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Direct linkWinnie 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
Peer reviewedSarah I. Leonard; Eleanor R. Turi; Amarilis Céspedes; Jianfang Liu; Jennifer S. Powell; Jean-Marie Bruzzese – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
Rural adolescents with asthma are a disparate group. Self-management is essential to asthma control. We describe asthma knowledge, self-efficacy, and self-management behaviors among 198 rural adolescents with poorly controlled asthma, exploring demographic differences; we also test the application of Social Cognitive Theory to asthma…
Descriptors: Self Management, Self Efficacy, Knowledge Level, Diseases
Grace Rutherford; Rafat Hussain; Kathleen Tait – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, now constitute a major proportion of ill-health across most adult and older populations including in people with intellectual disability. The current paper is a comparative analysis of prevalence of NCDs across mid-aged and older-aged people with mild intellectual…
Descriptors: Comorbidity, Adults, Older Adults, Intellectual Disability
Kelly McLaughlin; Jasmine Davis; Miriam Gonzales; Celina Koh; Laura Taylor; Tara L. Crowell – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Participating in an escape room is not just an entertainment but can also be a form of education. Because of this, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH), Project Firstline (PFL) created an escape room interactive training tool and skills-building exercise to encourage the identification and use of key infection control principles…
Descriptors: Health Education, Interaction, Training Methods, Skill Development
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
Meng Chen; Laramie D. Taylor; Robert A. Bell – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Narratives have been widely acknowledged as a powerful persuasion tool in health promotion and education. Recently, great efforts have been devoted to identifying message components and causal pathways that maximize a narrative's persuasion power. Specifically, we investigated how narrator point of view and readers' subjective relative risk…
Descriptors: Diseases, Personal Narratives, Risk, Intention
Tan, Mei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
It has been almost 40 years since HIV emerged in the human population with an alarming impact in 1981, quickly reaching pandemic proportions. Reaching the goal of eradication, or at least ending the pandemic, however, has not been as easy as hoped. To better understand and therefore better address the persistence and often devastating effects of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Disease Incidence, Disease Control, Prevention
Alan Z. Sheinfil – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Harmful alcohol use and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are significant public health concerns for college students. Because alcohol use and condomless sex often co-occur in this population, alcohol-associated condomless sex has been identified as a target for behavioral interventions. Existing theoretical frameworks have not garnered…
Descriptors: College Students, Alcohol Abuse, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Contraception
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
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
Odella Dianne Hagan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Community college women do not obtain the HPV vaccine at the same rate as university women. The aim of this study was to discover the perceptions of community college women in relation to the human papillomavirus (HPV) and associated cancers, the perceived barriers and benefits of obtaining the HPV vaccination, and how health behavior decisions…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Females, Student Attitudes, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Wanchai Panjan; Orathai Chuacharoen; Passakorn Ruangvanit; Kitti Chunhasriwong; Anek Pradittharom – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
This article presents the findings of a study on the effects of sociocultural adaptation on religious practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and the utilization of the religious dimension to prevent and mitigate the spread of the virus. The results stem from a mixed-methods research approach involving quantitative and qualitative data collection…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, COVID-19, Pandemics, Religion
Kwon, Soyoung – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Although mask wearing has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become a contentious issue. This is evident in the policy shift regarding mask wearing during the pandemic and the varying mask mandates across different states in the United States. This study investigates the relationship between mask…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Prevention, Disease Incidence
Parsons, Joanne; Grimley, Catherine; Newby, Katie – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Background: Pregnant women are at increased risk of complications from flu, but uptake of flu vaccination is below 75% targets. Evidence suggests that changing illness risk appraisals may increase vaccination behaviour. In 2018-2019, researchers, public health specialists, and pregnant women co-designed a short animation targeting (unhelpful)…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Immunization Programs, Information Dissemination, Animation
Morgan J. Grant; Kaileigh Carter; Matt Hoffman; Randolph D. Hubach; Christopher Owens – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2024
Because most parent-adolescent sex communication studies are from the perspectives of sexual and gender minority (SGM) adolescents rather than their parents, we surveyed 54 parents of SGM adolescents in the Southern region in the U.S. about their HIV-related parent-adolescent sex communication (PASC) practices. We compared topics discussed between…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Health Behavior, Prevention, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
