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Merve Bali; Elif Gür Kabul; Bilge Basakci Çalik; Gülçin Otar Yener; Zahide Ekici Tekin; Selçuk Yüksel – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023
The aim of the study was to describe the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Juvenile Arthritis Functional Assessment Report (JAFAR) in children/adolescents with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). Sixty-nine children/adolescents with JIA were included in the study. JAFAR(TR)-Child and Parent forms were applied to the patients with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chronic Illness, Diseases, Children
Mark Murphy; Jennifer Neely – High School Journal, 2023
Chronic absenteeism is a widespread and troubling phenomenon affecting high school students nationwide. Existing research identifies an inverse link between student health and chronic absenteeism. Illness is a top cause of student absence, suggesting that school-based health services may play an important role in mitigating chronic absenteeism.…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Public Schools, High School Students, Diseases
Depicting Dementia: Representations of Cognitive Health and Illness in Ten Picturebooks for Children
Caldwell, Elizabeth F.; Falcus, Sarah; Sako, Katsura – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
It is estimated that a third of children know someone living with dementia, and there are now many picturebooks for young children that help to explain the changes dementia can bring to family life. Despite their number, there has been little examination of what these books communicate about health and illness. To address this, the current study…
Descriptors: Dementia, Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Health
Fowler, Lauren A.; Moore, Philip J.; Macura, Zeljka; Singh, Michelle A.; Cooke, Frances P. R.; Charmak, William D. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
The expectancy-value (EV) framework is among the most prominent psychological approaches to predicting behavioral intentions. However, how expectancies and values are cognitively integrated (e.g., multiplicatively, additively or averaging) to produce intentions has yet to be tested. This research combined EV and Information Integration Theory…
Descriptors: Expectation, Values, Intention, Dietetics
Laurel Raffington – npj Science of Learning, 2024
Recently, biological aging has been quantified in DNA-methylation samples of older adults and applied as so-called "methylation profile scores" (MPSs) in separate target samples, including samples of children. This nascent research indicates that (1) biological aging can be quantified early in the life course, decades before the onset of…
Descriptors: Genetics, Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Scores
Rein, Joshua L.; Sparks, Matthew A.; Hilburg, Rachel; Farouk, Samira S. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2020
Understanding and interpretation of acid-base disorders is an important clinical skill that is applicable to the majority of physicians. Although this topic is taught early in medical school, acid-base disturbances have been described as challenging by postgraduate trainees. We describe the use of Twitter, an online microblogging platform, to…
Descriptors: Diseases, Physiology, Social Media, Medical Students
Kinman, Gail; Wray, Siobhan – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Sickness presenteeism refers to the practice of continuing to work during illness. Although not always damaging, working while sick can impair employees' wellbeing and professional functioning. As the causes of presenteeism are multi-faceted, insight into the experiences of different occupational groups is needed. This study examines the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Diseases, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attendance
Matthias, Anne Thushara; Kaushalya, Pingamage Dona Jayamini – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objective: This study aimed to assess the quality and readability of web-based information on familial hypercholesterolaemia. Design, setting and methods: Internet searches using the terms 'familial hypercholesterolemia', 'hypercholesterolemia', 'inherited high cholesterol', 'hereditary high cholesterol' and 'inherited high LDL' were conducted…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Information Dissemination, Web Sites, Reliability
Bahroodi, Parisasadat; Zeighami, Reza; Sheidaei, Ali – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Depression is more prevalent among medical students. Its level can be changed by different factors. The present study was designed and implemented in order to determine the path analysis of factors affecting depression in students of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences. This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 291 randomly selected…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Medical Students, Medical Education, Measures (Individuals)
Dodd, Rebecca V.; Rafi, Damir; Stackhouse, Ashlyn A.; Brown, Celia A.; Westacott, Rachel J.; Meeran, Karim; Hughes, Elizabeth; Wilkinson, Paul; Gurnell, Mark; Swales, Catherine; Sam, Amir H. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Previous literature has explored unconscious racial biases in clinical education and medicine, finding that people with darker skin tones can be underrepresented in learning resources and managed differently in a clinical setting. This study aimed to examine whether patient skin colour can affect the diagnostic ability and confidence of medical…
Descriptors: Patients, Human Body, Racial Attitudes, Racism
Gabriela Lopes Gama; Janiele Sales Tavares; Ana Stela Salvino de Brito; Thamyris de Sales Regis; Hannah Cavalcante Guedes Pinheiro; Mariana Balbino da Silva; Jousilene Sales Tavares; Adriana Melo – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
To use the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to investigate whether children with congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) show changes in their functioning and disability profile after nine months. This study included children with CZS recruited from a support centre for children with microcephaly in Brazil. The…
Descriptors: Diseases, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Classification
Mohammadi, Samira; Ramezankhani, Ali; Montazeri, Ali; Nasrollahi, Akbar; Keshavarz Mohammadi, Nastaran – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: Health-related issues are widely covered in news agencies by medical and health journalists. The quantity, format and quality of their coverage influence the general public as well as policymakers and professions. Current studies and observations suggest that news agencies are more dominated by medical topics (disease, symptoms,…
Descriptors: Journalism, Health Promotion, Public Health, Diseases
Santos, Joana M. L. G.; Ribeiro, Óscar; Jesus, Luis M. T.; Matos, Maria Assunção C. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The aim of the study was to provide an updated systematic review of randomized controlled trials that studied the effectiveness of pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions to prevent aspiration pneumonia in older adults at risk for aspiration. Method: The search was conducted in MEDLINE (PubMed), Scopus, and Web of Science…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Diseases, Older Adults
Supasit Pannarunothai – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2021
Health services play one of the important roles in achieving equity in health. In the absence of equity awareness, health services searching for practice excellence will themselves inadvertently be causing health inequity rather than closing the gap. The elderly are increasingly occupying considerable capacities of health services to all. This…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Access to Health Care, Health Services
Rania Abu Alhaija; Ali Abdel Halim Hasab; Nessrin Ahmed El-Nimr; Dalia Ibrahim Tayel – Health Education Research, 2024
This intervention study aimed to assess mothers' knowledge of iron-deficiency anemia (IDA). It also measured the impact of a health education program on their level of knowledge and their infants' IDA rates in rural areas of Nablus Governorate. Using a randomized pretest--posttest control group design, the efficacy of 3 months' education program…
Descriptors: Mothers, Health Education, Diseases, Program Effectiveness