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Springett, Angela G.; Wise, Joyce E. M. – Health Education, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of educating adolescents in practical ways of looking after their backs to reduce the incidence of back-pain, with particular focus on the use and carrying method of ergonomically designed schoolbags. Design/methodology/approach: An educational leaflet containing a range of back care…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Comprehensive School Health Education, Health Promotion, Adolescents
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Moore, Michael J.; White, Gregory L.; Moore, Donna L. – Journal of School Health, 2007
Background: There is debate about a 10% versus 15% of body weight cutoff point for safe weight of school backpacks. Estimation of the cutoff may be affected by use of survey methods and failure to assess pain experienced while wearing a backpack. Previous research also suggests that younger students and females are more at risk for developing…
Descriptors: School Activities, Medical Services, Females, Pain
Steinhaus, Arthur H. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1945
This bulletin is committed to the thesis that the success of any educative experience varies as thoughts are or are not accompanied by appropriate feelings; that education must ever be alert to both of these happenings; and that the teacher can influence the feeling phase of an experience even as he can the cognitive phase. In limiting its efforts…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Safety, Health Behavior, Health Education