Table 3:

Adolescent responses to open-ended survey questions

Rural High school students	Urban High School Students
What action plans did you make as part of this program?
➢ To eat healthier ➢ Eat better, sleep more, exercise, and study for hard classes at school. ➢ Eat healthy and exercise more ➢ To get healthier overall. I made actions to improve my diet, reduce stress, get enough sleep, and do physical activity. ➢ To get more sleep ➢ We made plans to eat healthier, get more physical activity, and I made one to get more sleep. ➢ To make healthier decisions and to exercise more ➢ I made action plans to reduce stress, get more sleep at night, and to eat more greens ➢ Mostly action plans involving a better diet/ones designed to help her lose weight ➢ I started eating healthier. Also started going to bed early	➢ To make sure I’m always healthy ➢ Eat healthier, exercise more and take care of myself. ➢ Eat more vegetables ➢ To get more sleep ➢ I wanted to sleep more ➢ Less caffeine intake ➢ To reduce my stress. To exercise. To sleep more. ➢ Exercise ➢ I exercised and I ate healthier. I also went to the gym 2 weekends ago.
In your opinion what did the adults you coached like about this program?
➢ The action plan ➢ Helped her be more confident in trying to lose baby weight ➢ My person learned how to set goals and achieve them. ➢ They learned new stuff ➢ He probably liked that someone could talk to him about his problems. ➢ I think she liked making action plans and learning new information ➢ That she got to control her diet more ➢ My mother liked the one-on-one time with me & learning new things ➢ They liked how descriptive and how educational the course was ➢ She liked working with me She loved starting to walk	➢ Everything ➢ We took the program serious because it was her health ➢ How one on one it was with her health. ➢ Yes, she did like it ➢ She enjoyed to work with me ➢ They liked that they got to try better things
If the program has changed your lifestyle, what changes did you make?
➢ Eat less ➢ Meeting with personal trainer to work out. ➢ Eating better, maintaining stress ➢ I’ve started running every day and I eat healthier foods in place of junk foods. ➢ I’ve made sure to get all of my needed exercise time for a person my age (1 hour) ➢ I change eating habits ➢ To exercise more ➢ My diet has gotten healthier. ➢ Going to bed early, eating healthier	➢ Walking everyday ➢ sleeping, stress ➢ Just eating fruit more. ➢ Sleep more ➢ Because I feel like I know more about it now ➢ I ate much better, exercised better
Anything else that you want to say about the program?
➢ We could ask questions any time we need ➢ How understanding the teacher was. ➢ I loved the whole entire program. ➢ I liked how she came to us, I thought that was really nice. ➢ Very helpful! ➢ I liked learning something useful from that class ➢ I extremely loved the teacher and how she taught	➢ Learning a lot of things ➢ I liked how it tells us how to do things if everything happens ➢ How prepared they all came in, they knew how to get us most motivated. ➢ I like everything about this program ➢ I liked that they had treats if you got things right. They also had like a game with it