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| Use of song as an effective teaching strategy for nutrition education in older adults | | Author(s) | Jacquelyn W McClelland, K S U Jayaratne, Carolyn Bird |
| Journal title | Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics, vol 34, no 1, January-March 2015 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, January-March 2015 |
| Pages | pp 22-33 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Nutrition ; Preventative medicine ; Music ; Teaching methods ; Clinical surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The objective of this study was to explore whether singing an educational song would be effective in improving older adults' knowledge about nutrition. The authors used a randomised controlled design to determine whether singing an educational song would result in increased nutrition knowledge in a low-income population of older adults, compared to a control group of similar adults who did not sing the song. Eighteen congregate nutrition sites were randomly assigned to the treatment or control group. Analysis via independent samples t-test showed the knowledge gain mean scores for the treatment group were significantly (P < 0.05) greater than those of the control group. This study supports a unique new approach to increasing nutrition knowledge of older adults by using music. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150605219 A |
| Classmark | CF: LK2: HH: VB: 3G: 7T |
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