What we do

We visit schools across the south west to conduct surveys with secondary school students, as well as a school environment questionnaire and interviews with staff, to build a substantial dataset on a variety of validated health and wellbeing measures that can be shared across the network.

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Survey

The survey is conducted with year 8 and 10 students. It focuses on a range of health topics including health, well-being, school connectedness, peer support, health-related behaviours, and risk-taking behaviours. Responses are anonymised and confidential, so that a picture is built of the school population rather than individual responses.

Each questionnaire takes no more than 45 minutes to complete, and is completed in the presence of a researcher during a lesson which best suits the school. We can provide iPads or use a school computer room.

Tailored reports are provided to schools and local authorities which break down results by gender, age, and free school meal status. Results are benchmarked against other schools involved in the network.

The survey is planned to be repeated every two years so that student health can be compared over time and any changes that schools make following the results of the previous survey can be explored.

School Environment Questionnaire

To build a picture of how health and well-being is addressed by schools in the network, the questionnaire asks staff about school policies, culture, and interventions relating to health improvements in your school.

Anonymised information is shared across the schools to share experience of how different schools operate and to see what different approaches may help in their setting.

The project also aims to build a community of people and organisations involved in young people’s mental health, including school staff, public health practitioners, and mental health charity staff, to support a combined effort to improve student health.

Network

To build a picture of how health and well-being is addressed by schools in the network, the questionnaire asks staff about school policies, culture, and interventions relating to health improvements in your school.

Anonymised information is shared across the schools to share experience of how different schools operate and to see what different approaches may help in their setting.

The project also aims to build a community of people and organisations involved in young people’s mental health, including school staff, public health practitioners, and mental health charity staff, to support a combined effort to improve student health.

“The survey has helped identify particular groups of students and areas which we could now work on rather than just shooting in the dark at what we could do.”

Teacher, School

FAQs

Will the data collected be confidential?

All data will be treated confidentially, used only for the agreed purpose and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018. University of Bristol will act as the “data controller” and is responsible for ensuring the information collected as part of the study is used properly. The survey is strictly confidential unless a student’s response raises concerns about their welfare or equally the student mentions something concerning to a researcher. In such a case, confidentiality might need to be breached in which case we will notify the school’s safeguarding officer if we have the student’s name. View the Privacy Policy.

What will the SW-SHRN do with the survey results?