Danielle Klassen, Genevieve Montemurro, Jenn Flynn, Kim Raine, Kate Storey
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Abstract
Background
Comprehensive School Health (CSH) is a whole school approach to promote healthy school communities. The objective of this study was to understand if and how schools that take a CSH approach (i.e., APPLE Schools) sustained and adapted their efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Contributions to Practice
This qualitative study highlighted teaching staff and principals' perspectives to showcase the ways that health and wellbeing supports through the CSH approach helped to mitigate the COVID-19 impacts on schools. This article describes three themes that exemplified how healthy school communities were promoted and maintained during the COVID-19 pandemic: wellness was already a priority, purposeful efforts to continue health promotion, and recognition that (a culture of) wellness extends beyond the school.
Implications for School Health Policy, Practice, and Equity
CSH approaches with supportive environments, healthy living practices, partnerships, and overarching district policies offer a structure and pathway to guide efforts in schools during times of adversity and support whole school communities. The CSH approach had a beneficial impact in urban, rural, and remote school contexts.
Conclusions
Schools with well-established priorities of wellness carried CSH practices throughout the pandemic. This ensured student and staff wellness was at the forefront of health promoting efforts.
期刊介绍:
Journal of School Health is published 12 times a year on behalf of the American School Health Association. It addresses practice, theory, and research related to the health and well-being of school-aged youth. The journal is a top-tiered resource for professionals who work toward providing students with the programs, services, and environment they need for good health and academic success.