TY - JOUR
T1 - Shaping the Social
T2 - Design of a settings-based intervention study to improve well-being and reduce smoking and dropout in Danish vocational schools Health behavior, health promotion and society
AU - Andersen, Susan
AU - Tolstrup, Janne Schurmann
AU - Rod, Morten Hulvej
AU - Ersbøll, Annette Kjær
AU - Sørensen, Betina Bang
AU - Holmberg, Teresa
AU - Johansen, Christoffer
AU - Stock, Christiane
AU - Laursen, Bjarne
AU - Zinckernagel, Line
AU - Øllgaard, Anne Louise
AU - Ingholt, Liselotte
PY - 2015/6/20
Y1 - 2015/6/20
N2 - BACKGROUND: The social environment at schools is an important setting to promote educational attainment, and health and well-being of young people. However, within upper secondary education there is a need for evidence-based school intervention programmes. The Shaping the Social intervention is a comprehensive programme integrating social and educational activities to promote student well-being and reduce smoking and dropout in upper secondary vocational education. The evaluation design is reported here.METHODS/DESIGN: The evaluation employed a non-randomised cluster controlled design, and schools were selected to either implement the intervention or continue with normal practice for comparison. In the baseline survey conducted 2011-2012, 2,329 students from four intervention schools and 3,371 students from six comparison schools answered a computer-based questionnaire during class, representing 73 % and 81 % of eligible students, and 22 % of all technical/agricultural vocational schools in Denmark. Follow-up assessment was conducted 10 weeks after baseline and at the same time teachers of the intervention classes answered a questionnaire about implementation. School dropout rates will be tracked via national education registers through a 2-year follow-up period.DISCUSSION: Shaping the Social was designed to address that students at Danish vocational schools constitute a high risk population concerning health behaviour as well as school dropout by modifying the school environment, alongside developing appropriate evaluation strategies. To address difficulties in implementing settings-based interventions, as highlighted in prior research, the strategy was to involve intervention schools in the development of the intervention. Baseline differences will be included in the effectiveness analysis, so will the impact of likely mediators and moderators of the intervention.TRIALS REGISTRATION: ISRCTN57822968 . Date of registration: 16/01/2013.
AB - BACKGROUND: The social environment at schools is an important setting to promote educational attainment, and health and well-being of young people. However, within upper secondary education there is a need for evidence-based school intervention programmes. The Shaping the Social intervention is a comprehensive programme integrating social and educational activities to promote student well-being and reduce smoking and dropout in upper secondary vocational education. The evaluation design is reported here.METHODS/DESIGN: The evaluation employed a non-randomised cluster controlled design, and schools were selected to either implement the intervention or continue with normal practice for comparison. In the baseline survey conducted 2011-2012, 2,329 students from four intervention schools and 3,371 students from six comparison schools answered a computer-based questionnaire during class, representing 73 % and 81 % of eligible students, and 22 % of all technical/agricultural vocational schools in Denmark. Follow-up assessment was conducted 10 weeks after baseline and at the same time teachers of the intervention classes answered a questionnaire about implementation. School dropout rates will be tracked via national education registers through a 2-year follow-up period.DISCUSSION: Shaping the Social was designed to address that students at Danish vocational schools constitute a high risk population concerning health behaviour as well as school dropout by modifying the school environment, alongside developing appropriate evaluation strategies. To address difficulties in implementing settings-based interventions, as highlighted in prior research, the strategy was to involve intervention schools in the development of the intervention. Baseline differences will be included in the effectiveness analysis, so will the impact of likely mediators and moderators of the intervention.TRIALS REGISTRATION: ISRCTN57822968 . Date of registration: 16/01/2013.
KW - Adolescent
KW - Evaluation studies
KW - Health promotion
KW - Intervention studies
KW - Smoking
KW - Social environment
KW - Student dropouts
KW - Vocational education
KW - Wellbeing
U2 - 10.1186/s12889-015-1936-6
DO - 10.1186/s12889-015-1936-6
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 26088693
SN - 1471-2458
VL - 15
SP - 568
JO - BMC Public Health
JF - BMC Public Health
M1 - 568
ER -