Meeting statement: Call to action for step-change in health behaviours.

Background: Enabling, supporting and promoting positive health-related behaviours is critical in addressing the major public health challenges of our time, and the multifaceted nature of behaviours requires an evidence-based approach. This statement seeks to suggest how a much-needed enhanced use of behavioural and cultural science and insights for health could be advanced.

Study Design And Methods: and methods: Public health authorities of Europe and Central Asia and international partner organizations in September 2023 met in Copenhagen, Denmark, to discuss the way forward.

[Children's rights in Austrian hospitals: implementation factors for children's participation].

Background: Various studies show that it is important for children and adolescents (as well as their parents) to be involved and have a say in decisions regarding treatment. Nevertheless, it seems that participation processes are not necessarily implemented into hospital routines everywhere. So far, no study has been conducted on the implementation of children's rights or participation in Austrian hospitals.

'Side effects' of health promotion: an example from Austrian schools.

While the existence of side effects of medical interventions is common knowledge and widely investigated, possible unintended effects of health promotion (HP) interventions are only sparsely discussed in the HP literature. Drawing on qualitative evaluation data generated within an on-going process evaluation of a regional health-promoting schools network in Austria, we demonstrate which desirable and undesirable effects HP practice can have for teachers. Thirteen group discussions with teachers (n = 63) and headteachers (n = 9) acting as health coordinators in the network schools were conducted between 2010 and 2013.

A Guided Online and Mobile Self-Help Program for Individuals With Eating Disorders: An Iterative Engagement and Usability Study.

Background: Numerous digital health interventions have been developed for mental health promotion and intervention, including eating disorders. Efficacy of many interventions has been evaluated, yet knowledge about reasons for dropout and poor adherence is scarce. Most digital health intervention studies lack appropriate research design and methods to investigate individual engagement issues.

Learning in networks: individual teacher learning versus organizational learning in a regional health-promoting schools network.

To change a school into a health-promoting organization, organizational learning is required. The evaluation of an Austrian regional health-promoting schools network provides qualitative data on the views of the different stakeholders on learning in this network (steering group, network coordinator and representatives of the network schools; n = 26). Through thematic analysis and deep-structure analyses, the following three forms of learning in the network were identified: (A) individual learning through input offered by the network coordination, (B) individual learning between the network schools, i.

Implementing school health promotion in Austria: experiences from a pilot training course.

A pilot training course on school health promotion in Austria focused on supporting teachers and school heads during the implementation of the health-promoting school (HPS) concept. The participants talked about their experiences during the implementation phase in focus groups held in a feedback seminar at the end of the training course. The focus groups were analyzed by using an inductive approach.

[Health complaints of Austrian adolescents - results from the HBSC-survey 1994 to 2006].

Background: This article describes changes in health complaints of Austrian adolescents during a period of 12 years.

Methods: The HBSC (Health Behaviour in School-aged Children) symptom checklist assesses how often specific physical and emotional symptoms occurred in the past 6 months. We display data collected in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006 for the whole sample (about 4500 students at each time point) as well as separated by age, gender and family affluence.