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Project SELfit: training socio-emotional skills in a school environment in Porto
| dc.contributor.author | Malcata, F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rodrigues, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Machado, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saraiva, M. T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Antunes, D. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-02T11:47:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-02T11:47:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-10-21 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Issue/Problem: Mental disorders are the main cause of years lived with disability (YLD) in 5-14-year-old people around the world, in Western Europe, and particularly in Portugal. Young people who experience anxiety during childhood have a 3,5-fold likelihood of suffering from depression or anxiety during adulthood. COVID-19 has aggravated this situation, namely regarding socio-emotional competencies. Description of the problem: SELfit, a project based on the Socio-emotional learning (SEL) methodology, aims promoting mental health, by training teachers and community nurses to develop socio-emotional skills in students from primary schools. The project includes a theoretical and a practical/training session, and monthly supervision sessions by a team that includes a psychologist, a public health doctor and public health nurses. The period of implementation is between February to July 2022. Results: A total of 8 community nurses and 13 teachers from 3 primary schools in Porto enrolled in this project, which corresponds to a total around 272 students from 5 to 8-year-old. Knowledge of nurses and teachers regarding mental health literacy, and social emotional learning was assessed, before and after the theoretical session. The mean percentage of correct answers before was 49% (54% regarding nurses and 45% teachers) compared to 84% (92% regarding nurses and 78% teachers) after. Concerning socio-emotional skills of the primary school students, possible improvement will be evaluated at the end of the project (July 2022). Lessons: Mental health literacy and social emotional learning knowledge increased 35%, which highlights the importance of these theoretical sessions promoting mental health literacy. By the end of this project, it is expected to exist an improvement on socio-emotional skills of the primary school students. This is a very important project, expected to be implement and replicated in other schools in Porto and in Portugal. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/eurpub/ckac131.493 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1101-1262 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/40415 | |
| dc.identifier.wos | 000895463401729 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Project SELfit: training socio-emotional skills in a school environment in Porto | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.issue | S3 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | European Journal of Public Health | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 32 | pt_PT |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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