I Choose Health (Elijo Salud): Impacting Youth Through Parish Nursing

ABSTRACT: The 2009-2010 National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) found that 34% of adolescents are overweight and 18% obese. The chance of an overweight/obese adolescent becoming an overweight/obese adult by age 35 is 60%. Hispanic youth are at risk for becoming obese related to eating habits. This paper describes an intervention, I Choose Health (Elijo Salud), with Hispanic church youth.
Source: Journal of Christian Nursing - Category: Nursing Tags: Feature: parish nursing Source Type: research