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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
Use of song as an effective teaching strategy for nutrition education in older adults
Jacquelyn W McClelland1, K S U Jayaratne, Carolyn Bird
1a Department of Youth, Family, and Community Sciences , North Carolina State University , Raleigh , North Carolina , USA.
Abstract:
The objective of this study was to explore whether singing an educational song would be effective in improving older adults' knowledge about nutrition. We used a randomized controlled design to determine whether singing an educational song would result in increased nutrition knowledge in a low-income population of older adults compared to a control group of similar adults who did not sing the song. Eighteen congregate nutrition sites were randomly assigned to the treatment or control group. Analysis via independent samples t -test showed the knowledge gain mean scores for the treatment group were significantly ( P < 0.05) greater than those of the control group. This study supports a unique new approach to increasing nutrition knowledge of older adults by using music.
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