Generation Pep wants all children and young people in Sweden to have the opportunity and desire to live an active and healthy life. They collaborate with established knowledge partners, including Karolinska Institutet. Generation Pep now presents the online training programme My Best Day, developed in collaboration with researchers at KI and others, with the aim of improving young people's health.
Generation Pep's new online training programme My Best Day (Mitt bästa dygn) is aimed at middle and upper secondary school students and aims to increase students' knowledge of what they need to feel good and how they can think about their day to get the best possible balance.
The training programme is designed to take place during school hours and covers the topics of sleep, physical activity, food, sedentary screen time and alone/together time.
It has been peer-reviewed by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH) and Uppsala University, all of which are knowledge partners of Generation Pep.
Professor Mai-Lis Hellenius at the Department of Medicine, Solna, conducts health research and is involved in Generation Pep's activities.
"We need to take reports of increased sedentary behaviour, sleep problems and mental health issues in our children and young people seriously. Generation Pep is doing important work to promote the health of children and young people and we at Karolinska Institutet are pleased to be a knowledge partner. The new training programme is in demand and will be a good support for both schoolchildren and teachers," says Mai-Lis Hellenius.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
A Swedish law since 2020, all children have the right to the best possible health. Today, not all children in Sweden have the same opportunities for good health and a good life.
There are differences in children's growing up conditions that affect their ability to live an active and healthy life. We can all help to influence these differences in one way or another.
