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Stephen Hunter; Carla Hilario; Karen A. Patte; Scott T. Leatherdale; Roman Pabayo – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Income inequality is theorized to impact health. However, evidence among adolescents is limited. This study examined the association between income inequality and health-related school absenteeism (HRSA) in adolescents. Methods: Participants were adolescents (n = 74,501) attending secondary schools (n = 136) that participated in the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Social Differences, Secondary School Students, Attendance
Nelly Carmichael – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2024
A scoping review of qualitative, quantitative, and systematic reviews published between 2011 and 2021 was conducted on strategies to educate college students and studies investigating students' knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions about sexually transmitted infections (STI). This scoping review aims to understand college students' STI knowledge,…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Teaching Methods
Maarya Akmal; Rania Sophia Lateef; Michael J. Wolyniak; Walter Orenstein – American Journal of Health Education, 2024
Background: Despite the overwhelming benefits of vaccinations, suboptimal public confidence in vaccines keeps immunization rates in the U.S far from ideal levels. Purpose: To assess the efficacy of a high school video set curriculum, on vaccine history, science, and safety, in improving vaccine knowledge. Methods: Sample included high school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Immunization Programs, Health Education, Knowledge Level
A. P. Tadanki; C. Hernandez-Tamayo; N. Saremi; C. Stafylis; J. D. Klausner – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Genital herpes is a common sexually transmitted disease among young adults in the United States. We conducted a cross-sectional survey to evaluate herpes simplex virus knowledge among university students. Participants: 612 full-time undergraduate students. Methods: We gathered data on demographics, sexual activity, knowledge about the…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
Anne Laterra; Dennis Reidy; Laura Salazar – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
College-age students are disproportionately impacted by sexually transmitted infections. Campus programs that reduce sexual violence have received recent investment, are increasingly common, and may offer a platform to increase condom use, but this has not yet been investigated. We explore this novel question through a secondary analysis of a…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sex Education
Jackson, Ashley M.; Mullican, Lindsay A.; Tse, Zion T. H.; Yin, Jingjing; Zhou, Xiaolu; Kumar, Dharamendra; Fung, Isaac C. -H. – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: For pandemic preparedness, researchers used online systematic searches to track unplanned school closures (USCs). We determine if Twitter provides complementary data. Methods: Twitter handles of Michigan public schools and school districts were identified. All tweets associated with these handles were downloaded. USC-related tweets…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Disease Control, Communicable Diseases, Social Media
Shaw, Steven R. – Communique, 2020
Self-care for school psychologists has received overdue attention in scholarly literature and training. Most work in self-care relates to mental health problems arising from the stressful and emotional nature of work in school psychology. However, there is an additional component of self-care that has yet to receive appropriate levels of…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Prevention, School Psychologists, Daily Living Skills
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
Douglas, Joanne T. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a rare neurodegenerative brain disorder characterized by declining language ability. There is currently no way to reverse or slow the course of the progressive brain degeneration, nor is there a cure for PPA. Throughout the course of the disease, any treatment must therefore be palliative in nature…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Neurological Impairments, Diseases, Intervention
Bordogna, Amy L.; Coyle, Amanda C.; Nallamothu, Rupa; Manko, Alina L.; Yen, Renata W. – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2023
The United States has a higher rate of teen pregnancy than any other developed country with 30% of American girls becoming pregnant before the age of 20. Laws regarding the inclusion and content of sexuality education vary across the country, which are associated with differences in pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates between…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Sex Education, Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Vitale, Nicole; Coccia, Catherine – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: Poor dietary habits in childhood can lead to obesity and chronic diseases later in life. Increasing children's nutrition knowledge and liking of fruits and vegetables are key factors in improving diet quality. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of a nutrition program on knowledge, liking and intake of fruits and…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Obesity, Diseases, Nutrition Instruction
Cook, Amanda C.; Reisling, Alannah – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To determine the impact of fraternity and sorority membership on condom use during sex. Methods: Utilizing data from The American College Health Association (ACHA) National College Health Assessment from 2016-2018, we estimated a linear probability, logistic, and instrumental variable model to determine the relationship between…
Descriptors: Fraternities, Sororities, Sexuality, Contraception
Etzel, Laura; Garrett-Petters, Patricia; Shalev, Idan – Child Development Perspectives, 2023
In this article, we suggest that aging and development are two sides of the same coin, and that developing a comprehensive understanding of health and disease risk requires examining age-related processes occurring throughout the earliest years of life. Compared to other periods in life, it is during this early period of acute vulnerability, when…
Descriptors: Aging Education, Diseases, Risk, Health
Macharia, Pascal; Moore, Samantha; Mathenge, John; Ndunda, Erastus; Lazarus, Lisa; McKinnon, Lyle R.; Lorway, Robert – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: This report identifies the profound effects that the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant government lockdown have had on sexual health services delivery to a community of marginalised male sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya. Methods: Based on the experiences shared during ongoing virtual conversations with peer health workers, a case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, COVID-19, Pandemics
Sarah James; Caroline Tervo; Theda Skocpol – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic struck during a period of extreme polarization in American politics. Unsurprisingly, responses to it quickly became politicized despite increasingly clear findings from scientific and public health communities about the most effective approaches for limiting its spread. We ask how the politicization affected pandemic response…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Incidence, Public Health