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Using Peer Health Education to Enhance Family Life Education

William J. Puentes, APRN, DNSc, BC, is an assistant professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Nursing, Camden, NJ

Melanie Wassel, RN, MSN

Melanie Wassel, RN, MSN, was one of the RN-BSN students who coordinated implementation of the Peer Health Education Program

This article describes an intervention known as the Peer Family Life Education Project that was designed as an alternate delivery method of an established family life education curriculum in an urban middle school setting. The factors contributing to sexual risk behaviors by urban adolescent populations are identified. A review of previous efforts at peer health education is presented. Program development and implementation is described. The strengths and weaknesses of the program are discussed, and suggestions for improving future efforts at the incorporation of peer health education to reduce sexual risk behaviors by adolescent urban populations are presented.

Key Words: adolescents • health education • peer education • sexual risk behavior

The Journal of School Nursing, Vol. 19, No. 6, 313-318 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/10598405030190060201


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