Supporting preschoolers’ mental health and academic learning through the PROMEHS program: a training study

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Autor(a) principal: Conte, Elisabetta
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: Cavioni, Valeria, Ornaghi, Veronica, Agliati, Alessia, Gandellini, Sabina, Santos, Margarida Frade, Santos, Anabela Caetano, Simões, Celeste, Grazzani, Ilaria
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/58670
Resumo: © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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spelling Supporting preschoolers’ mental health and academic learning through the PROMEHS program: a training studyPROMEHSAcademic outcomesProblem behaviorsProsocial behaviorSchool mental healthSocial-emotional learning© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).There is compelling evidence that early school intervention programs enhance children's development of life skills, with a positive knock-on effect on their behaviors and academic outcomes. To date, most universal interventions have displayed gains in children's social-emotional competencies with a limited reduction in problem behaviors. This may depend on programs' curricula focused to a greater extent on preschoolers' social-emotional competencies rather than problem behaviors. Promoting Mental Health at Schools (PROMEHS) is a European, school-based, universal mental health program explicitly focused on both promoting students' mental health and preventing negative conduct by adopting a whole-school approach. In this study, we set out to evaluate the effectiveness of the program for Italian and Portuguese preschoolers. We recruited 784 children (age range = 4-5 years), assigning them to either an experimental group (six months' participation in the PROMEHS program under the guidance of their teachers, who had received ad hoc training) or a waiting list group (no intervention). We found that PROMEHS improved preschoolers' social-emotional learning (SEL) competencies, prosocial behavior, and academic outcomes. The more practical activities were carried out at school, the more children's SEL competencies increased, and the more their internalizing and externalizing behaviors decreased. Furthermore, marginalized and disadvantaged children were those who benefited most from the program, displaying both greater improvements in SEL and more marked decreases in internalizing problems compared to the rest of the sample.This research project was co-funded by the European Commission within the Erasmus+ KA3 research project “Promehs-Promoting Mental Health at Schools” (No. 606689-EPP-1-2018-2-IT-EPPKA3-PI-POLICY). The study was coordinated by the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) and involved eight other European partners: The University of Latvia (Latvia), the University of Lisbon (Portugal), the University of Malta (Malta), the University of Patras (Greece), the City of Rijeka (Croatia), the University of Rijeka (Croatia), Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava (Romania), and the Regional School Office of Suceava (Romania). This publication was funded by two grants from the University of Milano-Bicocca (2021-ATE-0265 and 2019-ATE-0001) awarded to I.G. and V.O., respectively.MDPIRepositório da Universidade de LisboaConte, ElisabettaCavioni, ValeriaOrnaghi, VeronicaAgliati, AlessiaGandellini, SabinaSantos, Margarida FradeSantos, Anabela CaetanoSimões, CelesteGrazzani, Ilaria2023-07-19T11:35:04Z20232023-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/58670engChildren (Basel). 2023 Jun 16;10(6):107010.3390/children100610702227-9067info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-11-20T18:22:39Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/58670Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openairemluisa.alvim@gmail.comopendoar:71602024-11-20T18:22:39Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Supporting preschoolers’ mental health and academic learning through the PROMEHS program: a training study
title Supporting preschoolers’ mental health and academic learning through the PROMEHS program: a training study
spellingShingle Supporting preschoolers’ mental health and academic learning through the PROMEHS program: a training study
Conte, Elisabetta
PROMEHS
Academic outcomes
Problem behaviors
Prosocial behavior
School mental health
Social-emotional learning
title_short Supporting preschoolers’ mental health and academic learning through the PROMEHS program: a training study
title_full Supporting preschoolers’ mental health and academic learning through the PROMEHS program: a training study
title_fullStr Supporting preschoolers’ mental health and academic learning through the PROMEHS program: a training study
title_full_unstemmed Supporting preschoolers’ mental health and academic learning through the PROMEHS program: a training study
title_sort Supporting preschoolers’ mental health and academic learning through the PROMEHS program: a training study
author Conte, Elisabetta
author_facet Conte, Elisabetta
Cavioni, Valeria
Ornaghi, Veronica
Agliati, Alessia
Gandellini, Sabina
Santos, Margarida Frade
Santos, Anabela Caetano
Simões, Celeste
Grazzani, Ilaria
author_role author
author2 Cavioni, Valeria
Ornaghi, Veronica
Agliati, Alessia
Gandellini, Sabina
Santos, Margarida Frade
Santos, Anabela Caetano
Simões, Celeste
Grazzani, Ilaria
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Conte, Elisabetta
Cavioni, Valeria
Ornaghi, Veronica
Agliati, Alessia
Gandellini, Sabina
Santos, Margarida Frade
Santos, Anabela Caetano
Simões, Celeste
Grazzani, Ilaria
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv PROMEHS
Academic outcomes
Problem behaviors
Prosocial behavior
School mental health
Social-emotional learning
topic PROMEHS
Academic outcomes
Problem behaviors
Prosocial behavior
School mental health
Social-emotional learning
description © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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