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| Effects of a health promotion program on sustaining health behaviors in older adults | | Author(s) | Patrick J Fox, Wendy Breuer, Janice A Wright |
| Journal title | American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol 13, no 4, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 257-264 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Preventative medicine ; Poor elderly ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Controversy exists regarding the optimal way of providing health promotional education to older people. The effectiveness of individualised assessment and counselling coupled with a written health plan was examined in a study of 237 ethnically diverse and predominantly low income Americans aged 60 and over, and participating for the first time in a health promotion programme in rural and urban health clinics. All participants received a standardised assessment including health history, nutrition assessment, and limited physical examination from a public health nurse. Those in the treatment group received a written personal health plan and individualised health counselling to support implementation of the plan. Both groups were interviewed after one year. 17 preventive services and health behaviours were evaluated. There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups at the beginning of the study. The authors found that the treatment group which received a personal health plan and counselling completed significantly more preventive referrals and health behaviour changes, confirming the value of such prevention measures. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991223006 A |
| Classmark | CC: LK2: F:W6: 4C: 7T * |
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