Training of persons for the delivery of the Staying Healthy After Fifty Program
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E Kane-Williams1, Z T Salisbury, L Benson
1American Red Cross, National Headquarters, Washington, DC.
Abstract:
The process by which volunteers were selected and trained to conduct a national health promotion program for older Americans, Staying Healthy After Fifty (SHAF), is described in this article. Feedback was elicited from participants (N = 210) concerning the training they received in educational team workshops using pre and postwork-shop questionnaires. The areas of focus during training were: medical issues, lifestyle and consumer issues, and class management and process skills. Information regarding the quality of the training procedures was also collected. In addition, 50 educational teams supplied data for a field evaluation which covered the content of the SHAF program and the educational materials and methods used. The results of the evaluation of the training of persons to deliver SHAF indicated that the team approach used was successful in delivering the program effectively to consumers and in establishing a network of high quality instructors.
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