CHECKERBOARD CARDIOVASCULAR CURRICULUM

这项跨学科研究主要旨在评估 一项旨在改善心血管健康的原型干预计划 农村、美洲印第安人、西班牙裔和盎格鲁裔五年级学生。 基本 程序将与控制条件和其中 该方案还辅以同行建模。 该计划将涉及 关于心脏和心血管系统，肥胖，营养， 锻炼、吸烟和自我控制技巧来改变行为 与心血管健康有关。 多种教学方法 包括家长和社区的参与， 和存储，并强调文化传统以及传统 将使用视听和书面材料。 的次要目的 研究将收集一些关于健康相关知识的描述性数据 和态度，这是以前没有研究过的。 短期和长期影响的措施将包括：a） 测量：身高、体重、血压、心率和皮褶厚度，B） 身体健康：一英里跑/走，c）关于 心脏和心血管系统，营养，肥胖，吸烟，锻炼和 行为改变，d）饮食、锻炼和吸烟的自我报告措施 行为，e）对肥胖的态度和自我认知的措施， 他们自己的体重和健康，f）对他们的感受进行事后评估 对于那些不在对照组的人来说。 假设在两种实验条件下的受试者都将显示出 在学期末的所有措施的变化，其中主要部分 材料的介绍。 预计将维持这些变化。 上级为那些在同行建模条件，谁将有 有机会在以后的几年里成为同行的榜样。 重点 将行为改变融入参与者的生活方式 希望能够永久性地减少与以下方面有关的风险因素： 心血管疾病

This interdisciplinary study is primarily designed to assess the effect of a prototype intervention program designed to improve cardiovascular health of rural, American Indian, Hispanic, and Anglo fifth graders. The basic program will be compared with a control condition and a condition in which the program is supplemented by peer modeling. The program will involve instruction about the heart and cardiovascular system, obesity, nutrition, exercise, smoking and self-control techniques for changing behaviors related to cardiovascular health. A variety of instructional methods including parental and community involvement, lessons in food preparation and storage, and an emphasis on cultural tradition as well as traditional audiovisual and written materials will be used. A secondary purpose of the study will be to collect some descriptive data on health-related knowledge and attitudes in a population which has not previously been studied. Measures of short-term and long-term effects will include a) physical measures: height, weight, blood pressure, heart rate, and skinfolds, b) physical fitness: the one mile run/walk, c) knowledge measures about the heart and cardiovascular system, nutrition, obesity, smoking, exercise and behavior change, d) self-report measures of eating, exercise and smoking behaviors, e) measures of attitudes toward obesity and self-perception of their own weight and fitness, f) a posttest assessment of their feelings about the program, for those not in the control groups. It is hypothesized that subjects in both experimental conditions will show changes on all measures at the end of the semester in which the major part of the material is presented. Maintenance of the changes is expected to be superior for those in the peer modeling condition, who will have the opportunity to serve as peer models in subsequent years. The focus on incorporating behavioral changes into the life styles of the participants is hoped to lead to permanent reductions in risk factors related to cardiovascular disease.