Evaluation of the Health‐Promoting School Supporting Network in Taiwan

Liao, Li Ling; Liu, Chieh Hsing; Cheng, Chuan; Niu, Yu Zhen; Chang, Tzu-Ching

doi:10.1111/josh.12275

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“…These results indicated that a university campus with a good eating environment and adequate healthy eating campaigns could enhance the NL of students and thus effectively improve healthy eating behavior in college students. From this perspective, health-promoting strategies in schools [50], that actively improve environmental support regarding college students' eating behavior via the setting approach, and have been promoted in Taiwan in recent years constitute an appropriate direction for interventions to enhance college students' NL. On an intrapersonal level, the proportion of the total effect of healthy eating attitudes explained by NL was the highest at 41.4%.…”

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Nutrition Literacy Mediates the Relationships between Multi-Level Factors and College Students’ Healthy Eating Behavior: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study

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College students experience new pressures and choices as they transition to independent living and can easily develop unhealthy eating habits, resulting in obesity and obesity-related chronic diseases in later life. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that nutrition literacy (NL) mediated the relationship between multi-level factors influencing healthy eating behavior identified from the social-ecological model and healthy eating behavior of college students. A four-part questionnaire was completed by 412 participants recruited from six different four-year universities in Taiwan (effective response rate = 85.8%). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, an independent samples t-test, hierarchical multiple regression, and mediation analysis. The results indicated that the students’ mean nutrition literacy score was 4.32 (SD = 0.78, range = 1–6). In the social-ecological framework, nutrition literacy significantly predicted healthy eating behavior (β = 0.28, p < 0.001; ΔF = 32.54, p < 0.001; ΔR2 = 0.05) with control variables of background, intrapersonal, interpersonal, environmental, and macrosystem factors. Nutrition literacy mediated the effects of seven factors on healthy eating behavior across four levels. These findings suggested that strengthening influential multi-level factors associated with healthy eating behavior not only enhanced NL, but also improved individuals’ healthy eating behavior.

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“…Taiwan officially launched an HPS programme in 2002. The Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health worked to provide the financial resources and technical support for local governments and schools to adopt an HPS approach (Liao et al, 2015). In 2008, the Ministry of Education asked all primary and middle schools to implement an HPS approach.…”

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Health-promoting schools in Taiwan: School principals’ and teachers’ perspectives on implementation and sustainability

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Health Education Journal

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Objective: This study assessed school principals’ understanding, attitudes and willingness to influence the implementation of the health-promoting schools (HPS) programme in Taiwan and teachers’ willingness to sustain it. Method: In 2014, a total of 1,140 school principals and 1,110 teachers (HPS coordinators) completed questionnaires concerning their perspectives on implementation and sustainability. Results: Compared with teachers, school principals reported higher levels of willingness to sustain HPS implementation. School principals’ levels of understanding of HPS and willingness to sustain it were significantly associated with higher levels of HPS implementation and an increase in teachers’ willingness to sustain HPS implementation. Conclusion: School principals’ understanding and willingness to support are central to the effective implementation and sustainability of initiatives such as HPS.

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“…Since the 1990s, the Taiwan government has funded various programmes to improve children's oral health. Moreover, in Taiwan, health‐promoting schools (HPSs) have advocated oral health promotion since 2001, such as daily practice of tooth brushing after meal, dental flossing and weekly use of fluoride mouthwash. After years of effort, the decayed, missing and filled teeth (DMFT) index at 12 years of age has significantly declined from 4.95 in 1990 to 2.50 in 2012.…”

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Dental visiting behaviours among primary schoolchildren: Application of the health belief model

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Ting

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Int J Dental Hygiene

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This study provided evidence that HBM is applicable to children's dental visiting behaviour and their health beliefs towards adherence to caries treatment. Although children had a positive attitude towards dental visits, environmental obstacles would interfere with dental visits. The newly developed instrument could be used to identify high-risk children and help design oral health interventions for these children. Moreover, policy makers should increase the accessibility of dental resources to enhance the utilization of dental care among schoolchildren.

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Evaluation of the Health‐Promoting School Supporting Network in Taiwan

Abstract: HPSSN positively influenced HPS implementation; however, consultant/school partnerships and school resource allocations must be improved.

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Nutrition Literacy Mediates the Relationships between Multi-Level Factors and College Students’ Healthy Eating Behavior: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study

Nutrition Literacy Mediates the Relationships between Multi-Level Factors and College Students’ Healthy Eating Behavior: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study

Health-promoting schools in Taiwan: School principals’ and teachers’ perspectives on implementation and sustainability

Dental visiting behaviours among primary schoolchildren: Application of the health belief model

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