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Factors influencing the contribution of staff to health education in schools

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Understanding the contribution of the whole-school staff to health education (HE) is an important goal in HE research. This study aimed to identify the views of staff (principals; teachers; school nurses and doctors; counsellors and administrative, maintenance, canteen and cleaning staff) regarding the nature of their contribution to HE. The research is based on 207 semi-structured interviews of staff in a sample of five French middle schools (grade 6-9). Content analysis was performed using Bardin's method. The results showed that staff members have different views of their role, three main roles were identified: (i) as an educator in everyday life issues (72%); (ii) individual support, listening (14%) and (iii) taking part in collective projects and facilitation (14%). Professional status has a significant influence on the view they have of their contribution to HE. These results show that in order to facilitate consistent implementation of HE, schools need to be supported to build HE policy (need analysis, definition of priorities and partnerships) and also to develop the means by which an inclusive and real sharing of common culture among all staff can happen; this is not limited to teaching staff but includes non-teaching staff also.

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halshs-00772755 , version 1 (11-01-2013)

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Didier Jourdan, Patricia Mannix Mcnamara, Carine Simar, Tom Geary, Jeanine Pommier. Factors influencing the contribution of staff to health education in schools. Health Education Research, 2010, 25 (4), pp.519-530. ⟨10.1093/her/cyq012⟩. ⟨halshs-00772755⟩
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