BSHS 438 Week 3 Mental Health Brochure

Brochure Builder Assignment

Resources: Brochure Builder, Grading Criteria: Mental Health Brochure

Read Ch. 5 of Aging, the Individual, and Society. This chapter has several areas that can assist you with this assignment. Pay close attention to references about mental and cognitive health and the factors which contribute to this.

Imagine you are a professional working in a retirement community. You wish to teach your residents about the importance of mental and cognitive health.

Create an information brochure that provides the residents with information on how to maintain their mental and cognitive health and the benefits of doing so.

Include the following in your brochure:

· The role of mental and cognitive health in aging

· Common health issues related to mental and cognitive health

· Factors that contribute to mental and cognitive health

· Strategies to maintain mental and cognitive health

Use the Internet to research the bulleted points, and use your finding to complete the brochure.

Format your brochure according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

Assessing the Readability of Mental Health Internet Brochures for Children and Adolescents

Abstract

We investigated the readability of seven mental health brochures on mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders in children that were selected from a website developed by the Center for Mental Health Services at http://www.mentalhealth.org. The reading grade levels of the brochures ranged from 11.1 to 14.8 (mean 13.23), considerably higher than the 8th grade level recommended for educational material by the U. S. Department of Education (1986). On other readability variables, assessed using the Readability Assessment Instrument (RAIN; Singh, 1994), all brochures met criterion on most variables but failed on those for new words (audience appropriateness) and print size. This is a favorable result in comparison with other studies that have assessed readability of mental health information on the Internet using the RAIN, although less so with reading grade levels…

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