Promotion of healthy nutrition knowledge through a girls' health camp
View File(s)
- Author(s)
- Details
-
Adejoke B. Ayoola, PhD, RN; Barbara Bosscher Timmermans, PhD, RN; Josephine Granner, BSN; Elise Veurink, BSN, RN1 -- Calvin College Department of Nursing, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA; Donald Bryant, Bryant's Healthcare Solutions, Caledonia, Michigan, USA; Arlene Hoogewerf, PhD, Biology, Public Health, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
- Sigma Affiliation
- Kappa Epsilon at-Large
- Contributor Affiliation(s)
- Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Two one-week health camps with a well-focused nutrition sessions to promote the culture of health among 89 young girls aged 9-15 years was effective in increasing the nutrition knowledge and attitudes of the girls who attended the camp.
29th International Nursing Research Congress: Innovative Global Nursing Practice and Education Through Research and Evidence-based Practice, July 19-23, 2018. Melbourne, Australia.
Items submitted to a conference/event were evaluated/peer-reviewed at the time of abstract submission to the event. No other peer-review was provided prior to submission to the Henderson Repository, unless otherwise noted.
| Type | Poster |
| Acquisition | Proxy-submission |
| Review Type | Abstract Review Only: Reviewed by Event Host |
| Format | Text-based Document |
| Evidence Level | N/A |
| Research Approach | N/A |
| Keywords | Adolescent Girls; Health Promotion; Nutritional Education |
| Name | 29th International Nursing Research Congress |
| Host | Sigma Theta Tau International |
| Location | Melbourne, Australia |
| Date | 2018 |
All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.
All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.
All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subjects.
-
Promotion of girls reproductive knowledge through a health camp intervention
(2018-06-18)Two one-week health promotion day camps on promoting a culture of health and educating girls aged 9-15 years about their bodies was effective in increasing girls' knowledge about their reproductive health, namely, ovulation ... -
Promoting the culture of health through a girls summer camp intervention
This session is about a summer HEALTH camp intervention to promote the culture of health among young racially and socioeconomically diverse girls aged 9 to 15 years. The camp introduced basic health concepts related to ... -
A systematic review of the content of mother-daughter reproductive health communication
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016 and Friday, July 22, 2016: Purpose: Teen pregnancies are usually unintended and continues to pose a threat to the social and economic status of the woman. Early adolescence ... -
A review of reasons for women's contraceptive switching and discontinuation
(2017-09-29)More than half of pregnancies in the United States are unplanned, and many of these are associated with contraceptive non-use. This session presents 20 reasons that women reported for switching or discontinuing contraceptives. ... -
Successful strategies for recruiting low-income minority group women in a community-based health promotion program
(2014-11-17)Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014: Purpose: Low-income and minority groups need to be well represented in health promotion studies so as to identify and address the existing health disparities in the U.S. However, ...
