title: Adaptation of the school health index to assess the healthy school environment in Jordan.
abstract: When the Jordan Ministry of Education planned workshops to raise teachers' awareness of the health environment in schools in underdeveloped governorates, a pre-post intervention study assessed the impact of these workshops in changing teachers' perceptions. A total of 193 teachers completed the self-administered Centers for Disease Control and Prevention school health index (SHI) for elementary schools, adapted for this setting using 6 of the 8 original modules. After the workshops, teachers' mean scores on all modules improved significantly, from 49.5% to 55.9% for health and safety/environment policies; 44.2% to 56.5% for health education; 40.3% to 52.9% for physical education; 51.3% to 59.2% for nutrition services; 62.5% to 73.8% for health services; and 55.2% to 68.3% for family/community involvement. The SHI model is implementable in a developing country
authors: Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan. khatibmd@orange.jo
authors: I M
authors: IM
authors: Khatib
authors: S S
authors: SS
authors: Hijazi
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D006266:Health Education / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007597:Jordan; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D012572:School Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires