Advisory Council membership is intended to represent all school levels (elementary and secondary schools) and primarily includes parents and caregivers as well as students who are representative and inclusive of the New York City school community. As a school system that participates in the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast gambling Program, NYCPS is required to have a written local school wellness policy that promotes students’ health, well-being, and ability to learn. In addition, students who are physically active—through active transportation (e.g., walking and biking) to and from school, recess, physical activity breaks, high-quality physical education, and extracurricular activities—do better academically. For students to have the opportunity to achieve personal, academic, developmental, and social success, they need positive, supportive, and health-promoting learning environments at every level, in every setting, throughout the school year.

Yes, the on-campus program includes several hands-on and experiential sessions designed to enhance learning through active participation. Audience participation is strongly encouraged throughout, with interactive exercises and case-based discussions incorporated into each session to reinforce learning and ensure practical application. Faculty members are recognized experts on these pillars and will share insights from their current research and professional experience in nutrition and wellness coaching and lifestyle choices.

Healthy Habits, Happy Minds: Adding Wellness Programs at School

The model also took into account whether the participant attended an intervention or control school and whether the student was in the District of Columbia or Orange County. We reported descriptive statistics as means and standard deviations (SDs) for students grouped by their participating school. We entered de-identified baseline and study completion data points, paired by student participant study identification, into Stata version 13.1 (StataCorp LLC). Medical students assisted school nursing personnel in taking pre–post measures of weight, height, and blood pressure. Baseline and post-intervention quantitative measures (weight, height, and blood pressure) were obtained, with attention to privacy and confidentiality, from all fifth-grade participants in intervention and control schools in the same school semester of the KiPOW intervention.

The Problem: Bringing Scalable Wellness Solutions to Underserved Schools

Studies refers to interventions within the same population/sample, following the same protocol or trial registration. Interventions refers to the set of practices, policies, or approaches tested within a study. Across the 35 studies included in this review, 15 were randomized controlled/clinical trials; 20 were quasi-experimental, including 13 cohort studies.

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Defining clear objectives ensures the program stays on track. If they see the benefits in numbers, they’ll be more likely to support the initiative. This section collects any data citations, data availability statements, or supplementary materials included in this article. The authority had no role in the design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data or in writing the manuscript. We want to thank all facilitators who participated in this study for their cooperation and Vered Shiraz from Haifa University for providing the statistical consultation. Other studies assessing outcomes among adolescents also reported maintained results in the long term 42,43,44,45.

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• All children in the school’s pre-designated intervention classes in both the District of Columbia and Orange County participated in the KiPOW!

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