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Direct linkYan, Zi; Harrington, Alexandra – Health Education Journal, 2020
Aim and objectives: In the USA, undergraduate students gain more weight in the first year in college than at any other point in their lives. However, the factors that predict their weight gain are unknown. The purpose of this study was to explore the predictors of weight gain among first-year college students at a US college over a 3-month period.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Obesity, Predictor Variables, Knowledge Level
Brown, Kyle; Hill, Kimberley M.; Smith, Joanne; Johansson, Mattias; Davies, Emma L. – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: Alcohol misuse prevention often fails to account for or replace the pleasurable benefits of drinking such as relaxing and socialising with friends. Increasingly, alcohol-free dance music events are emerging, allowing people to gain the positive outcomes of dancing without recourse to alcohol. This study sought to explore whether…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Prevention, Recreational Activities, Dance
Jozkowski, Kristen N.; Geshnizjani, Alireza – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: Although at high risk of contracting the human papillomavirus (HPV), less than one-half of US college women have been vaccinated. The purpose of this study was to identify underlying factors influencing college women's intention to get the HPV vaccine via developing an instrument using the Reasoned Action Approach (RAA). Setting: Data…
Descriptors: Females, College Students, Immunization Programs, State Universities
Lemos, Marina Serra; Rothes, Inês Areal; Oliveira, Filipa; Soares, Luisa – Health Education Journal, 2017
Objective: To evaluate the incremental efficacy of a Short Message Service (SMS) combined with a brief video intervention in increasing the effects of a health education intervention for cervical cancer prevention, over and beyond a video-alone intervention, with respect to key determinants of health behaviour change--knowledge, motivation and…
Descriptors: Cancer, Females, Video Technology, Intervention
de Bruijn, Gert-Jan; Keer, Mario; van den Putte, Bas; Neijens, Peter – Health Education Journal, 2012
Objective: Predictors of action-control profiles are useful targets for health behaviour change interventions, but action-control research has not focused on fruit consumption and has not yet included need for affect and need for cognition, despite the demonstrated usefulness of these variables in a broad range of research. The role of these…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Intention, Undergraduate Students
Vahabi, Mandana – Health Education Journal, 2005
Objective: To assess young women's breast health knowledge and explore its relation to the use of screening mammography. Methods: A convenience sample of 180 women aged 25-45 residing in Toronto, Canada, with no history of breast cancer and mammography received an information brochure and four questionnaires which assessed their knowledge of…
Descriptors: Health Education, Females, Cancer, Foreign Countries
