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Martien Conjaerts; Slavi Stoyanov; Eric Edelman; Paul Kirschner; Renate de Groot – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objectives: Overweight and obesity among school-aged children pose a threat to both their academic performance and public health. The Healthy Primary School of the Future (HPSF) initiative was established to address this issue. Our objective was to explore the conditions that make HPSF sustainable based on the perspectives of relevant…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Parents, Administrators, Academic Achievement
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Meng Qu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This paper introduces a Patron Counting and Analysis (PCA) system that leverages Wi-Fi-connection data to monitor space utilization and analyze visitor patterns in academic libraries. The PCA system offers real-time crowding information to the public and a comprehensive visitor analysis dashboard for library administrators. The system's…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Users (Information), Use Studies, Space Utilization
Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, 2024
The "Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2025" contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President's priorities, and summary tables. This volume includes economic and accounting analyses, information on Federal receipts and collections, analyses of Federal spending, information on Federal borrowing…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Budgets, Government Role
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Mary Nelson Robertson; Holli H. Seitz; Laura H. Downey; Alisha M. Hardman; Je'Kylynn S. Steen; David R. Buys – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
This study assesses adults' perceptions of and predictors of intention to use prescription drug take-back boxes. This mixed methods study utilized focus groups and an online survey to examine factors related to intention to use a prescription drug take-back box. This study was conducted in [State] during the spring and summer of 2018. Themes…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Drug Therapy, Pharmacy, Barriers
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Lashida Barnes; Asia Lefebre; Karina Mercado; Rachel Cuevas; Sarah Malarkey; Nadia Smith; Humberto Baquerizo; Sebastian Acevedo; Pamela Valera – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experience of the Spanish-speaking Latino community during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders. A single remote focus group meeting was conducted with nine Spanish-speaking participants to explore how residents living amidst shelter-in-place orders made informed decisions about health, safety,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Hispanic Americans, Search Engines
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Ema Tokolahi; Jess Fenwick; Dean Sutherland; Deirdre Richardson; Sue Bazyk; Dale Sheehan – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Every moment counts (EMC) is a multi-tiered mental health promotion initiative designed to build the capacity of practitioners to address the mental health needs of children and youth in school settings. This study evaluated the impact and cultural relevance of EMC workshops in supporting practitioners to apply a public health approach to…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Public Health, Cultural Relevance, Longitudinal Studies
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Vo, Anh V.; Majnoonian, Araz; Ni, Jessica; Garfein, Richard S.; Wishard Guerra, Alison; Fielding-Miller, Rebecca – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: Case investigation and contact tracing (CI/CT) are important public health tools to interrupt COVID-19 transmission. Our study aims to understand how parents and school staff perceive COVID-19 CI/CT. Methods: Using a mixed methods approach, we distributed a community survey and conducted 15 focus group discussions (FGDs) in English and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control, Parents
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Rosales, Ashley; Young, Shannan; Mendez, Tracy; Shelden, Kristal; Holdaway, Megan – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic intensified disparities for underserved populations as accessing resources became more difficult. Dairy Council of California launched the Let's Eat Healthy initiative to address nutrition security through collaborative solutions in the school environment. Implications For School Health Policy, Practice, and…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Nutrition Instruction, Security (Psychology), Food
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Joshi, Deepa S.; Lebrun-Harris, Lydie A.; Shaw, Esther; Pilkey, Diane; Collier, Abby; Kinsman, Sara – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: Schools are essential public health partners for safeguarding students' health. Child Death Review (CDR) is one public health activity where collaboration with schools is integral for developing strategies to prevent child death but the degree of collaboration is unknown. This study assessed school participation in CDR and the…
Descriptors: Public Health, Child Health, Death, Prevention
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Campeau, Kari – Written Communication, 2023
U.S. print news coverage of COVID vaccine hesitancy represents a departure from previous depictions of vaccine skepticism as a problem of wrong belief. This article reports on a mixed methods study of 334 "New York Times" texts about COVID nonvaccination and vaccine hesitancy published between December 2020-December 2021. Texts were…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs, Beliefs
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Lim, Willone; Lau, Bee Theng; Islam, Fakir M. Amirul – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Cyberbullying is widely acknowledged as a serious public health problem affecting adolescents and youth. Numerous digital and non-digital interventions have been developed to minimize cyberbullying occurrences considering the negative social and psychological effects of cyberbullying on youths' development. Therefore, to gain deeper insight into…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Early Intervention, Educational Environment
Melinda S. Harrison – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The increase in international graduate students (IGSs) in the United States in recent years has created additional linguistic and cultural diversity in graduate programs, thus, spotlighting the existence of these students' unmet challenges. Although much research has been conducted on the experiences of international students in U.S. higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Public Health, Health Education
Marjolein E. A. Barendse; Jessica Flannery; Caitlin Cavanagh; Melissa Aristizabal; Stephen P. Becker; Estelle Berger; Rosanna Breaux; Nicole Campione-Barr; Jessica A. Church; Eveline A. Crone; Ronald E. Dahl; Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary; Melissa R. Dvorsky; Sarah L. Dziura; Suzanne van de Groep; Tiffany C. Ho; Sarah E. Killoren; Joshua M. Langberg; Tyler L. Larguinho; Lucía Magis-Weinberg; Kalina J. Michalska; Jordan L. Mullins; Hanna Nadel; Blaire M. Porter; Mitchell J. Prinstein; Elizabeth Redcay; Amanda J. Rose; Wendy M. Rote; Amy K. Roy; Sophie W. Sweijen; Eva H. Telzer; Giana I. Teresi; April Gile Thomas; Jennifer H. Pfeifer – Grantee Submission, 2023
This study aimed to examine changes in depression and anxiety symptoms from before to during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of 1,339 adolescents (9-18 years old, 59% female) from three countries. We also examined if age, race/ethnicity, disease burden, or strictness of government restrictions moderated change in…
Descriptors: Change, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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LaVanway, Ann Jenkin – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2023
Sex education has long been a controversial topic in the United States in terms of both policy and practice. A lack of consensus on the implementation of sex education, its content, and its participants continues to be a concern for equitable inclusion of all young people and their sexual and emotional health as a result. Current policy guidance…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Program Evaluation, Curriculum, Educational Policy
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Christian Wittlich; Leif MöNter; Hannah Lathan – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2023
The Planetary Health (PH) approach addresses health risks resulting from anthropogenic climate change. It offers an integrative understanding of nature, whereby humans and their health are regarded as part of nature, and individual concerns are situated in relation to the interactions between society and the environment. However, this approach has…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Climate, Context Effect, Secondary Education
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