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• TITLE: Healthy Children Arizona: Early Intervention for Prevention

  AUTHORS: Sabrina Plattner, Gayle McCartney, Cynthia Thomson, Andrea Balderama, David S. Alberts, Janet A. Foote

  KEYWORDS: Curriculum, Healthy Eating, Children, Cancer Prevention, Sun Safety

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, Vol.4 No.8, August 29, 2014

  ABSTRACT: The Healthy Children Arizona (HCA) program was developed to promote early, positive exposure to cancer-preventive diet, physical activity and sun safety behaviors. Five lessons delivered weekly were evaluated by classroom teachers while pre- and post-curriculum surveys examined increases in students’ understanding of concepts and self-reported behavior. The first and second graders and their teachers in ethnically diverse elementary schools (including Title 1) in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona participated in the curriculum assessment. All 5 interactive lessons were highly rated by teachers in qualitative assessments. Aggregated analyses of pre- (n = 582) and post- (n = 588) comparison tests indicated that the HCA curriculum significantly increased students’ knowledge of each of six measured concepts (p