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Table 2 SHEPP healthy heart teaching

From: School health education program in Pakistan (SHEPP)—a threefold health education feasibility trial in schoolchildren from a lower-middle-income country

 

Title

Description

Activity

Session 1

A happy heart; what makes heart happy and what makes it sad

What is the heart?

Why is it important?

What is good for the heart?

What is bad for the heart?

Feeling of heart by hand

Counting pulse of each other

Checking pulse after spot jogging

Ask them to pick pictures that are good for heart and bad for heart

Session 2

The smart diet

What is smart and healthy diet?

My food plate

Pictures of food items given to children and they were asked to pick the healthy ones

Session 3

Keep moving

Why physical activity is good?

Why using tablet/watching TV for long is bad?

How to keep moving?

Ask them to jog, and how they feel (happy or sad)

Speak up on watching TV or watching tablet

Session 4

Smoking cigarette or chewing “gutka” is bad for health

Why smoking cigarette is bad?

What is second-hand smoking? Is it harmful?

Ask all students to write 2 harmful effects of smoking

Session 5

Stay clean, stay healthy

Why do hand washing?

Why brushing teeth is important?

Perform and demonstrate in front of class correct way of washing hands and brushing teeth

Session 6

Pax good behavior game

Make children learn good class behaviors

Make note of not so good class behaviors

Not point out any child on bad behavior

Only point teams

Appreciate with Pax action prize

Playing Pax behavior game