Teen Peer Educators and Diabetes Knowledge of Low-Income Fifth Grade Students.

The current study was designed to evaluate a unique adolescent peer type 2 diabetes mellitus (Type 2 DM) prevention training program for fifth grade children. Peer educators were 22 high school students who participated in the Elementary Institute of Science's Commission on Science that Matters, a y...

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Published in:	Journal of Community Health Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 23 - 27
Main Authors:	Coleman, Karen, Clark, Andrea, Shordon, Maggie, Ocana, Leticia, Walker, Chris, Araujo, Rachel, Oratowski-Coleman, Jesica, Philis-Tsimikas, Athena
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Feb2011
Subjects:	Analysis of variance Diabetes High school students Mentoring School children Affinity groups Health literacy Children Chi-squared test Type 2 diabetes Patient education Probability theory Research funding Repeated measures design
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