The role of student volunteers in door-to-door hypertension screening
| Autor: | Robert Schleser, Andrew W. Meyers, Donna Thackwray, Catherine B. Johnson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1984 |
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Gerontology
Male Volunteers medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Adolescent education Health care Screening method Chi-square test Medicine Humans Mass Screening Students Grade level business.industry Public health Data Collection Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Role Community Health Centers Tennessee Family medicine Hypertension Female business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of community health. 9(3) |
| ISSN: | 0094-5145 |
| Popis: | This study was part of a continuing effort to develop a community-based approach to health care. Student volunteers in seventh- and ninth-grade health classes were trained to take blood pressure measurements and then conduct door-to-door screening for hypertension. One group of student volunteers within each grade level screened households surrounding the school they attended (low-convenience condition), while another group of volunteers screened households adjacent to their own homes (high-convenience condition). The results from these screening methods were compared with the results obtained from a central-site neighborhood screening center. Chi-square tests on the proportion of households screened indicated that the high convenience door-to-door screening method was significantly more effective than either the low-convenience door-to-door method or the central-site screening method. The latter two methods were not statistically different from each other. Both seventh and ninth graders screened significantly more households in the high-convenience condition than in the low-convenience condition. Ninth graders were superior to seventh graders in the high-convenience, but not in the low-convenience, condition. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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