Healthy High School: a high school intervention to improve well-being among students

Conditions

Well-being, movement, meal and eating habits, stress, sleep and sense of community Not Applicable

Duus KS, Bonnesen CT, Rosing JA, Madsen KR, Pedersen TP, Toftager M, Thygesen LC, Krølner RF.

2022-02-043 citations

Study protocol of the Healthy High School study: a school-based intervention to improve well-being among high school students in Denmark

Camilla Thørring Bonnesen, Mette Toftager, Katrine Rich Madsen, Stine Kjær Wehner, Marie Pil Jensen et al. (10 authors)

BMC Public Health2020-01-2223 citations

10.1186/s12889-020-8194-y

Interventions

A strategic sample of 40 high schools, which had all participated in the Danish National Youth Study (DNYS) 2014, was invited to participate in the study. DNYS 2014 is a national questionnaire survey

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Attending high schools with a minimum of two school year 1 classes that participated in the Danish National Youth Study 2014, in which 66% of all Danish High Schools attended 2. First year students attending the general upper secondary education provision of the Gymnasium (the stx programme) in the school year 20016/2017

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Students attending International upper secondary school classes 2. Students in classes participating in the Team Danmark programme 3. High schools with a majority of boarding school students

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Well-being, measured using the WHO-Five Well-Being Index and the Cantril Ladder of Life Scale (online survey) at 1st and 2nd follow-up	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Stress, measured by: 1.1. The 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (online survey) 1.2. Stress intensity and stress frequency (online survey and SMS survey) 2. Sleep, measured by: 2.1. Sleep quantity (online survey) 2.2. Sleep quality (online survey) 3. Movement, measured by: 3.1. Hours of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per week (online survey) 3.2. Average daily physical activity measured in a subsample (accelerometer) 3.3. Hours of daily sedentary time (online survey, accelerometer) 4. Meal and eating habits, measured by: 4.1. Daily intake of breakfast (online survey) 4.2. Daily intake of lunch (online survey) 4.3. Daily intake of water (online survey) 5. Sense of community, measured by: 5.1. Sense of community at high school (online survey) 5.2. School class sense of community (online survey) All secondary outcome measures will be measured at both 1st and 2nd follow-up.	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Stress, measured by: 1.1. The 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (online survey) 1.2. Stress intensity and stress frequency (online survey and SMS survey) 2. Sleep, measured by: 2.1. Sleep quantity (online survey) 2.2. Sleep quality (online survey) 3. Movement, measured by: 3.1. Hours of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per week (online survey) 3.2. Average daily physical activity measured in a subsample (accelerometer) 3.3. Hours of daily sedentary time (online survey, accelerometer) 4. Meal and eating habits, measured by: 4.1. Daily intake of breakfast (online survey) 4.2. Daily intake of lunch (online survey) 4.3. Daily intake of water (online survey) 5. Sense of community, measured by: 5.1. Sense of community at high school (online survey) 5.2. School class sense of community (online survey) All secondary outcome measures will be measured at both 1st and 2nd follow-up.

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Countries

Denmark

Outcome results

None listed