Children's experiences of participating in a school-based health promotion parental support programme - a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children's voices are seldom heard in process evaluations concerning health promotion programmes. A Healthy School Start Plus (HSSP) is a parental support programme, conducted in Sweden, with the aim of promoting healthy diet, physical activity and preventing obesity in preschool class children. The 6-month programme includes: (1) Health information to parents; (2) Motivational Interviewing with parents by school nurses; (3) Classroom activities and home assignments for children; (4) A self-test of type-2 diabetes risk for parents. We aimed to describe children's experiences of the third component regarding barriers and facilitators of participating in and learning from the classroom activities in the HSSP.

Methods

In total 36 children from 7 schools in Sweden, me

SUBMITTER: Malek ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8111964 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature