Join us in the Austria-wide school study!<\/strong><\/p>\n From Science 2 School is the first study in which a scale of movement patterns are linked to various diets (traditional, current trends) in the school context.<\/p>\n In order to make informed statements, a large number of subjects are needed.<\/p>\n Through an online survey, this Austria-wide school study will be available to all pupils, teachers, and principals of secondary levels I and II. The survey will examine the topics of sports & physical exercise, diet, and health. Be part of it!<\/strong><\/p>\n In Austria, approximately 2,680 schools<\/strong> operate at secondary level I and\/or II with approximately 771,500 pupils and 89,240 teachers\/principals.<\/strong><\/p>\n For this school-study to obtain meaningful results and to be carried out successfully, it is very important that all possible pupils, teachers, and principals participate.<\/strong><\/p>\n Let\u2019s reach for the stars together and set a milestone: every individual counts!<\/strong> From Science 2 School<\/em> will be through the University College of Teacher Education Tyrol (PHT \u2013 P\u00e4dagogischen Hochschule Tirol) in the area of Sport Didactics\/Sport Pedagogy as a didactic research project carried out at the Department of Subject Didactics and Educational Research and Development (expert team: \u201ePhyscial Activity, Sports & Health\u201c). This Austria-wide school study is funded by the Tiroler Wissenschaftsf\u00f6rderung (TWF), supported by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF \u2013 Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, Abteilung I\/7 \u2013 Schul- und Universit\u00e4tssport), and approved by all 9 Austrian Federal Education Authorities (Bildungsdirektionen).<\/p>\n This interdisciplinary project (Sports Science, Nutrition Science) is the first study<\/strong> to survey the prevalence of different diets linked to sports & physical exercise in the school context.<\/p>\n<\/div> Sport & physical exercise as well as nutrition are generally considered “medicine”. Chronic disease is not only increasing in adults, but also more and more children and young people are developing cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and their risk factors (e.g. overweight, inactivity). This is mainly due to a lack of physical exercise in connection with being overweight. Health experts indicate overweight\/obesity as a global crisis and the lack of exercise\/physical activity as the most serious health problem of the 21st century.<\/p>\n Sport & physical exercise, and nutrition all together offer a particularly promising solution to the current dramatic health situation of children and adolescents: In Austria, about 30% of children and adolescents are overweight\/obese1-3<\/sup> and about 85% are less active than the recommended level of daily physical activity2,3<\/sup>. Although sport & physical exercise, and nutrition are considered “medicine”, there is scientific consensus that nutrition (choice of food and diet) already plays a greater role when compared to sport & physical exercise – in terms of health and stable body weight in preschool age.<\/p>\n According to the state educational mandate of the Austrian curricula for secondary levels I and II4-6<\/sup>, sport & physical exercise as well as nutrition fall within the scope of the general education goal and are thus at the center of a sustainable teaching-learning process for the educational area ‘Health and Exercise’. Currently, information exists about sport & physical exercise behavior in Austria, but the level of information about current dietary trends in Austria is limited to adults and the overall social context. In particular, information regarding current dietary trends of (1) children and adolescents and (2) in the school context is lacking – i.e. there is no information available about the current dietary trends of Austrian pupils, teachers, or principals.<\/p>\n Therefore, this school study was designed to examine for the first time the relationship between physical activity and kind of diet (mixed, vegetarian, vegan) in the school context, taking a large sample into account.<\/p>\n From Science 2 School<\/em> builds on the two main pillars of health and was created as a follow-up to the didactic project ‘Basic Competencies for Healthy Lifestyle’ on one hand and to the NURMI Study<\/a> (Europe’s largest running study) on the other hand, to transfer scientific results into educational research and implement in the school setting.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> The aim of this school study is to ascertain and scale the prevalence of current physical activity levels in connection with traditional (mixed) and alternative (plant-based) diets among Austrian pupils, teachers, and principals in secondary levels I and II.<\/p>\n From Science 2 School <\/em>also aims to contribute to the very limited data currently available on adults regarding current nutritional trends. Moreover, information regarding dietary trends in children and adolescents (10-19) is completely lacking. This work is necessary to expand the epidemiological-didactic knowledge for children and adolescents especially.<\/p>\n Dreaming is allowed!<\/strong><\/p>\n Across Austria, roughly 2,680 Schools<\/strong> operate at secondary level I and\/or II. That means that the size of the potential sample is about 860,760 participants with about 771,500 pupils and 89,240 teachers and principals.<\/strong><\/p>\n From Science 2 School <\/em>would like to be guided by this impressive number. A milestone can be reached<\/strong> with particularly meaningful results. This can be achieved with the largest possible sample through the combined participation<\/strong> of pupils, their teachers, and principals.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> This school study has the potential to make a significant contribution to the mapping of current social trends \u2013 Especially for the peer groups of children and adolescents aged 10-19 years \u2013 via allocation of results to the school environment.<\/p>\n The results are intended to serve as a basis for reflecting on the offerings of school-based exercise and nutrition for health promotion. This is in order to develop recommendations, concrete measures, and possible courses of action. The online survey is available from October 2019 to May 2020<\/strong>, i.e. the school study is possible to conduct during most of the school year 2019\/2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The effort needed to participate in the school study is low:<\/p>\n Answering the online questionnaire only takes approximately 10 min<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li> All the pupils, teachers, and principals can simply and easily<\/strong> complete the survey via Smartphone, Tablet, or PC\/Laptop, <\/strong>either in class<\/strong> (i.e. during class leader lesson, or also in every subject) or during the break afterwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/li> Students can also take the survey together with their parents\/guardians at home via PC\/Laptop, Tablet, or Smartphone.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div> The online survey will take place in the 2019\/20 school year at all Austrian schools at secondary levels I and II (all school levels, all types of schools). All of the students, teachers, and principals will be informed:<\/p>\n Participation in the study is voluntary<\/strong> and can be cancelled or revoked at any time without reason and without consequence.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li> Participation in the study is anonymous,<\/strong>e. no one will know what information has been given, it is not possible to assign the data to a person, and therefore no information can be concluded about specific participants.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li> All data will be treated confidentially, <\/strong>i.e. the disclosure of information to third parties who are not part of the school study team is excluded.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li> The data collected is stored and processed exclusively for scientific purposes <\/strong>(storage, evaluation, presentation, publication).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul> At the start of the study, <\/strong>all Austrian schools that operate at Secondary level I and\/or II will be contacted via email about performing the survey (if necessary, also in person, e.g. by telephone), with the web-link to the online questionnaire for distribution<\/strong> (two different versions, (1) pupils (2) teachers\/principals) i.e. the school management will inform the faculty, the teachers will inform their students, and they will perform the online survey together.<\/p>\n At the end of the data collection, the data will be evaluated. The results will be published, provided, and presented to the BMBWF (Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung\/Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research) and the Federal Education Authorities (Bildungsdirektionen) of Austria<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> The short standardized online questionnaire consists of 5 parts with questions about the person (part A), sports & exercise (part B), nutrition (part C), health (part D), and miscellaneous (part E).<\/p>\n The survey, in the context of this school study, is therefore based on self-report\/self assessment. The online questionnaire is available in 2 versions (different web-links) for pupils and for teachers\/principals.<\/strong> Participants can access and complete the questionnaire via an encrypted interface.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\nTherefore, we would like to kindly invite all pupils, teachers, and principals of secondary levels I and II in Austria to participate!<\/p>\n<\/div>
\nBe there, join us, and many thanks!<\/p>\n<\/div>Aim<\/h2><\/span>
Motivation<\/h3><\/div>
\nExercise and eating habits are key factors for good or poor health; their influence together is of crucial importance for the prevention or the development of chronic (so-called non-communicable) diseases.<\/p>\n
\nThe two main pillars of health – permanently linked – offer maximum success through their cumulative effects. As a health measure, this dual-health approach is therefore considered “Best Practice”.<\/p>\n
\nHealth is therefore the overriding educational goal with regard to its competence and action oriented implementation4-6<\/sup> relevant for all compulsory subjects, whereby health promotion with its complex subject areas is one of the top learning goals of didactic interventions.
\nHowever, health promotion is primarily seen as a special task of school sports, which means that the compulsory subject of Physical Exercise and Sports has a “leading role”4-6<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Intention<\/h3><\/div>
Aim<\/h3><\/div>
Purpose<\/h3><\/div>
\nWith regards to the school health offer, the results will also serve as a basis in order to target and to design future exercise and nutritional offers. The goal is to serve simple, and effective health promotion at a low cost at Austrian Secondary schools levels I and II.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>(1) Bentham J, et al.; NCD Risk Factor Collabortion (NCD-RisC) (2017) Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128\u00b79 million children, adolescents, and adults. The Lancet, 390(10113):2627-2642.
\n(2) BMG \u2013Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Gesundheit; Griebler R, Winkler P, Bengough T (2016) \u00d6sterreichischer Kinder- und Jugendgesundheitsbericht. Ergebnisbericht: 67-68, 71, 78-79.
\n(3) BMG \u2013 Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Gesundheit; Ramelow D, Teutsch F, Hofmann F, Felder-Puig R; Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Health Promotion Research (2015) Gesundheit und Gesundheitsverhalten von \u00f6sterreichischen Sch\u00fclern und Sch\u00fclerinnen. Ergebnisse des WHO-HBSC-Survey 2014: 7-8, 10-11.
\n(4) Lehrplan AHS Unterstufe (Sekundarstufe I) (AHS, 2018a). Anlage A: Erster Teil. Allgemeines Bildungsziel, Punkt 5. Bildungsbereiche. Gesundheit und Bewegung: 10; Sechster Teil. Lehrpl\u00e4ne der einzelnen Unterrichtsgegenst\u00e4nde. Pflichtgegenstand Bewegung und Sport. Beitr\u00e4ge zu Bildungsbereichen: 111. www.bmb.gv.at\/schulen\/unterricht\/lp\/lp_ahs_unterstufe.html, (9. 1. 2018).
\n(5) Lehrplan AHS Oberstufe (Sekundarstufe II) (AHS, 2018b). Anlage D: Erster Teil. Allgemeines Bildungsziel, Punkt 5. Bildungsbereiche. Gesundheit und Bewegung: 10; Sechster Teil. Lehrpl\u00e4ne der einzelnen Unterrichtsgegenst\u00e4nde. Pflichtgegenstand Bewegung und Sport. Beitr\u00e4ge zu Bildungsbereichen: 115. www.bmb.gv.at\/schulen\/unterricht\/lp\/lp_ahs_oberstufe.html, (9. 1. 2018).
\n(6) Lehrplan der Neuen Mittelschule (NMS, 2018). Anlage 1: Erster Teil. Allgemeines Bildungsziel, Punkt 5. Bildungsbereiche. Gesundheit und Bewegung: 5; Sechster Teil. Lehrpl\u00e4ne der einzelnen Unterrichtsgegenst\u00e4nde. Pflichtgegenstand Bewegung und Sport. Beitr\u00e4ge zu Bildungsbereichen: 102. www.bmb.gv.at\/schulen\/unterricht\/lp\/lp_nms.html, (9. 1. 2018).<\/h6>\n<\/div>Timescale<\/h2><\/span>
Demands<\/h3><\/div>
Procedure<\/h3><\/div>
Contents<\/h3><\/div>
\nPlease read each question carefully and answer by clicking on the box that best expresses your opinion (sometimes multiple answers are possible, sometimes you must enter a number or answer, sometimes you must rank or weigh your answer).
\nThere are no “correct” or “incorrect” answers. Please answer all questions truthfully, thank you!
\nIn order to identify contradictory information and obtain data that is as reliable as possible, control questions are also contained in the questionnaire.<\/p>\nPublications<\/h2><\/span>