Long Michael A, Stretesky Paul B, Crilley Eilish, Sattar Zeb, Defeyter Margaret Anne
Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA.
Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE18ST, UK.
Public Health Pract (Oxf). 2021 Apr 16;2:100122. doi: 10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100122. eCollection 2021 Nov.
This paper reports results of an evaluation of 17 holiday clubs located throughout North East England that ran during the summer of 2017, designed to reduced summertime food insecurity.
Questionnaire administed to parents/caregivers of children who attended a holiday club.
Ordinary Least Squares regression models were used to predict Warwick-Edinburg Mental Wellbeing scale scores measuring parental mental wellbeing.
We find that after a summer of attending a holiday club, the most important factor associated with higher parental wellbeing scores is the reduction in social isolation and increased relationships that the parent and their children build while children attend holiday clubs.
Our results suggest that reducing social isolation for parents and families during summertime is a likely a latent function of holiday clubs. These are important findings in that the benefits of holiday club appear to extend beyond access to food and reductions in household food insecurity.
本文报告了对2017年夏季在英格兰东北部各地运营的17家假日俱乐部的评估结果,这些俱乐部旨在减少夏季的粮食不安全状况。
对参加假日俱乐部的儿童的父母/照顾者进行问卷调查。
使用普通最小二乘回归模型来预测衡量父母心理健康的沃里克-爱丁堡心理健康量表得分。
我们发现,在参加了一个夏天的假日俱乐部后,与父母更高的幸福感得分相关的最重要因素是社交孤立感的减少以及父母及其子女在孩子参加假日俱乐部期间建立的关系的增加。
我们的结果表明,在夏季减少父母和家庭的社交孤立感可能是假日俱乐部的一个潜在功能。这些是重要的发现,因为假日俱乐部的好处似乎超出了获得食物和减少家庭粮食不安全的范围。