Health Promotion 2 Flashcards

1
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Preschoolers: Sexual education

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  • Teach correct terminology

- Be honest

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2
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Most critical period for speech development

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2-4yrs

Stuttering is ok, they just need to slow down

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Preschoolers: Need to know

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911

Learn phone number and address

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School agers 6-12: School experience

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Parents need to be involved in what’s going on at school

  • Teachers and parents have big impact
  • Transmission of values of the society
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School agers 6-12: Improve school performance

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  • Read to kids
  • Set aside place in home for doing HW
  • Show interest in school activities
  • Ensure good sleep and food
  • Meet w/childs teachers
  • Be able to help solve problems
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School agers: Latchkey Kids

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Self care before and after school

Increased risk for injury, stress, and bad behavior

Need GUIDLINES
-Don’t use stove, who to call, can friends come over, complete HW, appropriate snacks

Community service: karate centers

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School agers: Erikson

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Kids are moving from parents being center to peers

  • reject parents values and start to adopt others
  • Need tolerant understanding of testing boundaries
  • Need firm secure anchor of parental interest and concern
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School agers: Dishonest Behavior

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Lying
Cheating
Stealing
(looking out for their own interest)

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School agers: Sexuality

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Beginning to mix awkwardly with opposite sex

Sense of sexuality develops during this period

  • Appearance and dress
  • Answer questions honestly
  • Teach parents ways to promote development of positive sexuality (use correct terminology)
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School agers: Socially

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Peer relationships are important and need for belonging to group is vital

Allow friends to come over

Provide transportation for child and friends

Mediate risk factors

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School agers: Peer pressure

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Role play about what to do

“hey I’ve got some drugs”

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School agers 6-12: Bullying

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Is related to an imbalance of power

-Give kids tools to deal with it and what signs are

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13
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School agers: Physical activity

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Continue to refine skills
-hand-eye, muscle strength, agility, speed

Best done through teams and sports

Benefits

  • Socialization
  • Better self-esteem
  • Weight control
  • Increased physical activity
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14
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How much physical activity for School agers:

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60 minutes of vigorous physical activity daily (30mins should be done at school)

Start sports early

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School agers: Oral Health

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Loose first tooth by 5-6

Jaw line elongates and teeth move in

Brushing, flossing 2xd

2x a year dental visits

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16
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School agers 6-12: sleep

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Avg 9.5 hrs

8-11 may resist bed time

Night terrors replaces by sleep talking/taking/enuresis

Teach good sleep hygiene

17
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School agers: Injury prevention

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Injury is big in this stage
-Most common severe injury is motor vehicle accident

More bike related injuries

Boys more than girls

Chores: law mower

Take risk to gain social acceptance

USE safety equiptment

18
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Under 12 kids should ride?

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In the back seat

20-40lb 5-point harness
40-80lb Booster seat
>80lb or 4 9: Seat belt

19
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Adolescent 13-18:

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Reluctance to seek healthcare

-A movement toward autonomy

20
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Adolescent 13-18: Morbidity/mortality

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  • Poverty
  • Neighborhood violence
  • Parental abuse or neglect
  • Divorce
  • Being held back
  • Using drugs or alcohol
  • Smoking cigs
  • Problems with law
  • Prego before 18
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Adolescent 13-18: Factors that promote Health and well being

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  • Adaptability to new people + situations
  • Satisfactory early cognitive and academic development
  • Honor roll
  • Extra circulars
  • Summer job
  • Going to library
  • Support from caring adult
22
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Adolescent 13-18: Peer relationships

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Super important in this stage
-Peers provide sense of belonging and feeling of strength and power

-peers form transitional world between dependence and autonomy

23
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Adolescent 13-18: Largest number of injuries comes from?

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Motor vehicle accidents (74% of all unintentional deaths)

  • Lack of experience
  • Following too close
  • speed
  • texting
  • Alcohol
  • Other teen passengers
24
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Adolescent 13-18: Second leading cause of death

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Homicide
#1 in black youth
25
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Adolescent 13-18: injury prevention strategies

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Motor and non-motor vehicles

  • Drowning: wear life vest
  • Burns
  • Poisonings
  • Bodily damage
26
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Adolescent 13-18: Sexuality

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Unintentional teen pregnancy is down

Rates of STIs and HIV have increased to 1-6

Factors that increase teens risk

  • Multiple sexual partner
  • No consistent condom use
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Adolescent 13-18: Sexual activity guidance

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Teach responsible sex including abstinence

Discuss how STIs are transmitted as well as consequences

Ways to reduce risk factors

Offer + reinforcement for responsible behaviors

28
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Adolescent 13-18: Preventing Drug use

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Experimentation is common
50% have tried

Drinking and driving is leading cause of death in teens

Smoking early increases risk of becoming heavy smoker and illness + death

Substance use is implicated in delinquency, absenteeism, dropout, bad school performance, and early sexual behavior

29
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Adolescent 13-18: Drug intervention

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Ask about prior experimentation

Discuss short term effects

Role play

Help develop cessation plants

Encourage parents to express their views

30
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Adolescent 13-18: Depression and suicide

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Tremendous stress during this time.
-may not be able to balance stress/coping mechanisms

  • depression
  • Substance abuse
  • Increased risk taking behaviors
31
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Adolescent 13-18: Depression and suicide 2

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Depression COMMON

Ask teens if they are feeling down or blue

All affirmative responses should be screen for suicide risk

Either refer to mental health specialist or immediate supervision and referral

32
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Warning signs of Suicide

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Behavior changes

  • Inc risk taking
  • Alienation from family or peers
  • giving away personal items
  • Writing letters, notes, essays,

Cognitive and mood changes

  • Expression of hopelessness
  • Dramatic swings in affect
  • Sleep disorders
  • Preoccupation with death
  • Difficulty concentrating
  • Hearing voices or seeing things
33
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Suicide Prevention

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Effective coping

Early recognition of depression and stress

Social problems

CBC basic strategies

  • School and community gatekeeper
  • General suicide edu
  • Peer support programs
  • Crisis centers and hotlines
  • Restriction of access to lethal means
  • Intervention after suicide to prevent
34
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Preventing physical, sexual, and emotional abuse

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Examine messages in videos, songs, movies, tv

Date rape

Availability of weapons

Has anyone ever hurt you?