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Pirrie, Melissa; Carson, Valerie; Dubin, Joel A.; Leatherdale, Scott T. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: The comprehensive school health (CSH) framework has four components: social and physical environment; partnerships and services; teaching and learning; and policy. This study examines associations between CSH and student physical activity (PA). Methods: Using 2015/2016 COMPASS study survey data of 37,397 students (grades 9-12) from 80…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Grade 10
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Sulz, Lauren; Gibbons, Sandra L.; Naylor, Patti-Jean; Wharf-Higgins, Joan – Physical Educator, 2020
This study examined the influence of a 4-month intervention on students' motivation in Grade 10 physical education and enrollment in elective physical education. Health Promoting Secondary School Physical Education (HPSS PE) was designed to improve students' psychological need satisfaction in physical education, based on self-determination theory.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Motivation, Grade 10, High School Students
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Noonan, James – Educational Action Research, 2015
Schools are increasingly seen as having a promising role to play in reducing adverse health and wellness outcomes among young people. This paper uses a collaborative action research approach to examine the effects of one school's efforts to change its students' eating habits by implementing a "junk-food free campus." By engaging school…
Descriptors: Action Research, Eating Habits, Behavior Change, Food
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Rew, Lynn; Arheart, Kristopher L.; Horner, Sharon D.; Thompson, Sanna; Johnson, Karen E. – Journal of School Nursing, 2015
Although much is known about health-risk behaviors of adolescents, less is known about their health-promoting behaviors. The purpose of this analysis was to compare health-promoting behaviors in adolescents in Grades 9-12 by gender and ethnicity and explore how these behaviors changed over time. Data were collected from 878 rural adolescents…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Ethnicity, Health Promotion, Health Behavior
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Sharyn Rundle-Thiele; Rebekah Russell-Bennett; Cheryl Leo; Timo Dietrich – Health Education, 2013
Purpose: This paper outlines a pilot study that was undertaken in Australia in 2011 that combined social marketing with education. An intervention targeting 14-16 year olds to influence attitudes and behavioural intentions towards moderate drinking was developed and tested. Game On:Know alcohol (GO:KA) is a six-module intervention that is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Marketing
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Flynn, Brian S.; Worden, John K.; Bunn, Janice Yanushka; Dorwaldt, Anne L.; Connolly, Scott W.; Ashikaga, Takamaru – Health Education & Behavior, 2007
Mass media interventions are among the strategies recommended for youth cigarette smoking prevention, but little is known about optimal methods for reaching diverse youth audiences. Grades 4 through 12 samples of youth from four states (n = 1,230) rated smoking-prevention messages in classroom settings. Similar proportions of African American,…
Descriptors: Smoking, Prevention, Ethnic Groups, Audiences