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JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH
Volume 72, Issue 3, Pages 121-127Publisher
AMER SCHOOL HEALTH ASSOC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.2002.tb06529.x
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- NCI NIH HHS [5RO1 CA7193-03] Funding Source: Medline
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Peer education has become a popular strategy for health promotion interventions with adolescents, but it has not been used widely in school-based nutrition education. This paper describes and reports oh the feasibility of the peer leader component of a school-based nutrition intervention for young adolescents designed to increase fruit and vegetable intakes and lower fat funds. About 1,000 seventh-grade students in eight schools received the nutrition intervention. Of these, 272 were trained as peer leaders to assist the teacher in implementing the activities. Results from a multicomponent process evaluation bused on peer leader and classroom student feedback, direct classroom observation, and teacher ratings and interviews are presented. Results show that peer-led nutrition education approaches in schools are feasible and hate high acceptability among peer leaders, classroom students, and teachers.
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