TY - JOUR
T1 - NuFit
T2 - Nutrition and fitness CBPR program evaluation
AU - McKinney, Chelsea
AU - Bishop, Virginia
AU - Cabrera, Kathy
AU - Medina, Roxane
AU - Takawira, Desire
AU - Donate, Nilmari
AU - Rodriguez, Jose Luis
AU - Guevara, Beti
PY - 2014/4/1
Y1 - 2014/4/1
N2 - The present study combines community-based participatory research (CBPR) and peer education to create NuFit, a nutrition and fitness curriculum, adapted by community and student peer leaders for Latino and African-American high-school students in Chicago. The purpose of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility and efficacy of the NuFit curriculum to improve the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding nutrition and fitness for minority and adolescent student populations. The NuFit curriculum improved students short-term self-reported behaviors and attitudes around nutrition and fitness. The NuFit curriculum shows promise as one mechanism to help prevent and combat childhood obesity by fostering healthy attitudes and behaviors during the critical developmental stage of adolescence. Involvement of and collaboration between community stakeholders and youth appeared to increase the likelihood of NuFit's cultural relevance and sustainability. More work is necessary to evaluate the long-term effects of NuFit.
AB - The present study combines community-based participatory research (CBPR) and peer education to create NuFit, a nutrition and fitness curriculum, adapted by community and student peer leaders for Latino and African-American high-school students in Chicago. The purpose of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility and efficacy of the NuFit curriculum to improve the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding nutrition and fitness for minority and adolescent student populations. The NuFit curriculum improved students short-term self-reported behaviors and attitudes around nutrition and fitness. The NuFit curriculum shows promise as one mechanism to help prevent and combat childhood obesity by fostering healthy attitudes and behaviors during the critical developmental stage of adolescence. Involvement of and collaboration between community stakeholders and youth appeared to increase the likelihood of NuFit's cultural relevance and sustainability. More work is necessary to evaluate the long-term effects of NuFit.
KW - adolescent obesity
KW - community-based participatory research
KW - fitness
KW - nutrition
KW - peer education
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U2 - 10.1080/10852352.2014.881180
DO - 10.1080/10852352.2014.881180
M3 - Article
C2 - 24702662
AN - SCOPUS:84898757230
VL - 42
SP - 112
EP - 124
JO - Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community
JF - Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community
SN - 1085-2352
IS - 2
ER -