Testing a school-based program to promote digital health literacy and healthy lifestyle behaviours in intermediate elementary students: The Learning for Life program.

Autor:	Hyman A; Digital Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 818 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada., Stewart K; Digital Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 818 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada., Jamin AM; Digital Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 818 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada., Novak Lauscher H; Digital Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 818 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada., Stacy E; Digital Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 818 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada., Kasten G; Community Nutrition Services, Squamish Community Health Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health, PO Box 220 1140 Hunter Place, Squamish, BC V8B 0A2, Canada., Ho K; Digital Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 818 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Preventive medicine reports [Prev Med Rep] 2020 Jun 18; Vol. 19, pp. 101149. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jun 18 (Print Publication: 2020).
DOI:	10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101149
Abstrakt:	Promoting digital health literacy and healthy lifestyle behaviours in children can lead to positive long-term health outcomes and prevent chronic diseases. However, there are few school-based interventions promoting this education to intermediate elementary students. The objective of this study was to test the effectiveness of a novel intervention to increase students' digital health literacy and health knowledge. Learning for Life is a classroom-based education program, developed for grade 4-7 students and delivered by teachers over six weeks. Three Canadian schools were recruited to deliver the intervention in 2018. This study had a pre-post design and no control group. Students' self-reported digital health literacy and healthy lifestyle behaviours were measured at pre-intervention (n = 126), post-intervention (n = 119), and two-month follow-up (n = 104). Students at pre-intervention had a mean (SD) age of 10.98 (0.56) years (57.1% females). Almost all (97%) students had unsupervised access to the Internet through a computer or smartphone. From pre- to post-intervention, students' digital health literacy increased (p = 0.009), but decreased from post-intervention to follow-up (p < 0.001). Post-intervention, the majority of students could identify at least one healthy behaviour (e.g., exercising one hour/day) and reported making at least one healthy change in their lives (e.g., eating more fruits/vegetables). This study demonstrated that the Learning for Life intervention can improve intermediate elementary students' digital health literacy over the short-term and help them learn and retain healthy lifestyle knowledge and behaviours. These findings affirm the need for interventions promoting digital healthy literacy and healthy lifestyle behaviours for this age group. (© 2020 The Authors.)
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