title: Creating connections: strategies to improve adolescent boys' access and engagement with school-based health services.
abstract: The aim of this grounded theory study was to investigate strategies used by school-based nurses to promote adolescent boys' access to and engagement with school-based health services. Interviews were conducted with 10 school nurses in South-East Queensland, Australia. The central process identified was creating connections, encompassing three inter-related sub-processes: facilitating communication, mediating contextual issues and bridging cultural issues. These processes incorporate strategies that highlight ways school nurses can engage with boys, individually and collectively, to promote and facilitate help-seeking from school-based health services. Findings inform practice and guidelines for improving boys' access to school-based health services.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hutchinson
authors.forename: Winsome St
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: John
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015279:Organizational Culture; D012572:School Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*