Metzger Tai, Zepeda Alex, Wilcox Naomi
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA.
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Health Promot Pract. 2025 Jul;26(4):647-656. doi: 10.1177/15248399241258462. Epub 2024 Jun 19.
Despite many improvements in childhood health outcomes, many children experience chronic health conditions and engage in unhealthy behaviors that can negatively affect the rest of their lives. School-based health education is one strategy to promote healthier lifestyles among children. Although health education is very prevalent in the United States, the methods used for this education are not well studied. Health education events such as voluntary tabling events (booths) were held by peer student educators and adult allies from the LA Trust for Children's Health. This program evaluation studied the effects of voluntary peer-to-peer health education tabling events and a more traditional mandatory school-based health presentation. We analyzed survey responses from 343 high school students who attended 19 health education events at 8 public high schools in Los Angeles County. The results showed that health education tabling events at schools were viewed positively by students, allowing the vast majority to report learning useful information. The impact of the tabling events varied somewhat between grade levels and health topics. These findings can assist schools, health organizations, and health care providers in tailoring their programming to better disseminate health education materials and information, as well as understanding which health topics are interesting to students.
尽管儿童健康状况有了许多改善,但仍有许多儿童患有慢性健康问题,并存在可能对其余生产生负面影响的不健康行为。以学校为基础的健康教育是促进儿童形成更健康生活方式的一种策略。虽然健康教育在美国非常普遍,但用于这种教育的方法尚未得到充分研究。来自洛杉矶儿童健康信托基金的学生同伴教育者和成人支持者举办了诸如自愿摆桌活动(展位)等健康教育活动。这项项目评估研究了自愿的同伴间健康教育摆桌活动以及更传统的强制性校内健康讲座的效果。我们分析了来自343名高中生的调查回复,这些学生参加了洛杉矶县8所公立高中的19场健康教育活动。结果显示,学校的健康教育摆桌活动受到学生的积极评价,绝大多数学生报告学到了有用的信息。摆桌活动的影响在不同年级和健康主题之间略有差异。这些发现可以帮助学校、健康组织和医疗服务提供者调整其项目,以更好地传播健康教育材料和信息,以及了解哪些健康主题是学生感兴趣的。
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