Eficacia del programa Promoviendo Estilos de Vida Saludables con amas de casa participantes del programa Ciencias de la Familia y el Consumidor del Servicio de Extension Agricola en el municipio de Lajas, Puerto Rico

The intention of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Promoting Healthy Styles program. In this study formative and qualitative evaluation were used in a quasi-experimental design with a retrospective test. The experimental group was composed of 25 active participants of the Family and Consumer Science program and the control group consisted of 22 participants from a handicraft program at Lajas, PR. The experimental group received the lessons on which consisting of a curricular guide lessons. The control group participated in a conference on health promotion. A retrospective test was used and the analysis of the collected data was performed by using the statistical package "Statistical Package for Social Sciences" (SPSS) version 15.0 for Windows. The findings for the experimental group indicate positive changes and attitudes in relation to modifying life styles at same time this study showed the effectiveness of the Promoting Healthy Styles educative program.