Kansas City Young Audiences Blast Off to Health Evaluation
As part of this project, Ms. Hoppe:
- provided subject matter expertise in nutrition and physical activity for the development of learning sessions,
- developed an evaluation protocol including hypotheses and methods for the collection and analysis of data,
- created assessment surveys for K-2nd grade youth and administered in elementary school classrooms,
- developed and managed a dataset in SPSS,
- and conducted analyses, providing results and interpretations to the organization for their reports to the funder, Blue Cross Blue Shield Kansas City (BCBSKC).
A between-groups analysis comparing the intervention and control schools revealed statistically significant change across four of the six main knowledge outcomes, but no statistically significant change across secondary behavior and self-efficacy measures. The intervention group had greater increases in student knowledge of recommended levels of screen time (∆= 5.10, p = 0.02), sugar-sweetened beverages (∆= 2.45, p = 0.02), physical activity (∆= 4.55, p = 0.03), and dairy consumption (∆= 2.97, p = 0.02) from baseline to follow-up.