in their practices. We consider the results sufficiently encouraging to justify incorporating the programme into the country's education curriculum for primary schools.
在牙买加的六所农村学校开展了一项儿童对儿童计划。该计划向四、五年级的学童传授营养、环境与个人卫生以及儿童发育等概念。鼓励孩子们把学到的知识带回家告诉父母，并改善对弟弟妹妹的照料。对来自四所项目学校的423名儿童以及90名母亲和监护人进行了评估，并与来自两所对照学校的199名儿童和47名家长进行了比较。到年底时，项目学校的儿童在相关主题知识测试中的得分更高。他们在家中的一些行为也有所改善。母亲们在某些方面知识有所提高，但行为上没有改变。我们认为这些结果很鼓舞人心，足以证明将该计划纳入该国小学教育课程是合理的。
