PMID- 25909502
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20151120
LR  - 20231111
IS  - 1471-2458 (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-2458 (Linking)
VI  - 15
DP  - 2015 Apr 25
TI  - Building school-based cardiovascular health promotion capacity in youth: a mixed 
      methods study.
PG  - 421
LID - 10.1186/s12889-015-1759-5 [doi]
LID - 421
AB  - BACKGROUND: Essential to building cardiovascular health promotion capacity in 
      youth, which extends into adulthood, are approaches that seek to empower, 
      educate, and support. The Five Cs model of positive youth development (PYD) 
      guided this study. This model represents the ability of youth to develop 
      competence, confidence, connection, character, and caring when given the 
      appropriate resources. The purpose of this two-year school-based feasibility 
      study was to determine if providing a research intervention in the form of 
      education, empowerment, and support build youth's capacity for cardiovascular 
      health promotion. METHODS: A mixed methods case study design was used to evaluate 
      the process, and outcome of a youth-led cardiovascular health promotion program. 
      Twenty-six youth aged 12-13 years from a Canadian middle school took part in the 
      study. Youth participating in this study planned, implemented, and monitored 
      cardiovascular health promotion activities in four areas: smoking, physical 
      inactivity, nutrition and obesity. Qualitative data was collected from the youth 
      participants using three focus groups and individual reflective journals. 
      Quantitative data was collected with the PYD.2, a self-report questionnaire that 
      assesses positive youth development and consists of 5 subscales: character, 
      competence, caring, connection, and confidence. The participants completed the 
      PYD before and after the program to determine if there were any changes in PYD 
      scores after the intervention. The quantitative data was analyzed using paired 
      samples t-tests, and the qualitative data was analyzed using constant comparative 
      analysis. RESULTS: While the PYD scores showed no significant changes, the 
      qualitative findings confirmed that the youth acquired increased awareness and 
      understanding of cardiovascular health promotion initiatives. Four themes emerged 
      from the qualitative data, (1) doing the right thing, (2) wanting to make a 
      change, but feeling constrained, (3) I get it, and (4) The project has changed 
      me! The intervention was found to be acceptable and feasible for the youth 
      participants and their school. CONCLUSIONS: The contributions of this study were 
      twofold. It generated evidence to support integrating positive youth development 
      strategies into cardiovascular health promotion programs. Secondly, this study 
      determined that the research intervention improved the participants' knowledge 
      and attitudes about cardiovascular health and were suitable for further 
      implementation and testing.
FAU - Woodgate, Roberta L
AU  - Woodgate RL
AD  - Professor & Canadian Institutes of Health Research Applied Chair in Reproductive, 
      Child and Youth Health Services and Policy Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, 
      College of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada. 
      Roberta.Woodgate@umanitoba.ca.
FAU - Sigurdson, Corey M
AU  - Sigurdson CM
AD  - Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Applied Health Sciences, University 
      of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. sigurds9@myumanitoba.ca.
LA  - eng
GR  - Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20150425
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Public Health
JT  - BMC public health
JID - 100968562
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Attitude
MH  - Canada
MH  - Capacity Building/*organization & administration
MH  - Diet
MH  - Exercise
MH  - Feasibility Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Focus Groups
MH  - *Health Behavior
MH  - Health Education/*organization & administration
MH  - Health Promotion/*organization & administration
MH  - Humans
MH  - Life Style
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/prevention & control
MH  - School Health Services/*organization & administration
MH  - Self Concept
MH  - Smoking Prevention
PMC - PMC4416265
EDAT- 2015/04/25 06:00
MHDA- 2015/12/15 06:00
PMCR- 2015/04/25
CRDT- 2015/04/25 06:00
PHST- 2014/08/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/04/21 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/04/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/04/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/12/15 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2015/04/25 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s12889-015-1759-5 [pii]
AID - 1759 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s12889-015-1759-5 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Public Health. 2015 Apr 25;15:421. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-1759-5.