Integrating health promotion into biology education: effects of classroom and extracurricular interventions in rural adolescents (opens in new tab)

ObjectiveAim to explore the feasibility and preliminary impact of classroom-based and extracurricular interventions within eighth-grade biology curriculum to improve health promotion behavior (HPB) and multidimensional health of rural adolescents in China.MethodsAn exploratory study with two surveys was conducted at eighth-grade students in a Chinese rural middle school. The intervention combined theoretical classroom instruction with practical extracurricular activities, all embedded within ...