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- Title
Health communication and professional preparation: health educator credibility, message learning, and behavior change.
- Authors
Scott LAB; Black DR
- Abstract
Health education graduate students were surveyed to assess perceptions of their professional responsibility to be role models of healthy behaviors, characteristics of a professional role model, and related socializing experiences during professional preparation. A total of 233 randomly selected health education graduate students participated in this study nationwide. Significant inverse associations were found between students' year in graduate school and sense of excellence as a role model, graduate program satisfaction, and professional commitment (all ps < 0.05). Students' sense of professional marketability and competence to role model were statistically significant in predicting their perception that role modeling healthy behaviors is a professional responsibility, F(2, 215) = 110.25, p = 0.00001. Positive associations also were found between students' desire to improve fitness behavior, nutrition, and weight and/or body fat ratio with self-ratings as role models (all ps < 0.05). Implications for the profession and preparation are provided.
- Publication
Health Education & Behavior, 1999, Vol 26, Issue 5, p609
- ISSN
1090-1981
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/109019819902600502