Erschienen in:
Journal of Health Psychology, 19 (2014) 10, Seite 1250-1260
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1177/1359105313488975
ISSN:
1359-1053;
1461-7277
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Beschreibung:
The ‘Teddy Bear Hospital’ is a medical students’ project, which has been increasingly established in many countries. To evaluate this concept, we examined the effects of a German Teddy Bear Hospital on children’s knowledge relating to their body, health and disease. Using a quasi-experimental pre/post design, we examined 131 preschool children from 14 German kindergartens with pictorial interview-based scales. The analysis of covariance revealed that the children who visited the Teddy Bear Hospital had a significantly better knowledge concerning their body, health and disease than the children from the control group. This German Teddy Bear Hospital is a good health education vehicle for preschool children.