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Evaluation of a peer educator program for cardiovascular disease prevention with older adults.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Evaluation of a peer educator program for cardiovascular disease prevention with older adults./
Author:	Rose, Molly Ann.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1990,
Description:	146 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 53-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International53-01A.
Subject:	Health education. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9107929

Evaluation of a peer educator program for cardiovascular disease prevention with older adults.
Rose, Molly Ann.

Evaluation of a peer educator program for cardiovascular disease prevention with older adults. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1990 - 146 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 53-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 1990.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the effect of a peer educator program on the prevention of cardiovascular disease among older adults. Peer leaders at two urban senior housing residences were provided with training on cardiovascular disease and its risk factors, strategies to reduce the risk factors, and communication skills. The research design was a nonequivalent comparison group design. Baseline and follow-up data were collected on residents at the two intervention and the two control sites. The dependent variables were: (1) knowledge of cardiovascular disease risk factors; (2) perceived self-efficacy to reduce calories, dietary fat and salt intake, to lose weight, to stop smoking, and to exercise regularly; and (3) self-reported cardiovascular risk behaviors. A one-group pretest-posttest design was used with the peer educators to assess changes in the above variables and in their self-esteem. Data analyses showed that the peer educators experienced statistically significant increases in self-esteem, in knowledge of heart disease prevention and in perceived dietary and exercise self-efficacy after the training. They also showed a statistically significant decrease in their mean total heart disease risk scores after the training. Analysis of the individual change scores between baseline and follow-up surveys showed a statistically significant increase in overall knowledge of heart disease, in dietary self-efficacy, and in exercise self-efficacy for the intervention group as compared to the control group. The intervention group also showed a statistically significant reduction in total heart disease risk between the two surveys when compared to the control group. There was a statistically significant positive relationship between discussions of heart disease prevention among the intervention group and increased dietary and exercise sell-efficacy. Subjects were volunteers in intact groups where random assignment was not possible; thus generalizations to the older adult population cannot be made. However, the results of this study support the contention that this heart disease prevention peer education program benefited both the peer educators and other older adults who lived in the housing residences.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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