Kathelijne Bessems
Biographic Data
| ID | 7797604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathelijne Bessems |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathelijne |
| FAMILY NAME | Bessems |
| SIGNATURE | BESSEMS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3879-9279 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A scoping review of instruments measuring the implementation of the Health-Promoting School approach
The Health-Promoting School (HPS) is a holistic approach that addresses not only the curriculum but also policies, the physical and social school environment, and the school’s external environment. Given its complexity in implementation, evidence on effectiveness is mixed. Adequately measuring the implementation of the approach is therefore essential for research and practice. This paper presents the results of a scoping review of instruments tha…
Conquering today’s health paradox with the power of Heal – an expert consensus report plus research priorities and policymaker roadmap
Background: Despite growing scientific evidence and health guidelines, the global health paradox persists, with rising lifestyle-related diseases and escalating healthcare costs exposing the inadequacy of current efforts. Objective: Three multidisciplinary congresses were held to generate evidence-based conclusions aimed at addressing the global health paradox. Methods: A total of 58 experts from 62 entities participated in the international rese…
Health promotion in the school context
Purpose This study presents an overview of research literature on health promotion in schools, utilizing metadata extracted from 4,328 publications indexed in the Scopus database over the past 35 years. Design/methodology/approach A bibliometric approach was used to analyze the development and current state of using publication and citation data. A structured keyword search was conducted in the Scopus database to retrieve relevant publications in…
Balancing Fidelity and Adaptation
BACKGROUND: Implementation of school-based health promotion programs requires contextual fit. To strengthen the nutrition education program "Krachtvoer" (ENG: "Power Food") and learn general lessons about contextual fit, this study examined how the program, the context, and program-context interactions affected teachers' balancing between implementation fidelity and adaptation. METHODS: As part of a co-creation process with continuous micro-proce…
Implementation of the Health Promoting School Approach in Europe
BACKGROUND: Although principles of the health promoting school (HPS) approach are followed worldwide, differences between countries in the implementation are reported. The aim of the current study was (1) to examine the implementation of the HPS approach in European countries in terms of different implementation indicators, that is, percentage of schools implementing the HPS approach, implementation of core components, and positioning on so-calle…
Context matters—the phased development of an adaptable food literacy intervention
Adapting interventions to the context increases the impact and sustainability of interventions. Literature acknowledges the need to adapt existing interventions and that these adaptations should be clearly reported. However, little is known about how to incorporate adaptation from the beginning. This paper argues that interventions should be developed and adaptations should be made using an ongoing non-linear approach. An action-oriented research…
Effects of SuperFIT, an overweight-prevention intervention approach, on pre-schoolers’ dietary intake
SuperFIT aims to improve the dietary and physical activity behaviour of children (2–4 years) in the Dutch childcare and home setting. Healthy parenting practices, policies, and availability of materials, fruits, and vegetables were promoted over the course of a year. This pilot study, with a quasi-experimental design, examined the effectiveness of children’s intake of fruits, vegetables, water, and sweet beverages. Families attending intervention…
Exploring the implementation dynamics of the Health Promoting School approach in Europe
Purpose Adapting the Health Promotion School (HPS) approach to context specifics is acknowledged as being essential for implementation and achieving optimal effectiveness. This study aims to explore implementation variations on seven HPS spectra (such as top-down to bottom-up involvement of stakeholders) on which implementation of the HPS approach can vary, and the factors that relate to navigation on these spectra. Design/methodology/approach In…
Co-Creation Approach with Action-Oriented Research Methods to Strengthen “Krachtvoer”; A School-Based Programme to Enhance Healthy Nutrition in Adolescents
In recent years, the nutritional pattern of the Dutch adolescent has cautiously improved. However, progress can be gained if more Dutch adolescents adhere to the nutritional guidelines. School-based initiatives offer opportunities to deal with the unhealthy eating behaviours of adolescents via nutrition educational interventions. In designing and/or re-designing school-based interventions, it is important to enhance optimal context-oriented imple…
The Effectiveness of the Good Affordable Food Intervention for Adults with Low Socioeconomic Status and Small Incomes
Good Affordable Food (GAF) is a small-group nutrition education intervention for adults with low socioeconomic status and small incomes. It aims to empower participants to save money on groceries and consume healthier diets. This paper reports the short-term and longer-term effects on behavioural determinants and self-reported behavioural changes. A quasi-experimental control group design was applied with a baseline measurement, a post-test immed…
Examining the relationship between completeness of teachers’ implementation of the Krachtvoer healthy diet programme and changes in students’ dietary intakes
Objective The goal of the current study was to examine if the completeness of programme implementation and the completeness of implementation of specific programme elements of the Dutch school-based healthy diet promotion programme Krachtvoer are related to short- and longer-term changes in students’ fruit, sweets and breakfast intakes. Design Data on students’ dietary intakes were collected 1–4 weeks and 6 months after programme implementation. …
Appreciation and implementation of the Krachtvoer healthy diet promotion programme for 12- to 14- year-old students of prevocational schools
We conclude that the revisions have resulted in a programme that was appreciated well, also by the extended target group, and was implemented with a high degree of completeness. Teacher appreciation proved potentially important for completeness of implementation. We identified several aspects requiring improvement, indicating the importance of continued programme updates and repeated evaluation
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Appreciation and implementation of the Krachtvoer healthy diet promotion programme for 12- to 14- year-old students of prevocational schools
We conclude that the revisions have resulted in a programme that was appreciated well, also by the extended target group, and was implemented with a high degree of completeness. Teacher appreciation proved potentially important for completeness of implementation. We identified several aspects requiring improvement, indicating the importance of continued programme updates and repeated evaluation
Examining the relationship between completeness of teachers’ implementation of the Krachtvoer healthy diet programme and changes in students’ dietary intakes
Objective The goal of the current study was to examine if the completeness of programme implementation and the completeness of implementation of specific programme elements of the Dutch school-based healthy diet promotion programme Krachtvoer are related to short- and longer-term changes in students’ fruit, sweets and breakfast intakes. Design Data on students’ dietary intakes were collected 1–4 weeks and 6 months after programme implementation. …
The Effectiveness of the Good Affordable Food Intervention for Adults with Low Socioeconomic Status and Small Incomes
Good Affordable Food (GAF) is a small-group nutrition education intervention for adults with low socioeconomic status and small incomes. It aims to empower participants to save money on groceries and consume healthier diets. This paper reports the short-term and longer-term effects on behavioural determinants and self-reported behavioural changes. A quasi-experimental control group design was applied with a baseline measurement, a post-test immed…
Co-Creation Approach with Action-Oriented Research Methods to Strengthen “Krachtvoer”; A School-Based Programme to Enhance Healthy Nutrition in Adolescents
In recent years, the nutritional pattern of the Dutch adolescent has cautiously improved. However, progress can be gained if more Dutch adolescents adhere to the nutritional guidelines. School-based initiatives offer opportunities to deal with the unhealthy eating behaviours of adolescents via nutrition educational interventions. In designing and/or re-designing school-based interventions, it is important to enhance optimal context-oriented imple…
Context matters—the phased development of an adaptable food literacy intervention
Adapting interventions to the context increases the impact and sustainability of interventions. Literature acknowledges the need to adapt existing interventions and that these adaptations should be clearly reported. However, little is known about how to incorporate adaptation from the beginning. This paper argues that interventions should be developed and adaptations should be made using an ongoing non-linear approach. An action-oriented research…
Effects of SuperFIT, an overweight-prevention intervention approach, on pre-schoolers’ dietary intake
SuperFIT aims to improve the dietary and physical activity behaviour of children (2–4 years) in the Dutch childcare and home setting. Healthy parenting practices, policies, and availability of materials, fruits, and vegetables were promoted over the course of a year. This pilot study, with a quasi-experimental design, examined the effectiveness of children’s intake of fruits, vegetables, water, and sweet beverages. Families attending intervention…
Exploring the implementation dynamics of the Health Promoting School approach in Europe
Purpose Adapting the Health Promotion School (HPS) approach to context specifics is acknowledged as being essential for implementation and achieving optimal effectiveness. This study aims to explore implementation variations on seven HPS spectra (such as top-down to bottom-up involvement of stakeholders) on which implementation of the HPS approach can vary, and the factors that relate to navigation on these spectra. Design/methodology/approach In…
Implementation of the Health Promoting School Approach in Europe
BACKGROUND: Although principles of the health promoting school (HPS) approach are followed worldwide, differences between countries in the implementation are reported. The aim of the current study was (1) to examine the implementation of the HPS approach in European countries in terms of different implementation indicators, that is, percentage of schools implementing the HPS approach, implementation of core components, and positioning on so-calle…
Health promotion in the school context
Purpose This study presents an overview of research literature on health promotion in schools, utilizing metadata extracted from 4,328 publications indexed in the Scopus database over the past 35 years. Design/methodology/approach A bibliometric approach was used to analyze the development and current state of using publication and citation data. A structured keyword search was conducted in the Scopus database to retrieve relevant publications in…
Balancing Fidelity and Adaptation
BACKGROUND: Implementation of school-based health promotion programs requires contextual fit. To strengthen the nutrition education program "Krachtvoer" (ENG: "Power Food") and learn general lessons about contextual fit, this study examined how the program, the context, and program-context interactions affected teachers' balancing between implementation fidelity and adaptation. METHODS: As part of a co-creation process with continuous micro-proce…
A scoping review of instruments measuring the implementation of the Health-Promoting School approach
The Health-Promoting School (HPS) is a holistic approach that addresses not only the curriculum but also policies, the physical and social school environment, and the school’s external environment. Given its complexity in implementation, evidence on effectiveness is mixed. Adequately measuring the implementation of the approach is therefore essential for research and practice. This paper presents the results of a scoping review of instruments tha…
Conquering today’s health paradox with the power of Heal – an expert consensus report plus research priorities and policymaker roadmap
Background: Despite growing scientific evidence and health guidelines, the global health paradox persists, with rising lifestyle-related diseases and escalating healthcare costs exposing the inadequacy of current efforts. Objective: Three multidisciplinary congresses were held to generate evidence-based conclusions aimed at addressing the global health paradox. Methods: A total of 58 experts from 62 entities participated in the international rese…
Medicine (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Nursing (8 works) · School Health and Nursing Education (8 works) · Health promotion (6 works) · Medical education (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Community Health and Development (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (5 works)