The purpose of this study was to investigate the preferred method of learning
about heart disease by adult learners. This research study also investigated if there was a
statistically significant difference between race/ethnicity, age, and gender of adult
learners and their preferred method of learning preventative heart disease care. This
research study further explored the effectiveness of adult education on reducing or
preventing serious, life-threatening heart disease, including heart attack.
This research is of significant importance as the adult population and age in many
developed countries is increasing. It was anticipated that the study would unearth the
effectiveness of various educational methods of providing information to adult learners to
inform them how to prevent heart attacks.
For this quantitative investigation, participants were limited to students enrolled
in at least one college course (three credit hours) at the Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton campus who were 25 years of age or older. During the course of this study, three
methods of learning; formal, informal, and non-formal, as well as two delivery methods;
online and traditional, were evaluated.
Over one third of the study’s participants (35%) preferred to receive healthrelated
information via email (35%). This major finding was statistically significant (x²
(6) = 82.171; p < .001). Further, statistically significant findings were manifest for study
participants for omnibus age grouping and in the 25-35 years of age grouping, for those
who were White and Hispanic by ethnic background, and for both females and males
participating in this study. The results of this research may assist health department
administrators in utilizing varying methods for distributing health information, keeping
the preferred knowledge acquisition method of students on college and university
campuses especially in mind. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fau.edu/oai:fau.digital.flvc.org:fau_33971 |
| Contributors | Alavi, Nasim (author), Bryan, Valerie (Thesis advisor), Florida Atlantic University (Degree grantor), College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology |
| Publisher | Florida Atlantic University |
| Source Sets | Florida Atlantic University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation, Text |
| Format | 110 p., application/pdf |
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