ArticleThe Journal of school health2014
Positive school climate is associated with lower body mass index percentile among urban preadolescents.
Article in The Journal of school health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02043626 (School Wellness Policy), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers.
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School Wellness Policy: RCT to Implement & Evaluate Impact on Childhood Obesity
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interpersonal- and Community-Level Risk Factors for Adolescent Obesity: An Examination of Sexual Identity, School Violence, and School Climate in a Large Sample of Urban Adolescents.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2023Article
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- School climate is associated with cortical thickness and executive function in children and adolescents.Developmental science · 2019Article
- Perceived class climate and school-aged children's life satisfaction: The role of the learning environment in classrooms.PloS one · 2018Article
- School environments and obesity: The mediating role of personal stress.Journal of community psychology · 2017Article
- Associations of Neighborhood and School Socioeconomic and Social Contexts With Body Mass Index Among Urban Preadolescent Students.American journal of public health · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundSchools are an important environmental context in children's lives and are part of the complex web of factors that contribute to childhood obesity. Increasingly, attention has been placed on the importance of school climate (connectedness, academic standards, engagement, and student autonomy) as 1 domain of school environment beyond health policies and education that may have implications for student health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to examine the association of school climate with body mass index (BMI) among urban preadolescents.
methodsHealth surveys and physical measures were collected among fifth- and sixth-grade students from 12 randomly selected public schools in a small New England city. School climate surveys were completed district-wide by students and teachers. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to test the association between students' BMI and schools' climate scores.
resultsAfter controlling for potentially confounding individual-level characteristics, a 1-unit increase in school climate score (indicating more positive climate) was associated with a 7-point decrease in students' BMI percentile.
conclusionsPositive school climate is associated with lower student BMI percentile. More research is needed to understand the mechanisms behind this relationship and to explore whether interventions promoting positive school climate can effectively prevent and/or reduce obesity.
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