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The Effect of a Multicomponent Professional Development Training on the Beliefs and Behaviors of Community Health Educators Concerning Food Irradiation

Britta M. Thompson, PhD

Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Room M301, Houston, TX 77030-3498; phone: (713) 798-7760; brittat{at}bcm.tmc.edu

Stephanie L. Knight, EdD

Texas A&M University, Department of Educational Psychology, College Station

Beliefs have a significant effect on the health behaviors of individuals and educators; however, they can be difficult to change. The purpose of this study was to determine if exposing community health educators, specifically family and consumer sciences county extension educators, to a multicomponentprofessional development training on food irradiation could change their beliefs and behaviors. This study compared the food irradiation beliefs and educational programmingof educators who participated in a professional development training with thosewhodidnot.Results indicatedthat the trainingsignificantlyimproved the foodirradiationbeliefs ofparticipants. In addition, the number of participants who provided food irradiation education significantly improved compared with educators who had not attended the training. These results suggest that this type of professional development training format can significantly affect beliefs and could increase the amount of food irradiation information available to consumers through community health educators.

Key Words: food irradiation • beliefs • professional development • community health educators

This version was published on October 1, 2006

Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 33, No. 5, 703-713 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1090198105285784
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