From Complex Interventions to Complex Systems: Using Social Network Analysis to Understand School Engagement with Health and Wellbeing.

ABSTRACT: Challenges in changing school system functioning to orient them towards health are commonly underestimated. Understanding the social interactions of school staff from a complex systems perspective may provide valuable insight into how system dynamics may impede or facilitate the promotion of health and wellbeing. Ego social network analysis was employed with wellbeing leads within four diverse case study schools to identify variability in embeddedness of health and wellbeing roles. This variation, as well as the broader context, was then explored through semi-structured qualitative interviews with school staff and a Healthy Schools Coordinator, sampled from the wellbeing leads' ego-networks. Networks varied in terms of perceived importance and frequency of interactions, centrality, brokera

SUBMITTER: Littlecott HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6571883 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature