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Direct linkSalome Mshigeni; Gilna Samuel; Winifred Scott – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The prevalence of illnesses related to VPDs is higher among older adults and college students experience them despite decades of vaccine availability. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and American College Health Association (ACHA) emphasizes that all students should provide vaccine proof or receive immunizations prior to…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Immunization Programs, First Generation College Students
Christopher O'Donnell; Katherine Brownlee; Elise Martin; Joe Suyama; Steve Albert; Steven Anderson; Sai Bhatte; Kenyon Bonner; Chad Burton; Micaela Corn; Heather Eng; Bethany Flage; Jay Frerotte; Goundappa K. Balasubramani; Catherine Haggerty; Joel Haight; Lee H. Harrison; Amy Hartman; Thomas Hitter; Wendy C. King; Kate Ledger; Jane W. Marsh; Margaret C. McDonald; Bethany Miga; Kimberly Moses; Anne Newman; Meg Ringler; Mark Roberts; Theresa Sax; Anantha Shekhar; Matthew Sterne; Tyler Tenney; Marian Vanek; Alan Wells; Sally Wenzel; John Williams – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: A small percentage of universities and colleges conducted mass SARS-CoV-2 testing. However, universal testing is resource-intensive, strains national testing capacity, and false negative tests can encourage unsafe behaviors. Participants: A large urban university campus. Methods: Virus control centered on three pillars: mitigation,…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control
Alison C. McLeish; Joy L. Hart; Lindsey A. Wood; Kandi L. Walker – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The current study examined group differences in college students' views on e-cigarettes in terms of safety, popularity, health risks, social acceptability, efficacy as a cessation aid, and promoting combustible cigarette use. Participants: 337 undergraduates (M[subscript age] = 20.84, SD = 3.79; 72.1% female; 68.5% White) divided into…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Smoking, Health Behavior, Safety
Nicholas D. Myers; Ahnalee M. Brincks; Seungmin Lee – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2024
Physical activity promotion is a best buy for public health because it has the potential to help individuals feel better, sleep better, and perform daily tasks more easily, in addition to providing disease prevention benefits. There is strong evidence that individual-level theory-based behavioral interventions are effective for increasing physical…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Health Behavior, Health Promotion, Public Health
Download full textJoyvina K. Evans – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2024
Preparing students enrolled in healthcare programs for industry is paramount. While providing administrative and clinical education is essential, students must understand the health literacy levels of the population they serve and work diligently to ensure the population understands and comprehends the health information. Adults with low or…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Literacy, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Kyu-soo Chung; Jennifer Willet; B. Christine Green; Nari Shin – Sport Management Education Journal, 2024
Employing the theory of planned behavior, this study aimed to identify how sport management students' intentions to volunteer for a sporting event were affected by their COVID-19 preventive health factors and social consciousness. From eight U.S. universities, 415 sport management students responded to a self-administered online survey. Collected…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Athletics, Administration
Jan Mohlman; Corey H. Basch; Gregory Bartoszek; Sofia Magee – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: During public health emergencies such as the ongoing COVID-19 illness pandemic, it is essential to rapidly disseminate crisis messages which often contain embedded health directives. This study investigated which of three variants of the same messages (neutral tone, positive/compassionate tone, negative/fear-inducing tone) were most…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Motivation, Fear
Sullivan, Jessica; Tillman, Katharine; Shtulman, Andrew – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced children to reckon with the causal relations underlying disease transmission. What are children's theories of how COVID-19 is transmitted? And how do they understand the relation between COVID-19 susceptibility and the need for disease-mitigating behavior? We asked these questions in the context of children's…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Beliefs, COVID-19, Pandemics
Burt Davis; Carel Jansen – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objectives: This study evaluated the effects of reading different versions of a fotonovela about diabetes in resource-poor settings in South Africa. Design: An experimental study was conducted with 411 participants, comparing a fotonovela with a younger protagonist, a similar fotonovela version with an older protagonist and a no message control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diabetes, Community Education, Information Dissemination
Julia G. Halilova; Samuel Fynes-Clinton; Donna Rose Addis; R. Shayna Rosenbaum – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
Research suggests that discounting of delayed rewards (i.e., tendency to choose smaller immediate rewards over large later rewards) is a promising target of intervention to encourage compliance with public health measures (PHM), such as vaccination compliance. The effects of delay discounting, however, may differ across the types of PHMs, given…
Descriptors: Participation, COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Behavior
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
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
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
Wehmanen, Kyle W.; Cottet-Puinel, Felix E.; Hampton, Tyler C.; Hamlin, Gwyn T.; Wedig, Isaac J.; Elmer, Steven J. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
We developed a hands-on activity using the game Jenga to demonstrate the links between health behaviors, chronic and infectious diseases, and community well-being and resilience. For the activity, K-12 students worked together in small teams (4-8 students) and were given two Jenga towers ("tower A" and "tower B"), each…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Health Behavior, Resilience (Psychology)
Carolyn S. Dewa; Rebecca Q. Phan; Andrea Guggenbickler; Zoe Che; Bradley Pollock – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To examine how public health policy was reinforced by peer workers who were called Public Health Ambassadors (PHAs) at a West Coast university during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Descriptions of PHA community interactions were collected. Analyses were conducted using data from the 12-weeks of the 2020 Fall Quarter. Results: In total,…
Descriptors: Public Health, COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Behavior
