The health‐promoting school: what role for nursing?

Whitehead, Dean

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2702.2006.01294.x

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“…It circulates in high concentrations in healthy adults at around three times higher than leptin [35, 36]. There are several studies showing that APN has notable negative correlations with insulin resistance, and a decreased APN level is connected to reduced vascular function and leads to an increased risk of coronary artery disease [37, 38].…”

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Adiponectin Protects against Glutamate‐Induced Excitotoxicity via Activating SIRT1‐Dependent PGC‐1α Expression in HT22 Hippocampal Neurons

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Liu

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Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

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Glutamate- (Glu-) induced excitotoxicity plays a critical role in stroke. This study aimed to investigate the effects of APN on Glu-induced injury in HT22 neurons. HT22 neurons were treated with Glu in the absence or the presence of an APN peptide. Cell viability was assessed using the MTT assay, while cell apoptosis was evaluated using TUNEL staining. Levels of LDH, MDA, SOD, and GSH-Px were detected using the respective kits, and ROS levels were detected using dichlorofluorescein diacetate. Western blot was used to detect the expression levels of silent information regulator 1 (SIRT1), peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1-alpha (PGC-1α), cleaved caspase-3, Bax, and Bcl-2. In addition to the western blot, immunofluorescence was used to investigate the expression levels of SIRT1 and PGC-1α. Our results suggest that APN peptide increased cell viability, SOD, and GSH-Px levels and decreased LDH release, ROS and MDA levels, and cell apoptosis. APN peptide upregulated the expression of SIRT1, PGC-1α, and Bcl-2 and downregulated the expression of cleaved caspase-3 and Bax. Furthermore, the protective effects of the APN peptide were abolished by SIRT1 siRNA. Our findings suggest that APN peptide protects HT22 neurons against Glu-induced injury by inhibiting neuronal apoptosis and activating SIRT1-dependent PGC-1α signaling.

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Adiponectin Protects against Glutamate‐Induced Excitotoxicity via Activating SIRT1‐Dependent PGC‐1α Expression in HT22 Hippocampal Neurons

Liang

Zhao

Liu

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Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

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“…School nurses are key to improving children and young people’s health and wellbeing by delivering health promotion, providing health advice, signposting to other services, active treatment, education, family support, protection, safeguarding, service coordination and multi-agency work [4–8]. While there are many common elements described within the role of school nurses, there is confusion about the school nurse’s exact role [9, 10] and lack of clarification about the role of school nurses in health education and promotion has been well documented [11–15]. …”

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School Nurses’ perspectives on the role of the school nurse in health education and health promotion in England: a qualitative study

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BackgroundThe role of the school nurse is complex with many possible elements identified by previous research. The aim of this study is to understand perceptions of the role of the school nurse in order to support school nurses in the delivery of health education.MethodsThe study used an inductive, qualitative research design involving semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Participants were recruited from four NHS trusts across England and final sample size was thirty one school nurses. Three focus groups and two interviews took place in person, and three interviews were over the phone. Data was thematically analysed.ResultsSchool nurses described six main themes. Four themes directly related to the school nurse role: the main roles of a school nurse, school nurses' role in health education, prioritisation of workload and activities, and community work. A further two other themes related to the delivery of health education: the school nursing system and educational resources.ConclusionsThe role of the school nurse in England is very diverse and the school nurse role in health education is primarily to advise and support schools, rather than to directly deliver education. The study identified that tailored public health educational resources are needed to support school nurses.

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“…International studies have shown that confusion regarding the role of school nurses and a lack of research regarding their effectiveness on the health and academic achievement of pupils have resulted in the need to question this role [2-12]. …”

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Determinants of the intention of elementary school nurses to adopt a redefined role in health promotion at school

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BackgroundThe quest for greater efficiency in the provision of primary healthcare services and the implementation of a "health-promoting school" approach encourage the optimal redefinition of the role of school nurses. School nurses are viewed as professionals who might be significant actors in the promotion of youth health. The aim of this study was to identify the determinants of the intention of elementary school nurses to adopt a new health-promotion role as a strategic option for the health-promoting school.MethodsThis study was based on an extended version of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). A total of 251 respondents (response rate of 70%) from 42 school health programs across the Province of Québec completed a mail survey regarding their intention to adopt the proposed health-promotion role. Multiple hierarchical linear regression analyses were performed to assess the relationship between key independent variables and intention. A discriminant analysis of the beliefs was performed to identify the main targets of action.ResultsA total of 73% of respondents expressed a positive intention to accept to play the proposed role. The main predictors were perceived behavioural control (β = 0.36), moral norm (β = 0.27), attitude (β = 0.24), and subjective norm (β = 0.21) (ps < .0001), explaining 83% of the variance. The underlying beliefs distinguishing nurses who had a high intention from those who had a low intention referred to their feelings of being valued, their capacity to overcome the nursing shortage, the approval of the school nurses' community and parents of the students, their leadership skills, and their gaining of a better understanding of school needs.ConclusionsResults suggest that leadership is a skill that should be addressed to increase the ability of school nurses to assume the proposed role. Findings also indicate that public health administrators need to ensure adequate nurse staffing in the schools in order to increase the proportion of nurses willing to play such a role and avoid burnout among these human resources.

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The health‐promoting school: what role for nursing?

Cited by 117 publications

References 71 publications

Adiponectin Protects against Glutamate‐Induced Excitotoxicity via Activating SIRT1‐Dependent PGC‐1α Expression in HT22 Hippocampal Neurons

Adiponectin Protects against Glutamate‐Induced Excitotoxicity via Activating SIRT1‐Dependent PGC‐1α Expression in HT22 Hippocampal Neurons

School Nurses’ perspectives on the role of the school nurse in health education and health promotion in England: a qualitative study

Determinants of the intention of elementary school nurses to adopt a redefined role in health promotion at school

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