Health Education: Volume 116 Issue 6

The implementation of a behavioural support programme: Teachers’ perceptions of the programme and themselves as providers

Maria Ingemarson, Maria Bodin, Birgitta Rubenson, Karin Guldbrandsson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how teachers received and perceived the school programme Prevention in School (PS), a positive behavioural support programme; how did…

“Thinking about drinking”: Exploring children’s perceptions of alcohol using the Draw and Write tool

Siobhan Farmer, Lorna Porcellato

The purpose of this paper is to explore perceptions of alcohol held by schoolchildren using the “Draw and Write” tool, to inform the planning of alcohol education in the classroom…

Implementing a Mentally Healthy Schools Framework based on the population wide Act-Belong-Commit mental health promotion campaign: A process evaluation

Julia Anwar-McHenry, Robert John Donovan, Amberlee Nicholas, Simone Kerrigan, Stephanie Francas, Tina Phan

Mentally Healthy WA developed and implemented the Mentally Healthy Schools Framework in 2010 in response to demand from schools wanting to promote the community-based…

Parental interpretations of “childhood innocence”: Implications for early sexuality education

Laura McGinn, Nicole Stone, Roger Ingham, Andrew Bengry-Howell

Despite general recognition of the benefits of talking openly about sexuality with children, parents encounter and/or create barriers to such communication. One of the key…

Factors associated with parental communication with young people about sexual and reproductive health: A cross-sectional study from the Brong Ahafo Region, Ghana

Abubakar Manu, Agnes M. Kotoh, Rexford Kofi Oduro Asante, Augustine Ankomah

Available studies on parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health in Ghana have largely focused on assessing communication frequency, barriers, and who…

The power of appreciation: promoting schoolchildren’s health literacy

Catrine Kostenius, Ulrika Bergmark

The purpose of this paper is to explore Swedish children’s positive experiences of health and well-being, and their thoughts on how health literacy can be promoted.