One-year Follow-up of Nutrition Education for Hypercholesterolemic Children

Overview

Journal Am J Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 1998 Mar 10

PMID 9491017

Citations 5

Authors

A M Tershakovec

B M Shannon

C L Achterberg

J M McKenzie

J K Martel

H Smiciklas-Wright

S E Pammer

J A CORTNER

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Abstract

Objectives: This study evaluated retention of the effect of a home-based, practitioner-initiated nutrition education model.

Methods: Children with elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels were randomly assigned to one of two nutrition interventions or to an at-risk control group. Intervention effects were evaluated 3, 6, and 12 months postbaseline.

Results: The parent-child autotutorial group demonstrated significant increases in knowledge and, along with the counseling group, decreases in total and saturated fat intake. Also, the autotutorial and counseling groups retained a majority of their initial LDL cholesterol decrease.

Conclusions: Knowledge of heart-healthful eating and dietary fat intake as well as dietary change can be affected and retained via home-based, practitioner-initiated nutrition interventions with hypercholesterolemic children, although some form of ongoing intervention may be necessary to produce lasting decreases in LDL cholesterol levels.

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