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Direct linkMargaret 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
Yuejin Li; Sierra Cary-Brown; Monica Ochapa; Sara Rostampour; Anita Smith Hawkins – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Young adults of age 18-29 years old account for the most COVID-19 cases in the US, and ethnic groups were affected disproportionately. Correctly wearing a face mask remains a critical intervention for COVID-19 mitigation. The study aimed to examine how well Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) residents adhered to mask…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, COVID-19, Pandemics, Hygiene
Tim Schnitzler; Christoph Korn; Sabine C. Herpertz; Thomas Fuchs – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
With the widespread use of masks in the COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial to understand how emotion recognition is affected by partial face covering. Since individuals with autism spectrum condition often tend to look at the lower half of the face, they are likely to be particularly restricted in emotion recognition by people wearing masks, since…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Emotional Response
Jess, Rachel L.; Dozier, Claudia L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2020
Personal hygiene is critical for preventing the spread of infection. One important component of personal hygiene is handwashing. This review summarizes research on behavioral strategies to address handwashing in children, offers areas for additional research, and suggests a treatment package to teach handwashing to young children.
Descriptors: Hygiene, Health Promotion, Children, Teaching Methods
Ruijuan Li; Yuanchun Zhou; Hua Wang; Qi Wang – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Reusable takeaway food containers (RTFCs) are a newly emerging green packaging choice for the takeaway industry that can effectively reduce campus solid waste but are not yet well accepted. Therefore, this study aims to identify the key factors influencing university students' intention to choose RTFCs, seeking to enhance RTFC project…
Descriptors: College Students, Intention, Decision Making, Recycling
Madeline Sands; Ben Tidwell; Robert Aunger – Evaluation Review, 2025
This study tested a 'wise' intervention (quick prompt of a specific psychological mec) in acute care hospital units to improve nurses' hand hygiene compliance (HHC). A multiple baseline design in two medical-surgical teaching hospitals in the United States. Hand hygiene data was collected using an electronic compliance monitoring system with…
Descriptors: Nurses, Hygiene, Disease Control, Occupational Safety and Health
J. Golder; M. Jerge; B. Sundstrom; M. Dziobak; L. B. Hart – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To understand how student perceptions of physical health and generalized concern about infection influenced engagement in COVID-19 preventive behaviors. Participants: 418 full-time undergraduate and graduate students attending a public university in South Carolina, USA. Methods: A self-administered survey was distributed during the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Prevention, Health Behavior
Michelle Gorzanelli; Jorge Knijnik – Springer, 2025
This book fills a gap in literature by generating a combined history of Physical Education (PE), School Sport (SS) and Health Education (HE) in New South Wales (NSW) public schools from 1880 to 2024. It includes broad discussions on how political issues such as the World Wars influenced (i) the PE curriculum, which was used as a medium to prepare…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Health Education, Public Schools
Hoyoung Yi; Moumita Choudhury; Candace Hicks – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate the impacts of a surgical mask and a transparent mask on audio-only and audiovisual speech intelligibility in noise (i.e., 0 dB signal-to-noise ratio) in individuals with mild-to-profound hearing loss. The study also examined if individuals with hearing loss can benefit from using a transparent…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Hearing Impairments, Intelligibility, Acoustics
Molly K. Oshinski; Terry S. Falcomata; Patricio Erhard – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2023
Individuals with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities (ASD/DD) often need to be explicitly taught personal hygiene skills (e.g., menstrual care, penile care and washing and cleaning of intimate body parts). The taboo and private nature of intimate care skills has often led practitioners to avoid teaching these skills…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Hygiene, Physiology, Daily Living Skills
Rowland, Leah C.; Klinkhammer, Martin D.; Ramirez, Dana W. E. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Ongoing masking of K-12 children has not been universally accepted despite recommendation from public health authorities. In states without universal mask mandates for schools, district administrators are forced to make masking decisions under significant local political pressures. There is a call for endpoints to masking to allow…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control, Elementary Secondary Education
Christen Abraham; Michelle Leonard; Charles Giraud – American Journal of Health Education, 2024
Background: Developmentally, social relationships are critical in the lives of emerging adults; however, little research has been focused on the types of protective behaviors that individuals on college campuses engaged in during the pandemic. Purpose: This study examines predictors of emerging adults' self-protective behaviors with a focus on…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Predictor Variables, Health Behavior
Download full textEileen Espejo; Jessica Sawko, Contributor; Fatima Clark, Contributor; Adonai Mack, Contributor; Mike Odeh, Contributor; Sara Fung, Contributor; Nima Rahni, Contributor – Children Now, 2024
Research shows children with poor oral health are nearly three times more likely to miss school than their healthier peers which can lead to lower academic performance and ability to succeed in school. Furthermore, poor oral health remains one of the top reasons why California students miss school, resulting in a loss of $28 million per year to…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Dental Health, Child Health
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
Mitigation and Physical Activity Behaviors among School-Aged Children during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
Nanette Lopez; Kristal Herrera; Josie Carter; Shlomit Radom-Aizik; Kai Zheng; Steve Palmer; Dan Cooper – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic closed schools to in-person learning across the United States, resulting in unintended increases in sedentary behavior among children. Individual states maintained different mitigation policies, potentially affecting activity behaviors. This study examined student mitigation behavior and sedentary time during…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Physical Activity Level
