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Table.1 Overview of lesson content

From: Effectiveness of a pre-adolescent inter-generational intervention to address HIV and obesity in South Africa, using a pretest-posttest design

Lesson

Content

Skills

Reinforcing Activity

Parent-Student Homework

One: Obesity

Healthy body imagea

Underweight, overweight and obesity

Body Mass Index (BMI)

How to measure weight

How to measure height

Interpreting BMI

Diary of a healthy kid

Crossword puzzle

Measure and interpret student’s BMI

Two: Nutrition

Healthy eatinga

Food-based dietary guidelinesa

How to interpret a food labela

Word search puzzle

Colouring-in picture

Interpret a food label at home

Three: Physical Activity

Benefits of physical activity

Heart rate (pulse)

Measuring and interpreting pulse

Colouring-in picture

Measure and interpret family member’s pulse

Obesity poster activity

Four: HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDSa

Understanding the risks of HIV/AIDS

Reducing the risk of HIV/AIDS

Crossword puzzle

HIV/AIDS story-writing activity

Five: Communicating about HIV/AIDS

Communication

Importance of communication

Healthy ways of communicating

Dealing with discomfort and support for sexual-specific communication

Communication game

Family communication exercise

  1. Reprinted from Arthur et al. (2020) [29], under a CC licence, with permission from Health Education Journal, original copyright 2020 [29]
  2. aAlready a part of the existing Grade 6 national school curriculum