ISSN:0022-4391    

DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.1996.tb08229.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

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ABSTRACT:A community hospital, a school district, and a private pediatrician's office collaborated to ensure all children enrolled in five elementary schools had access to health care services. The school nurse at each school identified children needing health care services and obtained parental consent. The school nurse referred children to a nurse practitioner who visited one school each day. School nurses and space in the nurse's office were provided by the school district. The hospital provided a nurse practitioner as well as pharmacy, radiology, laboratory, and emergency department services. The pediatrician as medical director for the program provided vision, training, and community connections, and served as collaborating physician for the nurse practitioner.

ISSN:0022-4391    

DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.1996.tb08230.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-4391    

DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.1996.tb08231.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:Focus groups were used to examine adolescents' participation in school nutrition programs, their opinions about the meals served in these programs, and their suggestions for improving the meals. A pilot and four focus group interviews were conducted with ninth grade students in five geographically distinct regions of Florida. Male students and those from rural areas were more likely to participate in school meal programs than were females and those from suburban and urban areas. Students expressed intense dislike and distrust of school meals. School meals were criticized for taste, appearance, small serving sizes, and cost. Students overwhelmingly favored commercial food vendors serving lunch at school. Suggestions for improving school meals included improving the taste and appearance of food, offering a wider variety of foods, serving more fresh fruit and vegetables, lowering the price, increasing the serving sizes, teaching food service workers how to cook, and offering more condiments.

ISSN:0022-4391    

DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.1996.tb08232.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:The Dartmouth Health Promotion Study was a longitudinal, quasi‐experimental field study with a qualitative research arm, designed to learn whether coordinating school health instruction, health services, and a healthful environment enhanced the program's effect on the heart health and mental health of children. The research strategy — the Coordinated Approach — was applied to approximately 300 children in each of two cohorts in grades four to six attending nine trial schools; a further 600 children attended 10 comparison schools in Dartmouth and nine distal comparison schools. Although the qualitative analysis demonstrated that positive feelings were engendered in most areas of the study, when either the classroom or the individual was used as the unit of analysis, the Coordinated Approach did not have a more favorable effect on the heart or mental health of children than did the standard school health program. Thus, the effect of an existing school health program was not directly enhanced through coordinating its compo

ISSN:0022-4391    

DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.1996.tb08233.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:This article reports on the comfort level of 97 eighth grade teachers using non‐traditional leaching strategies in sexuality education classes. Most were comfortable teaching sexuality education and undeterred by external factors such as students' religious beliefs, lack of administrative support, or parental protest. However, a quarter to a third of teachers reported never or rarely using activities such as roleplays, small‐group discussions, and problem‐solving exercises. Multiple regression indicated that only gender was a significant predictor of such usage. The greatest perceived barriers to teaching sexuality education and using alternative teaching strategies were lack of materials, lack of time, and difficulty with facilitation under traditional classroom structure. Although more research is needed to better understand barriers to using alternative strategies, teachers in two focus groups (n = 19) suggested 1) restructuring classroom settings to match the demands of new teaching strategies, and 2) “experience appropriate”

ISSN:0022-4391    

DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.1996.tb08234.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:This study determined if gender differences in physical activity could be accounted for by differences in selected social‐cognitive determinants of activity behavior. Some 334 fifth grade, predominantly African‐American students provided information regarding after‐school physical activity and the hypothesized determinants of activity behavior. Boys reported significantly greater participation in vigorous (≥ 6 METs) and in moderate to vigorous (≥4 METs). Relative to girls, boys demonstrated higher levels of physical fitness, greater self‐efficacy in overcoming barriers to physical activity, greater amounts of television watching, and higher levels of participation in community sports and physical activity organizations. When mean physical activity scores for girls and boys were adjusted for the effects of these determinant variables, the significant gender difference in physical activity remained. However, adjustment for self‐efficacy in overcoming barriers and community sports reduced the gender gap by 5% and 7%, respectively. In contrast, adjustment for television watching increased the gender gap by about 8%. Results indicated perceived confidence in overcoming barriers to physical activity and participation in community physical activity programs are factors related to the gender difference in phys

ISSN:0022-4391    

DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.1996.tb08235.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-4391    

DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.1996.tb08236.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-4391    

DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.1996.tb08237.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-4391    

DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.1996.tb08238.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY