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Peer reviewedHersh, Bradley S.; And Others – American Journal of Public Health, 1991
Reports a retrospective cohort study among students living in campus dormitories to examine potential risk factors for measles vaccine failure. As in secondary schools, measles outbreaks can occur among highly vaccinated college populations. Requiring two doses of measles vaccine for college entrants should help reduce measles outbreaks in college…
Descriptors: College Students, Colleges, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control
Peer reviewedFreimuth, Vicki S.; And Others – Science, Technology, & Human Values, 1987
Reports on a study designed to provide insight on college students' perception about acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Focuses on students knowledge about AIDS, their perceptions about their own risk, and any change in behavior they have made in response to the AIDS risk. (TW)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior Change, College Students, Disease Control
Peer reviewedBrown, William J. – American Behavioral Scientist, 1991
Reports on the effect of AIDS education on college students. Lists reasons for underestimating personal risk: illusions of invulnerability, the long incubation period of AIDS, drugs and sexual experimentation, underestimating partners' risky sexual behaviors, and acquaintance rape. Concludes that increasing knowledge will not necessarily promote…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, College Students, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control
Greenberg, Jerrold S. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1984
College students experience a great deal of life changes during their school career. This article reports on a study that observed how students reacted to life changes and how this influenced the incidence of illness and disease. Results and implications for health educators are presented. (DF)
Descriptors: College Students, Disease Incidence, Health Education, Higher Education
