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Bohm, Ingela; Bengs, Carita – Health Education Journal, 2023
Background: In health education, there is a risk of giving overly prescriptive recommendations, potentially activating conflicting in-group norms that reduce message receptiveness. For example, the notion of 'unhealthy youth' is a stereotype which suggests that young people are expected to make unhealthy choices. If such in-group norms are…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Self Efficacy, Health Education, Preadolescents
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Smith, Laureen H.; Petosa, Rick L.; Sexton, Courtney – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2022
Appalachian youth are highconsumers of added dietary sugar and are very sedentary. "Mentoring to be Active" trains teens to deliver a theoretically based program to promote home-based physical activity (PA) and reduce dietary sugar among rural Appalachian youth. For this pre-test/post-test pilot study, 52 seventh graders from two…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Mentors, Adolescents, Peer Teaching