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Direct linkFabio Buttussi; Luca Chittaro – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
Educational virtual environments (EVEs) can enable effective learning experiences on various devices, including smartphones, using nonimmersive virtual reality (VR). To this purpose, researchers and educators should identify the most appropriate pedagogical techniques, not restarting from scratch but exploring which traditional e-learning and VR…
Descriptors: Test Items, Educational Technology, Computer Simulation, Telecommunications
Winnie Lourdes Zambrana Orozco – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical need for enhanced outbreak preparedness against viruses. Key elements to this preparedness are robust disease surveillance systems and effective interventions to minimize disease transmission. While individual clinical testing is the conventional disease surveillance approach, environmental…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Disease Control, Intervention, Prevention
Marta Castellar Cárdenas; María Del Carmen Romero López; Y María Del Pilar Jiménez Tejada – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
The current pandemic has highlighted the importance of hand hygiene as a preventive measure to avoid the transmission of diseases. It is a habit that should be reinforced during childhood, so that it lasts into adulthood. The main objective was to analyse and describe, through drawing, the mental schemas that 6-12 year-old pupils have about clean…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Bhatta, Manasa R.; Marsh, Zach; Newman, Kira L.; Rebolledo, Paulina A.; Huey, Michael; Hall, Aron J.; Leon, Juan S. – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: To describe norovirus outbreaks at colleges and universities. Participants: None. Conducted September 2016 to March 2018. Methods: College and university norovirus outbreaks reported to the US National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS, 2009-2016) or published and indexed by EMBASE, PubMed, and Web of Science (1985-2017) were analyzed.…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Disease Control, Campuses, College Students
Camara, Sônia; Ecar, Ariadne Lopes – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
This article aims to map the news and debates that circulated in the press in the context of the outbreak of the Spanish flu in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (Brazil) in the years 1918-1919. We are interested in reflecting on the criticisms and alternatives glimpsed regarding education and care for the population. In Brazil, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disease Control, Mass Media, Mass Media Effects
Download full textCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, 2024
The general science of infection prevention and control can be applied to and adapted for a variety of settings, including kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12). Strategies can be implemented in the classroom and whole school environment to prevent a wide array of illnesses caused by both bacteria and viruses. This science brief presents findings…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Disease Control, Communicable Diseases, Prevention
Miller, Michele; Romine, William – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
As we have seen from the current COVID-19 pandemic, misconceptions concerning viruses can lead to disease spread and panic. Therefore, it is imperative to determine misconceptions held concerning epidemics and pandemics. One virus that warrants study of misconceptions, albeit given limited attention in the West, is the Ebola virus. An assessment…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Misconceptions, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control
Bray, Lucy; Blake, Lucy; Protheroe, Jo; Nafria, Begonya; de Avila, Marla Andreia Garcia; Ångström-Brännström, Charlotte; Forsner, Maria; Campbell, Steve; Ford, Karen; Rullander, Anna-Clara; Robichaud, Fanny; Nolbris, Margaretha Jenholt; Saron, Holly; Kirton, Jennifer A.; Carter, Bernie – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objectives: To gain insight into children's health-related knowledge and understanding of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) and COVID-19, and measures adopted to mitigate transmission. Design: A child-centred qualitative creative element embedded in an online mixed-methods survey of children aged 7-12years. Setting:…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control, Knowledge Level
Denny, Thomas N.; Andrews, Laura; Bonsignori, Mattia; Cavanaugh, Kyle; Datto, Michael B.; Deckard, Anastasia; DeMarco, Todd; DeNaeyer, Nicole; Epling, Carol A.; Gurley, Thaddeus; Haase, Steven B.; Hallberg, Chloe; Harer, John; Kneifel, Charles L.; Lee, Mark J.; Louzao, Raul; Moody, M. Anthony; Moore, Zack; Polage, Christopher R.; Puglin, Jamie; Spotts, P. Hunter; Vaughn, John A.; Wolfe, Cameron R. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020
In fall 2020, Duke University's COVID-19 prevention strategy included risk reduction behaviors, frequent testing using pooled SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction testing, and contact tracing. Among 10,265 students who received testing 68,913 times, 84 had positive results. One half of infections were asymptomatic, and some had high viral loads.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Screening Tests, Disease Control
Universities UK, 2022
As the new academic year begins, higher education providers (HEPs) are building on their experience of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic--including key partnerships with public health--to mitigate possible risks of monkeypox. This briefing provides principles for the prevention and case management of monkeypox infections in UK higher education…
Descriptors: Prevention, Communicable Diseases, Public Health, Foreign Countries
Gretz, Matthew R.; Huff, Mark J. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
Prior research suggests that individuals recruit a disease-avoidance system designed to avoid sources of illness through threat detection and memory. Our study evaluated whether disease-related memory benefits reflect the distinctive/salient nature of a diseased state versus the infectious nature of a disease by comparing memory for objects…
Descriptors: Hygiene, Diseases, Communicable Diseases, Memory
Kern, Lisa; Wetzel, Clayton S., III; Kerley, Karen; Elliott, Karen; Bailey, Sharon – National Association of School Nurses, 2020
It is the position of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) that the management of head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) infestations in school settings should not disrupt the educational process, including but not limited to the elimination of classroom screening, forced absences from school for nits and/or live lice and broad…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Child Health, Communicable Diseases, Hygiene
Daihu Yang; Guilan Zhu; Taofen Guo; Minghui Zhou; Yan Zhang; Ming Geng; Xiaozhong Cheng – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: This study examined children's representations of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as well as their pandemic experiences against the backdrop of the world having transitioned to normalcy. Design: Mixed-methods approach encompassing both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Setting: Two middle schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Middle School Students
Tahiroglu, Mustafa; Esener, Pinar – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
According to today's understanding of health, the most important responsibility for the protection of one's health falls on him. For this, it is necessary to develop a positive attitude and value towards the subject. Considering this, the importance of bringing cleanliness, hygiene and being healthy to our children as a value, especially in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Hygiene, Health Promotion, Student Attitudes
Miller, Galina V. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation revealed several problems on the analysis of influenza propagation by indicating how agent-based modeling can be employed to measure the effectiveness of control measures and assist in improving health policy to decrease absenteeism among elementary students. The primary question posed was as following: "What is the effect…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Hygiene, Elementary School Students, Attendance
