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Direct linkAna Pegado; Magda Sofia Roberto; Rita Luz; Catarina Pereira; Maria-João Alvarez – SAGE Open, 2025
Poor sleep negatively influences college students' health and school performance. Sleep and the behaviors that take place during the day are interrelated; as such, the aim of this work was to investigate the psycho-social-environmental factors in college life that may affect students' sleep, using a mixed-method approach, with a view to informing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sleep, Student Attitudes, Barriers
Josep Vidal-Conti; Aina M. Galmes-Panades – Health Education Journal, 2025
Objective: This study investigated the impact of an online postural education programme on primary school teachers' knowledge regarding back care and low back pain (LBP) prevention. Design: This investigation was nested within a randomised controlled trial. Setting: A total of 61 teachers participated, divided into an experimental group (n = 32)…
Descriptors: Human Posture, Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Level, Health Behavior
Sveta Mayer; Antonia Simon; Jennifer Allen; Hannah Wilkinson; Matt Somerville; Phil Jones – IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, 2024
The evaluation of YMHFA training implemented by London-wide practitioners within their respective settings showed this training to be significantly effective in delivering mental health provision within settings. This was evidenced by significant increases in practitioners' rating on beliefs on six evaluation belief constructs: (A) confidence in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Influences, COVID-19, Pandemics
Margaret A. Riggs; Sabrina A. Madni; January Cornelius; Amy Zhang; Michaila Czarnik; Keith Zullig; Robert J. Bensley; Linda Gibson-Young; Marilyn Gardner; Caryl E. Waggett; Vonia Grabeel; Samuel J. Pettyjohn; Christine Fisher; Resa M. Jones; Dayna M. Maniccia; Jack Doyle; Margarita Treuth; John Neatherlin; Ebony Thomas; Lisa Barrios – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objectives: To understand college and university student knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors (KAB) regarding COVID-19 prevention strategies. Methods: Thirteen colleges and universities volunteered to conduct an anonymous electronic survey in April 2021 to assess students' KAB about mask use and vaccination to prevent COVID-19. Results:…
Descriptors: College Students, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes, Health Behavior
Download full textJoyvina K. Evans – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2024
Preparing students enrolled in healthcare programs for industry is paramount. While providing administrative and clinical education is essential, students must understand the health literacy levels of the population they serve and work diligently to ensure the population understands and comprehends the health information. Adults with low or…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Literacy, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Junghwan Kim; Miranda A. Livingston; Bora Jin; Miriam Watts; Jihee Hwang – Adult Learning, 2024
This review study aims to understand the concept of adults' digital health literacy (DHL), a recently emerging significant concept but still confused. For this, we seek to find the core competencies of digital health literacy by comparing those of existing relevant literacy concepts (i.e., health literacy and digital literacy). We identified seven…
Descriptors: Adults, Health Behavior, Digital Literacy, Competence
Johanna Ravenhurst; Teah Snyder; Kate Wallace; Sheila Pennell; Sarah L. Goff; Andrew A. Lover – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To explore the knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding COVID-19 in university affiliates to inform future COVID-19 policies and practices. Participants: Undergraduate students, graduate students and university employees at a large public university. Methods: Semi-structured focus groups and interviews were conducted between…
Descriptors: College Students, School Personnel, Knowledge Level, Attitudes
Gülendam Karadag; Dilek Bilgiç; Nuray Öztürk; Tugba Özdemir – European Journal of Education, 2025
Health literacy is important for maintaining healthy diets and lifestyles. This study examined the relationship between nutrition literacy and healthy life skills of university students. This study was a descriptive and correlational design. The students' Food and Nutrition Literacy Scale knowledge sub-dimension mean score was found to be 10.30 ±…
Descriptors: College Students, Multiple Literacies, Health, Nutrition
Jamie Koenig; Kiley J. McLean; Meghan Haas; Megan Horvath; Mariah Vigil; Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous; Sarah Effertz; Lauren Bishop – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
This study examined how autistic adults conceptualize health and whether their conceptualizations differed substantively from those of their emergency contacts (people who helped with health or healthcare management). We conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 dyads of autistic adults and emergency contacts. A thematic analysis with deductive…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Health, Knowledge Level
Akcali, Kamil; Tastan, Sevinc – Health Education Research, 2023
This randomized controlled trial study aims to examine the flipped classroom model's effects on the knowledge and health beliefs of testicular cancer and testicular self-examination. The study was conducted on 66 students in Northern Cyprus. A descriptive information form, Champion's Health Belief Model Scale, visual analogue scale of satisfaction…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Health Behavior, Knowledge Level, Cancer
Stephanie Cruz; Haley Holland; Donald L. Chi – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Fluoride hesitancy is a growing public health challenge and interventions to address it may need to be tailored for minoritized subgroups to address oral health inequities. The goals of this qualitative study were to investigate the extent to which an existing conceptual model on topical fluoride hesitancy is applicable to Latino parents and…
Descriptors: Dental Health, Resistance (Psychology), Hispanic Americans, Parents
Verna DeLauer; Andrea McGill-O'Rourke; Angela Ekwonye; Carissa Gordon; Natalie Hamilton; Patrick Gagne; Alicia Heyer; Erin Wallace; Kathryn Macksoud; Corinne Pierce; Ryan Desruisseaux – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Health literacy is important while attending a residential college where daily decisions can impact one's physical and mental health and knowing who or what to trust for information is of the utmost importance in claiming more decision-making autonomy. Participants: A total of 189 students at a University in the Northeastern United…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Multiple Literacies, Health Behavior, Gender Differences
Emilia Orologa; Kalliopi Tsakpounidou; Jan van der Merwe; Myrto Pyrrou; Hariklia Proios – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Using the FAST (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) Heroes educational programme, this intervention sought to educate residents in a nursing home to recognise and recall the three main stroke symptoms and prepare them to act in an appropriate way, in the event of a stroke emergency. Design: Participatory action research. Setting: A nursing home…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Neurological Impairments, Brain, Older Adults
Stacey B. Griner; Jason W. Beckstead; Cheryl A. Vamos; Joseph A. Puccio; Kay Perrin; Ellen M. Daley – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To identify theory-based innovation characteristics associated with the adoption of consumer-based self-sampling methods for sexually transmitted infection screening. Participants: Guided by the Diffusion of Innovation, survey data from people assigned female at birth (AFAB) (n = 92) were analyzed. Methods: Forward regression models and…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Screening Tests, Females, Individual Characteristics
Kailing Chen; Zhihong Lin; Isabelle do Prado; Zahra Mohammad; Karla M. Acosta; Sujata A. Sirsat – Journal of Extension, 2024
This study investigates college students' current food safety knowledge and food-handling perceptions and utilized an online survey which designed based on previous studies as method. The questionnaire measured respondents' food safety knowledge and perception, and were divided into knowledge, attitudes and perception categories. The results show…
Descriptors: College Students, Food, Safety, Student Attitudes
