Parent, teacher, and nurse concerns and school doctor actions: an observational study of general health checks.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the association between the concerns of parents, teachers, and nurses regarding each child's well-being and the school doctor actions conducted in routine general health checks.

Design

A blinded, observational study. Prior to the health check parents, teachers, and nurses completed questionnaires assessing their concerns. Doctors, blinded to the responses, routinely examined all children accompanied by parents and reported their actions after each health check. Multilevel logistic regression was used to analyse the association of the concerns with the actions.

Setting

21 primary schools in four municipalities in Finland.

Participants

Between August 2017 and August 2018, we randomly recruited 1341 children from grades 1 and 5, aged 7 and 11

SUBMITTER: Nikander K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9668019 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature