title: Use of song as an effective teaching strategy for nutrition education in older adults.
abstract: The objective of this study was to explore whether singing an educational song would be effective in improving older adults' knowledge about nutrition. We used a randomized controlled design to determine whether singing an educational song would result in increased nutrition knowledge in a low-income population of older adults compared to a control group of similar adults who did not sing the song. Eighteen congregate nutrition sites were randomly assigned to the treatment or control group. Analysis via independent samples t -test showed the knowledge gain mean scores for the treatment group were significantly ( P  < 0.05) greater than those of the control group. This study supports a unique new approach to increasing nutrition knowledge of older adults by using music.
authors: a Department of Youth, Family, and Community Sciences , North Carolina State University , Raleigh , North Carolina , USA.
authors: Jacquelyn W
authors: JW
authors: McClelland
authors: K S U
authors: KS
authors: Jayaratne
authors: Carolyn
authors: C
authors: Bird
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004505:Education, Nonprofessional / Q000379:methods; D058620:Elder Nutritional Physiological Phenomena / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D063105:Food Assistance; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009147:Music Therapy; D009657:North Carolina; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011203:Poverty; D063346:Singing; D014481:United States; D016885:United States Department of Agriculture
keywords: Extension; congregate meal; nutrition education; older adults