Nursing Student-Led Health Education for Sixth Graders on Chicago's South Side.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Partnerships between schools of nursing and grade schools providing health education to youth are shown to be advantageous. Using Community Based Service Learning for nursing students at a middle school in Chicago, IL, we were able to improve health education for adolescents in an underserved area.

Objective

This project aimed to improve and standardize existing health education efforts for sixth graders (n = 30) at a middle school by developing an evidence-based health education curriculum with nursing students.

Methods

This was a descriptive study with a pretest and posttest evaluation addressing the physical, emotional, and sexual health knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of participating sixth graders.

Results

Findings suggest service-learning

SUBMITTER: Singer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8330452 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature