ArticleThe Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses2016
Assessing the Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Academic Achievement and College Preparation Efforts: Using Propensity Score Matching to Assess School-Level Data in California.
Article in The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- The Effects of Medicaid Coverage for School-Based Health Services on the Supply of School-Based Healthcare Clinics: Evidence From the "Free Care Rule" Reversal and FQHCs.Health services research · 2025Article
- The Influence of School-Based Health Center Access on High School Graduation: Evidence From Colorado.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2020Article
- School-based health services and educational attainment: Findings from a national longitudinal study.Preventive medicine · 2019Article
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This study examines the association between school-based health center (SBHC) presence and school-wide measures of academic achievement and college preparation efforts. Publicly available educational and demographic data from 810 California public high schools were linked to a list of schools with an SBHC. Propensity score matching, a method to reduce bias inherent in nonrandomized control studies, was used to select comparison schools. Regression analyses, controlling for proportion of English-language learners, were conducted for each outcome including proportion of students participating in three College Board exams, graduation rates, and meeting university graduation requirements. Findings suggest that SBHC presence is positively associated with college preparation outcomes but not with academic achievement outcomes (graduation rates or meeting state graduation requirements). Future research must examine underlying mechanisms supporting this association, such as school connectedness. Additional research should explore the role that SBHC staff could have in supporting college preparation efforts.
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