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Interprofessional and Interdisciplinary Approach from Undergraduate Health and Pre-Medical Students in Children’s Health Educational Initiative

The importance of interprofessional training in healthcare to improve quality of care and health outcomes has been increasingly recognized. This pilot study used an interprofessional and interdisciplinary team of undergraduate health and pre-health students to establish a unique community partnershi...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Sophie R, Cao, Siyuan, Lin, Patrice S, Yenor, Jeffrey, Lam, Regina, Chang, Ellen, Liu, Richard, Liu, Jianghong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4290157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25590019
http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-0711.1000266
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author Zhao, Sophie R
Cao, Siyuan
Lin, Patrice S
Yenor, Jeffrey
Lam, Regina
Chang, Ellen
Liu, Richard
Liu, Jianghong
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description The importance of interprofessional training in healthcare to improve quality of care and health outcomes has been increasingly recognized. This pilot study used an interprofessional and interdisciplinary team of undergraduate health and pre-health students to establish a unique community partnership with a local elementary school in developing and implementing a nutrition/exercise educational intervention. Our results suggest that children as young as 8 years old are capable of learning new information related to the benefits of particular food groups, are capable of retaining this knowledge for 6 months, and that an intervention program as short as one hour every few months stand to make significant impact on children’s knowledge about proper nutrition and healthy lifestyles. Our results suggest the potential benefits of further expanding the short-term intervention into a longer-term community-based curriculum targeting a younger age group previously or currently practiced.. Furthermore, this pilot study suggests that undergraduate health and pre-health students can form an interprofessional and collaborative team to take an active role in the dissemination of nutrition knowledge in the community.
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spelling pubmed-42901572015-01-12 Interprofessional and Interdisciplinary Approach from Undergraduate Health and Pre-Medical Students in Children’s Health Educational Initiative Zhao, Sophie R Cao, Siyuan Lin, Patrice S Yenor, Jeffrey Lam, Regina Chang, Ellen Liu, Richard Liu, Jianghong J Community Med Health Educ Article The importance of interprofessional training in healthcare to improve quality of care and health outcomes has been increasingly recognized. This pilot study used an interprofessional and interdisciplinary team of undergraduate health and pre-health students to establish a unique community partnership with a local elementary school in developing and implementing a nutrition/exercise educational intervention. Our results suggest that children as young as 8 years old are capable of learning new information related to the benefits of particular food groups, are capable of retaining this knowledge for 6 months, and that an intervention program as short as one hour every few months stand to make significant impact on children’s knowledge about proper nutrition and healthy lifestyles. Our results suggest the potential benefits of further expanding the short-term intervention into a longer-term community-based curriculum targeting a younger age group previously or currently practiced.. Furthermore, this pilot study suggests that undergraduate health and pre-health students can form an interprofessional and collaborative team to take an active role in the dissemination of nutrition knowledge in the community. 2013-12-26 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC4290157/ /pubmed/25590019 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-0711.1000266 Text en Copyright: © 2013 Zhao SR, et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25590019
http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-0711.1000266
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