PMID- 27525193
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20231111
IS  - 2161-0711 (Print)
IS  - 2161-0711 (Electronic)
VI  - 6
IP  - 3
DP  - 2016 Jun
TI  - Promotion of Influenza Prevention Beliefs and Behaviors through Primary School 
      Science Education.
LID - 444 [pii]
AB  - BACKGROUND: School-based campaigns to improve student health have demonstrated 
      short-term success across various health topics. However, evidence of the 
      effectiveness of programs in promoting healthy beliefs and behaviors is limited. 
      We hypothesized that educational curricula teaching the science behind health 
      promotion would increase student knowledge, beliefs and adherence to healthy 
      behaviors, in this case related to influenza. METHODS: Integrated Science 
      Education Outreach is a successful education intervention in Rochester, Minnesota 
      public schools that has demonstrated improvements in student learning. Within 
      this program, we designed novel curricula and assessments to determine if gains 
      in knowledge extended to influenza prevention. Further, we coupled InSciEd Out 
      programming with a clinical intervention, Influenza Prevention Prescription 
      Education (IPPE), to compare students' attitudes, intentions and healthy 
      behaviors utilizing surveys and hand hygiene monitoring equipment. RESULTS: 95 
      students participated in (IPPE) in the intervention school. Talking drawings 
      captured improvement in influenza prevention understanding related to hand 
      washing [pre n=17(43%); post n=30(77%)] and vaccination [pre n=2(5%); post 
      n=15(38%)]. Findings from 1024 surveys from 566 students revealed strong baseline 
      understanding and attitudes related to hand washing and cough etiquette (74% or 
      greater positive responses). Automated hand hygiene monitoring in school 
      bathrooms and classrooms estimated compliance for both soap (overall median 63%, 
      IQR 38% to 100%) and hand sanitizer use (0.04 to 0.24 uses per student per day) 
      but did not show significant pre/ post IPPE differences. CONCLUSIONS: Student 
      understanding of principles of influenza prevention was reasonably high. Even 
      with this baseline, InSciEd Out and IPPE improved students' unprompted knowledge 
      of behaviors to prevent influenza, as reflected by talking drawings. This novel 
      metric may be more sensitive in capturing knowledge among students than 
      traditional assessment methods. However, IPPE did not produce further significant 
      differences in student attitudes and behaviors regarding the flu.
FAU - Koep, T H
AU  - Koep TH
AD  - Clinical and Translational Sciences, Mayo Graduate School, Mayo Clinic, 
      Rochester, MN, USA; Department of Biology Teaching and Learning, University of 
      MN, St. Paul, MN, USA.
FAU - Jenkins, S
AU  - Jenkins S
AD  - Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
FAU - M Hammerlund, M E
AU  - M Hammerlund ME
AD  - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 
      USA.
FAU - Clemens, C
AU  - Clemens C
AD  - Clinical and Translational Sciences, Mayo Graduate School, Mayo Clinic, 
      Rochester, MN, USA.
FAU - Fracica, E
AU  - Fracica E
AD  - Mayo Medical School, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
FAU - Ekker, S C
AU  - Ekker SC
AD  - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 
      USA.
FAU - Enders, F T
AU  - Enders FT
AD  - Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
FAU - Huskins, W C
AU  - Huskins WC
AD  - Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent 
      Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
FAU - Pierret, C
AU  - Pierret C
AD  - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 
      USA.
LA  - eng
GR  - UL1 TR000135/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160627
PL  - United States
TA  - J Community Med Health Educ
JT  - Journal of community medicine & health education
JID - 101580953
PMC - PMC4982516
MID - NIHMS803827
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Child health
OT  - Community health
OT  - Health behavior
OT  - Influenza
OT  - Science education
EDAT- 2016/08/16 06:00
MHDA- 2016/08/16 06:01
PMCR- 2016/08/12
CRDT- 2016/08/16 06:00
PHST- 2016/08/16 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/08/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/08/16 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2016/08/12 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 444 [pii]
AID - 10.4172/2161-0711.1000444 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Community Med Health Educ. 2016 Jun;6(3):444. doi: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000444. 
      Epub 2016 Jun 27.