title: Your health, an intervention at senior vocational schools to promote adolescents' health and health behaviors.
abstract: This study evaluates the appreciation, application and effects of an intervention (Your Health), in which adolescents received a consultation with the school nurse. A cluster randomized controlled trial with an intervention and control group (care-as-usual) was conducted among first-grade senior vocational students. Adolescents (n = 418) completed a questionnaire at baseline and 6-month follow-up assessing health and health behaviors. School absenteeism was monitored via the school registration system. After the consultation, adolescents and nurses evaluated the consultation by questionnaire. Adolescents appreciated being invited for the consultation and gave the consultation a positive mean rating of 8.78 on a 10-point scale. Adolescents rated the other nine items on the appreciation of the consultation also high. In 36.8% of the adolescents, nurses suspected problems. Most often these adolescents were given tailored advice (59.3%) or they were referred to another professional (40.7%). No statistically significant effects of the intervention were found on the health and health behaviors of adolescents. This study supports the use of Your Health as a promising intervention to reach senior vocational students. Future research is needed to evaluate long-term effects and the effects and appreciation of the subsequent help that is offered.
  
  
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authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Municipality of Rotterdam, Librijesteeg 4, 3000 KS Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Public Health Care for Youth, Westblaak 171, 3012 KJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Rienke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bannink
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Municipality of Rotterdam, Librijesteeg 4, 3000 KS Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Public Health Care for Youth, Westblaak 171, 3012 KJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Broeren
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Municipality of Rotterdam, Librijesteeg 4, 3000 KS Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Public Health Care for Youth, Westblaak 171, 3012 KJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jurriën
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heydelberg
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Municipality of Rotterdam, Librijesteeg 4, 3000 KS Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Public Health Care for Youth, Westblaak 171, 3012 KJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Els
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van 't Klooster
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Municipality of Rotterdam, Librijesteeg 4, 3000 KS Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Public Health Care for Youth, Westblaak 171, 3012 KJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Cathelijn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: van Baar
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Municipality of Rotterdam, Librijesteeg 4, 3000 KS Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Public Health Care for Youth, Westblaak 171, 3012 KJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands h.raat@erasmusmc.nl.
authors.forename: Hein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Raat
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000067697:Adolescent Health; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012574:Schools; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult