Associations between classroom networks and health behaviour of adolescents.
Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate what kind of social networks can be identified in the class communities of 13–14-year-old students and how these networks can be utilized in students' health behaviour change. Subject and methods: A joint analysis of the results of a national, representat...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) Vol. 31; no. 9; pp. 1559 - 1567 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=169944415&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 169944415 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 21981833 NENI jtl: Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) issn: 21981833 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2023 vid: 31 iid: 9 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 169944415 10.1007/s10389-021-01690-z ppf: 1559 ppct: 8 formats: tig: atl: Associations between classroom networks and health behaviour of adolescents. aug: au: Varsányi, Péter Tóth, Gergely Vitrai, József Vokó, Zoltán affil: Doctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117, Budapest, Hungary Institute of Social and Communication Sciences Department, Károli Gáspár University of the Reform Church in Hungary, Reviczky u. 4, 1088, Budapest, Hungary National Institute for Health Development, Albert Flórián út 2-6, 1097, Budapest, Hungary Center for Health Technology Assessment, Semmelweis University, Üllői út 25, 1091, Budapest, Hungary su: Hungary School environment Social networks Cross-sectional method Social network analysis Health behavior Behavior modification Adolescence Research funding sug: subj: School environment Social networks Cross-sectional method Social network analysis Health behavior Behavior modification Adolescence Hungary Other Individual and Family Services Research funding keyword: Adolescent Classroom networks Health behaviour change Social networking Adolescent Classroom networks Health behaviour change Social networking ab: Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate what kind of social networks can be identified in the class communities of 13–14-year-old students and how these networks can be utilized in students' health behaviour change. Subject and methods: A joint analysis of the results of a national, representative, cross-sectional study on the health behaviour of Hungarian 7th graders and a social network analysis on a sub-sample (40 classes, 680 students) was performed. The random network walk method was applied to identify social networks in classrooms. The assortativity, measuring the similarity of students' health behaviour within classroom networks, was examined using Moran's autocorrelation coefficient. Permutation was used to define whether the connections of a given network influence the similarities found. Results: Classroom networks based on sympathy, rejection and popularity were detected, but only sympathy networks played a role in generating similarities in health behaviours, such as the assessment of health determinants, risk-taking behaviours, online gaming, eating in fast-food restaurants and being on a diet. However, no such link was observed either in connection with regular smoking, alcohol consumption, physical exercising or related to the intake of cola, energy drinks or sweets. Conclusion: Because sympathy connections depend on individual preferences, the efficiency of interventions aiming at individuals is presumably higher where the role of sympathy relations was verified. Where this was not proven, presumably, community-level interventions are also needed for behaviour change. These results, gained by the innovative use of network analysis methods, can help health professionals implement more targeted and thus more effective behaviour change interventions. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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