THE IMPACT OF INTERVENTION PROGRAM ON HEALTH BEHAVIOURS AND SOCIOEMOTIONAL SKILLS AMONG PORTUGUESE COLLEGE STUDENTS
Open Access
- 15 December 2021
- journal article
- Published by Scientia Socialis Ltd in Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century
- Vol. 15 (2), 82-93
- https://doi.org/10.33225/ppc/21.15.82
Abstract
Health promotion is defined as the process of enabling people to increase control over and to enhance their health. It focuses on individual behaviors towards a wide range of interventions on social and environmental determinants of health and other health related aspects of life (WHO, 2015; 2017). Thus, health promotion implies the need to promote and empower people with resources and skills towards health and well-being (Saboga-Nunes, et al., 2019). The literature reports a negative variation in the lifestyle of university students, and simultaneously demonstrates a significant percentage of university students with a set of emotional, relational, anxiety and stress management difficulties (WHO, 2021, 2018). The need to curb behavioral tendencies harmful to the health of young university students comes justify the need for health promotion in the context of these institutions. This study aimed at analyzing the impact of university students' training, in the area of health promotion and of personal and socio-emotional skills. Participated 286 students. The results show that in addition to the skills worked during the training, the students’ well-being and health also improved at the end of the training. The variables that evidenced to be the most important for the university students’ health promotion were that they finished the training with more self-esteem, resilience, psychological well-being, self-efficacy, happiness and less instability and alienation. Regarding the pre and post evaluation comparisons about skills, importance and usefulness of HBSC/JUnP training, it was observed that both knowledge about health aspects and personal and socio-emotional skills, namely the resilience, self-regulation and problem-solving strategies had a strong positive impact on promoting the health and well-being of students. Higher education institutions present themselves as enhancers of public health, contributing to the students make healthy choices. Keywords: health promotion, personal and socio-emotional skills, university students’ training, healthy universities, PortugalKeywords
This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
- Adaptation and validation of the Psychological General Well-Being Index: confirmatory factor analysis of the short versionRevista de Enfermagem Referência, 2018
- Trends in Portuguese Adolescents’ Sexual Behavior from 2002 to 2014: HBSC Portuguese StudyPortuguese Journal of Public Health, 2018
- O local ideal para a prestação de serviços em alargamento de horário nos cuidados de saúde primários: análise dos custos e da perceção da qualidade dos serviçosRevista Portuguesa de Clínica Geral, 2017
- Promoção da Saúde nas Instituições de Ensino Superior Portuguesas: Reflexões e DesafiosRevista Portuguesa de Pedagogia, 2016
- Avaliação da eficácia de um programa de desenvolvimento de competências em adolescentes com vista à promoção da saúde mentalRevista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental, 2015
- Questionário de Personalidade Multicultural: Características métricas da adaptação para a população portuguesa e correlações com a inteligência culturalPublished by Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicologia ,2015
- BURNOUT IN A PORTUGUESE SAMPLE OF PSYCHOLOGISTS FROM AUTONOMOUS REGION OF MADEIRAPsicologia, Saúde & Doença, 2012
- A influência da comunicação com a família e grupo de pares no bem-estar e nos comportamentos de risco nos adolescentes PortuguesesPsicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2011
- Declaration of Alma-Ata:Published by JSTOR ,2009
- A Measure of Subjective Happiness: Preliminary Reliability and Construct ValidationSocial Indicators Research, 1999