Implementing Comprehensive School Health: Teachers’ Perceptions of the Alberta Project Promoting active Living and healthy Eating in Schools - APPLE Schools
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Childhood obesity is a major public health challenge worldwide and has been linked to numerous health consequences. As such, promotion of health and prevention of disease is a priority. Comprehensive School Health (CSH) is recognized as a multilevel prevention strategy and has been shown to reduce overweight among students; however, there is a need to evaluate the process of implementation. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine teachers’ perceptions of the implementation of a CSH project, the Alberta Project Promoting active Living and healthy Eating in Schools (APPLE Schools). Participants were 45 teaching staff who took part in focus groups. Teachers identified students as central to APPLE Schools and themes that affected implementation included: building support; defining roles; leadership; embedding in school culture; and engaging stakeholders. Teachers were very supportive of APPLE Schools and had a clear sense of facilitating factors, barriers and solutions to enhance implementation. L’obésité juvénile constitue un enjeu majeur de santé publique à l’échelle mondiale, ayant été associée à de nombreux problèmes de santé. En ce sens, la promotion de la santé et la prévention des maladies ont pris une très grande importance. L’approche globale de santé en milieu scolaire est reconnue comme une stratégie de prévention multi-niveaux dont l’aptitude à réduire le taux d’embonpoint chez les élèves a été démontrée. Il importe toutefois d’évaluer le processus de mise en œuvre de cette approche. Cette étude visait à examiner ce que les enseignants pensent de la mise en œuvre d’un projet d’approche globale de santé en milieu scolaire appelé Alberta Project Promoting active Living and healthy Eating in Schools (écoles APPLE). Le projet réunissait 45 membres du personnel enseignant participants à des entrevues de groupe. Les enseignants ont affirmé que les élèves jouaient un rôle de premier plan dans le cadre du projet APPLE; ils ont également identifié divers éléments ayant des incidences sur la mise en œuvre : le renforcement de l’appui; la définition des rôles; le leadership; l’insertion dans la culture de l’école et l’engagement des groupes intéressés. Les enseignants appuyaient fortement le projet des écoles APPLE et avaient une très bonne idée des facteurs habilitants, des obstacles et des solutions favorisant sa mise en œuvre..
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.011 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".