Health Education: Volume 116 Issue 3

Behavioural effects of a short school-based fruit and vegetable promotion programme: 5-a-Day for kids

Silke Mittmann, Anja Austel, Thomas Ellrott

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the Cancer Society of Lower Saxony’s school-based nutrition education programme “5-a-day for kids”, designed to increase…

Evaluating the implementation of the Empowering Coaching™ programme: Balancing fidelity and adaptation

Margaret L. Søvik, Torill Larsen, Hege Tjomsland, Oddrun Samdal

The purpose of this paper is to explore the implementation of a theoretically grounded coach education training programme for youth football coaches in Norway, through…

Predictors of the perceived importance of food skills of home economics teachers

Sandra P Fordyce-Voorham

The purpose of this paper is to test an hypothesis that teachers’ personal orientations toward food preparation, nutrition and environmental issues would be related to their…

Development of an adolescent alcohol misuse intervention based on the Prototype Willingness Model: A Delphi study

Emma Davies, Jilly Martin, David Foxcroft

The purpose of this paper is to report on the use of the Delphi method to gain expert feedback on the identification of behaviour change techniques (BCTs) and development of a…

Adolescents’ school lunch practices as an educational resource

Kristiina Henrietta Janhonen, Johanna Mäkelä, Päivi Palojoki

The purpose of this paper is to examine Finnish ninth grade pupils’ (15-16 years) perspectives on hot school lunches and consider the potential of these perspectives as a resource…

School-based intervention for nutrition promotion in Mi Yun County, Beijing, China: Does a health-promoting school approach improve parents’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviour?

Dongxu Wang, Donald Stewart, Chun Chang

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the school-based nutrition programme using the health-promoting school (HPS) framework was effective to improve parents’ knowledge…

Food practices and school connectedness: a whole-school approach

Eva Neely, Mat Walton, Christine Stephens

The health-promoting schools (HPSs) framework has emerged as a promising model for promoting school connectedness in the school setting. The purpose of this paper is to explore…