Johnsunderraj Sheeba E, Francis Frincy, Prabhakaran Harshita
College of Nursing, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
J Educ Health Promot. 2023 Apr 28;12:116. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_8_23. eCollection 2023.
Health is a paramount issue in every society. Children's lives are more dominated by two main environments, which are the home and the school. Children's health is most affected when they encounter disease-laden environments; hence, schools have high influence in their health. Schools also serve as health promoting agencies and have a strong bidirectional relationship between a child's holistic wellbeing and education. Children are the best teachers who have the charisma to be influential change agents in reciprocating what is taught to them as healthy behavior. This paper is focused on the child-to-child approach in disseminating the importance of health among school-age children and the importance of molding them into change agents. The objective is to systematically review all literature works answering the question "?". Using critical appraisal skills program (CASP) framework and a data extraction form, articles were retrieved from different databases, including Scopus, CINAHL, PubMed, ProQuest, and EBSCOHost. These articles were published between 2003 and 2020. After critically appraising 85 articles based on the inclusion criteria, only 16 were found appropriate for addressing the purpose of this review. Major results of the review were that each of the studies had tested the effectiveness of the child to child approach using different health education topics such as prevention of worm infestation, eating behaviors, first aid measures, hand hygiene practices, importance of Vitamin A, and eye care. Studies reported that this approach empowered children with better health related knowledge and practice. This paper concludes that child-to-child approach plays an important role in disseminating health to children either as siblings, peer groups, and to parents.
健康是每个社会的首要问题。儿童的生活更多地受两个主要环境支配，即家庭和学校。当儿童身处疾病滋生的环境时，他们的健康受到的影响最大；因此，学校对他们的健康有很大影响。学校还充当健康促进机构，在儿童的整体福祉与教育之间存在着紧密的双向关系。儿童是最好的老师，他们具有独特魅力，能够成为有影响力的变革推动者，将所学到的健康行为进行回馈。本文聚焦于儿童对儿童的方法，即在学龄儿童中传播健康的重要性以及将他们塑造为变革推动者的重要性。目的是系统地回顾所有回答“？”这个问题的文献作品。使用批判性评价技能计划（CASP）框架和数据提取表，从不同数据库检索文章，包括Scopus、CINAHL、PubMed、ProQuest和EBSCOHost。这些文章发表于2003年至2020年之间。在根据纳入标准对85篇文章进行批判性评价后，仅发现16篇适合本综述的目的。综述的主要结果是，每项研究都使用不同的健康教育主题测试了儿童对儿童方法的有效性，如预防蠕虫感染、饮食行为、急救措施、手部卫生习惯、维生素A的重要性以及眼部护理。研究报告称，这种方法使儿童获得了更好的健康相关知识和实践能力。本文得出结论，儿童对儿童的方法在向儿童传播健康方面发挥着重要作用，无论是作为兄弟姐妹、同龄群体还是向父母传播。
