Cure4Kids for Kids: preliminary results on evaluating knowledge acquisition and knowledge retention.
Since 2006 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been developing Cure4Kids for Kids, a school-based outreach program to educate children about cancer and healthy lifestyles with a focus on cancer prevention. An evaluation of student knowledge acquisition and retention for the program at the Grade-4 level was conducted during the 2010-2011 school year. Preliminary results of this evaluation are outlined with some of the challenges for long-term program evaluation of cancer prevention programs.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA. Yuri.Quintana@stjude.org
Yuri
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Quintana
Aubrey
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Van Kirk Villalobos
Zhenghong
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Li
Deo
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Kumar Srivastava
Raul C
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Ribeiro
D002648:Child; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D015397:Program Evaluation; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D012574:Schools; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires