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Titre : | Economic Evaluation of a Sun Protection Promotion Program in California Elementary Schools (2020) |
Auteurs : | Richard T. Meenan, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
Dans : | American Journal of Health Promotion (vol.34 n°8, Novembre 2020) |
Article en page(s) : | pp. 848–856 |
Langues: | Anglais |
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Abstract
Background: An economic evaluation of Sun Safe Schools intervention designed to aid California elementary schools with implementing sun safety practices consistent with local board–approved policy. Design: Program cost analysis: intervention delivery and practice implementation. Setting: California elementary schools (58 interventions and 60 controls). Principals at 52 intervention and 53 control schools provided complete implementation data. Participants: Principals completing pre-/postintervention surveys assessing practice implementation. Intervention: Phone-based 45-minute session with a project coach on practice implementation, follow-up e-mails/phone contacts, $500 mini-grant. Schools chose from a list of 10 practices for implementation: ultraviolet monitoring, clothing, hats, and/or sunscreen recommendations, outdoor shade, class education, staff training and/or modeling, parent outreach, and resource allocation. The duration of intervention was 20 months. Rolling recruitment/intervention: February 2014 to December 2017. Measures: Intervention delivery and practice implementation costs. Correlations of school demographics and administrator beliefs with costs. Analysis: Intervention delivery activities micro-costed. Implemented practices assessed using costing template. Results: Intervention schools: 234 implemented practices, control schools: 157. Twenty-month delivery costs: $29 310; $16 653 (per school: $320) for project staff, mostly mini-grants and coaching time. Administrator costs: $12 657 (per school: $243). Per-student delivery costs: $1.01. Costs of implemented practices: $641 843 for intervention schools (per-school mean: $12 343, median: $6 969); $496 365 for controls (per-school mean: $9365, median: $3123). Delivery costs correlated with implemented practices (0.37, P < .01) and total practice costs (0.37, P < .05). Implemented practices correlated with principal beliefs about the importance of skin cancer prevention to student health (0.46, P < .001) and parents (0.45, P < .001). Conclusion: Coaching of elementary school personnel can stimulate sun safety practice implementation at a reasonable cost. Findings can assist schools in implementing appropriate sun safety practices. |
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