ArticleThe Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses2017
What Barriers and Facilitators Do School Nurses Experience When Implementing an Obesity Intervention?
Article in The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Exploring primary school years interactions around child weight: A qualitative meta-synthesis of school staff, parent, and child views and experiences.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022Review
- Barriers and facilitators of childhood obesity prevention policies: A systematic review and meta-synthesis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- The influence of empowered work environments on the psychological experiences of nursing assistants during COVID-19: a qualitative study.BMC nursing · 2020Article
- The association between body mass index and academic performance.Saudi medical journal · 2018Article
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Abstract
A recent evaluation of a school nurse-led obesity intervention demonstrated a 5% implementation rate. The purpose of this study was to explore school nurses' perceived barriers to and facilitators of the intervention in order to understand reasons for the low implementation rate. Methods included semi-structured individual interviews with school nurses. Data were analyzed using content analysis and heat mapping. Nineteen nurses participated and eight themes were identified. Parental and administrative gatekeeping, heavy nurse workload, obesogenic environments, and concerns about obesity stigma were barriers to implementation. Teamwork with parents and school staff was a key facilitator of implementation. Nurses also noted the importance of cultural considerations and highlighted the need to tailor the intervention to the unique needs of their school environment and student population. These findings suggest that for school nurses to play a key role in school-based obesity interventions, barriers must be identified and addressed prior to program implementation.
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