...Gerjanne Vennegoor; Patricia van Assema; Gerard R.M. Molleman; Pepijn van Empelen; Maria W.J. Jansen Purpose Contextual factors can influence the implementation of whole-school health promotion and compromise its impact among students. This study aimed to identify key (combinations of) contextual...

...Marla T.H. Hahnraths; Maartje Willeboordse; Onno C.P. van Schayck Purpose To gain insight into factors enhancing or obstructing implementation in various school-settings, which is vital for widespread dissemination and sustainable integration of school-based health-promoting interventions...

... directors, implementers) from seven institutions, four of which sustained DsR and three of which did not. This study explores DsR's fit with the institutions' missions and routines, program adaptability, broader community support and sustainability planning. Findings Findings demonstrate two emerging...

...Monica Carlsson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the expectations of and possible tensions in school leadership regarding the implementation of the 2014 Danish school reform and, by extension, to address emerging perspectives linking school leadership, learning and well-being...

...Samuel Cassar; Jo Salmon; Anna Timperio; Sofie Koch; Harriet Koorts Purpose Little is known about the experiences of school leaders adopting and implementing real-world, scaled-up physical activity interventions in the Australian educational system. Transform-Us! is a novel physical activity...

...Andreas Åvitsland; Stein Erik Ohna; Sindre Mikal Dyrstad; Hege Eikeland Tjomsland; Øystein Lerum; Eva Leibinger Purpose This paper evaluates the implementation of a school-based physical activity intervention and discusses how the intervention outcomes can be influenced by the implementation...

...Christina Murphy; Margaret M. Barry; Saoirse Nic Gabhainn Purpose School-based programmes face a variety of personal, environmental and organisational challenges to implementation. Stakeholders can provide crucial contextual information to improve implementation. The purpose of this paper...

...Michele S.Y. Kok; Mat Jones; Emma Solomon-Moore; Jane R. Smith Purpose The quality of voluntary sector-led community health programmes is an important concern for service users, providers and commissioners. Research on the fidelity of programme implementation offers a basis for assessing...

...Emily Joan Darlington; Carine Simar; Didier Jourdan Purpose Implementing health promotion programmes in schools is key to improving children’s health and well-being but difficulties in achieving expected results are often reported in the research literature. Discrepancies between expected...

... coordinators of five CSHP partnerships in the systematic development of intersectoral collaboration was studied in a pretest-posttest design. To uncover the determinants of sustainable collaboration and implementation of CSHP and to find possible mediators, the authors carried out multi-level path analyses...

... characteristics and themselves as providers; and how did this affect programme implementation? Design/methodology/approach Qualitative methods with semi-structured interviews with 13 teachers and thematic content analysis were used. Findings The teachers were heterogeneous in their views...

...Julia Anwar-McHenry; Robert John Donovan; Amberlee Nicholas; Simone Kerrigan; Stephanie Francas; Tina Phan Purpose 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 Act-Belong...

...Margaret L. Søvik; Torill Larsen; Hege Tjomsland; Oddrun Samdal Purpose – 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 observational methods. In particular, it focuses...

...Lone Lindegaard Nordin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into teachers’ practice in implementing school-based health promotion. Design/methodology/approach – This qualitative research was designed as a multiple case study. The study involved five schools, 233 pupils...

... feedback reports and collected additional data, suggest the responsiveness of such youth-involvement interventions to local needs. Contrary to many public health interventions, implementation appeared to be facilitated rather than hindered by features of the secondary-school “market” whereby...

..., and the scale and theoretical underpinning of the programme. Candidate programme theories spanned both effectiveness factors and aspects of programme implementation. Research limitations/implications – Few detailed “candidate theories” emerged for explaining how and why health promotion can more...

...Jenny Woodward; Pinki Sahota; Jo Pike; Rosie Molinari Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to design and implement interventions to increase free school meal (FSM) uptake in pilot schools. This paper describes the interventions, reports on acceptability (as perceived by school working parties...

... implementation. They also favoured actions among teachers to incorporate health promotion (HP) into their practices. Finally, at all the sites, participants criticized the many ministerial directives launched concurrently, which, according to them, caused confusion as to the schools’ priorities...

... helminths (Xu et al., 2000), or HIV/AIDs. A “bottom up” approach has also been used in many instances to introduce the concept of HPS using a single health issue of local relevance (Macnab and Kasangaki, 2012). Then with successful implementation of a program to address this issue, schools...

... of adaptations made by teachers delivering a school‐based substance use prevention curriculum and their reasons for adapting program content. Design/methodology/approach To determine the degree to which implementers adhere to a prevention curriculum, naturally adapt the curriculum, and the reasons...