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Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
The purpose of the study is to determine if the American Heart Association Heart Power Kit influences knowledge of cardiovascular risk. The efficacy of showing this program to a class of fifth grade students was compared to the efficacy of not showing it. The participants of the study were twenty-seven children, ages ten to twelve in two separate classes. Each class completed the A Heart Smart cognitive pre-test and post-test at the beginning and end of six months. The experimental group received the educational program; the control group did not. Data were analyzed by t-test at the .05 significance level. There was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test of the experimental, not the control group (t = 1.07, df = 28, p = >.30). The results of the post-test showed an increase in knowledge after the program in the experimental group and no increase in knowledge in the control group.
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