Examining the Relationship Between Child Holiday Club Attendance and Parental Mental Wellbeing

Michael A. Long; Paul Stretesky; Eilish Crilley; Zeb Sattar; Margaret Anne Defeyter

doi:10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100122

Examining the Relationship Between Child Holiday Club Attendance and Parental Mental Wellbeing

Michael A. Long^*, Paul Stretesky, Eilish Crilley, Zeb Sattar, Margaret Anne Defeyter

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Abstract

Objectives:
This paper reports results of an evaluation of 17 holiday clubs located throughout North East England that ran during the summer of 2017, designed to reduced summertime food insecurity.

Study design:
Questionnaire administed to parents/caregivers of children who attended a holiday club.

Methods:
Ordinary Least Squares regression models were used to predict Warwick-Edinburg Mental Wellbeing scale scores measuring parental mental wellbeing.

Results:
We find that after a summer of attending a holiday club, the most important factor associated with higher parental wellbeing scores is the reduction in social isolation and increased relationships that the parent and their children build while children attend holiday clubs.

Conclusions:
Our results suggest that reducing social isolation for parents and families during summertime is a likely a latent function of holiday clubs. These are important findings in that the benefits of holiday club appear to extend beyond access to food and reductions in household food insecurity.

Original language	English
Article number	100122
Number of pages	4
Journal	Public Health in Practice
Volume	2
Early online date	16 Apr 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100122 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100122
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2021

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