فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: An alarming trend of sustained blood pressure elevation among children andadolescents has been found. Health education to schoolchildren in their formative age is the mosteffective method to be able to modify their habits, and further, they can be enrolled as an effectivehealth educator for their parents.OBJECTIVE: To study the effectiveness of health education module on study participants aboutprevention and control of hypertension (HTN) and the effectiveness of child as a health educator onparents’ knowledge about prevention and control of HTN.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This quasi‑experimental study was conducted with a control groupamong high school students in two urban secondary schools. There were 110 students and 100parents each in the intervention and control groups. Modular training with interactive teaching–learningmethods was conducted for students in the intervention group. They, in turn, educated their parents.RESULTS: Postintervention, the study results showed a higher median for various domains in theintervention group as compared to the control group among both students and parents. On applyingMann–Whitney test, this difference was statistically significant with P < 0.001.CONCLUSION: The increase in the knowledge of parents belonging to the intervention groupsuggests the effective transfer of knowledge from the students to their parents.