Integrating Bone Health Information Into Existing Health Education Efforts
| Autor: | Darcy Sawatzki, Elissa Golan, R. Ann Abercrombie, Sandra L. Saperstein, Michele DeBarthe Sadler, Calvin Teel, Lynne Doner Lotenberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Surgeon general
medicine.medical_specialty Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Osteoporosis Alternative medicine medicine.disease Bone health Outreach Health promotion Nursing Environmental health Action plan Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine Health education business Food Science |
| Zdroj: | ICAN: Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition. 5:177-183 |
| ISSN: | 1941-4072 1941-4064 |
| Popis: | Consuming recommended amounts of calcium and vitamin D and participating in bone-strengthening physical activities during childhood and adolescence can help prevent osteoporosis. Both the Surgeon General’s Report on Bone Health and Osteoporosis and the National Action Plan for Bone Health emphasized the importance of promoting bone-healthy behaviors during childhood and adolescence and integrating bone health information into other health promotion efforts. The Best Bones Forever! Three-Community Study enlisted community coalitions to (1) incorporate bone health information into community outreach and education activities and (2) implement BodyWorks, a nutrition and physical activity program for parents and daughters that was modified to include bone health content. Results indicated that the sites successfully exposed their communities to bone health information by integrating bone health messages into community outreach and education activities. Participants in the modified BodyWorks program showed significant improvements in most measures of bone health knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, behaviors, and intentions. These findings suggest that incorporating bone health messages into related health promotion efforts around healthful eating and physical activity was both feasible and effective. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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