- Title
- Health education on diabetes at a South African national science festival
- Creator
- Bradshaw, Karen L
- Creator
- Mhlongo, M
- Creator
- Srinivas, Sunitha C
- Creator
- Marara P
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/460074
- Identifier
- vital:75890
- Description
- Diabetes is one of the non-communicable diseases with a major negative impact on the health and development of South Africans. Empowering the population’s understanding of the condition, with health-literacy appropriate approaches, is one of the interventions that allows discussions around the prevention of diabetes. Objective. To determine the effects of a health education programme on increasing knowledge about diabetes and encouraging preventive measures. Method. A public health education exhibition was held by a pharmacy student at a national science festival. It incorporated presentations, posters, health models, word-search games, information leaflets and a computer-based quiz consisting of pre- and post-intervention questions. Results. Junior and senior school learners participated in the computer-based quiz. Results from the junior school pre-intervention phase showed that learners had a fair prior knowledge of diabetes, with an overall score of 52.8%. Improvement in their overall mean score at the 5% significance level was noted (p=0.020). There was a significant difference in the mean score after the intervention at the 1% level (government schools: 65.5 (standard error (SE) 3.1)%, independent schools: 45.9 (6.2)%; p=0.006). Of the senior learners 53.7% (n=137) indicated that they use computers at school, while 118 (46.3%) did not have access to computers. The improvement in overall knowledge of the senior participants after the intervention was significant at the 0.1% level (p is less than 0.001). Conclusion. The health education offered by the pharmacy student's project was interactive and used an interdisciplinary approach to improve health literacy and raise awareness of diabetes. This is a tested intervention that may be adopted for improving health literacy among schoolchildren.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (5 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Health and Medical Publishing Group
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Journal of Health Professions Education
- Relation
- Bradshaw, K., Mhlongo, M., Srinivas, S.C. and Marara, P., 2018. Health education on diabetes at a South African national science festival. African Journal of Health Professions Education, 10(1), pp.26-30
- Relation
- African Journal of Health Professions Education volume 10 number 1 p. 26 2018 2078-5127
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
- Rights
- Open Access
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Srinivas, Sunitha Chandrasekhar (Assoc Prof)
RU Department of Computer Science
Bradshaw, Karen Lee (Assoc Prof)
RU Department of Pharmacy
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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