Reflections from an Undergraduate Student Peer Facilitator in the Team Up for Healthy Living School-Based Obesity Prevention Project

Overview

Journal Int J Health Sci Educ

Date 2015 Dec 5

PMID 26636111

Citations 3

Authors

Caroline E Crenshaw

Diana M Mozen

William T Dalton 3rd

Deborah L Slawson

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Abstract

was a cluster-randomized trial to evaluate a cross-peer school-based obesity prevention program in Southern Appalachia. Undergraduate students from the disciplines of Kinesiology, Nutrition, and Public Health were trained as peer facilitators to deliver an 8-week curriculum in high school classes. The focus of the curriculum was on improving diet and physical activity with an additional emphasis on enhancing leadership and communication skills. Control group participants received their regularly scheduled curriculum. The current article is about the experiences of an undergraduate kinesiology student participating as a peer-facilitator in the trial. A brief overview of the program and peer facilitator training is followed by this students reflections on both personal development and student outcomes.

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