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Using health and well-being data to support improvements in mental health in schools
Welcome to the SHINE June 2022 Update
Dear All,
At the end of a very busy year, are pleased to bring you the SHINE June 2022 newsletter, which includes:
- SHINE end of year report 2021-2022
- Coming up in 2022- 2023
- SHINE affiliate projects
- HBSC study - thanks and School-level questionnaire (SQL)
- Wider research, events and resources for school communities
Coming up in 2022-2023!
The SHINE Interactive Data Dashboard
The SHINE Interactive Data Dashboard will be available to all SHINE network members from August 2022 via the Useful Documents folder.
This interactive tool will allow you and your classes to interact with a real health dataset from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) 2018 survey.
Find out what Scottish young people said about their health & wellbeing from 2002 to 2018. Look at changes over time. Find out what the links are between certain health behaviour and mood, life satisfaction and general health. Compare Scottish young people's health with young people's health in 50 other countries.
This resources could be used in a variety of curriculum areas to stimulate discussion with young people about health data - PSE, PE, Food and Health, Maths, Geography and/or Science.
Primary School resources
Two lesson sequences for P6 and P7 have been created by Fiona MacDonald who was seconded to SHINE this year as a SHINE Development Officer. the full sets of resources will be made available to all SHINE schools via the Useful Documents folder in August 2022
Both sequences are designed to be used in tandem with the SHINE Online Pupil Mental Health Survey. The aim is to help young people to understand the factors which impact on health and wellbeing.
Come Rain Come SHINE is aimed at P6. There are lesson plans, power points and worksheets to support the young people to understand the importance of the different factors which can influence emotions, health and wellbeing.
Rise and SHINE is aimed at P7. This focuses on managing emotions and goal setting for positive mental health and wellbeing.
SHINE affiliate projects
- CLOCK OFF - invitation to participate
Researchers at the University of Glasgow invite you to take part in the CLOCK OFF study which has received ethical approval. The purpose of the study is to develop and refine a peer-led school-based programme to reduce night-time interactive electronic device and social media use among young people (12-13 years). We will work with young people, school staff and parents/guardians/carers to develop this programme in both Scotland and Wales. Full details about the study and what it would mean for your school are available here . A brief summary is also available in a short video for young people.
As a first step, we are hoping to recruit 20-30 young people ( 2-4 young people per school) from Scotland and Wales to take part in a four-week programme (4 x one and half hours) of workshops. These workshops may run in July, August or into the next academic year, dependent on recruitment and availability of young people.
At the moment we just need to know if you are keen to be involved in this exciting study; you can contact Colin Shore at Colin.Shore@glasgow.ac.uk or email Dawn Haughton at Dawn.Haughton@glasgow.ac.uk.
- Net4Health - invitation to participate
Between 1987 and 2006, researchers studied the factors that best accounted for declining adolescent mental health in 20 schools in the West of Scotland. From those studies, findings revealed that arguments with parents, school disengagement, worry about school, and for young women, worry about family relationships were significant factors. Now, 16 years later, Net4Health will extend these earlier studies to explore which factors are most strongly related to adolescent mental health today.
How much has changed for young people in 16 years? How do young people relate to each other and what influences their wellbeing the most in the modern school setting?
Several Local Authorities and Schools have already signed up to take part in the study, and to receive tailored schools health reports; but there are still places available for more schools to join Net4Health. To find out more about joining the study and getting a school health report, please contact the project lead at Mark.McCann@glasgow.ac.uk. You can find further information here.
HBSC study - Thanks and School-level Questionnaire (SLQ)
Thank you to all the schools and their pupils who participated in the 2022 HBSC study. School-level health and wellbeing data reports will be sent to schools over the summer and we hope schools will find their report useful to support health and wellbeing planning and activities within their school. We would be extremely grateful if participating schools could now complete the HBSC School Level Questionnaire (SLQ, an online link was distributed w/c 20th June). The SLQ collects information on aspects of school policy, programmes, environment and ethos which are relevant to health improvement. The data from the SLQ are particularly useful when merged with the child-level data and used in tandem to measure the extent and relative importance of child- and school-level determinants of adolescent health and wellbeing.
Findings and trends over time by gender, age and socioeconomic status from the 2022 HBSC survey in Scotland will be available in a National report in 2023. This report and the International report will be available on the HBSC website. The data gathered from young people in Scotland and 50 other countries participating in the HBSC study are used by national governments and international agencies such as the World Health Organisation to support policy and programme development.
Wider research, events and resources for schools
Resources
- See me See Change - tackling mental health stigma - new resources
- NHS Mind to Mind resource
Participate
- Parents together online workshop: 28th June - Changing Faces
- Scottish Guidance Association Conference 2022 - register here
- See me See Change - new resources for schools
· See Me See Change is a new approach to tackling mental health stigma and discrimination in secondary schools, bringing staff and pupils together to form an action plan designed especially for their school.
· See Me See Change is for anyone who is interested in learning more about the impact that stigma and discrimination have on people who struggle with their mental health in schools, and wants to do something to make things better.
· See Me See Change is made up of separate pupil and staff training sessions focusing on mental health, stigma, discrimination and ways of tackling the issue. After the sessions, pupils and staff come together to develop an action plan for their school, looking at ways to tackle mental health stigma and discrimination in a way that fits their school’s needs.
· The See Me See Change programme gives schools a chance to be part of the wider See Us movement, calling on people all over Scotland to join forces to tackle the mental health stigma and discrimination that continue to exist in society. It’s on all of us to make a difference – whether we have experience of mental health problems or not.
· Schools can access all of the information they need to take part in See Me See Change through the See Me website at https://bit.ly/SeeMeSeeChange. It’s free to take part, with all of the tools, resources and facilitation notes available online for schools to access and use at their own pace.
NHS Mind to Mind resource
NHS inform has launched a new resource called Mind to Mind which offers practical advice to help improve mental health and wellbeing.
- Parents Together Online Workshop 28th June
The Parents Together online workshop is full of advice and top practical tips to support parents and carers of children and young people, who have a scar, mark or condition on their face or body that makes them look different.
To find out more and/or register, click here
- Scottish Guidance Association Conference 2022 - invitation to register
The Scottish Guidance Association will hold its annual conference on Saturday 17th Sept, 2022. This year, the conference will return to a face-to-face event at Carnegie Conference centre in Dunfermline. The day includes lunch and costs £90 for Early bird delegates if paid before the 31st July 2022,. After 31st July, 2022, the cost will be £100 for SGA members and £130 for non-members. Membership of the SGA is free.
Speakers include:
- Education Scotland Update : Tracy Johnston and Lorna Aitken
- Supporting LGBT+ Young People in Schools, Bryony Mole, LGBT Youth
- What is Visible Difference?, Angela Harris, Changing Faces
- Northfield Matters - What we have learned about integrating Suicide Prevention in the School Environment, Louise Penfold, SAMH and Lydia Tait, Aberdeen City Council
- The Power of Mentoring, Dr Iain MacRitchie, MCR Pathways
Thank you for all the many and varied contributions to the SHINE Network over this busy year - without you, there would be no network! We wish you all a relaxing and enjoyable summer break and look forward to working with you all again in 2022-2023.
All the best,
The SHINE Team
Dawn Haughton
Schools Health and Wellbeing Improvement Research Network (SHINE) Manager
E-mail: Dawn.Haughton@glasgow.ac.uk
Web: www.gla.ac.uk/shine
Twitter: @ScotlandSHINE
