Defining Life Skills in health promotion at school: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Life Skills have been central to Health Promotion interventions and programmes with children and adolescents for over 40 years. School is a strategic setting for Life Skills education. Recently, policy-and decision-makers have focused on Life Skills development for youth. Research on Life Skills has gained momentum. Different terms are used to discuss and define Life Skills. Research identifies a lack of conceptual definition. The purpose of this study is to identify the definitions in the literature in English and French, and to reach a conceptual and consensual definition.

Method

The Scoping Review methodology was used. Three research questions aim to identify how Life Skills are defined in the field of health promotion at school, to see whether a conceptual and

SUBMITTER: Darlington-Bernard A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10758608 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature