Examining the relationship between child holiday club attendance and parental mental wellbeing.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This paper reports results of an evaluation of 17 holiday clubs located throughout North East England that ran during the summer of 2017, designed to reduced summertime food insecurity.

Study design

Questionnaire administed to parents/caregivers of children who attended a holiday club.

Methods

Ordinary Least Squares regression models were used to predict Warwick-Edinburg Mental Wellbeing scale scores measuring parental mental wellbeing.

Results

We find that after a summer of attending a holiday club, the most important factor associated with higher parental wellbeing scores is the reduction in social isolation and increased relationships that the parent and their children build while children attend holiday clubs.

Conclusions

Our results sugge

SUBMITTER: Long MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9461366 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature