Overview
Schools, in the context of child and adolescent health and psychology, are formal educational settings that, beyond academic instruction, serve as influential environments for social, emotional, behavioral, and physical development and as practical venues for health promotion, screening, and intervention. Because children and adolescents spend much of their lives in school, these settings shape exposures to peer relationships, nutrition, physical activity, infectious disease, bullying, and psychosocial stress, and they offer an effective platform for delivering preventive, educational, and psychological programs, including cognitive and behavioral approaches. Research relevant to this topic examines the reopening of schools and universal face-mask adoption during pandemic transmission, premenstrual syndrome among secondary-school students, school-based nutrition regulation, infectious disease among schoolchildren, adolescent sexuality education delivered through schools, the capture and use of school data on bullying and harassment, and psychosocial determinants of substance use among school students. Related work addresses barriers to physical activity and healthy eating and children's understanding of fluid intake. Collectively these studies treat the school as both a determinant of and a setting for child and adolescent wellbeing. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on school-based and school-related dimensions of child and adolescent health and behavior, including education, special educational needs, and the promotion of physical and mental wellbeing in school populations.
Research published in this journal
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
New Regulations for Foods Offered to School Children in Chile: Barriers to Implementation
Potential Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Education, Staff Development and Training in Africa
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Intestinal Parasitic Helminths among Primary School Children in Oru West Lga, Imo State, Nigeria
Prevalence of Covid 19 in Students Attended Al-Dora Family Medical Center for Covid 19 Test
Perceptions and Suggestions Towards Adolescent Sexuality Education Among Secondary School Teachers in Region 1, The Gambia
Barriers to Physical Activity and Healthy Eating in Children as Perceived by Low-Income Parents: A Case Study
HIV and AIDS Risk Reduction Intervention Programmes among in-school Adolescents in Imo State, Nigeria
Capturing School Data on Bullying and Harassment is Just the Beginning of the Story, Using the Data Can Provide Us with an Ending
Young Children’s Understanding of Fluid Intake.
Psychosocial Determinants of Marijuana Utilization among Selected Junior High School Students in the Central Region of Ghana
How this research is being cited
The 12 articles above have been cited 49 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2025 · BMC Research Notes
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S. M. O'Kane et al. · 2025 · BMC Public Health
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Rachael Asantewaa Darko et al. · 2025 · BMC Research Notes
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2025 · BMC Public Health
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2024 · Journal of Marketing Research
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2024 · medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
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Rachael Asantewaa Darko et al. · 2024 · medRxiv
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2024 · Journal of Marketing Research
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