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December 22, 2025Open Access

Using the Social Ecological Model to explore policy and institutional aspects of the school environment in relation to healthy eating and physical activity: An audit of female-only high schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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SASarah AldukairJWJayne V. WoodsideKAKhalid Almutairi

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Overview

Documentary review and environmental audit reveal challenges in healthy eating and physical activity policies in Saudi female schools, indicating a need for better support.

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore how school environments influence healthy eating and physical activity among female high school students in Saudi Arabia.
  • Documentary review of obesity prevention policies
  • Environmental audit using the ISCOLE tool
  • Stakeholder consultations to validate findings
  • Assessment across three female-only high schools in Riyadh
  • Identified seventeen obesity prevention policies, plus one additional from stakeholder input
  • Highlighted significant challenges in policy implementation
  • Revealed discrepancies in healthy eating and physical activity provisions among schools

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Aldukair et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69488bc877063b71e748cef7https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.19.25342648
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