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Peer mentors’ role in school-based health promotion: qualitative findings from the Young & Active study
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 the role of peer mentors (PMs) as implementers in school-based health promotion, we combined participant observa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9067443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34339490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daab089 |
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author | Wehner, Stine Kjær Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine Bonnesen, Camilla Thørring Madsen, Katrine Rich Jensen, Marie Pil Krølner, Rikke Fredenslund |
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description | 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 the role of peer mentors (PMs) as implementers in school-based health promotion, we combined participant observations, focus group interviews and video recordings to explore high school students’ reception of a peer-led intervention component (Young & Active). Young & Active aimed to increase well-being among first-year high school students (∼16 years of age) through the promotion of movement and sense of community and was implemented during the school year 2016–2017 in a larger school-based intervention study, the Healthy High School study in Denmark. The Healthy High School study was designed as a cluster-randomized controlled trial with 15 intervention schools and 15 control schools. At each intervention school, university students in Sports Science and Health (members of the research group) facilitated an innovation workshop aiming at inspiring all first-year students to initiate movement activities at schools. The findings illustrate potentials and challenges implied in the PM role. The peer mentors’ profound commitment, as well as their response and sensibility to situational contingencies, were found to be significant for the students’ reception and experience of the intervention. In conclusion, the specific job of PMs as implementers seems to consist of simultaneously following a manual and situationally adjusting in an emerging context balancing commitment and identification to the target group and the intervention project. |
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spelling | pubmed-90674432022-05-04 Peer mentors’ role in school-based health promotion: qualitative findings from the Young & Active study Wehner, Stine Kjær Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine Bonnesen, Camilla Thørring Madsen, Katrine Rich Jensen, Marie Pil Krølner, Rikke Fredenslund Health Promot Int Articles 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 the role of peer mentors (PMs) as implementers in school-based health promotion, we combined participant observations, focus group interviews and video recordings to explore high school students’ reception of a peer-led intervention component (Young & Active). Young & Active aimed to increase well-being among first-year high school students (∼16 years of age) through the promotion of movement and sense of community and was implemented during the school year 2016–2017 in a larger school-based intervention study, the Healthy High School study in Denmark. The Healthy High School study was designed as a cluster-randomized controlled trial with 15 intervention schools and 15 control schools. At each intervention school, university students in Sports Science and Health (members of the research group) facilitated an innovation workshop aiming at inspiring all first-year students to initiate movement activities at schools. The findings illustrate potentials and challenges implied in the PM role. The peer mentors’ profound commitment, as well as their response and sensibility to situational contingencies, were found to be significant for the students’ reception and experience of the intervention. In conclusion, the specific job of PMs as implementers seems to consist of simultaneously following a manual and situationally adjusting in an emerging context balancing commitment and identification to the target group and the intervention project. Oxford University Press 2021-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9067443/ /pubmed/34339490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daab089 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Articles Wehner, Stine Kjær Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine Bonnesen, Camilla Thørring Madsen, Katrine Rich Jensen, Marie Pil Krølner, Rikke Fredenslund Peer mentors’ role in school-based health promotion: qualitative findings from the Young & Active study |
title | Peer mentors’ role in school-based health promotion:
qualitative findings from the Young & Active study |
title_full | Peer mentors’ role in school-based health promotion:
qualitative findings from the Young & Active study |
title_fullStr | Peer mentors’ role in school-based health promotion:
qualitative findings from the Young & Active study |
title_full_unstemmed | Peer mentors’ role in school-based health promotion:
qualitative findings from the Young & Active study |
title_short | Peer mentors’ role in school-based health promotion:
qualitative findings from the Young & Active study |
title_sort | peer mentors’ role in school-based health promotion:
qualitative findings from the young & active study |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9067443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34339490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daab089 |
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