HEALTHY SCHOOL MANAGEMENT MODEL OF CHILD-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS: CHILDREN NUTRITION STATUS AND LEARNING ATMOSPHERE

Abstract

Health problems may affect a child’s learning performance in school. Obesity is the most common health problem experienced by children. Childhood obesity is one in all the foremost serious public health challenges of the 21st century. The number of primary school students who are overweight in Indonesia reaches 12.2%. The purpose of this study is to investigate 33 schools’ health programs to seek out sufficient management of the health school model. Research and development design was used to describe the schools’ health program and to design the model of health school. Data analysis was performed using two techniques, namely descriptive analysis with SPSS 24.0 and path analysis supported by SEM AMOS 24.0 program. Findings from this study suggest that the schools need attention to the level of implementation of child-friendly schools, learning atmosphere and school comfort in order to maintain the nutritional status of children to avoid obesity or even stunting. The results among the variables were showed that (1) the implementation of child-friendly schools has a direct influence on school comfort, (2) the learning atmosphere has a direct influence on school comfort, (3) the implementation of child-friendly schools, and the learning atmosphere has a simultaneous influence on school comfort, (4) the implementation of child-friendly schools has a direct influence on the nutritional status of children, (5) the support of learning atmosphere has a direct influence on the nutritional status of children, (6) school comfort has a direct influence on the nutritional status of children, (7) the implementation of child-friendly schools has an indirect effect on the nutritional status of children through the convenience of school, (8) the learning atmosphere has an indirect effect on the nutritional status of children through the convenience of school, and (9) the implementation of child-friendly schools, learning atmosphere, and comfort schools have a simultaneous influence on a child's nutritional status.