scholarly journals Eastern North Carolina Head Start Teachers’ personal and professional experiences with healthy eating and physical activity: a qualitative exploration

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Virginia C Stage ◽  
Lorelei Jones ◽  
Jocelyn Bayles ◽  
Archana V Hegde ◽  
Dipti A Dev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Physical Activity Intervention ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Professional Experiences ◽  
Eastern North Carolina

Abstract Objective: Explore the interrelationship between teachers’ personal and professional socio-ecological structures while examining Head Start (HS) teachers’ experiences with (1) trying to eat healthy and engage in physical activity (PA) and (2) promote healthy eating and PA in their classrooms. Design: In-depth semi-structured interviews were collected from March through June 2017. Researchers designed the data collection and analysis methods using a phenomenological approach. All interviews were recorded using digital audio and transcribed verbatim. Setting: Seven HS centres in two rural eastern North Carolina counties. Participants: Teachers (n 15) who had recently participated in a healthy eating and physical activity intervention. Participants were 100 % female, an average age of 43 years (sd 9·6) and primarily Black/African American (93·3 %). Results: Eighteen primary themes were identified providing unique insight into individual, social and environmental determinants that may influence teachers’ personal health behaviours and professional health promotion practices. Findings indicated that teachers want to improve health behaviours personally (individual/family health) and professionally (children/families served); however, barriers exist at all levels impacting their ability to improve their own health and facilitate positive behaviours among the children/families they serve. Many teachers observed connections between their personal and professional experiences, but not beyond the individual level. Conclusions: Study findings highlight the importance of considering and emphasising the potential relationship between personal and professional determinants of health when working with early childhood teachers. Findings from this study may be useful for informing the development, implementation and evaluation of future health promotion interventions using teachers as implementers.

scholarly journals Project SoL—A Community-Based, Multi-Component Health Promotion Intervention to Improve Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Practices among Danish Families with Young Children Part 2: Evaluation

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 1513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bent Mikkelsen ◽  
Paul Bloch ◽  
Helene Reinbach ◽  
Tine Buch-Andersen ◽  
Lise Lawaetz Winkler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Future Research

Project SoL is implemented over a period of four years with the aim to promote healthy eating and physical activity among children aged 3–8 years by targeting the families in a Danish municipality based on the multi-component, supersetting strategy. Interventions are implemented in childcare centres, schools and supermarkets in three local communities as well as in local mass media and social media during a 19 months period in the Municipality of Bornholm. The matching Municipality of Odsherred serves as a control site based on its similarity to Bornholm regarding several socio-demographic and health indicators. The present paper gives an account of the design used for the summative and formative evaluation based on a realistic evaluation and a mixed methods approach combining qualitative and quantitative methods. Summative studies are conducted on changes of health behaviours among the involved families and within the municipalities in general, changes in community awareness of the project, changes in purchase patterns, changes in overweight and obesity among the targeted children and changes in knowledge and preferences among children due to sensory education workshops. The formative research comprises studies on children’s perceptions of health, perceptions of staff at supermarkets and media professionals on their roles in supporting the health promotion agenda, and motivations and barriers of community stakeholders to engage in health promotion at community level. The paper discusses operational issues and lessons learnt related to studying complex community interventions, cross-disciplinarily, interfaces between practice and research and research capacity strengthening; and suggests areas for future research. The development and implementation of the intervention and its theoretical foundation is described in a separate paper.

scholarly journals HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIOUR IN ADOLESCENTS WHO HAVE RECEIVED BASIC INSTRUCTION IN HEALTH PROMOTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Ruslan V. Tekliuk ◽  
Ihor V. Serheta ◽  
Oksana A. Serebrennikova
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Risky Behaviours ◽  
Health Related Behaviour

Introduction: Both positive and risky health behaviours among adolescents are of paramount importance as they often pathway further lifestyles and determine future health outcomes. The paper focuses on the trends of health promotion activities and health risks among adolescents who have been instructed on these topics at secondary schools. The aim: to detect trends in pro-active health behaviour and risk taking activities of Ukrainian adolescents in the last 14 years. Materials and methods: males and females, aged 15-17, who studied in secondary schools of the urban area of Vinnytsia city, Ukraine, in the years 2003, 2013, 2017, anonymously filled in the 118-item questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, Cochran Q test, Spearman correlation analysis, Kendall’s tau coefficient were used to analyze the data. Results: Overall, the data about health related issues obtained in the year 2003 vary significantly from the years 2013 and 2017, which indicates some beneficial influence that has taken place since 2003. Much fewer differences were spotted between the years 2013 and 2017. Health related behaviours in females showed less significant dynamics and some changes indicate regression, while males reported multiple improved results. Meanwhile actual numbers of males who opted for risky behaviours were higher than those of females. Significant relationships were found between some socio-economic factors, positive health behaviours (sufficient sleep, physical activity, daily regime, and life satisfaction) and proactive health choices. Conclusions: The available data suggests that there was a beneficial health-related influence on the schoolchildren over the years 2003-2017. Our findings also support the view that certain assets may protect the youth from risk-taking behaviours.

Development and piloting of a Checklist for healthy eating And Physical Activity in the Workplace (CEPAW)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosanne Freak-Poli ◽  
Margaret Brand ◽  
Tara Boelsen-Robinson ◽  
Oliver Huse ◽  
Maximilian de Courten ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Workplace Environment ◽  
Item Checklist

Abstract To develop and pilot a tool that assesses the infrastructure and policy workplace environment characteristics that may influence employee healthy eating and physical activity behaviours. A checklist was developed with reference to prior tools and piloted at eight worksites. Piloting of the tool demonstrated that it was generally feasible to use, took 1–2 hours to complete and appeared sensitive to differences between workplace environment characteristics. Refinement of the tool occurred after piloting. The final 21-item checklist contains sub-scores capturing policy, infrastructure, healthy eating and physical activity characteristics. This new checklist overcomes some limitations of pre-existing tools as it explicitly considers policy and is short, inexpensive and can be used by workplaces for self-assessment and by health promotion professionals in evaluation studies or as an intervention tool.

scholarly journals Making an IMPACT: The Story of a Medical Student-Designed, Peer-Led Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Curriculum

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Avik Chatterjee ◽  
Thomas N. Rusher ◽  
Julia Nugent ◽  
Kenneth W. Herring ◽  
Lindsey M. Rose ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Health Professional Students ◽  
The Impact

Despite the importance of healthful dietary choices in combating the childhood obesity epidemic, neither primary and secondary schools nor medical schools provide adequate nutrition education. In 2005, two medical students at the University of North Carolina started the Improving Meals and Physical Activity in Children and Teens (IMPACT) program, which utilized a peer-educator model to engage medical students and high school students in teaching 4th graders about healthy eating and physical activity. Over the years, medical student leaders of IMPACT continued the program, orienting the curriculum around the 5-2-1-0 Let’s Go campaign, aligning the IMPACT curriculum with North Carolina state curricular objectives for 4th graders and engaging and training teams of health professional students to deliver the program. The IMPACT project demonstrates how medical and other health professional students can successfully promote nutrition and physical activity education for themselves and for children through community-based initiatives. Ongoing efforts are aimed at increasing family participation in the curriculum to maximize changes in eating and physical activity of IMPACT participants and ensuring sustainability of the organization by engaging health professional student participants in continuing to improve the program.

Assessment of Dietary, Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviours of Singapore Schooling Youths

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 715-726
Author(s):  
Claudine Loong ◽  
Mia Eng Tay ◽  
Wai Mun Loke
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Sedentary Behavior ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Saturated Fat ◽  
Dietary Intakes ◽  
Sedentary Behaviors ◽  
Unhealthy Lifestyle ◽  
Daily Energy

Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors may set youths on the path to developing non-communicable diseases. Singapore schooling youths (n = 235, 67.2% female, age 17.5 (mean) ± 1.0 (SD) years) were recruited to examine the dietary, alcohol use, physical activity, and sedentary behaviors of the Singapore schooling youths. Demographic, anthropometric, and sedentary hours information were collected using structured questionnaires. Physical activity levels and dietary intakes, including alcohol use, were assessed using the validated International Physical Activity Questionnaire - long-form and localized food frequency questionnaire, respectively. The surveyed youths consumed significantly larger daily amounts of energy, sugar, saturated fat, and sodium than the levels recommended by the Singapore Health Promotion Board. They did not achieve the daily amounts of dietary fiber, fruits, and vegetables, and derived unhealthy proportions of daily energy from sugar and saturated fat. They did not exceed the recommended maximum daily alcohol allowance. Close to all the youths (91.2%) failed to adhere to more than five of the nine recommended healthy eating habits. Majority of these youths (73.4%) partook less than 600 MET-minute/ week. A significant number of the youths (38.1%) spent more than eight sedentary hours daily. Physical activity correlated significantly with sedentary behavior levels, but not the dietary scores. Most surveyed youths engaged in low physical activity and high sedentary behavior, and did not comply with most of the healthy eating guidelines proposed by the Singapore Health Promotion Board, specifically on daily energy, sugar, dietary fibers, saturated fat, sodium, and fruit and vegetable intakes.

Changes in Men’s Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Knowledge and Behavior as a Result of Program Exposure: Findings From the Workplace POWERPLAY Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 1364-1371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina M. Caperchione ◽  
Sean Stolp ◽  
Joan L. Bottorff ◽  
John L. Oliffe ◽  
Steven T. Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Workplace Health Promotion ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Exposure Group ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
High Exposure ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Health Eating

Background:The purpose of this study was to examine changes in physical activity and healthy eating knowledge and behaviors associated with the level of exposure to POWERPLAY, a men-centered workplace health promotion program.Methods:This study is based on a quasi-experimental prepost design. Using a computer assisted telephone interview survey, data regarding program exposure and physical activity and health eating knowledge and behaviors were collected from men (N = 103) in 4 workplaces.Results:Exposure scores were calculated and participants were categorized as having low (n = 54) or high exposure (n = 49) to POWERPLAY. Compared with the low exposure group, those reporting high exposure scored significantly higher on physical activity knowledge (F (1, 99) =14.17, P < .001, eta2 = .125) and health eating knowledge (F (1, 99) =14.37, P = .001, eta2 = .111). The high exposure group also reported significantly more minutes walked place to place (F (2, 206) = 3.91, P = .022, eta2 = .037) and on minutes walked for leisure (F (2, 230) = 3.08, P = .048, eta2 = .026).Conclusions:POWERPLAY shows significant promise as a workplace health promotion approach and may have an even greater impact when program exposure is augmented with environmental and policy changes.

scholarly journals Studies evaluating of health interventions at schools: an integrative literature review

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliabe Rodrigues de Medeiros ◽  
Danielle Gonçalves da Cruz Rebouças ◽  
Alany Carla de Sousa Paiva ◽  
Camila Priscila Abdias do Nascimento ◽  
Sandy Yasmine Bezerra e Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
English Studies ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
Value Judgment ◽  
Alcohol And Other Drugs

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify and analyze the available evidence on the strategies used in the studies evaluating health interventions at school. Method: this is an integrative review searching in LILACS, CINAHL, CUIDEN, ScienceDirect, and PubMed. From the pre-defined inclusion and exclusion criteria, there were 121 articles chosen to compose the sample. Results: english studies (97.5%), with a quantitative approach (80.2%), related to the interventions carried out in the Region of the Americas (54.6%) and the European Region (23.1%) predominated. For the most part, they are interventions as programs (70.2%), interested in evaluating results (73.5%) from the value judgment (83.4%). Prevalence of interventions focused on efficacy, effects or impact, and activities carried out on interventions were focused on physical activity, healthy eating, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, and use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. They are worked through activities of clinical monitoring, health promotion and disease prevention. Conclusion: the evidence indicates that the evaluations of health interventions in the school focus the results produced in programs through the judgment of value. The topics most addressed were healthy eating, physical activity, prevention of alcohol and other drugs, among others.

scholarly journals Cost-effectiveness of health promotion targeting physical activity and healthy eating in mental health care

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Verhaeghe ◽  
Delphine De Smedt ◽  
Jan De Maeseneer ◽  
Lea Maes ◽  
Cornelis Van Heeringen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Healthy Eating

scholarly journals Make a Move Intervention to Reduce Childhood Obesity

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Nerud ◽  
Haifa (Abou). Samra
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
And Control ◽  
Relationship Of

Guided by the social cognitive theory, this randomized controlled trial tested the “Make a Move,” a provider-led intervention for Head Start parents aimed to produce changes in the outcomes of knowledge, attitude, and behavior of physical activity and healthy eating. Participants were parents of children ages 3–5 years enrolled in a Head Start program. Participants completed a 57-item questionnaire at baseline and postintervention. The Wilcoxon rank-sum test revealed a statistically significant difference between the intervention and control groups in scores on knowledge of healthy eating ( z = 1.99, p = .05), attitude of physical activity ( z = 2.71, p < .01), and behavior of physical activity ( z = 2.03, p = .04). Ten participants (77%) completed all four intervention sessions. This study provided new insights into the relationship of a provider-led intervention with respect to knowledge, attitude, and behaviors in healthy eating and physical activity.

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