Applied Nursing Research
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 173-180, November 2008

Efficacy of a school-based cardiac health promotion intervention program for African-American adolescents

University of Central Florida School of Nursing, Orlando, FL, USA

Received 18 April 2006; received in revised form 27 December 2006; accepted 28 December 2006.

Abstract 

Objective

African-American adolescents are twice as likely to develop hypertension in early adulthood than adolescents from other racial groups. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of a school-based health promotion intervention.

Method

Participants were African-American adolescents aged between 14 and 17 years attending an urban high school. The 9-week intervention program focused on the participants' knowledge, diet, exercise, and blood pressure.

Conclusions

The intervention program was efficacious in knowledge (p = .0001), exercise (p = .0001), as well as fruit and vegetable intake (p = .0001). Differences in systolic (p = .5548) and diastolic (p = .9719) blood pressure levels were not significant.

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PII: S0897-1897(07)00003-1

doi:10.1016/j.apnr.2006.12.004

Applied Nursing Research
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 173-180, November 2008

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