Designing Educational Newsletter Interventions: An Example That Supported Grandfamilies’ Physical Wellness Needs
- Priscilla Brenes (Kansas State University)
- Mary Meck Higgins (Kansas State University)
Abstract
Effective newsletters have theory-based content and designs tailored to their readers and offer limited-cost community-level approaches to providing helpful, relevant, and engaging information. In accordance with this, we offer an example of a newsletter intervention that supported grandfamilies’ physical wellness needs. Six issues of a brief mail-delivered newsletter were sent yearly for up to 5 years to low-income custodial grandparents. In evaluating the newsletter, most respondents reported reading it, discussing its information, and having greater awareness, knowledge, and motivation or confidence regarding wellness recommendations. Furthermore, 91% described improving 1 or more of their grandfamilies’ cooking, eating, or physical activity practices.
Keywords: mailed newsletter, intervention, health and wellness education, grandparents raising grandchildren, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
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Brenes, P. & Meck Higgins, M., (2021) “Designing Educational Newsletter Interventions: An Example That Supported Grandfamilies’ Physical Wellness Needs”, [TEST] Journal of Extension 59(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.59.03.06
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