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Direct linkHuq, Maisha R.; He, Xin; Woodard, Nathaniel; Chen, Chang; Knott, Cheryl L. – Health Education Research, 2023
Community health advisors (CHAs) play a key role in promoting health in medically underserved communities, including in addressing cancer disparities. There is a need to expand the research on what characteristics make for an effective CHA. We examined the relationship between CHA personal and family history of cancer, and implementation and…
Descriptors: Public Health, Cancer, Workshops, Genetics
Jamie Daugherty; Alison Griffith; Liseth Borja – Inclusion, 2023
This study provides insights from a partnership between Special Olympics of Missouri and a Midwestern university during a teaching kitchen experience conducted in spring 2021. This 5-week teaching kitchen used evidence-based practices for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to teach culinary skills and nutrition science led by…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Universities, Athletics, Intellectual Disability
Asia Lefebre; Pamela Valera – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
COVID-19 continues to disproportionately impact the health of Hispanics/Latinos. While Hispanics/Latinos are considered one of the fastest-growing racial/ethnic groups, media news coverage in Spanish concerning COVID-19 is stunningly low. The Hispanic/Latino population comprises close to 25% of COVID-19 cases and 17% of COVID-19 deaths. Lack of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, News Reporting, Hispanic Americans
Yuye 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
Minhee Choi; Nicole O'Donnell; Won-Ki Moon – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
This study examines attenuated risk responses among individuals who do not adhere to preventive COVID-19 measures (e.g., antimaskers). Guided by the Social Amplification of Risk Model, a survey (N = 373) of nonabiding populations showed that news media use was positively associated with risk perceptions, information seeking and sharing, and…
Descriptors: Adults, COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control
Ivan Gomez; Virginia Fowkes; Iris Price – Discover Education, 2024
Community engagement concepts incorporated into service-learning experiences help students in the health professions to connect classroom work with clinical practice and learn strategies and skills to improve community health. Service learning improves team skills, allows students to gain knowledge about communities where they train, and connects…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Service Learning, Community Programs
Eliana Romina Meza-Miranda; Solange Liliana Parra-Soto; Samuel Durán-Agüero; Georgina Gomez; Valeria Carpio-Arias; Israel Ríos-Castillo; Ana Gabriela Murillo; Jacqueline Araneda; Gladys Morales; Brian M. Cavagnari; Edna J. Nava-González; Jhon J. Bejarano-Roncancio; Beatriz Núñez; Karla Cordón-Arrivillaga; Saby Mauricio-Alza; Leslie Landaeta-Díaz – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Introduction: Short sleep, physical inactivity, and being locked up are risk factors for weight gain. Objective: We evaluated weight gain according to sex, age, hours of sleep and physical activity in university students from 10 Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Cross-sectional and multicenter study (n = 4880).…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Sleep, Physical Activity Level, College Students
Erica Martinez Zumba; Karriem S. Watson; Paola Torres; Barbara Williams; Nasima Mannan; Lauren Green; Brenda Owens; Nicole Gastala; Rocio Bueno; Brenda Soto; Leslie Carnahan; Yamile Molina; Vida Henderson – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Community-engaged patient navigation safety net programs are established as an evidence-based approach to address cancer prevention and early detection efforts, but barriers to expand and sustain such programs persist. In addition, few studies describe how these programs impact buy-in among communities and policy change within health care systems…
Descriptors: Cancer, Community Health Services, Public Health, Preventive Medicine
Michelle Gamber; Danielle Henderson; Dulce María Ruelas – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To understand student perceptions, interest and intentions of pursuing public health as a result of COVID-19 during educational experiences. Participants: Two hundred seventy-seven students completed the survey representing 38 states and two countries. Methods: An online survey was administered to current undergraduate and graduate…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Allied Health Occupations, Public Health
Download full textKatarzyna Peoples; C. Todd Correa; Gary J. Burkholder – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2024
Objectives: There are essentially three schools of thought regarding critical thinking--humanistic, cognitive, and behavioral. Given the disagreement among them, confusion continues about what critical thinking means, and how it can be taught to students. Methods: In this qualitative phenomenological study, researchers interviewed students and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, College Faculty
Nisar, Faiza; Zeb, Sadaf; Oosterhoff, Benjamin; Ahmed, Shaf – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Community attachments are thought to promote adolescents' engagement in public health behaviors. To date, past research has exclusively examined the social benefits of community attachments among adolescents in the United States and less is known about these benefits among youth in low-income adolescent-dense countries such as…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Health
Al Sabahi, Sultana; Wilson, Michael G.; Lavis, John N.; El-Jardali, Fadi; Moat, Kaelan – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: Oman has prioritised enhanced efforts for supporting evidence-informed policymaking (EIPM), including establishing a knowledge translation department in the Omani Ministry of Health (MOH). Aim and objective: Our aim was to gather insights to guide the process of activating this department. Methods: We conducted a document review and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence Based Practice, Public Agencies, Technology Transfer
Wilcox, Melanie; Baker, Camille; Burish, Emily; Arnold, Renissa; Cherry, Megan; Moss, Tierra – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2022
Food insecurity (FI) is a leading public health concern yet is understudied amongst postsecondary students. A substantial proportion (34.4%) of our student sample reported FI; Black, low-SES, and low-SES women students were most likely to experience FI; and FI was related to poorer academic, health, and stress outcomes. Employee awareness was low,…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Poverty, Public Health
Levay, Paul; Heath, Andrea; Tuvey, Daniel – Research Synthesis Methods, 2022
Systematic searches are integral to identifying the evidence that is used in National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) public health guidelines (PHGs). This study analyses the sources, including bibliographic databases and other techniques, required for PHGs. The aims were to analyse the sources used to identify the publications…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Public Health, Guidelines, Information Sources
Benjamin W. Domingue; Klint Kanopka; Travis T. Mallard; Sam Trejo; Elliot M. Tucker-Drob – Grantee Submission, 2022
Genotype-by-environment interaction (GxE) studies probe heterogeneity in response to risk factors or interventions. Popular methods for estimation of GxE examine multiplicative interactions between individual genetic and environmental measures. However, risk factors and interventions may modulate the total variance of an epidemiological outcome…
Descriptors: Genetics, Environmental Influences, Interaction, Body Composition
