Ecological factors associated with behavioral problems in vulnerable children

Choo, Jina; Kim, Hye Jin; Turk, Melanie T.; Kim, Min Jung; Yang, Kyung Sook

doi:10.1111/jjns.12148

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“…Any environmental factor can be perceived by the human body positively or negatively, depending on the dose of exposure. Each person has his own optimal dose of a factor [4,5]. The life-sustaining activities of the human body is in a continuous dynamic relationship with environmental factors.…”

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Ecological Education and Its Relationship With Students’ Health

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The aim is to assess the state of ecological education in student youth and determine its relationship to the level of students’ health. Materials and methods: The research was conducted on the basis ofthe Polissya National University (Zhytomyr, Ukraine) and the Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko (Sumy, Ukraine) in 2018-2020. The ascertaining experiment, which was conducted to assess the state of ecological education of students according to the questionnaire developed by us involved 503 students. The formative experiment aimed at studying the relationship between the level of ecological education and the level of students’ health involved 59 students. Results: The ascertaining stage of the experiment showed that the vast majority of students of different specialties revealed a low level of mastery of the components of ecological education. The formative stage of the experiment showed that the EG students significantly improved the level of all components of ecological education, as well as the level of their health (p < 0.001). No significant changes were revealed in the CG (p > 0.05). Conclusions: The research showed that purposeful work on the formation of ecological education in the process of fitness and health recreation activities has a positive effect on all its components (knowledge, character building, worldview, culture) and the level of students’ health. In general, it will help to improve the efficiency of the educational process of students, improve indicators of their life-sustaining and future professional activities.

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“…McLeroy et al's (1988) ecological perspective may help community health professionals design effective tailored intervention strategies corresponding to every level (i.e., intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, and community/political) [18]. Particularly, children's behaviors may be influenced by their surroundings, such as parents and organizations (schools or welfare systems) as well as their individual characteristics [19]. Therefore, parents and organizations (e.g., schools or welfare system settings) may be key targets in promoting children's health behaviors.…”

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Effects of the Healthy Children, Healthy Families, Healthy Communities Program for Obesity Prevention among Vulnerable Children: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

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Background: We aimed to examine whether the Healthy Children, Healthy Families, and Healthy Communities Program, consisting of multi-level strategies for obesity prevention tailoring the context of socioeconomically vulnerable children based on an ecological perspective, would be effective on improving their healthy lifestyle behaviors and obesity status. Methods: Participants were 104 children (and 59 parents) enrolled in public welfare systems in Seoul, South Korea. Based on a cluster-randomized controlled trial (no. ISRCTN11347525), eight centers were randomly assigned to intervention (four centers, 49 children, 27 parents) versus control groups (four centers, 55 children, 32 parents). Multi-level interventions of child-, parent-, and center-level strategies were conducted for 12 weeks. Children’s healthy lifestyle behaviors and obesity status were assessed as daily recommended levels and body mass index ≥85th percentile, respectively. Parents’ parenting behaviors were measured by the Family Nutrition and Physical Activity scale. Results: Compared to the control group, the intervention group showed significant improvements in total composite scores of healthy-lifestyle behaviors—including 60-min of moderate physical activity—but not in obesity status among children. Moreover, the intervention group showed significant improvements in parenting behaviors among parents. Conclusion: The multi-level strategies for obesity prevention based on an ecological perspective may be effective for promoting healthy lifestyles among socioeconomically vulnerable children.

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“…McLeroy’s ecological perspective may be particularly applicable to such an analysis. McLeroy [ 29 ] proposed that behavior is determined by multiple levels of factors, including intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, community, and public policy. Based on McLeroy’s theory, we selected and examined four levels of factors—individual, family, school environment, and ecological migration—that potentially affect behavioral problems in adolescent ecological migrants.…”

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Migrant adolescents’ behavioral problems compared to host adolescents and adolescents in their region of origin: a longitudinal study

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Wang

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BMC Psychiatry

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Background Since the 1990s, families from the ecologically hostile mountainous southern areas of Ningxia Province, China, have been migrating to the northern areas of the province. This study compared the prevalence of behavioral problems among migrant adolescents to those among host adolescents (adolescents from the northern areas) and adolescents in the region of origin (adolescents from the southern areas), to determine whether ecological migration is related to adolescent behavioral problems, and possible changes in such problems over time. Methods We used the Children and Adolescents Ecological Migration Survey on Mental Health, administered to 4805 students aged 12–16 years and their parents between 2012 and 2014 (W1), of whom 1753 students and their parents completed the follow-up between 2014 and 2017 (W2). Parents answered questions related to adolescent behavioral problems, main source of family income, parents’ desire to reverse migrate, improved standard of living, and parents’ educational attainment, while children completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and a classroom environment questionnaire. Results The prevalence of behavioral problems among the migrant adolescents (28.04%) was significantly higher than among host adolescents (21.59%) or adolescents in the region of origin (24.37%; p < 0.001) at W1. After adjusting for gender and age, parents’ work outside the home was the main source of family income (OR = 1.42, 95% CI = 1.13–1.78), and adolescents’ learning burden (OR = 1.04, 95% CI = 1.01–1.06) in school negatively influenced behavioral problems. Strong student-teacher relationships (OR = 0.97,95% CI = 0.94–0.99) and parents who had no intention to move back to the original residence (OR = 0.70, 95% CI = 0.52–0.94) exerted a protective effect at W1; at W2, a protective effect was associated with improved living conditions (OR = 0.39–0.55, 95% CI = 0.25–0.84). The extent of behavioral problems among migrant adolescents significantly decreased after two years. Conclusion Ecological migration will increase children’s behavioral problems in the early stage, with various factors influencing the extent of these problems.

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Ecological factors associated with behavioral problems in vulnerable children

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Ecological Education and Its Relationship With Students’ Health

Ecological Education and Its Relationship With Students’ Health

Effects of the Healthy Children, Healthy Families, Healthy Communities Program for Obesity Prevention among Vulnerable Children: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

Migrant adolescents’ behavioral problems compared to host adolescents and adolescents in their region of origin: a longitudinal study

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