Benefits & Risks
Potential Benefits of Wakaya
You may:
- Enjoy hearing traditional stories from elders.
- Enjoy learning about traditional games, foods, and other traditional activities.
- Enjoy creating a digital story.
- Enjoy going camping and being outdoors.
- Enhance your knowledge on how to increase your physical activity and healthy eating.
- Enjoy support from peers and staff on new behaviors to improve your health.
- Enjoy learning new skills about leadership and healthy behaviors.
Potential Risks
Risks during outdoor activities may include…
- weather
- limited bathroom access
- walking on some unpaved roads, roads with hills, curves
- exposure to insects such as ticks or mosquitos, or wildlife such as snakes,
- shrubs or plants (e.g. poison oak or ivy)
Discomfort related to…
- feeling embarrassed or anxious answering some survey questions, please let the staff know.
- worry about people finding out what you say in the survey or during the study activities.
PLEASE TELL RESEARCHERS IF YOU’VE BEEN INJURED
