Initiative Description: Systematic review on Physical activity, diet and other behavioral interventions for improving cognition and school achievement in children and adolescents with obesity or overweight. Included 18 studies of 2384 children and adolescents with obesity or overweight. 8 studies were PA interventions, 7 studies combined PA programs with healthy lifestyle education, and studies were dietary […]
Initiative Description: A meta-analytic review of 52 studies of nonresident father involvement and child well-being. Father involvement included fathers engaged in various child-related activities such as putting the child to bed, helping with homework, changing diapers, or attending school functions; father-child closeness, trust, and support; seeing, talking to, or interacting with children, providing financial support, […]
Initiative Description: A systematic review was conducted to identify factors linked to the underachievement of disadvantaged pupils in school science and maths. Study Results: Parental involvement in their child’s studies, particularly in terms of academic socialization improves academic achievement and impacts the overall health and cumulative well-being of lower SES pupils. Results suggest major factors […]
Initiative Description: A meta-analysis was undertaken, including 66 studies, to determine the relationship between father involvement and the educational outcomes of urban school children. For the purposes of this study, father involvement was defined as paternal participation in the life of the child by someone who was the biological male parent of the youth in a […]
Initiative Description: From November to December 2015, various health, social science and education databases were searched for school-based violence and substance use prevention interventions. Searching of webpages and reference lists of relevant studies for further references and consultation with experts in this field followed. Searches were updated using PsycINFO and the Cochrane Central Register of […]
Initiative Description: An SEL program targeting schools with high numbers of immigrant and repatriated students and designed to promote target pupils social integration. Study Results: A postive interaction between the target students and their classmates and may have a positive effect on behavior and social position. Reference: Doikou-Avlidou, M., & Dadatsi, K. (2013). Enhancing social […]
Initiative Description: Meta-analysis reviewed 82 school-based, universal social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions involving 97,406 kindergartens to high school students. Study Results: Follow-up outcomes (collected 6 months to 18 years postintervention) demonstrate SEL’s enhancement of positive youth development. Participants fared significantly better than controls in social-emotional skills, attitudes, and indicators of well-being Reference: Taylor, R. […]
Initiative Description: Meta‐analysis of 213 school‐based, universal social and emotional learning (SEL) programs involving 270,034 kindergartens through high school students. Study Results: SEL programs yielded significant positive effects on targeted social-emotional competencies and attitudes about self, others, and school, and enhanced students’ behavioral adjustment in the form of increased prosocial behaviors and reduced conduct and […]
Initiative Description: Systematic literature review was conducted using online databases for articles available as of August 2011 (PubMed, PsycInfo, ERIC, Science Direct, Proquest Eduation and Psychology). Articles were selected for inclusion based on 7 criteria: each program was required to describe an intervention that 1) was a universal prevention program 2) was implemented within schools […]
Initiative Description: Systematic review and meta-analysis of 49 randomized clinical trials evaluating 50 self-regulation interventions Study Results: A wide range of interventions were successful in improving self-regulation in children and adolescents. There was an improvement in distal academic, health, and behavioral outcomes in most intervention groups compared to controls. Reference: Pandey, A., Hale, D., Das, […]
