Heart Partners:A Strategy for Promoting Effective Diffusion of School Health Promotion Programs

1998 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Roberts-Gray ◽  
Teshia Solomon ◽  
Nell Gottlieb ◽  
Ellen Kelsey
1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Hooper ◽  
Carolyn C. Cox ◽  
Karl Cambre ◽  
Debbie Wilburn ◽  
Michael Webster ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quynh Long Khuong ◽  
Ngoc-Anh Hoang Thi ◽  
Hong Phuong Nguyen ◽  
Tuyet Hanh Tran Thi ◽  
Kidong Park ◽  
...  

Background: Adolescence is a vulnerable period for many lifestyle risk behaviors. In this study, we investigated the clustering of risk behaviors and role of the school health promotion programs among adolescents in Vietnam. Methods: We analyzed data of 7,541 adolescents aged 13-17y from the 2019 nationally representative Global School-based Student Health Survey, conducted in 20 provinces and cities in Vietnam. We applied the latent class analysis to identify groups of clustering and used Bayesian 2-level logistic regressions to evaluate the effects of school health promotion programs on these clusters. We reassessed the school effect size by incorporating different informative priors to the Bayesian models. Findings: The most frequent lifestyle risk behavior among Vietnamese adolescents was unhealthy diet (~67%), followed by sedentary behavior (37% in boys and 48% in girls) and low fruit/vegetable intake (~31%). More than half of students had a cluster of at least two risk factors and a quarter with three risk factors. Latent class analysis detected 18% boys and 15% girls being at high-risk of lifestyle behaviors. Consistent through different priors, high quality of health promotion programs associated with lower the odds of lifestyle risk behaviors (highest quality schools vs. lowest quality schools; boys: Odds ratio (OR) = 0.69, 95% Highest Density Interval (HDI): 0.49 - 0.99; girls: OR = 0.62, 95% HDI: 0.42 - 0.92). Interpretation: Our findings demonstrated the clustering of specific lifestyle risk behaviors among Vietnamese adolescents, suggesting a special need for required courses in schools and join interventions that target sex-specific multiple risk behaviors.


Children ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 595
Author(s):  
Pirita Markkula ◽  
Anja Rantanen ◽  
Anna-Maija Koivisto ◽  
Katja Joronen

School engagement has been shown to protect students from dropping out of education, depression and school burnout. The aim of this Finnish study was to explore the association between child-parent relationships and how much 99,686 children aged 9–11 years liked school. The data were based on the 2019 School Health Promotion Study, conducted by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare. This asked children whether they liked school or not and about their child-parent relationships. Univariate and multivariate analyses were used to examine the data separately for boys and girls and the results are presented as odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). According to the results, girls showed more school engagement than boys (81.9% versus 74.0%), and it was more common in children who felt that their parents communicated with them in a supportive way. This association was slightly stronger for girls than boys (OR 2.46 95% CI 2.33–2.59 versus OR 2.10 95% CI 2.02–2.20). It is important that child-parent relationships and communication are considered during school health examinations, so that children who have lower support at home can be identified.


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