Ubbes Valerie A
Department of Kinesiology, Nutrition and Health, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA.
Children (Basel). 2025 May 22;12(6):663. doi: 10.3390/children12060663.
This project focuses on the relevance of using a health literacy approach to educating children about obesity prevention. The Habits of Health and Habits of Mind© model was used to write Electronic Texts for Health Literacy© to encourage actions that support obesity prevention. Guided by the Integrative Theory of Behavioral Prediction, the design template for a new genre of digital texts called Electronic Texts for Health Literacy© emerges for exploring children's frame of mind, health literacy skills, and behavioral intentions toward obesity prevention. : Online materials from selected websites were strategically reviewed for improving obesity prevention and child health literacy. The digital resources were juxtaposed with the Electronic Texts for Health Literacy©, with the latter written by and for children. : Health educators who use a constructivist pedagogy can help students to write health literacy narratives about obesity prevention, then read and talk about their multimodal compositions to further the practice and development of their health literacy skills. Children with obesogenic body frames can also gain from cowriting visual-textual-gestural health narratives with their peers or health professionals. Co-constructed narratives can help children make deeper connections about their identity, frame of mind, and social agency. : Although this untested resource is available as a new genre of digital text, health educators could nudge children toward developing a stronger frame of mind and behavioral intentions toward obesity prevention when they write health literacy narratives that focus on decision making, goal setting, and communication in the context of eating nutritious foods and participating in physical activities.
本项目聚焦于采用健康素养方法对儿童进行预防肥胖教育的相关性。运用“健康习惯与思维习惯”（Habits of Health and Habits of Mind©）模型编写了“健康素养电子文本”（Electronic Texts for Health Literacy©），以鼓励采取支持预防肥胖的行动。在行为预测整合理论的指导下，一种名为“健康素养电子文本”的新型数字文本的设计模板应运而生，用于探索儿童对预防肥胖的思维模式、健康素养技能和行为意图。对选定网站的在线材料进行了策略性审查，以改善预防肥胖和儿童健康素养。将数字资源与“健康素养电子文本”并列，后者由儿童编写并面向儿童。采用建构主义教学法的健康教育工作者可以帮助学生撰写关于预防肥胖的健康素养叙事，然后阅读并讨论他们的多模态作文，以进一步实践和发展他们的健康素养技能。具有致胖体型的儿童也可以与同龄人或健康专业人员共同撰写视觉 - 文本 - 手势健康叙事。共同构建的叙事可以帮助儿童更深入地联系他们的身份、思维模式和社会能动性。虽然这种未经测试的资源作为一种新型数字文本可供使用，但当健康教育工作者引导儿童撰写关注在食用营养食品和参与体育活动背景下的决策、目标设定和沟通的健康素养叙事时，可以促使儿童形成更强的预防肥胖思维模式和行为意图。
