Teaching Each Other: A Pilot for a Peer Health Education Intervention in a Juvenile Detention Facility.
Introduction: Peer health education programs for adolescents in schools and for adults in prison are effective at increasing health knowledge and improving leadership skills. However, there have been no peer health education programs in juvenile detention facilities despite proven benefit in similar...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Adolescence Vol. 97; no. 7; pp. 1749 - 1759 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=188443117&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 188443117 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01401971 JAA jtl: Journal of Adolescence issn: 01401971 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2025 vid: 97 iid: 7 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 188443117 10.1002/jad.12532 ppf: 1749 ppct: 10 formats: tig: atl: Teaching Each Other: A Pilot for a Peer Health Education Intervention in a Juvenile Detention Facility. aug: au: Iqbal, Zara Q. Tandel, Megha D. Ueda, Momoko Aggarwal, Shelley affil: Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group, Palo Alto California,, USA Quantitative Sciences Unit, Department of Medicine, Stanford Medicine, Palo Alto California,, USA Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, New York New York,, USA Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital Systems, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose California,, USA su: United States Health education Health literacy Juvenile detention Health equity sug: subj: Health education Health literacy Juvenile detention Health equity United States keyword: high‐risk population incarcerated youth juvenile detention peer education sex education high‐risk population incarcerated youth juvenile detention peer education sex education ab: Introduction: Peer health education programs for adolescents in schools and for adults in prison are effective at increasing health knowledge and improving leadership skills. However, there have been no peer health education programs in juvenile detention facilities despite proven benefit in similar environments. We created a pilot study to evaluate the impact of a novel, multidisciplinary, youth‐led and evidence‐informed peer health curriculum in a juvenile detention facility. Methods: This was a 4‐week cross‐sectional pilot study that evaluated the self‐reported benefits of a novel peer health education curriculum within a youth detention facility. The curriculum was co‐created with peer health educators, a subset of detained youth leaders, and then taught by peer‐educators to their housing mates. The peer health curriculum was evidence‐informed, developmentally appropriate, activity‐based and prioritized high‐needs adolescent health topics. All 28 participants were self‐identified males between the ages of 15–19 in a juvenile detention facility in the United States in the fall of 2022. Results: All participants showed a significant increase in self‐reported health knowledge with most educational topics (p < 0.001 for three of the four learning modules) after the peer health curriculum intervention compared to baseline. Additionally, there was improvement in the peer health educators' self‐rated leadership abilities. Conclusions: Results of this novel pilot peer health intervention supports the efficacy of a peer health education intervention for detained youth. Such interventions have the potential for improving health knowledge, health outcomes, and lessening health disparities among a vulnerable youth population. This intervention is a template for peer health education programs in other juvenile detention centers. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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