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Direct linkPriyanka Bantwal; Muralidhar M. Kulkarni; Veena G. Kamath; Ratna Jay; Gahan S. Jois; Nivetha Sekar; M. Vaishna Shankar; Dalraj S. Bajwa; Rohit Bhagawath; Ashwath K. Naik – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Tobacco users disproportionately reside in lower-and-middle income countries, with many people beginning consumption of tobacco in adolescence. Countries employ interventions in schools as a means of providing health education thereby creating mass awareness among them. However, research has mostly restricted to developed nations.…
Descriptors: Smoking, Intervention, Prevention, Adolescents
Morgan Faith Schneider – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States is tobacco product use. The 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey, which was completed in 2022, showed that the e-cigarette epidemic among youth continues to remain a public health threat. The survey revealed that over 2.5 million middle and high school students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Smoking, Prevention
Samantha E. Lawrence; Ryan J. Watson; Amy L. Gower; G. Nic Rider; Kathryn Macapagal; Stephen T. Russell; Marla E. Eisenberg – Prevention Science, 2025
The objective of the present paper is to apply an intersectional lens to HIV prevention behavior disparities among LGBTQ+ adolescents across multiple social positions (racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities) and access to LGBTQ+-inclusive school resources (sex education and gender-sexuality alliances). Data are from the 2022 LGBTQ National…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention, LGBTQ People, Adolescents
Krystle McConnell; Sahra Ibrahimi; Martha Yumiseva; Salwa Shan; Amy Lewin – Prevention Science, 2025
This study evaluates El Camino, a goal-setting sexual health promotion program developed for Latino youth. A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted in grades 9-12 in 68 classrooms (n = 746 students) across 11 schools in Maryland with large populations of Latino students. A total of 208 students were lost to follow-up, leaving 538…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Pregnancy, Pregnant Students, Adolescents
Download full textMohamed, Sara Elsadig Ibrahem; Majashi, Alhanof Ahmed; Ozran, Sharifa Ali; Jeli, Sara Mohammed – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
It is important for high school female students, to be familiar with their own bodies and regularly examine their own breasts to check for any changes that could potentially be indicative of breast cancer. It is important to educate students about breast self-examination (BSE) as a means of detecting potential breast cancer early. A…
Descriptors: High School Students, Females, Human Body, Prevention
Chia-Kuei Lee; Li-Ling Liao – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
Most people start experimenting with and/or initiating health-compromising behaviors and establishing behavioral patterns during adolescence. Possible selves and episodic future thinking have been used to foster behavioral changes. In this study, we aimed to: (1) develop a program incorporating possible selves and episodic future thinking to…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Intervention, Prevention, Health Behavior
Azevedo, Maria Manuel; Saraiva, Elisa; Baltazar, Fátima – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
Facing recent threats of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an educational strategy was designed and applied to middle school students in order to reinforce related knowledge and behaviors. A group of 65 middle school students (14-18 years old) developed several designed online curricular activities. After the intervention, students answered a…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, COVID-19
Miller, Gabrielle F.; Wilson, Lauren; Rice, Ketra; DePadilla, Lara; Mercado-Crespo, Melissa; Jones, Sherry E. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Exposure to injury and violence early in life increases the risk of experiencing injury and violence later in life. In 2019, the top 3 leading causes of death among 15- to 18-year-olds in the United States were unintentional injury, suicide, and homicide. This study examines the extent to which schools promote injury and violence…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Injuries, Prevention
Tina Hascher; Tanja Held; Jakob Schnell; Nicolas Banholzer; Kathrin Zürcher; Lukas Fenner; Pascal Bittel; Philipp Jent – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: In our research, we investigated student state and habitual well-being in school during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic (after schools reopened) and analyzed their associations to measures in schools aimed at preventing ongoing infectious diseases. Methods and Measures: We conducted two interventional field studies in…
Descriptors: Well Being, COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Promotion
Emma Ashworth; Joniece Thompson; Pooja Saini – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Despite emerging evidence for the effectiveness of school-based suicide prevention programmes worldwide, there are few being implemented in the United Kingdom, and their social validity (i.e., the feasibility, acceptability, and utility) is not yet known. Aims: We aimed to conduct a scoping study to determine: (1) the social validity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Suicide, Prevention, Health Promotion
Julia Liu; B. Marshall; K. Cisneros; E. Jarpe-Ratner – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic elevated mental health needs among students. As such, in 2022 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) introduced the Comprehensive Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Policy to deliver mental health awareness and services to all pK-12th grade students. While transitioning back to in-person learning, an evaluation was…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Student Needs, COVID-19, Pandemics
Hannah E. Brown; Melinda J. Ickes – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objectives: More than 2.5 million middle and high school students in the United States reported current use of e-cigarettes in 2022. With continued curiosity and initiation of e-cigarette use among youth, it is critical to explore new and innovative ways to communicate about the dangers of e-cigarettes. The purpose of this study was to determine…
Descriptors: Smoking, Electronic Equipment, Health Behavior, Drug Use
Chinelli, Alice; Salfa, Maria Cristina; Cellini, Andrea; Ceccarelli, Luca; Farinella, Massimo; Rancilio, Laura; Galipò, Rosario; Meli, Paolo; Camposeragna, Antonella; Colaprico, Ludovica; Oldrini, Massimo; Ubbiali, Marco; Caraglia, Anna; Martinelli, Domenico; Mortari, Luigina; Palamara, Anna Teresa; Suligoi, Barbara; Tavoschi, Lara – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
Comprehensive sexuality education is an important means of promoting sexual well-being amongst young people and is key to preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs). However, sexuality education is not currently included in the formal curriculum in Italian schools. The aim of this study was to develop an inventory of school-based sexuality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Curriculum, Prevention
Cuesta-Zigorraga, Amaia; Arrue, Marta; Labaka, Ainitze – Journal of School Health, 2023
BACKGROUND: Adolescents are more susceptible than originally thought to COVID-19, and they could play a significant role in community transmission. We aim to evaluate a health education program on students' declarative knowledge and risk awareness concerning COVID-19-related public health recommendations. METHODS: A quasi-experimental pre-post…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Health Education, Public Health, Knowledge Level
Timimi, Sami; Timimi, Zoe – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2022
Much of Western media has promoted the idea that we are facing an epidemic of mental illness and psychiatric emergencies in contemporary Western society and worldwide, and that young people are a particularly vulnerable group. Schools have become a prominent site of concern and focus for this discourse as mental health problems are said to start…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Promotion, Mental Disorders, Educational Environment
