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Secondary school practitioners’ beliefs about risk factors for school attendance problems: a qualitative study
School staff have an important role to play in identifying and assisting pupils who require additional support to regularly attend school, but their beliefs about risk factors might influence their decisions regarding intervention. This qualitative study investigated educational practitioners’ belie...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7254525/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32536954 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632752.2019.1647684 |
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author | Finning, Katie Waite, Polly Harvey, Kate Moore, Darren Davis, Becky Ford, Tamsin |
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description | School staff have an important role to play in identifying and assisting pupils who require additional support to regularly attend school, but their beliefs about risk factors might influence their decisions regarding intervention. This qualitative study investigated educational practitioners’ beliefs about risk factors for attendance problems. Sixteen practitioners from three secondary schools were interviewed via focus groups. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Practitioners identified risk factors related to the individual, their family, peers and school. Poor mental health was identified as a risk factor, but practitioners primarily focused on anxiety rather than other mental health problems like depression or behavioural disorders. The overall perception was that school factors were less important than individual, family and peer factors. Implications include a need for increased awareness of the role of school factors in attendance problems, focus on promoting positive peer and pupil-teacher relationships, and collaborative working between young people, families and schools. |
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spelling | pubmed-72545252020-06-11 Secondary school practitioners’ beliefs about risk factors for school attendance problems: a qualitative study Finning, Katie Waite, Polly Harvey, Kate Moore, Darren Davis, Becky Ford, Tamsin Emot Behav Diffic Articles School staff have an important role to play in identifying and assisting pupils who require additional support to regularly attend school, but their beliefs about risk factors might influence their decisions regarding intervention. This qualitative study investigated educational practitioners’ beliefs about risk factors for attendance problems. Sixteen practitioners from three secondary schools were interviewed via focus groups. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Practitioners identified risk factors related to the individual, their family, peers and school. Poor mental health was identified as a risk factor, but practitioners primarily focused on anxiety rather than other mental health problems like depression or behavioural disorders. The overall perception was that school factors were less important than individual, family and peer factors. Implications include a need for increased awareness of the role of school factors in attendance problems, focus on promoting positive peer and pupil-teacher relationships, and collaborative working between young people, families and schools. Routledge 2019-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7254525/ /pubmed/32536954 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632752.2019.1647684 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Finning, Katie Waite, Polly Harvey, Kate Moore, Darren Davis, Becky Ford, Tamsin Secondary school practitioners’ beliefs about risk factors for school attendance problems: a qualitative study |
title | Secondary school practitioners’ beliefs about risk factors for school attendance problems: a qualitative study |
title_full | Secondary school practitioners’ beliefs about risk factors for school attendance problems: a qualitative study |
title_fullStr | Secondary school practitioners’ beliefs about risk factors for school attendance problems: a qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | Secondary school practitioners’ beliefs about risk factors for school attendance problems: a qualitative study |
title_short | Secondary school practitioners’ beliefs about risk factors for school attendance problems: a qualitative study |
title_sort | secondary school practitioners’ beliefs about risk factors for school attendance problems: a qualitative study |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7254525/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32536954 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632752.2019.1647684 |
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