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The Healthy Primary School of the Future: A Contextual Action-Oriented Research Approach

Background: Schools can play an important role in promoting children’s health behaviours. A Dutch initiative, ‘The Healthy Primary School of the Future’, aims to integrate health and well-being into the school system. We use a contextual action-oriented research approach (CARA) to study the implemen...

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Autores principales: Bartelink, Nina H. M., van Assema, Patricia, Jansen, Maria W. J., Savelberg, Hans H. C. M., Willeboordse, Maartje, Kremers, Stef P. J.
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Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6209969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30720796
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102243
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author Bartelink, Nina H. M.
van Assema, Patricia
Jansen, Maria W. J.
Savelberg, Hans H. C. M.
Willeboordse, Maartje
Kremers, Stef P. J.
author_facet Bartelink, Nina H. M.
van Assema, Patricia
Jansen, Maria W. J.
Savelberg, Hans H. C. M.
Willeboordse, Maartje
Kremers, Stef P. J.
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description Background: Schools can play an important role in promoting children’s health behaviours. A Dutch initiative, ‘The Healthy Primary School of the Future’, aims to integrate health and well-being into the school system. We use a contextual action-oriented research approach (CARA) to study the implementation process. Properties of CARA are its focus on contextual differences and the use of monitoring and feedback to support and evaluate the process of change. The aim of this article is to describe the use of the approach. Methods: Four schools (each with 200–300 children, aged 4–12 years) were included; all located in low socio-economic status areas in the south of the Netherlands. Data collection methods include interviews, observations, questionnaires, and health and behavioural measurements. Research contributions include giving feedback and providing schools with a range of possibilities for additional changes. The contextual data we examine include schools’ health promoting elements, practices of teachers and parents, dominating organisational issues, and characteristics of the student population; process data include the presence of potential barriers to changes. Discussion: CARA is an adaptive research approach that generates knowledge and experiences on how to deal with health promotion in complex systems. We think this approach can set an example for research efforts in comparable initiatives.
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spelling pubmed-62099692018-11-02 The Healthy Primary School of the Future: A Contextual Action-Oriented Research Approach Bartelink, Nina H. M. van Assema, Patricia Jansen, Maria W. J. Savelberg, Hans H. C. M. Willeboordse, Maartje Kremers, Stef P. J. Int J Environ Res Public Health Protocol Background: Schools can play an important role in promoting children’s health behaviours. A Dutch initiative, ‘The Healthy Primary School of the Future’, aims to integrate health and well-being into the school system. We use a contextual action-oriented research approach (CARA) to study the implementation process. Properties of CARA are its focus on contextual differences and the use of monitoring and feedback to support and evaluate the process of change. The aim of this article is to describe the use of the approach. Methods: Four schools (each with 200–300 children, aged 4–12 years) were included; all located in low socio-economic status areas in the south of the Netherlands. Data collection methods include interviews, observations, questionnaires, and health and behavioural measurements. Research contributions include giving feedback and providing schools with a range of possibilities for additional changes. The contextual data we examine include schools’ health promoting elements, practices of teachers and parents, dominating organisational issues, and characteristics of the student population; process data include the presence of potential barriers to changes. Discussion: CARA is an adaptive research approach that generates knowledge and experiences on how to deal with health promotion in complex systems. We think this approach can set an example for research efforts in comparable initiatives. MDPI 2018-10-12 2018-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6209969/ /pubmed/30720796 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102243 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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The Healthy Primary School of the Future: A Contextual Action-Oriented Research Approach
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