Publications by authors named "G Montemurro"
Objective: Sleep deprivation is common among children and schools are ideal settings in which to influence children's sleep. Children spend a significant amount of time at school during key developmental periods, and programmes that influence students' well-being also benefit academic achievement. Comprehensive School Health (CSH) is an approach that prioritises school, home and community partnerships by supporting the development of health behaviours.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Insufficient sleep is a growing public health concern. Thirty percent of Canadian children and youth are not meeting national sleep recommendations. Inadequate sleep can negatively influence students' academics and physical and psychosocial health.
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- - Parents see sleep as important for their children's health and try to create good sleep habits at home, but face challenges like busy schedules and lack of role models.
- - A study conducted with 25 Alberta parents revealed that they value school efforts to promote sleep but acknowledge barriers to implementing those strategies at home.
- - To enhance the effectiveness of school-based sleep promotion, it's crucial to create resources that involve and support parents, addressing the obstacles they report in encouraging healthy sleep practices.
Increasingly, school districts are looking for insights on how to embed a well-being focus across school communities. Well-being in K-12 education is proven to support positive mental health, improve academic performance and contribute to positive outcomes for students and staff. How districts transition to deeply integrate well-being into existing priorities and practices is not well understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChildhood is a critical stage to develop healthy behaviours, and the school years are an important developmental period in which children are learning and growing. School-based health promotion interventions are increasingly using the comprehensive school health (CSH) approach that has been found effective at improving health behaviours, while adapting to the school and community context to create and sustain a healthy school culture. The interconnected environments of school, home and community are key to the CSH approach, however, there is minimal research that has been conducted to determine the impact at the community-level.
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