BACKGROUND Aggressive patterns of behavior often start early in childhood, and tend to remain stable into adulthood. The negative consequences include poor academic performance, disciplinary problems and encounters with the juvenile justice system. Early school intervention programs can alter this trajectory for aggressive children. However, there are no studies evaluating the feasibility of su...

Inconsistent findings exist for the effect of school-based physical activity interventions on academic performance. The Active Smarter Kids (ASK) study revealed a favorable intervention effect of school-based physical activity on academic performance in numeracy in a subsample of 10-year-old elementary schoolchildren performing poorer at baseline in numeracy. Aiming to explain this finding, we ...

Despite the known health benefits of doing so, most US children do not consume enough fruits and vegetables (FV). School-based interventions can be effective in increasing FV consumption, but the most effective of these require that schools allocate their time, effort, and financial resources to implementing the program: expenditures that schools may be reluctant to provide in climates of acade...

INTRODUCTION Although several studies suggest that drinking water may help prevent obesity, no US studies have examined the effect of school drinking water provision and promotion on student beverage intake. We assessed the acceptability, feasibility, and outcomes of a school-based intervention to improve drinking water consumption among adolescents. METHODS The 5-week program, conducted in a...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether an intervention programme based on existing school and community resources can reduce school absence and improve participation in games lessons and sport in children with unrecognised or undertreated asthma. DESIGN Parallel group controlled intervention study. SETTING 102 primary schools in Nottingham: 49 were randomised to receive the intervention and 53 to b...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the effect on problem behaviors of a universal school-based prevention curriculum of third grade students. METHODS Six regular classes in 1 elementary school were randomly assigned to an intervention (n = 208) or control (n = 209) group. A 13-session program was offered to students in the intervention group. The Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), parent report, ...

This paper evaluates a smoking prevention intervention aimed at vocational school students, consisting of an existing Dutch in-school program (three lessons each lasting 50 min) and a computer-based tailored out-of-school program (three tailored letters with smoking prevention messages mailed to students' homes). Nineteen schools that already participated in the in-school program were randomly ...

THE OBJECTIVE To examine whether audit and feedback could improve the quality of the application of dental sealant in rural Thai school children. RESEARCH DESIGN A single blind, cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted. CLINICAL SETTING Hospital-based and school-based school sealant applied by dental nurses in Southern province of Thailand. PARTICIPANTS Dental nurses and school c...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of two school-based programmes to promote students' willingness to engage in lifestyle changes related to eating habits and physical activity behaviours. DESIGN Elementary school-based health promotion intervention, designed as a multicomponent experimental study, based on a behavioural epidemiological model. SETTING Nine intervention and eight comparative p...