A sense of health and coherence in young rural schoolchildren in Sweden
Background: Little is known about how younger schoolchildren in a rural setting experience their sense of coherence (SOC), how they think and reason about health and what they perceive as important to achieve health goals. This study aimed to investigate children’s SOC and their health perceptions.M...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7954475 2023-05-15T15:55:23+02:00 A sense of health and coherence in young rural schoolchildren in Sweden Randell, Eva Udo, Camilla Warne, Maria 2021-03-11 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7954475/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33704012 https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1893534 en eng Taylor & Francis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7954475/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33704012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1893534 © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY-NC Int J Circumpolar Health Original Research Article Text 2021 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1893534 2021-03-28T01:24:15Z Background: Little is known about how younger schoolchildren in a rural setting experience their sense of coherence (SOC), how they think and reason about health and what they perceive as important to achieve health goals. This study aimed to investigate children’s SOC and their health perceptions.Method: In this mixed-method study 94 children (8-12 years) from three rural schools answered several questionnaires: The Child-SOC (CSOC), Positive Health Scale (PHS) and Cantril’s ladder of life scale. Another 23 children (of 94) participated in four focus group interviews. Thematic analysis was used to identify themes from the interview transcripts.Results: High SOC was reported by 48% of the boys and 22% of the girls. However, no significant gender differences were found. Four themes were generated from the qualitative analysis: Understanding health, Managing health, Doing bodily health and Socialising health. Both younger and older children had a holistic view of health in which health was seen as an individual’s living habits in which social contacts mattered.Conclusion: In a rural context children need to adapt to activities that exist in their immediate environment. Thus, activities during school hours can be an important complement in health promotion. Text Circumpolar Health PubMed Central (PMC) International Journal of Circumpolar Health 80 1 1893534 |
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Background: Little is known about how younger schoolchildren in a rural setting experience their sense of coherence (SOC), how they think and reason about health and what they perceive as important to achieve health goals. This study aimed to investigate children’s SOC and their health perceptions.Method: In this mixed-method study 94 children (8-12 years) from three rural schools answered several questionnaires: The Child-SOC (CSOC), Positive Health Scale (PHS) and Cantril’s ladder of life scale. Another 23 children (of 94) participated in four focus group interviews. Thematic analysis was used to identify themes from the interview transcripts.Results: High SOC was reported by 48% of the boys and 22% of the girls. However, no significant gender differences were found. Four themes were generated from the qualitative analysis: Understanding health, Managing health, Doing bodily health and Socialising health. Both younger and older children had a holistic view of health in which health was seen as an individual’s living habits in which social contacts mattered.Conclusion: In a rural context children need to adapt to activities that exist in their immediate environment. Thus, activities during school hours can be an important complement in health promotion. |
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