Evaluation of "Healthy Learning. Together", an Easily Applicable Mental Health Promotion Tool for Students Aged 9 to 18 Years.

ABSTRACT: Schools play an important role in adolescents' health promotion. Due to the limited resources of teachers, there is a need for short-time interventions that can be easily implemented in a regular class without extensive training. Therefore, the tool "Healthy learning. Together." was developed within a joint venture research project in Jena, Germany. The tool consists of a box with 60 exercises and a poster exhibition for students in 5th grade and higher. One thousand one hundred and forty four (1144) students (56 % female) from nine schools were assessed at an interval of 10 weeks in a parallelized pre-post-design with class-wise assignment to intervention group (IG) and control group (CG). In the IG, regular teachers implemented the health promotion tool. Before and after the intervention

SUBMITTER: Schwager S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6388215 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature