School Health Promotion, the Body Mass Index z-Score, and Psychosocial Health in Primary Schools of the Netherlands.

ABSTRACT: Childhood overweight and psychosocial issues remain significant public health concerns. Schools worldwide implement health promotion programs to address these issues and to support the physical and psychosocial health of children. However, more insight is needed into the relation between these health-promoting programs and the Body Mass Index (BMI) z-score and psychosocial health of children, while taking into account how school factors might influence this relation. Therefore, we examined whether the variation between primary schools regarding the BMI z-score and psychosocial health of students could be explained by school health promotion, operationalized as Healthy School (HS) certification, general school characteristics, and the school population; we also examined to what extent the c

SUBMITTER: Vonk L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11353774 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature