Enjoyment is key in primary school physical education (PE), yet ensuring enjoyable PE experiences for all children is challenging. Reflection may help teachers improve lesson quality and foster PE enjoyment.

Substance use among youth can have lifelong consequences and therefore requires early and targeted services for those at risk. Schools possess a unique opportunity to provide substance use services to youth for both prevention and intervention. However, limited research exists on the school-based substance use services and their effectiveness.

The transition to secondary school brings academic and social challenges, with student monitoring systems offering real-time insights to enhance communication between students, parents, and teachers. While these systems improve tracking and support, their effects on student autonomy, wellbeing, and parent-child dynamics are understudied.

The mental health of youth represents a critical public health issue and has worsened over the course of the pandemic, partially attributed to social isolation and school closures.

The Maryland Department of Education participated in the USDA's Direct Certification with Medicaid (DC-M) pilot during the 2022-2023 school year. This program lets Medicaid-enrolled students automatically qualify for Free or Reduced-Price Meals (FARM) and incorporates Medicaid data into eligibility calculations for the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), which allows high-poverty schools to offer free meals to all students. This study assesses how DC-M impacts CEP participation from a systems perspective, using a causal loop diagramming approach across 12 Maryland public school districts.

Universal school meals (USMs) policies, which provide free meals to all students regardless of income, have the potential to improve child nutrition and reduce stigma. Quantitative evidence on the association between USM and stigma is limited.

Internationally, nutrition standards for school food have been implemented. Food service professionals are key to their implementation. This mixed-methods systematic review provides an overview of the barriers and facilitators faced by food service professionals when implementing food/nutrition standards and provides an important link between policy and practice.

The opioid crisis continues to claim lives across the United States, which has led to increased attention toward harm reduction strategies as methods for addressing this public health issue. Specifically, naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug, became available over-the-counter in 2023, greatly improving its accessibility. However, despite this progress, general awareness about how to use naloxone remains limited, especially among youth who are being increasingly impacted by the opioid epidemic.

Childhood obesity disproportionately affects low-income Hispanic children. After-school programs (ASPs) provide opportunities to address nutritional disparities through targeted educational interventions.

Secondary traumatic stress (STS) in school personnel is under-researched, with limited data on its frequency and susceptibility. This systematic review examines the extent of STS and the factors contributing to it among school personnel, defined as individuals employed or contracted by US school systems.

Since 2016, California has prohibited e-cigarette use alongside smoking in K-12 schools. School tobacco policies may reduce student e-cigarette use.

Health-related issues are perhaps the most common reason for student absences, as nearly every student has missed school due to an illness or injury at some point. Researchers in medicine and education have thoroughly documented the relationship between health and attendance.

In Japan, school health examinations frequently utilize growth curves. This study aimed to develop and validate a custom-designed program that enables the rapid and accurate detection of growth abnormalities in children and adolescents.

School-based health centers (SBHCs) provide accessible healthcare for children, but not all have dedicated mental health providers. The COVID-19 pandemic and school shutdowns were associated with worsened student mental health, but the impact on the utilization of SBHCs without mental health providers remains unclear. This study examines utilization before and after school shutdowns at one such SBHC.

While research has demonstrated the importance of K-12 environments for adolescent well-being, there have been numerous challenges to measuring and addressing this social environment. The School as a Protective Factor (SPF)-Framework and Brief instrument were established to meet this gap. This study investigates SPF in an academic-community partnership with a small, rural public school district.

Behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) has been shown to improve school safety and promote a positive school climate. While some states' departments of education mandate BTAM, others leave the decision of its adoption to local districts, creating variability in its implementation and usage across the country.

Family-school partnerships (FSPs) play an important role in supporting child health and well-being. The current study aimed to develop and validate a psychometrically sound instrument to assess FSPs within the context of child health.

As students' use of mobile devices during school hours continues to increase, cyberbullying and online sexual harassment now occur during school hours, on school grounds via personal devices. Despite this growing reality, there is little knowledge about secondary school efforts to address it.

School nurses are key responders to students with constipation, yet their experiences are underreported. This study surveyed their observations regarding constipation, identified barriers to student restroom access, and assessed educational needs.

Teacher well-being in Taiwan is challenged by excessive workloads, administrative demands, after-hours digital communications, and societal expectations, leading to stress, burnout, and diminished job satisfaction. Existing tools often assess isolated constructs without integrating emerging stressors like social media pressure.