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Direct linkYuye Ke; Xiaoyun Chai – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Hazardous/harmful drinking among college students is increasingly becoming a global health concern. Previous studies have mostly paid more attention to the prevalence and risk factors of alcohol use disorder based on the public health approach, and less is understood about psychological mechanisms and protective factors of problem drinking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alcohol Abuse, College Students, Self Concept
Download full textMarjolein E. A. Barendse; Jessica Flannery; Caitlin Cavanagh; Melissa Aristizabal; Stephen P. Becker; Estelle Berger; Rosanna Breaux; Nicole Campione-Barr; Jessica A. Church; Eveline A. Crone; Ronald E. Dahl; Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary; Melissa R. Dvorsky; Sarah L. Dziura; Suzanne van de Groep; Tiffany C. Ho; Sarah E. Killoren; Joshua M. Langberg; Tyler L. Larguinho; Lucía Magis-Weinberg; Kalina J. Michalska; Jordan L. Mullins; Hanna Nadel; Blaire M. Porter; Mitchell J. Prinstein; Elizabeth Redcay; Amanda J. Rose; Wendy M. Rote; Amy K. Roy; Sophie W. Sweijen; Eva H. Telzer; Giana I. Teresi; April Gile Thomas; Jennifer H. Pfeifer – Grantee Submission, 2023
This study aimed to examine changes in depression and anxiety symptoms from before to during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of 1,339 adolescents (9-18 years old, 59% female) from three countries. We also examined if age, race/ethnicity, disease burden, or strictness of government restrictions moderated change in…
Descriptors: Change, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Gaudencio Gutiérrez-Alba; José Alberto Muños Hernández; Clara Juárez-Ramírez; Diana L. Reartes-Peñafiel; Hortensia Reyes-Morales – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Background: The main goal of a health system is to maintain or improve people's health. The COVID-19 pandemic showed the fragility of health systems worldwide. In Mexico, the pandemic affected the performance of the health system, along with the presence of contextual conditions such as its segmentation and high prevalence of chronic diseases.…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Services, COVID-19, Pandemics
Who Is Talking about Adverse Childhood Experiences? Evidence from Twitter to Inform Health Promotion
Srivastav, Aditi; Park, Kaitlyn; Koziarski, Alyssa; Strompolis, Melissa; Purtle, Jonathan – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Background: Growing availability of research about addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has recently been embraced by the mainstream media and public. Social media, especially Twitter, provides a unique forum and platform for the public to access and share information about this topic. Objective: This study aims to better understand how…
Descriptors: Social Media, Telecommunications, Children, Experience
Havercamp, Susan M.; Krahn, Gloria L. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2019
This issue, "On Counting What Matters: Finding Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Population Health Data," presents an overview of health surveillance research for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in the United States. Although public health now conducts surveillance of people with…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Population Groups, Adults
Chu, Meijie; Lee, Chun-Yang; Li, Xian; Zhao, Zeyu; Gao, Min; Chiang, Yi-Chen – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Social factors play an important role in adolescents' behaviors. This study aims to understand percentages of health risk behaviors across country in Europe, North America, and China; explore the associations between friendly school and family contexts and involvement for several health risk behaviors among adolescents. Methods: Data…
Descriptors: Risk, Health Behavior, Peer Relationship, Social Influences
Benbenishty, Rami; Astor, Ron Avi – Journal of School Violence, 2021
This study assessed the prevalence of weapon-related behaviors and experiences in secondary schools in California, their intercorrelations, and predictors at the individual and school levels. This study is based on a representative sample of 889,726 secondary school students in California based on the California Healthy Kids Survey. Prevalence…
Descriptors: Weapons, Secondary School Students, Correlation, Predictor Variables
Enomoto, Ayaka; Saito, Aki; Takahashi, Osamu; Kimura, Takeshi; Tajima, Ryoko; Rahman, Mahbubur; Iida, Kaoruko – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Background: Both underweight and overweight are public health concerns in Japan. Several studies examined the association between health literacy (HL) and obesity status in the general population; however, there is limited information on young adults. In addition, the association between HL and underweight status has not been extensively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Body Weight, Public Health, Knowledge Level
Raghavan, Ramesh; Camarata, Stephen; White, Karl; Barbaresi, William; Parish, Susan; Krahn, Gloria – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The aim of the study was to provide an overview of population science as applied to speech and language disorders, illustrate data sources, and advance a research agenda on the epidemiology of these conditions. Method: Computer-aided database searches were performed to identify key national surveys and other sources of data necessary to…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Language Impairments, Health Promotion, Public Health
Dilmaghani, Maryam – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: Over the years, many upstream health policies have sought to reduce smoking across populations. While smoking has been substantially reduced, the effects of these policies on education-smoking gradient remain unclear. The present paper compares the education-smoking gradient among the Generation X and the millennials, who grew up with…
Descriptors: Smoking, Incidence, Public Policy, Public Health
Umucu, Emre; Iwanaga, Kanako; Alrabiah, Abdalmajeed; Chan, Fong; Johnson, Ebonee; Wu, Jia-Rung; Strauser, David; Estala-Gutierrez, Veronica Y.; Washington, Khadidra – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2021
Purpose: Evidence shows that region of country is a critical factor in understanding diabetes-related health disparities. The purpose of this study was to examine whether geographic location (southern states vs. other states) attenuate or strengthen the relationship between state diabetes rates and (a) race/ethnicity, (b) income, and (c)…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Geographic Location, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
Rauscher, Emily; Burns, Ailish – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Mixed evidence on the relationship between school closure and COVID-19 prevalence could reflect focus on large-scale levels of geography, limited ability to address endogeneity, and demographic variation. Using county-level CDC COVID-19 data through June 15, 2020, two matching strategies address potential heterogeneity: nearest geographic neighbor…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Correlation
Chu, Kar-Hai; Shensa, Ariel; Colditz, Jason B.; Sidani, Jaime E.; Hoffman, Beth L.; Sinclair, David; Krauland, Mary G.; Primack, Brian A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Background: The use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarette) offers potential to facilitate cigarette smoking cessation, yet potentially increases risk of cigarette smoking initiation. This relationship has been primarily modeled in mathematical ways that often do not represent real-world complexities, which could inform decisions regarding local…
Descriptors: Smoking, Electronic Equipment, Risk, Health Behavior
Grinshteyn, Erin G.; Whaley, Reid; Couture, Marie-Claude – Journal of School Violence, 2021
The objective of this paper is to determine the prevalence of fear of bullying among college students, examine socio-demographic predictors of fear of bullying, and assess associations between fear of bullying and depression and anxiety. A cross-sectional study was conducted among college students. Data on socio-demographics; fear of bullying on…
Descriptors: Fear, Bullying, Mental Health, Computer Mediated Communication
Nandha, B.; Meenakshy, V.; Abdul Khader, Nazer; Vijayakumar, K. N.; Jambulingam, P. – Health Education Research, 2019
Lymphatic filariasis (LF), a neglected tropical disease is targeted for elimination globally by 2020. National Health Policy of India set the goal by 2017 and annual single-dose mass drug administration (MDA) with anti-filarial drugs is in operation in endemic districts since 2004. Performance and effectiveness of MDA was diverse across the nation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Diseases, Immunization Programs
