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Skolpersonalens tankar om hälsofrämjande insatser och preventionsarbete - studie av en skola.
The aim of this study was to investigate how school personnel work with preventive and health promoting efforts to motivate young people to achieve interest in physical activity and nutrition awareness. Further the aim was to describe the possibilities and difficulties that school personnel experience in their work. The research questions were: How do school personnel describe their health promoting work at school? In a health promotion perspective, what efforts do school personnel think is important when it comes to nutrition and physical activity? What possibilities do school personnel experience with health promoting efforts? What difficulties do school personnel experience with health promoting efforts?The study has a qualitative approach in which seven individual interviews were conducted with personnel at a secondary school. The respondents worked with different aspects which broadened the perspective. One interview was also made with a person who works as a fitness consultant in a non-profit organization. Earlier studies about preventive school interventions and studies about how to achieve increased physical activity and nutrition awareness among children and adolescents were used to interpret the results. The main result shows that the school personnel works according to the World Health Organization?s concept ?Health Promoting Schools? to a certain extent and this made a difference in attitudes among students. The result also shows that the most important aspects to succeed with health promoting efforts seem to be self-esteem, co-operation between school and parents, influence and participation of students, group interaction and theoretical and practical knowledge and education. Possibilities and difficulties are described from the factors above but also according to the governing documents that school education is framed by.