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Cure4Kids for Kids: preliminary results on evaluating knowledge acquisition and knowledge retention
Yuri Quintana1, Aubrey Van Kirk Villalobos, Zhenghong Li
1St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA. Yuri.Quintana@stjude.org
Abstract:
Since 2006 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been developing Cure4Kids for Kids, a school-based outreach program to educate children about cancer and healthy lifestyles with a focus on cancer prevention. An evaluation of student knowledge acquisition and retention for the program at the Grade-4 level was conducted during the 2010-2011 school year. Preliminary results of this evaluation are outlined with some of the challenges for long-term program evaluation of cancer prevention programs.
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