Sixth graders can take blood pressures.
A curriculum guide entitled "Heart Health Curriculum Guide" was developed with and by teachers in Peabody Public Schools under a Massachusetts Public Health grant to the American Heart Association. The 67-page manual describes the format of the 12-hour teacher workshop, background physiology of heart/circulatory system, hypertension risk factors, a set of 20 lessons, and evaluating procedures. (Copies may be obtained for $3.00 by writing the corresponding author.) As a result of teaching this unit, sixth grade students in each school ran a Blood Pressure Screening Clinic for their parents and school staff.
D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D002648:Child; D003479:Curriculum; D006266:Health Education; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000517:prevention & control; D008404:Massachusetts; D012574:Schools