This Is Your Life! is an evidence-based program with proven results demonstrating outstanding improvements in student’s knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding nutrition and health issues.

You can use our professionally designed pre-and post-evaluation instrument to assess your students and demonstrate the dramatic impact of the This Is Your Life! intervention. We provide everything you need for meeting your health and nutrition grant objectives. Call us at 1-800-FOODPLAY to find out more!

Summary:

The This Is Your Life! intervention showed positive, statistically significant results on both male and female adolescents’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding nutrition, fitness, osteoporosis and health issues in all 15 schools as follows:

  • Increased knowledge about foods rich in calcium
  • Increased knowledge about the causes and effects of osteoporosis
  • Increased consumption of calcium-rich foods during following week
  • Increased physical exercise during following week

Method:
Pre- and Post-test evaluations were administered to 1,324 seventh and eighth grade students in 15 schools at which the play was presented prior to and one week following the This Is Your Life! intervention. Six scales were constructed to assess changes in targeted knowledge, attitudes, and behavior, the summary of which are presented here.

Evaluation:
Results were obtained utilizing a validated instrument/survey created by the MA Department of Public Health, FoodPlay Productions, and an independent evaluation agency, SSRE, Inc., and reported to the CDC. Analysis of results was performed utilizing paired t-tests and showed that changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behavior were statistically significant (p < .05). Abstract of the evaluation was published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

Results: One week following This Is Your Life!

Improved Changes in Student Reported Behavior: Agreed/Strongly Agreed “As a result of the play, are you more likely to…?

  • 64% reported “…try to eat more healthfully.”
  • 58% reported “…exercise more regularly.”
  • 52% reported “…feel better about their body and shape.”
  • 57% reported “…eat and drink more calcium-rich foods and beverages. ”
  • 39% reported “…drink fewer soft drinks.”
  • 46% reported “…skip meals less often.”
  • 49% reported “…avoid fad diets.”

Student Response of “Agreed/Strongly Agreed” to “This Is Your Life! was very helpful in…:

  • 70% “…Providing me with information about proper nutrition.”
  • 61% “…Helping me think about body shape and size.”
  • 57% “…Providing me with information about exercise.”
  • 70% “…Helping me think about taking care of my body.”
  • 64% “…Providing me with information about osteoporosis and health-related issues.”

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