Maryam Bagherzadeh, Leili Salehi, Zohreh Mahmoodi
Investigating preventive health behaviors against COVID-19 in elementary school students' parents: A cross-sectional study from Tehran - Capital of Iran
Journal of education and health promotion
research consistently shown benefits developing intervention programs educational settings enhancing learning process socioemotional skills growing investment creating supporting healthy school environment prioritizing learning play study aimed assess acceptability effectiveness innovative intervention approacheducation actionaball1focused promoting literacy numeracy skills socioemotional competencies secondgrade children total 113 children aged 7 9 participated study allocated two groups intervention n 69 control n 44 intervention consisted 24 educational games aligned mathematics portuguese curricula applied 3 months twice week two selfreport instruments used measure aptitudes school learning socioemotional skills considering two assessment moments program implementation addition focus group involving subsample children teachers followed intervention different school cohorts carried results suggested positive effect program concerning childrens academic skills showing significant improvement terms prepostintervention scores intervention group cohens 095 moreover qualitative findings also indicate high acceptability program among children head teachers reported positive effect acquisition consolidation reading writing arithmetic skills promotion teamwork empathy autonomy selfreflection overall education actionaball1 program provides promising intervention based learning play directly impacting secondgrade childrens academic emotional interpersonal skills studies required understand transdisciplinary capacity intervention approach effectiveness different school levels curricula