Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1999

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Hayes, Janice S.

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to determine if the American Heart Association Heart Power Kit influences knowledge of cardiovascular risk. The efficacy of showing this program to a class of fifth grade students was compared to the efficacy of not showing it. The participants of the study were twenty-seven children, ages ten to twelve in two separate classes. Each class completed the A Heart Smart cognitive pre-test and post-test at the beginning and end of six months. The experimental group received the educational program; the control group did not. Data were analyzed by t-test at the .05 significance level. There was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test of the experimental, not the control group (t = 1.07, df = 28, p = >.30). The results of the post-test showed an increase in knowledge after the program in the experimental group and no increase in knowledge in the control group.

Extent

66 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1999.|Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1999.

Identifier

FADT15724

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