title: Impact of an immunization education program on middle school adolescents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To raise middle school student awareness, attitudes, and proactive behaviors about immunization, and to increase immunization rates among middle school students through implementation of a comprehensive integrated immunization promotion curriculum (Immunization Plus!)
  
  
  METHODS
  Evaluation used a quasi-experimental non-equivalent comparison-groups design conducted in a sample of 40 classrooms in 22 schools in California.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Sixth-grade students exposed to the curriculum developed more positive knowledge and attitudes, and were more likely to be immunized, to intend to obtain newly required immunizations, and to tell parents about immunizations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Infectious disease control and immunizations are under-developed subject areas within school-based health promotion in the United States that can be effectively taught to middle school students.
authors.affiliation: UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. dglik@ucla.edu
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Glik
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Macpherson
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Todd
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Stone
authors.forename: Alfonso
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ang
authors.forename: Marcy
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Connell Jones
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001364:Awareness; D003071:Cognition; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D003479:Curriculum; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D012574:Schools; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires