Teen Peer Educators and Diabetes Knowledge of Low-Income Fifth Grade Students

The current study was designed to evaluate a unique adolescent peer type 2 diabetes mellitus (Type 2 DM) prevention training program for fifth grade children. Peer educators were 22 high school students who participated in the Elementary Institute of Science's Commission on Science that Matters...

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Published in:Journal of community health 2011-02, Vol.36 (1), p.23-26
Main Authors: Coleman, Karen J, Clark, Andrea Yoder, Shordon, Maggie, Ocana, Leticia L, Walker, Chris, Araujo, Rachel A, Oratowski-Coleman, Jesica, Philis-Tsimikas, Athena
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
African Americans - education
Child
Community and Environmental Psychology
Diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - prevention & control
Environmental science
Ethics
Female
Grade 10
Grade 5
Health education
Health Fairs
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health promotion
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
High School Students
Hispanic Americans - education
Humans
Low income groups
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mentors
Middle school students
ORIGINAL PAPER
Peer Group
Peer relationships
Peer Teaching
Poverty
Program Evaluation
Secondary school students
Students
Surveys and Questionnaires
Teaching - methods
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Summary:The current study was designed to evaluate a unique adolescent peer type 2 diabetes mellitus (Type 2 DM) prevention training program for fifth grade children. Peer educators were 22 high school students who participated in the Elementary Institute of Science's Commission on Science that Matters, a year-long program promoting active participation in the health and environmental sciences. Peer education was delivered in the form of a two hour health fair. A knowledge survey was given to fifth grade students in the classroom before the health fair began and then again in the classroom after the health fair. Fifth grade students were able to correctly identify Type 1 DM (23 vs. 40%; P < .01), Type 2 DM (21 vs. 52%; P < .001), and the signs of diabetes (10 vs. 39%; P < .001) after the health fair. This approach could be inexpensively integrated into any community-based health promotion with children and adolescents.
ISSN:0094-5145
1573-3610
DOI:10.1007/s10900-010-9276-z