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Evaluation of an Activity‐Centered Health Curriculum Using the Health Belief Model *
Author(s) -
Brooks Charles H.,
Kirkpatrick Margaret,
Howard Daniel J.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1981.tb02230.x
Subject(s) - seriousness , health belief model , curriculum , psychology , health education , health psychology , behavior change , health behavior , school health , social psychology , medicine , applied psychology , medical education , public health , environmental health , nursing , pedagogy , political science , law
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of an activity‐centered health education curriculum on the attitudes of 4th, 5th and 6th graders in a small, midwest city school system. The program was evaluated in part by a pretest/posttest design in which 10 randomly selected schools received the health curriculum and 10 schools did not. Twenty‐eight (28) health belief model questions were used to measure perceived susceptibility, perceived seriousness, perceived preventability and self reported behavior relating to general health problems. The results indicated that the experimental students, compared to their controls, were much more inclined to change their health beliefs and self‐reported behavior in a positive direction, regardless of grade level.