Increasing community capacity to improve the implementation of Health Promoting Schools: barriers and facilitators from the FLASH intervention.

ABSTRACT: Building community capacity is important for the successful implementation of a Health Promoting School. To identify how capacity building can be encouraged in secondary schools, four schools engaged in the Fit Lifestyle at School and at Home (FLASH) intervention for 3 years. This study explores barriers and facilitators that school personnel, parents and pupils experienced in the capacity-building process. Thirty-one stakeholders were interviewed. Transcripts were analysed thematically based on the five actions of the intervention: (i) appoint a Healthy School coordinator and build a team, (ii) determine ambitions, (iii) design and (iv) implement the action plan and (v) evaluate and improve. The time and support allocated to coordinators helped them evolve their role from executors of hea

SUBMITTER: van Dongen BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10541852 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature