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- Title: Psychometric Properties of a Scale Focusing on Perceived Attributes of a Health Promoting School Approach (Quantitative Research) (Report)
- Author : Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 299 KB
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In the last two decades, the "Health Promoting School" and the "Coordinated School Health Program", respectively from the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have been advocated as effective approaches to promote health-related behaviours and well-being among school communities. (1,2) These innovative approaches require moving from practices that rely mainly on classroom-based health education models to a more comprehensive, integrated model that includes both educational and environmental initiatives. (3-8) In the province of Quebec (Canada), such a comprehensive approach has been offered since 2004 to all schools on a voluntary basis through the Healthy School approach (HS). As of March 2007, 17% of Quebec schools had adopted it. (9) Despite the recognized potential of these approaches, few studies have evaluated the schools' capacity to implement them. (10,11) Research on diffusion of such global approaches is therefore warranted to better assess their feasibility and efficiency in different contexts. (12-14) Diffusion studies have consistently reported that key attributes of innovations, as perceived by prospective adopters, are a consistent factor explaining much of the variance in innovations' adoption rates. (15-17) However, a review on diffusion of innovations also suggested that these attributes are not sure determinants of the adoption of complex innovations in organizations. (16) The purpose of this paper was to assess the psychometric properties of a scale we developed to measure the HS attributes, as perceived by key school players; such an instrument is not yet available, though it could be useful to investigate their influence on HS adoption. Our results may prove valuable to guide strategic changes aimed at dissemination of the approach on a broader scale.