TY - JOUR
AU - Schwartz, Marlene B.
AU - Piekarz-Porter, Elizabeth
AU - Read, Margaret A.
AU - Chriqui, Jamie F.
PY - 2020
TI - Wellness School Assessment Tool Version 3.0: An Updated Quantitative Measure of Written School Wellness Policies
T2 - Preventing Chronic Disease
JO - Prev Chronic Dis
SP - E52
VL - 17
CY - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA.
N2 - Schools play an important role in promoting student wellness. As directed by the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, the US Department of Agriculture updated the requirements for written school wellness policies in 2016. The WellSAT (Wellness School Assessment Tool) is an online tool that provides a quantitative score for wellness policy comprehensiveness and strength. The WellSAT has been updated 3 times over the past decade to remain current with federal law and best practices. In this article, we describe the process of updating to WellSAT 3.0. The steps included: reviewing the language of each item linked to a federal provision; adding and deleting items based on frequencies from the National Wellness Policy Study and the empirical support for specific policies; gathering feedback from a survey of experts (N = 77) about best practices and measure usability; and establishing intercoder reliability in a national sample (N = 50) of policies. We conclude with recommendations and guidance for the use of WellSAT 3.0.
SN - 1545-1151
UR - https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd17.190373
DO - 10.5888/pcd17.190373
ER -
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