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Direct linkFarrell, Emma; Mahon, Áine – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2022
Abstract Schools and centres for education are increasingly positioned as playing a vital role in the promotion of young people's mental health and well-being. Drawing on the example of Ireland's reformed Junior Cycle curriculum (ages 12-15), we ask if the curriculum is the best means of nurturing positive mental health and well-being in schools.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Curriculum, Mental Health
Morgan Faith Schneider – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States is tobacco product use. The 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey, which was completed in 2022, showed that the e-cigarette epidemic among youth continues to remain a public health threat. The survey revealed that over 2.5 million middle and high school students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Smoking, Prevention
Edward B. Olsen; James D. Wyant; Emi Tsuda; Kyoung Kim; Mia Weiser – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2025
Purpose: This study explored school administrators' perceptions and experiences in planning and implementing recess policies and practices in New Jersey middle schools. Method: A total of 168 surveys and 19 semistructured interviews were conducted on school administrators. The survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Semistructured…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Recess Breaks
Sonya Mathies Dinizulu; Gabriel M. Velez; Mirinda Morency; Kristen Jacobson; Kelsey Moore; Nichole Carter; Stacy L. Frazier – Prevention Science, 2024
This study reports on the feasibility and acceptability of a social justice infused service-learning (S-L) program to promote Black adolescent mental health and educational equity. We convened a community advisory board to help adapt and pilot test, via open trial mixed method design, an evidence-based service-learning program for Black middle…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Adolescents, Blacks, African American Students
Jacqueline R. Anderson; Karabi Nandy; Nancy J. Potter; Jennifer L. Hughes; Farra Kahalnik; Ronny Pipes; Jana Hancock; Tracy L. Greer; Alexandra Kulikova; Joshua S. Elmore; Taryn L. Mayes; Madhukar H. Trivedi – School Psychology, 2024
Rates of depression in youth are continuing to increase at a steady rate, yet these youth often do not receive mental health services (Bertha & Balázs, 2013; Thomas et al., 2011). Schools are an ideal setting to connect youth to mental health services; however, many barriers exist with respect to schools having adequate resources and access to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Depression (Psychology), School Psychologists
Akihiro, Maeta; Mizue, Oku; Kyoko, Takahashi – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: We investigated how students' interest in healthy eating changed after the introduction of on-site school lunch, prepared on campus, at a Japanese junior high school. Design: One-year follow-up study. Setting: Participants were 166 students in their second year of study at a public junior high school in Japan which introduced an on-site…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Student Interests, Eating Habits
Gross, Sarah; Biber, Duke – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2023
Adolescence is a crucial period for developing social and emotional habits that are important for mental and emotional well-being. Learning how to cope, manage emotions, problem solve, and develop interpersonal skills strengthens resilience, and promotes healthy lifestyle behaviors. Various health coaching techniques can be applied to the…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Health Promotion, Wellness
Chia-Kuei Lee; Li-Ling Liao – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
Most people start experimenting with and/or initiating health-compromising behaviors and establishing behavioral patterns during adolescence. Possible selves and episodic future thinking have been used to foster behavioral changes. In this study, we aimed to: (1) develop a program incorporating possible selves and episodic future thinking to…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Intervention, Prevention, Health Behavior
Azevedo, Maria Manuel; Saraiva, Elisa; Baltazar, Fátima – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
Facing recent threats of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an educational strategy was designed and applied to middle school students in order to reinforce related knowledge and behaviors. A group of 65 middle school students (14-18 years old) developed several designed online curricular activities. After the intervention, students answered a…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, COVID-19
Rosenstiel, Stephanie; Volk, Carmen; Schmid, Julia; Wagner, Wolfgang; Demetriou, Yolanda; Höner, Oliver; Thiel, Ansgar; Trautwein, Ulrich; Sudeck, Gorden – European Physical Education Review, 2022
A central goal of physical education (PE) is to empower students to be physically active in a health-enhancing way. Therefore, using a competence-based approach, the objective of the health- and fitness-related PE intervention 'Promotion of physical activity-related health competence in PE' (GEKOS) was to address practical and theoretical content…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Related Fitness, Physical Activities, Physical Education
Will Davis; Daniel Kreisman; Tareena Musaddiq – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
We estimate the effect of universal free school meal access through the Community Eligibility Program (CEP) on child body mass index (BMI). Through the CEP, schools with high percentages of students qualified for free or reduced-priced meals can offer free breakfast and lunch to all students. With administrative data from a large school district…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Lunch Programs, Eligibility
Download full textAutumn Barnes, Contributor; Adina Cooper, Contributor; Marci Hertz, Contributor; Kesha Hudson, Contributor; Sarah Lee, Contributor; Sandra Leonard, Contributor; Bailee Peralto, Contributor; Mary Schauer, Contributor; Katy Suellentrop, Contributor; Jorge Verlenden, Contributor; Natalie Wilkins, Contributor; Camara Wooten, Contributor; Anna Yaros, Contributor – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023
This action guide was designed for school administrators in kindergarten through 12th grade schools (K-12), including principals and leaders of school-based student support teams, to identify evidence-based strategies, approaches, and practices that can positively influence students' mental health. This action guide describes six in-school…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Schools, Early Childhood Education, Middle Schools
Padideh Lovan; Alyssa Lozano; Yannine Estrada; Cynthia Lebron; Tae Kyoung Lee; Sarah E. Messiah; Guillermo Prado – Prevention Science, 2024
Previous studies have suggested the impact of intervention fidelity on the management and prevention of chronic diseases; however, little is known about the effect of the contributing determinants (at multiple levels of influence) that can impact health-related interventions intending to improve the health status of Hispanic adolescents with…
Descriptors: Intervention, Fidelity, Health Behavior, Hispanic Americans
Hannah E. Brown; Melinda J. Ickes – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objectives: More than 2.5 million middle and high school students in the United States reported current use of e-cigarettes in 2022. With continued curiosity and initiation of e-cigarette use among youth, it is critical to explore new and innovative ways to communicate about the dangers of e-cigarettes. The purpose of this study was to determine…
Descriptors: Smoking, Electronic Equipment, Health Behavior, Drug Use
Catheryn A. Orihuela; Retta Evans; Sylvie Mrug – Grantee Submission, 2024
Background: Despite the establishment of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) in 2010, child nutrition programs continue to experience challenges impacting participation. Prior qualitative studies have explored how to reduce barriers to implementation of these programs in schools, but few studies have examined attitudes held by students, who…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Child Health, Federal Legislation, Nutrition
