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Effectiveness of a school-based intervention to increase health knowledge of cardiovascular disease risk factors among rural Mississippi middle school children.

机译:以学校为基础的干预措施可提高密西西比州农村中学生心血管疾病危险因素的健康知识。

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BACKGROUND: Few school-based interventions have been evaluated to assess health awareness among children in rural southern areas. The purpose of this controlled investigation was to increase health awareness among middle school-aged children residing in a racially diverse rural community in Mississippi. METHODS: This investigation assessed health knowledge before and after a 16-week school-based intervention in 205 fifth-grade students. Height, weight, BMI, body composition, waist circumference, dietary intake, blood lipids and lipoprotein concentrations, blood glucose concentrations, and resting blood pressure were measured to enhance student awareness of cardiovascular disease risk factors. Values in the intervention school were compared with those obtained simultaneously in a control school within the same community. RESULTS: The school-based intervention was effective in increasing health knowledge in the intervention as compared with the control school. Secondarily, it was effective in improving certain dietary behaviors. Utilizing health care professionals in the classroom to teach students appropriate lifestyles and actually measuring cardiovascular risk factors to increase awareness among students was effective in increasing overall health knowledge. CONCLUSIONS: Health knowledge of rural adolescents can be increased through partnerships with schools and multidisciplinary teams of health care professionals. Ongoing efforts to reduce childhood obesity and cardiovascular disease risk factors are urgently needed, and information obtained during this investigation may be used in planning school-based interventions in other diverse, rural communities.
机译:背景:很少评估学校干预措施以评估南部农村地区儿童的健康意识。这项受控调查的目的是提高居住在密西西比州不同种族农村社区的中学生的健康意识。方法:本研究评估了205名五年级学生在进行为期16周的学校干预之前和之后的健康知识。测量身高,体重,BMI,身体成分,腰围,饮食摄入,血脂和脂蛋白浓度,血糖浓度和静息血压,以增强学生对心血管疾病危险因素的认识。将干预学校的价值与在同一社区内的控制学校同时获得的价值进行比较。结果:与对照学校相比,基于学校的干预措施可以有效地增加干预措施中的健康知识。其次,它对改善某些饮食行为有效。在教室中利用医疗保健专业人员来教给学生适当的生活方式,并实际测量心血管疾病的危险因素以提高学生的认识,从而有效地提高了整体健康知识。结论:可以通过与学校和卫生保健专业人员的多学科团队建立伙伴关系来增加农村青少年的卫生知识。迫切需要为减少儿童肥胖和心血管疾病危险因素而不断努力,并且在本次调查中获得的信息可用于计划其他多样化的农村社区的学校干预措施。

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