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Çantas Ayar, Arzu; Kahriman, Ilknur; Küçük Alemdar, Dilek; Özoran, Yavuz – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study aimed to compare the effect of using white noise, embracing, and facilitated tucking on heel lance blood sampling in newborns. The study was a randomized controlled trial. Newborns totalling 160 were included in the study. The primary outcomes were evaluated pain and crying durations before, during, and after the procedure. The…
Descriptors: Neonates, Acoustics, Pain, Crying
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Borras, Pere A.; Vidal-Conti, Josep – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objectives: This manuscript describes the rationale and protocol for an on-line, school-based randomised controlled trial of "Projecte d'Educació Postural a l'Escola" (Postural Education in School Project) (PEPE) which aims to prevent non-specific low back pain and promote healthy postural habits in children. The study will examine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Children, Pain
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Quinn, Brenna L.; Holman, David W.; Morse, Jonathan R. – Journal of School Nursing, 2020
Rates of injury to school-aged athletes are of concern to pediatric providers and can be prevented when players, coaches, and parents recognize and address pain. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the use of a pain-reporting tool. In this study, 34 baseball players aged 10-16 years reported pain surrounding 135 separate pitching…
Descriptors: Pain, Team Sports, Early Adolescents, Preadolescents
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Mahendra, Nidhi; Alonso, Marian – Topics in Language Disorders, 2020
Palliative care is specialized medical care offered to persons with serious health conditions, with the goal to relieve or prevent pain and suffering, to manage burdensome symptoms, and to optimize as much as possible the quality of life of patients and their families (Institute of Medicine, 2015). Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are not…
Descriptors: Pain, Quality of Life, Health Services, Prevention
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Bettany-Saltikov, Josette; McSherry, Robert; van Schaik, Paul; Kandasamy, Gokulakannan; Hogg, Julie; Whittaker, Vicki; Racero, Garikoitz Aristegui; Arnell, Tracey – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2019
School environment interventions are strongly supported by the World Health Organisation framework for health promoting schools (Barnekow et al., 2006). Indeed school-based education interventions for improving knowledge of back health and postural behaviour have been used in numerous countries worldwide to improve children's and adolescents'…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Human Body, Human Factors Engineering
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Sisson, Helen; Wilkinson, Yvonne – Journal of School Nursing, 2019
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is a key intervention in the prevention of HPV infection and associated cancers. This review emphasizes the importance of understanding what influences decision-making about this vaccine. Guided by the work of Whittemore and Knafl, and Pluye and Hong, we identified 25 studies, from which four prominent themes…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Decision Making, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Immunization Programs
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Sakarya, Gül; Girgin, Figen; Zahal, Onur; Musaoglu, Osman – Online Submission, 2022
Musicians who play instruments may suffer from some musculoskeletal disorders due to intense and long working processes, wrong posture-holding, insufficient bodily awareness. Preparatory physical exercises can be used to prevent or alleviate these disorders. These are aimed at warming up, opening-stretching, strengthening the joints and muscles…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Tiffany, Elizabeth; Wilder, Christine M.; Miller, Shannon C.; Winhusen, Theresa – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2016
Aims: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is implementing opioid overdose (OOD) education and naloxone distribution to reduce rising rates of OOD deaths. This study assessed knowledge and interest in OOD prevention with naloxone at a VHA hospital where naloxone kits were not yet available. Methods: Veterans receiving opioids for =3 months,…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Prevention, Veterans, Pain
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Waters, Megan – International Journal of Music Education, 2019
The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the perceived impact of personal circumstances, past and present learning environments, and musical culture on the development of playing-related pain and injury among tertiary string students. The study used a multi-phased mixed-methods methodology with elements of both quantitative…
Descriptors: Pain, Musical Instruments, Music Education, Psychomotor Skills
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Duffy, Jonathan; Johnsen, Peter; Ferris, Mary; Miller, Mary; Leighton, Kevin; McGilvray, Mark; McNamara, Lucy; Breakwell, Lucy; Yu, Yon; Bhavsar, Tina; Briere, Elizabeth; Patel, Manisha – Journal of American College Health, 2017
Objective: To assess the safety of meningococcal group B (MenB)-4C vaccine. Participants: Undergraduates, dormitory residents, and persons with high-risk medical conditions received the MenB-4C vaccine two-dose series during mass vaccination clinics from 12/2013 through 11/2014. Methods: Adverse events (AEs) were identified by 15 minutes of…
Descriptors: Diseases, Immunization Programs, Hospitals, Safety
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Ajaegbu, Okechukwu Odinaka; Ubochi, Ijendu Ihuarulam – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2016
Health is essential for social and economic development of any country. Nearly 10 million children in developing countries die each year before reaching the age of five from ailments, mostly pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria. The socio-cultural belief about the causation of disease and its curability has direct correlation with the treatment…
Descriptors: Health, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Surveys
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Parrott, James Allen; Zhu, Xihe – Physical Educator, 2013
Stretching before activity has been a customary part of most physical education classes (PE), with static stretching typically the preferred method due to its ease of implementation. Historical and implicit support for its continued use is due in part to the sit-and-reach test and flexibility as one of the components of health-related fitness.…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Education, Exercise, Exercise Physiology
Maykel, Cheryl, Ed.; Bray, Melissa A., Ed. – APA Books, 2019
Many students today struggle with stress and anxiety caused by increasing academic, social, and extracurricular demands. This book provides school psychologists, counselors, teachers, and other school faculty with guidelines for improving students' mental and physical well-being, which in turn leads to improved academic performance and happier,…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Intervention, Well Being, Physical Health
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Ayed, Ahmad; Sayej, Sumaya; Harazneh, Lubna; Fashafsheh, Imad; Eqtait, Faeda – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Background: Palliative care (PC) is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification, impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems like physical, psychosocial and…
Descriptors: Nurses, Health Services, Knowledge Level, Case Studies
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Russell, Joshua A.; Benedetto, Rachel L. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2014
The purposes of this study were to identify the body regions where young string players report experiencing musculoskeletal discomfort and explore factors that may impact their perceived discomfort. A purposive yet nonprobability sample of elementary (n = 101), middle school (n = 97), and high school (n = 159) students participated in the study by…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Musical Instruments
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