@article{b0978b5664524602803fc137980881e7,
title = "{"} Watch your mouth! {"} teaching oral health and aging in the reading classroom",
abstract = "Current national educational recommendations suggest incorporating health topics across secondary school curricula. Application of the Positively Aging {\textregistered} Choices and Changes materials, specifically Unit 9 {"}Watch Your Mouth! Oral Health and Aging,{"} illustrates that oral health education can be successfully incorporated into middle school reading classrooms. A teacher's successful implementation of the unit and the alignment of oral health concepts with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills reading objectives are described herein. Compared to pretest results, increases in student posttest scores were statistically significant (all p ≤ 0.001) and reflected concept attainment as linked to learning cluster objectives within the unit.",
author = "Pruski, {Linda A.} and Blalock, {Cheryl L.} and Rosemarie Plaetke and Murphy, {Douglas L.} and Marshall, {Carolyn E.} and Lichtenstein, {Michael J.}",
note = "Funding Information: The research resulted from the efforts of Aging Research and Education Center staff involved in the Positively Aging{\textregistered}: Choices and Changes program funded by a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA, #R25-RR-12369, 1997–2000) granted by three agencies of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). These agencies include the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), and the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Additional funding provided through the Frederic C. Bartter General Clinical Research Center M01-RR-01346. Current funding is from a Phase II SEPA grant (#2-R25-RR-12369, 2002–2003).",
year = "2003",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1080/713844389",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "29",
pages = "551--564",
journal = "Educational Gerontology",
issn = "0360-1277",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "6",
}