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Direct linkMcGuier, Elizabeth A.; Kolko, David J.; Pedersen, Sarah L.; Kipp, Heidi L.; Joseph, Heather M.; Lindstrom, Rachel A.; Bauer, Daniel J.; Subramaniam, Geetha A.; Molina, Brooke S. G. – Prevention Science, 2022
Pediatric primary care is a promising setting for reducing diversion of stimulant medications for ADHD. We tested if training pediatric primary care providers (PCPs) increased use of diversion prevention strategies with adolescents with ADHD. The study was a cluster-randomized trial in 7 pediatric primary care practices. Participants were…
Descriptors: Pediatrics, Primary Health Care, Drug Therapy, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Holody, Kyle J.; Selby, Christina N.; Carter, Elizabeth L. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2023
This survey-based study examined a social norms campaign promoting mask-wearing among college students during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. More positive face mask perceptions, greater motivation to wear masks, and greater likelihood to wear masks in public were associated with respondents having seen the campaign messages and believing…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Behavior Standards, Health Behavior, Hygiene
Elliott, Lucas D.; Wilson, Oliver W. A.; Bopp, Melissa – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Purpose: Universities and colleges play a major role in facilitating the behaviors of students into adulthood. Active travel (AT; walking or bicycling for transportation) can provide substantial health benefits, though inequities among bicycling are shown in many underserved populations (racial/ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ+, disabled,…
Descriptors: College Students, Physical Activities, Health Promotion, Health Behavior
Download full textMarie-Andrée Somers; Michelle Dixon; Claudia Solís-Román; Megan Schwartz; Olivia Lalanne; Bryce Marshall; Lauren Lee; Osvaldo Avila – MDRC, 2025
LifeSkills Training is the only program to prevent substance use disorder among adolescents that has evidence of effects on substance use outcomes from multiple randomized controlled trials. Evaluations have shown that the version for middle school students reduces their use of substances in high school, but these studies were conducted in the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Middle School Students, Substance Abuse, Drug Use
Liana Gefter; Nancy Morioka-Douglas; Ashini Srivastava; Can Angela Jiang; Meredith Lewis; Lee Sanders; Eunice Rodriguez – Health Education Research, 2024
To assess the impact of a school-based health intervention on adolescents' health knowledge, psychosocial assets and health behaviors, including comparisons of implementation mode: remote, hybrid or in-person. The Stanford Youth Diabetes Coaches Program, an 8-week, school-based health promotion and coaching skills program, was offered to…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Behavior Change, Distance Education, Blended Learning
Lee, Sae-Mi; Li, Shuang; Newland, Aubrey; Leedeman, Juliana; Clifford, Dawn E.; Keeler, Linda A. – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: Despite the popularity of weight loss interventions, research indicates these methods are ineffective for promoting long-term health. College age is a developmentally important age for developing lifelong health habits. FitU is a peer-led non-diet nutrition and physical activity (PA) mentoring intervention developed to promote lifelong…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Life Style, Health Behavior, Nutrition
Tyler, Carl V.; Wells, Michael D. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Health systems often fail to tap the expertise of the developmental disabilities community support and service system. In this 9-month pilot health system-level quality improvement project, a multi-disciplinary team of physician, pharmacist, and disabilities advocate reviewed electronic records of patients with Down syndrome in advance of…
Descriptors: Adults, Down Syndrome, Primary Health Care, Access to Health Care
Camenga, Deepa R.; Bernstein, Steven L.; Dziura, James; Fiellin, Lynn; Krishnan-Sarin, Suchitra – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objective: To test the feasibility of a university health center-delivered smoking cessation intervention that adds a 6-week course of text messaging to brief advice and nicotine patch therapy. Participants: Young adult cigarette smokers (n = 40) from 2 universities from January 2015 to May 2016. Methods: Randomized controlled trial comparing…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Behavior, Intervention, Drug Therapy
Díaz-González, Esteban E; Danis-Lozano, Rogelio; Peñaloza, Gonzalo – Health Education Research, 2020
Dengue virus is the main arboviral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and affects mainly school-aged children and teens. Many methods have been developed for dengue control, including health education strategies for elementary and high school students. The objective of this study is to provide an update on the status of health education on…
Descriptors: Microbiology, Diseases, Child Health, Health Education
Denny, Thomas N.; Andrews, Laura; Bonsignori, Mattia; Cavanaugh, Kyle; Datto, Michael B.; Deckard, Anastasia; DeMarco, Todd; DeNaeyer, Nicole; Epling, Carol A.; Gurley, Thaddeus; Haase, Steven B.; Hallberg, Chloe; Harer, John; Kneifel, Charles L.; Lee, Mark J.; Louzao, Raul; Moody, M. Anthony; Moore, Zack; Polage, Christopher R.; Puglin, Jamie; Spotts, P. Hunter; Vaughn, John A.; Wolfe, Cameron R. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020
In fall 2020, Duke University's COVID-19 prevention strategy included risk reduction behaviors, frequent testing using pooled SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction testing, and contact tracing. Among 10,265 students who received testing 68,913 times, 84 had positive results. One half of infections were asymptomatic, and some had high viral loads.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Screening Tests, Disease Control
McMillan, Sara S.; El-Den, Sarira; O'Reilly, Claire L.; Roennfeldt, Helena; Theodorus, Theo; Chapman, Justin; Bailey, Kylie; Crump, Keith; Collins, Jack C.; Ng, Ricki; Stewart, Victoria; Wheeler, Amanda J. – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objective: The Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Mental Illness in Community Pharmacy ("PharMIbridge") randomised controlled trial (RCT) aims to test the effectiveness of a pharmacist-led support service in improving medication adherence, and the physical and mental health of people living with severe and persistent mental illness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Personnel, Pharmacy, Community Health Services
Katelyn Darellen O'Farrell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Adverse life events and trauma have the potential to devastate college students' lives across all domains of well-being, including physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and social. Thriving despite these challenges requires academic resilience. Physical activity is one well-known strategy to support increased resilience. No research has…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Social Work, Caseworkers, Allied Health Personnel
Marks, Beth; Sisirak, Jasmina; Magallanes, Rubia; Krok, Kristin; Donohue-Chase, Dina – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Effective strategies to improve health education, food choices, and physical activity are vital for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), as their sedentary lifestyles and high fat diets are contributing to poor health, such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, hypertension, Type II diabetes, and obesity. This study…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Health Promotion, Exercise
Jacobson, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Graduate students report to experience distress at high rates. Research suggests that self-care behaviors such as sleep, exercise, and mindfulness practice can helpful for mental health and wellbeing. The current study examined the effectiveness of a brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) based intervention on increasing self-care behaviors…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Stress Management, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Gordali, Maedeh; Bazhan, Marjan; Ghaffari, Mohtasham; Omidvar, Nasrin; Rashidkhani, Bahram – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine how transtheoretical model (TTM) constructions change through nutrition education for fat intake modification among overweight and obese women living in Shazand city, Iran. Design/methodology/approach: A semi-experimental design with intervention and control groups (50 women in each group) was…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Eating Habits, Obesity
