A5080660433- School Health and Nursing Education
- Social and Educational Sciences
- Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Community Health and Development
- Physical Activity and Health
- Pediatric health and respiratory diseases
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Research in Social Sciences
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Occupational Therapy Practice and Research
- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Skin Protection and Aging
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Education in Diverse Contexts
- Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Respiratory viral infections research
University of Southern Denmark
2015-2025
Danish National Institute of Public Health
2018-2022
National Board of Health
2015
Danish Cancer Society
2013
Abstract Poor implementation of public health interventions in schools highlights the need for support. In 21 municipalities region Southern Denmark, we assessed educational administrators’ and headteachers’ perceived organisational readiness implementing school-based healthy weight interventions. Inspired by heuristic Scaccia colleagues, three components readiness: Motivation, innovation-specific capacity, general capacity. We used a mixed method design: Two questionnaire surveys among...
Abstract Background The prevalence of low well-being, perceived stress and unhealthy behaviours is high among school students, but few interventions have addressed these problems. aim this paper to present a study protocol cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the Healthy High School (HHS) intervention programme. programme designed improve well-being (primary outcome) by preventing 1) promoting 2) sleep, 3) sense community, 4) physical activity (PA) 5) regular healthy meals students...
Infectious illnesses such as influenza and diarrhea are leading causes of absenteeism among Danish school children. Interventions in settings addressing hand hygiene have shown to reduce the number infectious illnesses. However, most these studies include small populations almost none them conducted randomized controlled trials. The overall aim Hi Five study was develop, implement evaluate a multi-component school-based intervention improve well-being prevalence infections children schools...
Aims: The aim of the present study was to analyse trends in full breastfeeding for at least 4 months across socioeconomic position Denmark over a 17-year-long period from 2002 2019 using parental education as indicator position. Methods: used data on collected between and by community health nurses collaboration Child Health Database, n=143,075. Data were linked with five categories population registers. Social inequality calculated both relative (odds ratio) absolute social (slope index...
Abstract Process evaluation of public health interventions is important for understanding intervention results and can help explain why succeed or fail. This study evaluated implementation a school-based combining educational environmental strategies to prevent stress among Danish high school students. We investigated dose delivered, received, fidelity, appreciation, barriers facilitators at the 15 schools using mixed methods multiple data sources: questionnaires students, teachers...
Stress is a widespread phenomenon and young people especially are experiencing high levels of stress. School-related factors the most frequently self-reported stressors among adolescents, but few interventions have targeted school environment. This study evaluated effectiveness Healthy High School (HHS) intervention on stress at 9-month follow-up. The included 5201 first-year students (~16 years) in Denmark. Participating schools were randomized into HHS (N = 15) or control group 15)....
The Hi Five study was a three-armed cluster randomized controlled trial designed to reduce infections and improve hygiene well-being among pupils. Participating schools (n = 43) were into either control 15) or one of two intervention groups 28). consisted three components: (i) curriculum (ii) mandatory daily hand washing before lunch (iii) extra cleaning school toilets. aim this evaluate the implementation identify challenges program implementation. Several data sources used, including...
School organizational readiness to implement interventions may play an important role for the actual obtained implementation level, and knowledge about prior intervention start can help pinpoint how optimize support schools. In this study, we applied a novel heuristic, R = MC
Previous school-based hand hygiene interventions have reported to successfully reduce infectious illness among schoolchildren. But few studies tested the effect in large populations with adequate statistical power and analyses. The aim of this study was evaluate whether a multicomponent intervention improve handwashing schoolchildren, Hi Five study, succeeded reducing illness-related absenteeism schools.The three-armed cluster-randomized controlled trial involving 43 randomly selected Danish...
Peer-led interventions are highlighted as promising strategies to promote health among adolescents, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying this approach. To better understand role of peer mentors (PMs) implementers in school-based promotion, we combined participant observations, focus group interviews and video recordings explore high school students' reception a peer-led intervention component (Young & Active). Young Active aimed increase well-being first-year students (∼16...
Abstract Background Previous studies have shown that multicomponent interventions may improve meal frequency and eating habits in children, but evidence among young people is limited. This study evaluated the effect of Healthy High School (HHS) intervention on daily intake breakfast, lunch, water, fruit, vegetables at 9-month follow-up. Methods The included first-year students (≈16 years) attending high school Denmark. Participating schools were randomized into HHS ( N = 15) or control group...
The Healthy High School (HHS) intervention was developed to promote well-being among first-year high school students (~16 years of age) in Denmark by targeting stress, physical activity, meal habits, sleep, and sense community. Thirty-one schools were randomly allocated (16 schools) or control (15 groups a cluster-randomized controlled trial. purpose this short communication compare characteristics between 1) accepting participate the HHS study non-participating using national survey data 2)...