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01-02-2011 | Original Paper

Teen Peer Educators and Diabetes Knowledge of Low-Income Fifth Grade Students

Authors: Karen J. Coleman, Andrea Yoder Clark, Maggie Shordon, Leticia L. Ocana, Chris Walker, Rachel A. Araujo, Jesica Oratowski-Coleman, Athena Philis-Tsimikas

Published in: Journal of Community Health | Issue 1/2011

Abstract

The current study was designed to evaluate a unique adolescent peer type 2 diabetes mellitus (Type 2 DM) prevention training program for fifth grade children. Peer educators were 22 high school students who participated in the Elementary Institute of Science’s Commission on Science that Matters, a year-long program promoting active participation in the health and environmental sciences. Peer education was delivered in the form of a two hour health fair. A knowledge survey was given to fifth grade students in the classroom before the health fair began and then again in the classroom after the health fair. Fifth grade students were able to correctly identify Type 1 DM (23 vs. 40%; P < .01), Type 2 DM (21 vs. 52%; P < .001), and the signs of diabetes (10 vs. 39%; P < .001) after the health fair. This approach could be inexpensively integrated into any community-based health promotion with children and adolescents.

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Title: Teen Peer Educators and Diabetes Knowledge of Low-Income Fifth Grade Students
Authors: Karen J. Coleman
Andrea Yoder Clark
Maggie Shordon
Leticia L. Ocana
Chris Walker
Rachel A. Araujo
Jesica Oratowski-Coleman
Athena Philis-Tsimikas
Publication date: 01-02-2011
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Community Health / Issue 1/2011
Print ISSN: 0094-5145
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3610
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-010-9276-z

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