Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608, USA.
Child Obes. 2013 Aug;9(4):311-8. doi: 10.1089/chi.2013.0029. Epub 2013 Jun 15.
With the continued threat of childhood obesity, many public health intervention efforts focus on school settings. The current study sought to document administrator attitudes regarding obesity and interest in improving relevant school practices (i.e., nutrition and physical activity) in elementary schools.
Mail-back surveys were used to gather data from public and private elementary schools during the 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, and 2010-2011 school years. In each year, a different set of items pertaining to administrator attitudes was included. Numbers of responding schools annually ranged from 259 to 336 private schools, and from 578 to 748 public schools.
The vast majority of elementary school administrators (>90%) agreed that schools can play a role in addressing childhood obesity, physical education improves a variety of academic outcomes, and they were interested in improving practices at their school. Concern about childhood obesity and perceiving that schools can play a role in addressing obesity were both associated with more interest in improving school practices. However, only one-third of administrators agreed that parents were interested in participating in improving nutrition and physical activity practices, suggesting opportunities for efforts to improve collaboration.
Administrators are generally very supportive of school-based efforts to improve nutrition and physical activity practices and see the value in doing so. Given the amount of time children spend in school, schools are an essential venue for efforts to address childhood obesity.
随着儿童肥胖问题的持续威胁，许多公共卫生干预措施都集中在学校环境中。本研究旨在记录管理人员对肥胖问题的态度以及改善小学相关实践（即营养和体育活动）的兴趣。
在 2006-2007、2007-2008、2008-2009 和 2010-2011 学年期间，通过邮件回寄调查从公立和私立小学收集数据。在每一年，都包含了一组不同的与管理人员态度相关的项目。每年回复的私立学校数量从 259 到 336 所不等，公立学校数量从 578 到 748 所不等。
绝大多数小学管理人员（>90%）认为学校可以在解决儿童肥胖问题中发挥作用，体育教育可以提高各种学术成果，并且他们有兴趣改善自己学校的实践。对儿童肥胖问题的关注以及认为学校可以在解决肥胖问题中发挥作用与更有兴趣改善学校实践相关。然而，只有三分之一的管理人员认为家长有兴趣参与改善营养和体育活动实践，这表明有机会改善合作。
管理人员普遍非常支持学校为改善营养和体育活动实践所做的努力，并认为这样做是有价值的。鉴于儿童在学校度过的时间量，学校是解决儿童肥胖问题的重要场所。
