Health & Wellness for Teens Living with Disabilities

An Effective Practice

Description

The Teen Wellness program used participatory action development strategies to develop a modular curriculum addressing the health and wellness of teens living with disabilities. The curriculum was developed and tested among multidisciplinary graduate level student health care providers to determine the efficacy of an educational intervention to promote provider health promotion for teens with disabilities.

Goal / Mission

The project goals included sensitizing professionals-in-training to core areas of health promotion for teens with disabilities and increasing professionals' competence in understanding the issues and addressing the needs of teens or referring teens to appropriate resources.

Results / Accomplishments

Pre, post, and follow-up testing revealed significant increases in knowledge, skill, and confidence among participants. This supports targeting the health promotion practices of health professionals to decrease barriers to health and wellness for teens with disabilities.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Rehabilitation Research & Training Center: Health & Wellness Consortium
Primary Contact
Laura Hammond
Child Development & Rehabilitation Center
PO Box 574
Portland, OR 97207
(503) 494-3882
hammondl@ohsu.edu
http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/
Topics
Health / Disabilities
Health / Adolescent Health
Organization(s)
Rehabilitation Research & Training Center: Health & Wellness Consortium
Source
American Public Health Association (APHA)
Date of publication
2005
Location
Portland, OR
For more details
http://www.healthwellness.org
Target Audience
Teens

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An Effective Practice meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success and/or promise in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures of improvement in outcome of interest (i.e. increase in voter registration, not just delivery of voter registration drive) and/ or the outcome measure is increased or improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant.