Parental Engagement in School-Based Health Promotion and Education

Autor/inn/en	Spencer, Grace; Hood, Philip; Agboola, Shade; Pritchard, Catherine
Titel	Parental Engagement in School-Based Health Promotion and Education
Quelle	In: Health Education, 118 (2018) 6, S.513-527 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Spencer, Grace)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0965-4283
DOI	10.1108/HE-03-2018-0016
Schlagwörter	Parent Participation; Health Education; Disadvantaged; Foreign Countries; Teacher Attitudes; Health Personnel; Parent Role; Barriers; Health Behavior; Role Models; Child Health; Parent School Relationship; Educational Environment; Urban Areas; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elternmitwirkung; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Ausland; Lehrerverhalten; Medizinisches Personal; Parental role; Elternrolle; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Identifikationsfigur; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Urban area; Stadtregion
Abstract	Purpose: Children's health and life chances are affected by many factors, with parents and schools holding influential roles. Yet relatively little is known about parental engagement in school-based health education and specifically, from the perspectives of health and education professionals. The purpose of this paper is to examine professionals' perspectives on parental engagement in school-based health education. Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory qualitative study was conducted with ten health, education and local authority professionals from a socio-economically deprived area in England. Semi-structured interviews explored the role of professionals within the school health curricula, roles that parents played in school health, and barriers and enablers to parental engagement in school health education. Findings: Reported barriers to engagement related to assumptions about parents' own health behaviours, impacts of funding and inspection regimes, and protected time for health within the school curriculum. Enablers included designated parental support workers based in the school, positive role modelling by other parents, consultation and engagement with parents and a whole school approach to embedding health within the wider curriculum. Practical implications: Findings from this study suggest the importance of building meaningful partnerships with parents to complement school health education and improve child health outcomes. Originality/value: This paper addresses an important gap in the research on parental engagement in school-based health education from the perspectives of health and education professionals. Effective partnerships with parents are crucial to the success of school health education. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01