CHECKERBOARD CARDIOVASCULAR CURRICULUM

这项跨学科研究的主要目的是评估 旨在改善心血管健康的原型干预计划 农村、美国印第安人、西班牙裔和盎格鲁五年级学生。最基本的 程序将与控制条件和其中 该项目还得到了同行建模的补充。该计划将涉及 关于心脏和心血管系统、肥胖、营养、 锻炼、吸烟和改变行为的自我控制技巧 与心血管健康有关。多种教学方法 包括父母和社区的参与，食物准备的课程 和储存，强调文化传统和传统 将使用视听和书面材料。的次要目的是 研究将收集一些与健康相关的知识的描述性数据 以及以前从未被研究过的人群的态度。 衡量短期和长期影响的措施将包括a)实物 测量：身高、体重、血压、心率和皮褶，b) 身体健康：一英里跑步/步行，c)关于 心脏和心血管系统、营养、肥胖、吸烟、运动和 行为改变，d)自我报告饮食、锻炼和吸烟的措施 行为，e)衡量对肥胖的态度和自我感觉 他们自己的体重和健康状况，f)对他们感觉的后测评估 对于那些不在控制组中的人来说，关于这个计划。 假设受试者在两种实验条件下都会表现出 在学期末所有措施的变化，其中主要部分 对材料的性能进行了研究。预计这些变化的维护将 对于那些处于同行建模条件下的人来说，他们将拥有 有机会在接下来的几年里担任同行模特。重点放在 将行为变化融入参与者的生活方式 希望能永久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.