Efficacy of a school-based cardiac health promotion intervention program for African-American adolescents
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Published on: April 19, 2019
1University of Central Florida School of Nursing, Orlando, FL, USA. covelli@mail.ucf.edu
Objective:
African-American adolescents are twice as likely to develop hypertension in early adulthood than adolescents from other racial groups. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of a school-based health promotion intervention.
Method:
Participants were African-American adolescents aged between 14 and 17 years attending an urban high school. The 9-week intervention program focused on the participants' knowledge, diet, exercise, and blood pressure.
Conclusions:
The intervention program was efficacious in knowledge (p = .0001), exercise (p = .0001), as well as fruit and vegetable intake (p = .0001). Differences in systolic (p = .5548) and diastolic (p = .9719) blood pressure levels were not significant.
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