Preliminary Effectiveness of a Strategy to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Habits in Schoolchildren
Purpose: To measure the preliminary effectiveness of a strategy to promote healthy lifestyle habits in schoolchildren, aged 6 to 12 years, living in the Andean region of Colombia, 2018–2021. Design and Methods: This is a Nursing Methodological Research, developed in phases: (1) Context and schoolchi...
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| author | Gloria Carvajal-Carrascal Tania Catalina Chinchilla-Salcedo César Augusto Niño-Hernández Paola Sarmiento-González Angélica María Ospina-Romero Beatriz Sánchez-Herrera |
| author_facet | Gloria Carvajal-Carrascal Tania Catalina Chinchilla-Salcedo César Augusto Niño-Hernández Paola Sarmiento-González Angélica María Ospina-Romero Beatriz Sánchez-Herrera |
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| description | Purpose: To measure the preliminary effectiveness of a strategy to promote healthy lifestyle habits in schoolchildren, aged 6 to 12 years, living in the Andean region of Colombia, 2018–2021. Design and Methods: This is a Nursing Methodological Research, developed in phases: (1) Context and schoolchildren characterization; (2) Strategy design guided by the Whittemore and Grey criteria and the Bronfenbrenner ecological conceptual model; (3) Strategy validation with 11 experts; (4) Trial to evaluate preliminary effectiveness. We applied the strategy in seven different schools with the educational community including 955 schoolchildren between 6 and 12 years of age, 551 parents, 130 teachers and 7 members of the food staff. Results: Our health promotion strategy “Prosalud” has five components: citizenship feeding and nutrition, physical activity, and rest; environment protection, and directing one’s own life. It includes all the participants of the educational community. Conclusions: According to experts, the health promotion strategy “Prosalud” is valid to help promoting healthy lifestyle habits among schoolchildren. This strategy demonstrates its preliminary effectiveness in a group of school children from 6 to 12 years of age, their parents, teachers, and school food staff, in the Andean region of Colombia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0fe1a933d6174e96b29b7db0632153d22023-11-23T15:38:29ZengMDPI AGChildren2227-90672022-09-0199140210.3390/children9091402Preliminary Effectiveness of a Strategy to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Habits in SchoolchildrenGloria Carvajal-Carrascal0Tania Catalina Chinchilla-Salcedo1César Augusto Niño-Hernández2Paola Sarmiento-González3Angélica María Ospina-Romero4Beatriz Sánchez-Herrera5School of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía 250001, ColombiaSchool of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía 250001, ColombiaSchool of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía 250001, ColombiaSchool of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía 250001, ColombiaSchool of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía 250001, ColombiaSchool of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía 250001, ColombiaPurpose: To measure the preliminary effectiveness of a strategy to promote healthy lifestyle habits in schoolchildren, aged 6 to 12 years, living in the Andean region of Colombia, 2018–2021. Design and Methods: This is a Nursing Methodological Research, developed in phases: (1) Context and schoolchildren characterization; (2) Strategy design guided by the Whittemore and Grey criteria and the Bronfenbrenner ecological conceptual model; (3) Strategy validation with 11 experts; (4) Trial to evaluate preliminary effectiveness. We applied the strategy in seven different schools with the educational community including 955 schoolchildren between 6 and 12 years of age, 551 parents, 130 teachers and 7 members of the food staff. Results: Our health promotion strategy “Prosalud” has five components: citizenship feeding and nutrition, physical activity, and rest; environment protection, and directing one’s own life. It includes all the participants of the educational community. Conclusions: According to experts, the health promotion strategy “Prosalud” is valid to help promoting healthy lifestyle habits among schoolchildren. This strategy demonstrates its preliminary effectiveness in a group of school children from 6 to 12 years of age, their parents, teachers, and school food staff, in the Andean region of Colombia.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/9/9/1402nursing methodological researchschool healthhealth policyhealth promotioncommunity-institution relations |
| spellingShingle | Gloria Carvajal-Carrascal Tania Catalina Chinchilla-Salcedo César Augusto Niño-Hernández Paola Sarmiento-González Angélica María Ospina-Romero Beatriz Sánchez-Herrera Preliminary Effectiveness of a Strategy to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Habits in Schoolchildren Children nursing methodological research school health health policy health promotion community-institution relations |
| title | Preliminary Effectiveness of a Strategy to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Habits in Schoolchildren |
| title_full | Preliminary Effectiveness of a Strategy to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Habits in Schoolchildren |
| title_fullStr | Preliminary Effectiveness of a Strategy to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Habits in Schoolchildren |
| title_full_unstemmed | Preliminary Effectiveness of a Strategy to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Habits in Schoolchildren |
| title_short | Preliminary Effectiveness of a Strategy to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Habits in Schoolchildren |
| title_sort | preliminary effectiveness of a strategy to promote healthy lifestyle habits in schoolchildren |
| topic | nursing methodological research school health health policy health promotion community-institution relations |
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