Crockett S J
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota's School of Public Health.
Public Health Rep. 1987 Sep-Oct;102(5):546-51.
Disseminating health information to parents from school-based programs is beneficial in at least four ways: children need the support of their parents if they are to implement the behavior changes they learn in school, parents can benefit from the information themselves, adults may be especially willing to learn about promoting health when they have young children in the home, and efforts to promote healthful behavior changes among children may be more effective if interventions are aimed at attitudes and habits of the family rather than those of individual persons. In this paper are summaries of published research on influencing parents in youth-directed health education interventions, including recent data collected in the Minnesota Heart Health Program. Following the review of the literature is a plan for an in-home nutrition and physical activity intervention that could maximize the impact on the eating and exercise patterns of the parents and their children. Very little research has been reported on how important parents are as participants in the health promotion efforts directed to their children. Funding this proposal would help researchers to learn more about maximizing the impact of primary prevention interventions by studying a process for improving eating and exercise patterns of the family unit--the children and their parents--that could serve as a model health promotion program.
如果孩子要将在学校学到的行为改变付诸实践，他们需要父母的支持；父母自身也能从这些信息中受益；当家里有小孩时，成年人可能特别愿意学习促进健康的知识；如果干预措施针对家庭的态度和习惯而非个人的态度和习惯，那么在儿童中促进健康行为改变的努力可能会更有效。本文总结了已发表的关于在以青少年为导向的健康教育干预中影响家长的研究，包括明尼苏达心脏健康项目收集的最新数据。在文献综述之后是一项家庭营养和体育活动干预计划，该计划可以最大限度地影响家长及其子女的饮食和运动模式。关于家长作为针对其子女的健康促进工作参与者的重要性，目前报道的研究很少。资助这个提议将有助于研究人员通过研究一个改善家庭单位（孩子及其父母）饮食和运动模式的过程，来更多地了解如何最大限度地提高初级预防干预的效果，这个过程可以作为一个典型的健康促进项目。
