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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
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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
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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
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Sarah Batbold; Gabrielle Cummings; Kirsten A. Riggan; Marsha Michie; Megan Allyse – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) experience increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recent studies suggest that a vaccine against AD may be forthcoming. Parental buy-in is critical to the success of any intervention in this population, as adults with DS often rely on familial support. This study aims to characterize parents' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Down Syndrome, Children, Alzheimers Disease
UK Department for Education, 2022
At every stage since the start of the pandemic, decisions across education and childcare have been informed by the scientific and medical evidence -- both on the risks of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, transmission and illness, and on the known risks to children and young people not attending education settings -- balancing public health and…
Descriptors: Evidence, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries
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Maria Ferrara; Elisa Langiano; Maurizio Esposito; Giuseppina Lo Moro; Rosalia Lombardi; Pia Vuolanto; Elisabetta De Vito – Health Education Research, 2024
The VAX-TRUST project addresses vaccine hesitancy in seven European countries with a systematic and evidence-based approach. Interventions, targeting healthcare professionals, draw from behavioural and social theories. A checklist, inspired by the TIDieR (Template for Intervention Description and Replication), ensures a detailed description of…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Immunization Programs, Public Health, Program Descriptions
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Anwer, Sumayya; Ades, A. E.; Dias, Sofia – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
Background: When there are structural relationships between outcomes reported in different trials, separate analyses of each outcome do not provide a single coherent analysis, which is required for decision-making. For example, trials of intrapartum anti-bacterial prophylaxis (IAP) to prevent early onset group B streptococcal (EOGBS) disease can…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Outcomes of Treatment, Diseases, Decision Making
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MacIntyre, C. Raina; Costantino, Valentina; Bian, Linkan; Bethel, Cindy – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Background: Universities are at risk for COVID-19 and Fall semester begins in August 2020 for most campuses in the United States. The Southern States, including Mississippi, are experiencing a high incidence of COVID-19. Aims: The objective of this study is to model the impact of face masks and hybrid learning on the COVID-19 epidemic on…
Descriptors: Campuses, COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control
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Samuel O. Master; Samantha Garbers; Laura Lynch; David L. Bell; Marina Catallozzi; John Santelli – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) allows for informed and healthy decisions. College students often lack understanding of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Conversations and Pizza (CAP), an interactive curriculum, was designed to address gaps in CSE and improve SRH outcomes. Participants: 66 fraternity affiliated undergraduate…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Undergraduate Students, Fraternities, Knowledge Level
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Qijun Li, Kendrick; Rice, Kenneth – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
Meta-analysis of 2 × 2 tables is common and useful in research topics including analysis of adverse events and survey research data. Fixed-effects inference typically centers on measures of association such as the Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel statistic or Woolf's estimator, but relies on assuming exact homogeneity across studies, which is often…
Descriptors: Inferences, Meta Analysis, Intervals, Prevention
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Sebong, Perigrinus Hermin; Tjitradinata, Cynthia; Goldman, Roberta E. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To explore the risk perceptions and COVID-19 prevention practices of dormitory residents in Indonesia. Participants: Nineteen dormitory residents, 3 staff and 1 dormitory manager were recruited from the Saint Theresa Avila student dormitory. Methods: This qualitative study used individual interviews and framework analysis. Results:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Prevention
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Munira, Lafi; Viwattanakulvanid, Pramon – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
Adolescents (10-19 years old) are at high risk of developing iron deficiency anemia. Prevalence of anemia in young women in Indonesia was 37.1% which increased to 48.9% in 2018, with the proportion of anemia in the age group of 15-24 years and 25-34 years. The objectives of this study were to understand the influencing factors and gaps of…
Descriptors: Prevention, Females, Diseases, Student Attitudes
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Moeti, Matshidiso R.; Munodawafa, Davison – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Africa and most of the global south continue to experience a striking burden of communicable diseases, neglected tropical diseases, and high rates of maternal and child mortality, as well as disastrous internecine conflicts and floods. While Africa has been making steady progress in addressing communicable diseases, it now faces new threats from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diseases, Risk, Disease Control
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Strekalova, Yulia A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Emerging pandemics call for unique health communication and education strategies in which public health agencies need to satisfy the public's information needs about possible risks while preventing risk exaggeration and dramatization. As a route to providing a framework for understanding public information behaviors in response to an emerging…
Descriptors: Health, Risk, Social Media, Communication Strategies
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David T. Lardier Jr.; Ijeoma Opara; Emmanuella Ngozi Asabor; Felicity Bell; Pauline Garcia-Reid; Robert J. Reid – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2024
Due to systemic racism and homophobia, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer (LGBQ+) youth of color are disproportionately affected by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)/AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) and viral hepatitis (VH). Innovative approaches that acknowledge strengths such as ethnic identity need to be examined to understand specific…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Knowledge Level, Resilience (Psychology), Minority Groups
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