A School-Based Intervention to Increase Lyme Disease Preventive Measures Among Elementary School-Aged Children.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Educational interventions to reduce Lyme disease (LD) among at-risk school children have had little study. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a short in-class LD education program based on social learning theory and the Health Belief Model (HBM) impacted a child's knowledge, attitude, and preventive behavior.

Methods

Students in grades 2-5 in 19 elementary schools were selected in an area that was highly endemic for LD. The children received an educational intervention or were on a wait list as controls. Their knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported preventive behaviors were surveyed before implementing the program and 1 year later. General linear regression analyses adjusting for age, gender, and baseline variables were used to measure the impact of t

SUBMITTER: Shadick NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4960477 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature