Parental engagement in school-based health promotion and education

Spencer, Grace; Hood, Philip; Agboola, Shade; Pritchard, Catherine

doi:10.1108/he-03-2018-0016

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“…Additionally, we found small differences for some subgroups, but future research should focus on the impact in different school contexts, since we were restricted in the characteristics that could be included in this study. Other potentially important contextual factors are for example parental involvement [ 51 ] and the degree of implementation of the HS program [ 52 ]. The degree of implementation of the HS program can vary to a great extent between schools, and future studies should explore its influence [ 52 ].…”

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School health promotion and fruit and vegetable consumption in secondary schools: a repeated cross-sectional multilevel study

Vonk,

Eekhout,

Huijts

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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Background Worldwide, recommendations for fruit and vegetable consumption are not met, which can cause chronic diseases. Especially adolescence is an important phase for the development of health behaviours. Therefore, in the Netherlands, the Healthy School program was established to aid schools in promoting healthy lifestyles among their students. We examined to what extent the variation between secondary schools regarding students’ fruit and vegetable consumption could be explained by differences between schools regarding Healthy School certification, general school characteristics, and the school population. Additionally, we examined whether Healthy School certification was related to the outcomes, and whether the association differed for subgroups. Methods We performed a repeated cross-sectional multilevel study. We used data from multiple school years from the national Youth Health Monitor on secondary schools (grades 2 and 4, age ranged from approximately 12 to 18 years) of seven Public Health Services, and added data with regard to Healthy School certification, general school characteristics and school population characteristics. We included two outcomes: the number of days a student consumed fruit and vegetables per week. In total, we analysed data on 168,127 students from 256 secondary schools in the Netherlands. Results Results indicated that 2.87% of the variation in fruit consumption and 5.57% of the variation in vegetable consumption could be attributed to differences at the school-level. Characteristics related to high parental educational attainment, household income, and educational track of the students explained most of the variance between schools. Additionally, we found a small favourable association between Healthy School certification and the number of days secondary school students consumed fruit and vegetables. Conclusions School population characteristics explained more variation between schools than Healthy School certification and general school characteristics, especially indicators of parental socioeconomic status. Nevertheless, Healthy School certification seemed to be slightly related to fruit and vegetable consumption, and might contribute to healthier dietary intake. We found small differences for some subgroups, but future research should focus on the impact in different school contexts, since we were restricted in the characteristics that could be included in this study.

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School health promotion and fruit and vegetable consumption in secondary schools: a repeated cross-sectional multilevel study

Vonk,

Eekhout,

Huijts

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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“…Bell and McBride (2012) proposed that family support is of great significance for maintaining teenagers' mental and physical health (Bell and McBride, 2012). Parental involvement is important for improving students' health consequences (Spencer et al, 2018). Therefore, exploring the relationship between health anxiety by parent-proxy and learning support services can provide a theoretical reference for parents' learning support services to effectively protect students' mental and physical health, and reduce parents' anxiety.…”

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Impact of academic stress by parent-proxy on parents' learning-support-services: a moderated-mediation model of health anxiety by parents' educational level

Wang

2022

LHT

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PurposeThis study focused on parents' health anxiety by proxy about their children when they started learning online during the COVID-19 pandemic, to explore the impact of academic stress by parent-proxy on parents' learning support services with the mediating role of health anxiety by parent-proxy and the moderating role of parental educational level.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 8,940 primary school students' parents participated in the study. Bootstrapping was performed to test the constructed model.Findings(1) Academic stress by parent-proxy positively predicted health anxiety by parent-proxy. (2) Health anxiety by parent-proxy significantly positively predicted learning support services. (3) Academic stress by parent-proxy also significantly positively predicted learning support services. (4) Academic stress by parent-proxy positively predicted parents' learning support services through the mediating effect of health anxiety by parent-proxy. (5) Parental educational level moderated the relationship between academic stress by parent-proxy, health anxiety by parent-proxy, and learning support services. Academics and parents will benefit from the conclusions of this study in both theory and practice.Originality/valueDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, offline learning has been replaced with online learning, which has brought with it many physical and mental health problems, including additional academic stress. Most studies on learning support services have focused on offline learning. However, this study explored the relationships between academic stress by parent-proxy, health anxiety by parent-proxy, learning support services, and parental educational level in the context of online learning. Results show that it is necessary to pay attention to academic stress and health to provide children with appropriate learning support services.

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“…The predictors of preventive health-care practices were researched upon by Wu and Raghunathan (2019). Spencer et al (2018) emphasized the need for health promotional activities to spread awareness. Hence the role of health education becomes very important (Wright et al , 2018).…”

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Maslow’s theory for preventive healthcare in India – a content analysis approach

Chopra

2021

IJPHM

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Purpose The purpose of the study was to apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to understand consumer motivation for preventive health care in India using content analysis. Design/methodology/approach Content analysis approach which is a qualitative-based approach was adopted. The responses were collected through semi-structured interviews using purposeful sampling method, and the responses were analyzed using content analysis approach. Sub themes and main themes were derived from the data which related to concepts in Maslow’s theory. Findings The results indicate the following: healthy food, healthy diet and health supplements are the basic need; sustainability of health and fitness and health security relate to safety and security need; feeling of pride in being fit, being a role model of fitness for others and influence of electronic media relate to social and self-esteem need; freedom from disease and peace of mind fulfill the need for self-actualization. Research limitations/implications To strengthen the external validity, a mix of alternate research methodologies adopting qualitative and quantitative approach need to be adopted. Practical implications This study will help to better understand motivation for preventive health care. It will enable health-care companies to design health-care marketing programs based on Maslow’s theory to motivate individuals to purchase health products. The public health-care departments can issue guidelines based on Maslow’s theory to motivate citizens toward preventive health care. Originality/value Maslow’s theory was applied in the context of preventive health care.

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Parental engagement in school-based health promotion and education

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

School health promotion and fruit and vegetable consumption in secondary schools: a repeated cross-sectional multilevel study

School health promotion and fruit and vegetable consumption in secondary schools: a repeated cross-sectional multilevel study

Impact of academic stress by parent-proxy on parents' learning-support-services: a moderated-mediation model of health anxiety by parents' educational level

Maslow’s theory for preventive healthcare in India – a content analysis approach

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