Peer mentors' role in school-based health promotion: qualitative findings from the Young & Active study.

ABSTRACT: Peer-led interventions are highlighted as promising strategies to promote health among adolescents, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying this approach. To better understand the role of peer mentors (PMs) as implementers in school-based health promotion, we combined participant observations, focus group interviews and video recordings to explore high school students' reception of a peer-led intervention component (Young & Active). Young & Active aimed to increase well-being among first-year high school students (∼16 years of age) through the promotion of movement and sense of community and was implemented during the school year 2016-2017 in a larger school-based intervention study, the Healthy High School study in Denmark. The Healthy High School study was designed as a clust

SUBMITTER: Wehner SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9067443 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature