HeaLS – Effects of the implementation of the interdisciplinary topic “Health and Life Skills” in schools

Status: Aktiv
Start: 01.10.2023
Slutt: 30.09.2028
Finansiering: ERC-European Research Council

Prosjektbeskrivelse

Mental illness is a major health burden worldwide and the health problems with the heaviest financial burden in Norway. Half of chronic mental disorders emerge before the age of 14, and mental health problems in youth are increasing. The Norwegian government has implemented the interdisciplinary topic «Health and life skills» (HLS) in primary and secondary education to provide pupils with competences to promote health and self-efficacy. School-based interventions may improve mental health and academic performance, but their effects depend on the quality of implementation. There are large variations in how HLS is implemented within and across schools due to lack of national guidelines and a reliance on teachers’ professional judgement. Delayed implementation for some grades and longitudinal nationwide registry linkages forms a natural experiment and rare opportunity to investigate the impact of diverse implementation methods of a politically determined, long-term and population-wide measure.

The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to evaluate how variations in the implementation of HLS relate to the intervention’s effect on pupils’ mental health, quality of life, school environment, academic performance and dropout. We will collect new HLS implementation data from 5-10,000 teachers/employees, 1,000 school principals and 180 school owners. Information from these key samples will be combined with prior linked data for 750 000 pupils from existing national registries and large surveys, including educational, health and background information.

The research group includes researchers specialized in education, mental and public health, health promotion, classroom research, school surveys, register-based studies and advanced multi-level methods.

The evaluation may affect further implementation and practice of HLS nationally and globally, and thereby promote pupils’ mental health and academic performance and thus also their future.

The study will collect new information regarding how HLS is implemented in Norwegian schools through questionnaires to all school owners and representative samples of Norwegian school leaders and teachers.

These new information regarding implementation will be combined with existing data from national registries and large survey studies.

All information is analysed, and results are presented, anonymized.

Resultater

År	Tittel	Type	Forfattere
2025	Inequalities in Mental Health in High-income Countries	Annen formidling	Yuan Fang
2024	Folkehelse og livsmestring under lupen	Intervju	Egil Nygaard, Tore Brøyn
2023	ERC Consolidator Grant til Psykologisk institutt.	Intervju	Egil Nygaard, Lise Paulsrud Mjørlund
2025	Public health and life skills in schools – effects and practice	Konferanseforedrag	Egil Nygaard
2024	Forskningsprosjektet HeaLS ønsker flere skoler velkommen - Skolelederforbundet	Intervju	Alf Bjørge Aschim, Egil Nygaard
2024	Delta i undersøkelse om folkehelse og livsmestring - Skolelederforbundet	Bloggpost	Skolelederforbundet
2025	Vold og trusler i skolen – del 2, er skolene rustet?	Formidling i radio eller tv	Janne Øksnes, Egil Nygaard, Madelen Kloster, Eirik Magnus Meek Degerud
2025	Differential Effects of a Nationwide Curriculum-Based Intervention on Student Mental Health: The Role of Socioeconomic Status	Konferanseforedrag	Yuan Fang, Egil Nygaard
2025	Folkehelse og livsmestring i skolen	Film/video	NIFU
2025	Livsmestring på timeplanen	Intervju	Bjelland Siv, Egil Nygaard
2025	Fem år med folkehelse og livsmestring i skolen – hvordan fungerer det?	Formidling i radio eller tv	Egil Nygaard
2024	Bli med i forskningsprosjekt om folkehelse og livsmestring i skolen!	Film/video	Ronnie Smith, Egil Nygaard
2025	Differential Effects of a Nationwide Curriculum-Based Intervention on Student Mental Health: The Role of Socioeconomic Status.	Konferanseforedrag	Nikolai Haahjem Eftedal, Maud Edvoll, Anne Torhild Klomsten, Siri Hausland Folstad, Gunnar Bjørnebekk, Ragnhild Bang Nes, Egil Nygaard
2025	Tall og fakta - Vold og trusler i skolen - del 1	Formidling i radio eller tv	Janne Øksnes, Eirik Magnus Meek Degerud, Egil Nygaard, Madelen Kloster
2024	Hva vet vi om effekten av folkehelse og livsmestring?	Intervju	Alf Bjørge Aschim, Egil Nygaard
2024	Egil Nygaard om Folkehelse og Livsmestring	Intervju	Håkon Njøten, Egil Nygaard
2025	Implementering av Folkehelse og livsmestring i skole	Konferanseforedrag	Egil Nygaard
2024	Differential Effects of LK20 on Student Mental Health: The Role of Socioeconomic Status	Konferanseforedrag	Yuan Fang, Egil Nygaard
2024	Implementering av Folkehelse og livsmestring i skole	Konferanseforedrag	Egil Nygaard
2024	Psykisk helse	Podkast	Janne Øksnes, Egil Nygaard, Klara Øverland, Madelen Kloster
2024	Folkehelse og livsmestring – Hvordan få best mulig effekt for elevene	Populærvitenskapelig artikkel	Lisbeth M. Brevik, Christine Sundgot-Borgen, Cathrine Pedersen, Stephan Daus, Cay Gjerustad, Lene Vestad, Geir Skeie, Hildegunn Fandrem, Egil Nygaard
2024	Undersøker effektene av livsmestring i skolen	Intervju	Janne Øksnes, Egil Nygaard
2025	Folkehelse og livsmestring i skolen – effekter, praksis og kompetanseutvikling	Konferanseforedrag	Egil Nygaard
2024	Skal forske på livsmestring i skolen	Intervju	Maria Gilje Strand, Hildegunn Fandrem, Egil Nygaard
2025	Vold og trusler i skolen – del 3; hva med elevene?	Formidling i radio eller tv	Janne Øksnes, Egil Nygaard, Madelen Kloster, Eirik Magnus Meek Degerud
2023	LY podden: HeaLS-folkehelse og livsmestring i skolen	Formidling i radio eller tv	Janne Øksnes, Anne Torhild Klomstén, Egil Nygaard, Einar Hanisch, Petter Andreas Longva
2023	LY podden: Folkehelse	Formidling i radio eller tv	Janne Øksnes, Egil Nygaard, Anne Torhild Klomstén
2024	Meet the researcher: Egil Nygaard	Intervju	Egil Nygaard
2024	Hvordan står det egentlig til med folkehelse og livsmestring i skolen?	Formidling i radio eller tv	Egil Nygaard, Asgeir Kabuba Kjelstad
2024	Effekten av folkehelse og livsmestring	Intervju	Tore Brøyn, Hildegunn Fandrem, Egil Nygaard, Lisbeth M. Brevik