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Review of Research on School Health

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "School Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 7799

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Prof. Dr. Jorge Pérez-Gómez

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Health, Economy, Motricity and Education (HEME) Research Group, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Interests: children health; school health; quality of life; body composition; exercise training; health; physical activity; sport performance; soccer training; reliability and validity
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Dear colleagues:

Children are exposed to multiple factors that can affect or alter their state of health. Schools are centers where children spend many hours every day during the week, so it is important to analyze or study what can be done in the schools to maintain or improve the health of children.

This is a Review Special Issue for Section “School Health” in Healthcare. Any research that can help to understand the importance of school on children’s health is welcome to be included in this section.

Prof. Dr. Jorge Pérez-Gómez
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • analysis of self-perceived health
  • anxiety
  • attitudes towards peers
  • blood pressure
  • body image self-perception
  • corporal expression
  • depression
  • diabetes
  • exercise
  • fitness
  • health-related quality of life
  • inclusion preparation
  • inclusive education
  • nature
  • obesity
  • physical activity
  • physical conditioning
  • physical education
  • physical literacy
  • psychological health
  • quality of life
  • sociological health
  • virtual reality

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Exploring Academic Emotions Using Design Thinking Applied to Elementary School Learning Stress Adaptation
by Fang-Suey Lin and Gui-Shu Chen
Healthcare 2024, 12(21), 2103; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12212103 - 22 Oct 2024
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Background: Students’ learning stress adaptation is crucial. Research on design thinking in stress adaptation and academic emotions is still lacking. Methods: This study developed “Stress Relief Design” instructional activities using a mixed-method research design, including student academic emotion journals and a stress relief [...] Read more.
Background: Students’ learning stress adaptation is crucial. Research on design thinking in stress adaptation and academic emotions is still lacking. Methods: This study developed “Stress Relief Design” instructional activities using a mixed-method research design, including student academic emotion journals and a stress relief agreement survey for data collection. This study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee and conducted in accordance with ethical guidelines. Participants were 24 students, aged 10 to 12, recruited through open enrollment. The instructional activities were conducted in a holiday workshop format, consisting of fifteen sessions over 5 days, with three sessions per day. Results: The results indicated that students predominantly experienced positive academic emotions (joy, pride, hope, and relaxation), with negative emotions (anxiety and boredom) being less common. Students reported that the course helped them relieve psychological stress. Conclusions: Therefore, design thinking is suitable for application in stress adaption courses and creates a learning environment that supports students’ academic emotions, making it a critical learning focus for modern students. This study contributes to the academic research on the application of design thinking in elementary school health education and learning stress adaptation, as well as on academic emotions. Full article
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The Relationship between Self-Rated Health and Physical Fitness in Polish Youth
by Maciej Kochman, Aleksandra Kielar, Marta Kasprzak, Krystian Maruszczak and Wojciech Kasperek
Healthcare 2024, 12(1), 24; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12010024 - 21 Dec 2023
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Self-rated health (SRH) is a tool for assessing a population’s health across the lifetime, and seems to be a dynamic assessment of current health status and a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease and mortality, whereas insufficient levels of physical fitness in adolescence are [...] Read more.
Self-rated health (SRH) is a tool for assessing a population’s health across the lifetime, and seems to be a dynamic assessment of current health status and a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease and mortality, whereas insufficient levels of physical fitness in adolescence are a significant health problem and may contribute to the development of many disorders in adulthood. In this cross-sectional study, we attempted to assess the relationship between SRH and the physical fitness of adolescents. Two hundred and thirty-five adolescents (eighty-five boys and one hundred and fifty girls) aged 16–17 were recruited for this study. The study procedures included a short author questionnaire and physical fitness assessment (Zuchora’s Physical Fitness Index). Boys declared better health states and reported less frequent morbidity of seasonal diseases (p < 0.05). No differences were found in physical fitness, the incidence of postural disorders, lower limb malalignments, foot deformities, sleep duration, and perception of physical activity on physical condition and well-being in boys and girls (p > 0.05). The comparison of physical fitness levels in adolescents with different SRH, sleep duration, perceptions of physical activity on physical condition and well-being also showed significant differences (p < 0.05). Positive SRH and perception of physical activity on physical condition and well-being, proper sleep duration (7–8 h/night), and a lack of foot deformities are associated with a better physical fitness in adolescents. Physical fitness seems to be a good predictor of SRH only in Polish boys, but not girls and the entire population. The lack of significance in the entire population could be attributed to the substantial number of girls in the study group. Despite that, it is recommended to encourage adolescents to engage in regular exercises, sleep routines and healthy lifestyles. Further research should be based on a more representative group, with a comparable number of girls and boys in the study group and potential confounders, but also they should be focused on SRH predictors to improve SRH in Polish girls. Full article
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The Effectiveness of Teaching the Teacher Interventions in Improving the Physical Activity among Adolescents in Schools: A Scoping Review
by Antonios Christodoulakis, Izolde Bouloukaki, Antonia Aravantinou-Karlatou, Katerina Margetaki, Michail Zografakis-Sfakianakis and Ioanna Tsiligianni
Healthcare 2024, 12(2), 151; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12020151 - 9 Jan 2024
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Physical inactivity is a leading risk factor for global mortality as it increases the risk of non-communicable diseases and decreases overall health. Therefore, increasing physical activity (PA) is strongly recommended, particularly in adolescents. The Teaching the Teachers (TTT) approach is a prominent example [...] Read more.
Physical inactivity is a leading risk factor for global mortality as it increases the risk of non-communicable diseases and decreases overall health. Therefore, increasing physical activity (PA) is strongly recommended, particularly in adolescents. The Teaching the Teachers (TTT) approach is a prominent example of an intervention that could enhance PA levels in adolescents. However, available evidence on the efficacy of TTT interventions in promoting PA among adolescents is either limited or inconclusive. Therefore, a scoping review was conducted to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of TTT interventions in improving the PA of adolescent students. The PRISMA-Scoping methodology was employed, and articles in the Medline database were searched. We screened 2357 articles for inclusion, and finally included 16 articles. Most articles were conducted in European countries. The TTT interventions appeared to positively affect various aspects of PA. These aspects include support for personal autonomy, intent to engage in PA, improvements in body composition and fitness level, social support, enjoyment of Physical Education (PE), and positive attitudes towards PE. Consequently, policymakers could utilize TTT interventions to improve the physical activity of adolescents, which may reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases and foster healthier societies. Full article
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Effectiveness of Self-Affirmation Interventions in Educational Settings: A Meta-Analysis
by Carolang Escobar-Soler, Raúl Berrios, Gabriel Peñaloza-Díaz, Carlos Melis-Rivera, Alejandra Caqueo-Urízar, Felipe Ponce-Correa and Jerome Flores
Healthcare 2024, 12(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12010003 - 19 Dec 2023
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School and university can be stressful contexts that can become an important source of identity threats when social prejudices or stereotypes come into play. Self-affirmation interventions are key strategies for mitigating the negative consequences of identity threat. This meta-analysis aims to provide an [...] Read more.
School and university can be stressful contexts that can become an important source of identity threats when social prejudices or stereotypes come into play. Self-affirmation interventions are key strategies for mitigating the negative consequences of identity threat. This meta-analysis aims to provide an overview of the effectiveness of self-affirmation interventions in educational settings. A peer-reviewed article search was conducted in January 2023. A total of 144 experimental studies that tested the effect of self-affirmation interventions in educational contexts among high school and university students from different social and cultural backgrounds were considered. The average effect of self-affirmation interventions was of low magnitude (dIG+ = 0.41, z = 16.01, p < 0.00), with a 95% confidence interval whose values tended to lie between 0.36 and 0.45 (SE = 0.0253). In addition, moderators such as identity threat, participants’ age, and intervention procedure were found. Through a meta-analysis of the impact of self-affirmation interventions in educational contexts, this study suggests that interventions are effective, resulting in a small mean effect size. Thus, self-affirmation interventions can be considered useful, brief, and inexpensive strategies to improve general well-being and performance in educational settings. Full article
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