概括
小学儿童在心血管健康知识方面表现出显著的缺陷. 标准化测试显示,与其他科目相比,知识的增长很小,这凸显了改善健康教育的必要性.
科学领域:
- 儿科 儿科 儿科
- 卫生教育卫生教育教育
- 心血管健康 心血管健康
背景情况:
- 心血管疾病是全球死亡的主要原因之一.
- 早期健康教育对于建立终身健康习惯至关重要.
- 评估儿童当前的知识水平对于有效的课程开发至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 开发和标准化爱荷华州心血管健康知识测试 (ICVHT).
- 评估小学儿童心血管健康知识状态.
- 为了比较心血管健康与其他学科的知识增长率.
- 证明健康教育评估标准化测试的可行性.
主要方法:
- 开发了爱荷华州心血管健康知识测试 (ICVHT).
- 与爱荷华州基本技能测试 (ITBS) 一起进行ICVHT.
- 采集了爱荷华州第六,第七和第八年级的2,675名学生的样本.
- 使用分层采样方法来获得代表性数据.
主要成果:
- 平均正确分数为37.9% (六年级),41.2% (七年级) 和43.7% (八年级).
- 随着年级水平的提高,心血管健康知识的增长最小 (不到1项/年级).
- 获取知识的速度比其他受试者慢了75%.
- 在学生中记录了心血管健康知识的不足.
结论:
- 在小学儿童的心血管健康知识方面存在很大的差距.
- 标准化成就测试是可行的,以评估健康教育的结果.
- ICVHT为评估其他学科的健康教育提供了一个模型.
- 结果强调需要加强心血管健康教育战略.
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