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Anna Laguta; Natalya Vodolazkaya; Dmitry Nerukh – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Chemistry experiments involving biological aspects are in high demand. This laboratory exercise blends biochemistry and physical chemistry, illustrates key concepts of the virus capsid surface, and is designed for a chemistry laboratory course for students majoring in biology in college. The experimental part provides a mastery of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Biochemistry
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Karki, Ishu; Dobbs, Page D.; Larson, Daniel; Maness, Sarah B. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare knowledge about human papillomavirus (HPV) and HPV vaccine, college student's beliefs toward HPV, and HPV vaccine uptake between US and international college students studying in the US. Participants: The study was conducted using a sample (N = 588) of college students from a university in the…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, College Students, Beliefs, Student Attitudes
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Kabare, Margaret; Northcote, Jeremy – American Journal of Evaluation, 2023
The importance of considering wider contexts when evaluating the success or failure of programs has been increasingly acknowledged with the shift towards culturally responsive evaluation. But one of the important advantages of contextual approaches has been mostly overlooked--that they can provide more "realist" evaluations for why…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Disease Control
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Linda Y. Fu; Allison Smith; Carlo Ciotoli; Martha Dannenbaum; Marni Jacobs – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To increase administration of influenza (flu), human papillomavirus (HPV) and meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) vaccinations to students at college student health centers (SHCs). Participants: Improvement teams from 45 US-based SHCs. Methods: Teams participated in a 7-month virtual learning collaborative to implement immunization…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Communicable Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, College Students
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Paz, Marta; Teixeira, Isabel; Lima, Dulce – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
The world is overcoming an unprecedented challenge with the COVID-19 pandemic's worldwide spread. Epidemics and pandemics are part of history. The oldest records are related to the plague of Athens in 430 BC and throughout times numerous other diseases affected humankind, devastating societies. Nowadays, the global world allows rapid communication…
Descriptors: Pandemics, Ethics, Climate, Scientific Research
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Pakpour, Nazzy; Nouredini, Sahar; Tandon, James – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: Although engineering hackathon events are common, this is one of the first reports of such an event used for the purpose of teaching engineering students about public health concepts. Results from this study suggest that hackathons are an effective format for teaching topics that are not core to the engineering discipline in a short…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Hies, Oliver; Lewis, Michael B. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
The sanitary-mask effect (Miyazaki and Kawahara in Jpn Psychol Res 58(3):261-272, 2016) is the finding that medical face masks prompt an image of disease and thus result in lower ratings of facial attractiveness of the wearer. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, medical masks have been found to increase attractiveness (Patel et al. in Plast…
Descriptors: Hygiene, Disease Control, Aesthetics, Human Body
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Apphia Bunting; Claire Palmer; Rajnish Attavar; Helena Wythe; Natalie Pattison – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in changes in all areas of clinical practice, including clinical research and within the intellectual disability population. While there have been some benefits from this rapid adoption of change, those involved in research have had to overcome a number of additional challenges. These adaptive changes, which have…
Descriptors: Research, Intellectual Disability, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Nicholas Mallis; Cody Dailey; Sophia Drewry; Nina Howard; José F. Cordero; Michael Welton – Journal of American College Health, 2024
In the summer of 2020, SARS-CoV-2 infection rates among the U.S. population aged 20-39 years exceeded other age groups, with the largest increases occurring in the southern US. As many colleges reopened for in-person instruction in August and September, these trends continued among campuses across the country. Our study aimed to identify risk…
Descriptors: COVID-19, College Students, Smoking, Alcohol Abuse
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David M. Remmert; Thomas W. O'Rourke – American Journal of Health Education, 2024
Background: States are often ranked on a range of different indicators. In this study, states were ranked for each of the leading actual causes of death. Purpose: This study ranks states on how hazardous they are to the health of the citizenry in terms of the actual causes of death as identified in the seminal article by McGinnis and Foege. and…
Descriptors: Public Health, Death, Mortality Rate, Poverty
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Mayara S. Bianchim; Melitta A. McNarry; Alan R. Barker; Craig A. Williams; Sarah Denford; Lena Thia; Rachel Evans; Kelly A. Mackintosh – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2024
This study aimed to develop and validate machine learning models to predict intensities in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF) across different accelerometry brands and placements. Thirty-five children and adolescents with CF (11.6 ± 2.8 yrs; 15 girls) and 28 healthy youth (12.2 ± 2.7 yrs; 16 girls) performed six activities whilst…
Descriptors: Models, Prediction, Children, Adolescents
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Wanda E. Leal; Alex R. Piquero; Windy Dees; Nicole Leeper Piquero – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objectives: Before the Fall 2020 semester, college presidents and the NCAA made decisions about playing college football. The current study aims to examine the association between college football games and COVID-19 infections at universities. Participants: More than 1,800 college campuses nationwide from "The New York Times" database on…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Team Sports, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Marvin So; Eric J. Dziuban; Caitlin S. Pedati; Joseph R. Holbrook; Angelika H. Claussen; Brenna O'Masta; Brion Maher; Audrey A. Cerles; Zayan Mahmooth; Laurel MacMillan; Jennifer W. Kaminski; Margaret Rush – Prevention Science, 2024
Although neurobiologic and genetic factors figure prominently in the development of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), adverse physical health experiences and conditions encountered during childhood may also play a role. Poor health is known to impact the developing brain with potential lifelong implications for behavioral issues. In…
Descriptors: Children, Physical Health, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Colleen B. Mistler; Christie I. Idiong – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: College students, particularly first-year students, are at risk for alcohol misuse and alcohol-related consequences (e.g., condomless sex). Our objective was to determine if first- and second-year students were more or less likely to report any act of condomless sex under the influence of alcohol than third- and fourth-year students.…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Health Behavior, Drinking
Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority, 2023
This occasional paper is the ninth in a series on the National Quality Framework (NQF). The Education and Care Services National Law and National Regulations govern the minimum standards and requirements that all providers of NQF regulated services must meet, including health and safety requirements. Quality Area 2 of the National Quality Standard…
Descriptors: Child Health, Well Being, Accident Prevention, Injuries
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