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Direct linkChoi, Allen; Marcus, Kathryn; Pohl, Danielle; Eyck, Patrick Ten; Balfour, Henry, Jr.; Jackson, J. Brooks – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is the cause of infectious mononucleosis, which disproportionately affects university students. This population has the potential to benefit from a prophylactic EBV vaccine trial. Our objectives were to determine EBV infection status and associated demographic/lifestyle factors among first year undergraduate…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences, Sexuality
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
Download full textAldossari, Ali Tared – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This study investigates the inclusion of health education concepts in biology textbooks in the United States of America and Singapore. It employs a content analysis methodology to examine biology textbooks, considering the theme as a unit and dividing health concepts into four main fields. The findings for both countries indicate that the field of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Biology, Textbooks
Lam, Arena C.; Berliner, BethAnn; Barrat, Vanessa X. – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2021
Even before COVID-19, school districts wanted to understand if school-based telemedicine services met student health needs during the school day and helped keep students in school all day, every day. Specifically, districts were interested in knowing if telemedicine enabled students with a school-day health issue to return to class instead of…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Age Differences, Instructional Program Divisions
Sara Barros Araújo; Rafaela Rosário; Ana Silva; Sílvia Barros – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
In Portugal, early childhood education and care services for children under-three were the first educational services to reopen after periods of lockdown. COVID-19 prevention and control measures had to be implemented nationwide, but no knowledge was yet produced on their impact in educational settings. This study aimed to map the implementation…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Practices
Sara R. Jacobs; LaShawn Glasgow; Peter Amico; Kimberly D. Farris; Gia Rutledge; Bryce D. Smith – Prevention Science, 2024
Diabetes is a significant population health threat. Evidence-based interventions, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Diabetes Prevention Program and diabetes self-management education and support programs, can help prevent, delay, or manage the disease. However, participation is suboptimal, especially among…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Prevention, Evidence Based Practice, Self Management
Batir, Betul – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
The pandemics and epidemics experienced in Turkey after the second quarter of the twentieth century had a profound impact on society and education. The "General Hygiene Law", which came into force in 1930 in an attempt to fight against increasing epidemic diseases, was a service provided by the state to improve health conditions in the…
Descriptors: Pandemics, Epidemiology, Diseases, Educational History
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
Silver, Rachel; Kendall, Nancy – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
In this article, we consider what would happen if the resources and energy devoted to formal, school-based sex education were redirected into a syndemic sex education approach that centres the individual, social, and structural conditions that shape adolescents' sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Drawing on a case study of youth in Malawi, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Sexuality, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Pijl, Esther K.; Vanneste, Yvonne T. M.; Feron, Frans J. M.; Mathijssen, Jolanda J. P.; de Rijk, Angelique E. – Educational Review, 2023
School absenteeism and its underlying causes can have negative effects on the cognitive, psychosocial and health development of a child. Research in primary education shows high rates of sickness absence. Many stakeholders are involved in addressing school absenteeism, including primary school professionals, child and youth healthcare physicians,…
Descriptors: Diseases, Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Elementary School Students
Clark, Brianna Soule – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2023
Flipping the classroom to generate engaging and intentional student-driven lectures is the focus of this learning activity. The learning activity derived out of the necessity of making a 3-h, one day a week, in-person class engaging while adhering to social distancing measures and ensuring quarantining students were not at a disadvantage while…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Learner Engagement, Learning Activities, COVID-19
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
Wyrick, David L.; Tanner, Amanda E.; Milroy, Jeffrey J.; Guastaferro, Kate; Bhandari, Sandesh; Kugler, Kari C.; Thorpe, Shemeka; Ware, Samuella; Miller, Alicia M.; Collins, Linda M. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To describe an iterative approach to developing an online intervention targeting the intersection of alcohol use and sexual behaviors among first year college students. Methods and Participants: Using the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), we conducted two iterative optimization trials to--(1) identify candidate intervention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Online Courses, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sex Education
