Bonnie Maria van Dongen

Biographic Data

ID6679470
NAMEBonnie Maria van Dongen
GIVEN NAMESBonnie Maria
FAMILY NAMEvan Dongen
SIGNATUREVAN DONGEN B M
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0001-6718-3081
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Does the physical food environment in secondary school influence students’ social norm perceptions regarding healthy dietary choices? – An exploratory study in the Netherlands

    Open AccessBonnie Maria van Dongen, Naomi A Camfferman et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2026References: 1

    Creating a healthy food environment in secondary schools has the potential to communicate social norms regarding healthy dietary choices. This study explored the relationship between the schools' food environment and perceived descriptive (what others do) and injunctive (what others approve) norms regarding healthy dietary choices among adolescents. An exploratory (quasi-experimental) study was conducted in 23 Dutch schools, differing between thr…

  • Increasing community capacity to improve the implementation of Health Promoting Schools

    Open AccessBonnie Maria van Dongen, Monica Antonia Maria Ridder et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2023

    Building community capacity is important for the successful implementation of a Health Promoting School. To identify how capacity building can be encouraged in secondary schools, four schools engaged in the Fit Lifestyle at School and at Home (FLASH) intervention for 3 years. This study explores barriers and facilitators that school personnel, parents and pupils experienced in the capacity-building process. Thirty-one stakeholders were interviewe…

  • Building community capacity to stimulate physical activity and dietary behavior in Dutch secondary schools

    Open AccessBonnie Maria van Dongen, Inge Maria de Vries et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Background: Building community capacity in secondary schools is a promising strategy for the sustainable implementation of school-based health promotion. The Fit Lifestyle at School and at Home (FLASH) intervention explored how building community capacity works for the prevention of overweight following four strategies: leadership, participatory school culture, tailored health-promotion activities, and local networks. This study evaluates the int…

  • Supporting schools during the implementation of the health-promoting school approach

    Open AccessNina Bartelink, Bonnie Maria van Dongen et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Introduction: The health-promoting school (HPS) approach was developed by the World Health Organization to create health promotion changes in the whole school system. Implementing the approach can be challenging for schools because schools are dynamic organizations with each a unique context. Many countries worldwide have a health promotion system in place in which healthy school (HS) advisors support schools in the process of implementing the HP…

  • Opportunities for Capacity Building to Create Healthy School Communities in the Netherlands

    Open AccessBonnie Maria van Dongen, 初江 大野 et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Background: To sustainably implement a healthy school community in which stakeholders, including pupils, feel ownership over health-promotion activities, building community capacity is important. Pupils have experiential knowledge that is complementary to professional knowledge, but their perspectives on capacity-building processes are underexposed. This study aims to explore secondary-school pupils' perceptions about key influencers on physical …

  • Background and evaluation design of a community-based health-promoting school intervention

    Open AccessBonnie Maria van Dongen, Monica Antonia Maria Ridder et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    ISRCTN67201841 ; date registered: 09-05-2019, retrospectively registered

  • The Atlas school-based health promotion programme

    Open AccessBonnie Maria van Dongen, Bonnie van Dongen et al.ARTICLEEuropean Physical Education Review2017Cited by: 1References: 6

    Adolescent boys living in disadvantaged communities are considered a vulnerable group at risk for developing obesity and associated health problems, such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension and type-2 diabetes. While short-term health promotion programmes often produce effective results during the implementation of the intervention, according to self-determination theory (SDT), changes in autonomous motivation are required if programmes are t…