Impact of a playful booklet about diabetes and obesity on high school students in Campinas, Brazil

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Soares GM, Zangerolamo L, Rosa LR, Branco RC, Carneiro EM, Barbosa-Sampaio HC. Impact of a playful booklet about diabetes and obesity on high school students in Campinas, Brazil. Adv Physiol Educ 43: 266-269, 2019; doi:10.1152/advan.00160.2018.- Obesity and diabetes are two of the biggest public health problems in the modern world. One possible way to combat the rising prevalence of these diseases is through the spread of awareness about its consequences and how to prevent them. Therefore, educational interventions focused on teaching the physiological basis of these conditions might be valuable tools. However, most scholar curriculums lack high-quality material devoted to this topic. Thus we developed an educational booklet, composed of playful elements, targeted toward high school students and destined for application in classrooms. The efficacy of the developed material was validated through a pretestposttest design, in which the students had to answer a 10-question test. After booklet completion, students had better outcomes, with an increase in the percentage of correct answers in 7 out of 10 questions contained in the test (P < 0.05). Thus we developed an effective material for usage in the high school classroom to spread the awareness of the risks of metabolic diseases and how to prevent them.

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Soares, G. M., Zangerolamo, L., Rosa, L. R. O., Branco, R. C. S., Carneiro, E. M., & Barbosa-Sampaio, H. C. (2019). Impact of a playful booklet about diabetes and obesity on high school students in Campinas, Brazil. Advances in Physiology Education, 43(3), 266–269. https://doi.org/10.1152/ADVAN.00160.2018

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