TY - JOUR
T1 - Social learning versus traditional teaching in an elementary school cardiovascular health promotion program
AU - Stewart, Kerry J.
AU - Seemans, Colleen M.
AU - McFarland, Linda D.
AU - Weinhofer, John J.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - One class of students from the third, fourth, and fifth grade classes was chosen from each of 10 Baltimore, Maryland, schools to participate in a study comparing a social learning approach to a traditional approach to cardiovascular health promotion. After a baseline screening to measure nutrition knowledge, food consumption, and some biometrics, the 742 students were randomly assigned by classroom to the social learning or traditional approach. Improvements in knowledge and food consumption and drops in total cholesterol were seen for classes using both approaches, with a slightly greater decrease in high-fat food consumption for the social learning classes and a slightly higher drop in cholesterol for the traditional classes.
AB - One class of students from the third, fourth, and fifth grade classes was chosen from each of 10 Baltimore, Maryland, schools to participate in a study comparing a social learning approach to a traditional approach to cardiovascular health promotion. After a baseline screening to measure nutrition knowledge, food consumption, and some biometrics, the 742 students were randomly assigned by classroom to the social learning or traditional approach. Improvements in knowledge and food consumption and drops in total cholesterol were seen for classes using both approaches, with a slightly greater decrease in high-fat food consumption for the social learning classes and a slightly higher drop in cholesterol for the traditional classes.
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U2 - 10.4278/0890-1171-11.3.194
DO - 10.4278/0890-1171-11.3.194
M3 - Article
C2 - 10165098
AN - SCOPUS:0031012562
SN - 0890-1171
VL - 11
SP - 194
EP - 197
JO - American Journal of Health Promotion
JF - American Journal of Health Promotion
IS - 3
ER -