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Liz E. Vestal; Ann M. Schmidt; Nikole L. Dougherty; Liz Rolf; Jason G. Newland; Nancy B. Mueller – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and the staff who support them were largely in-person during the 2021-2022 school year, despite their continued vulnerability to infection with SARS-CoV-2. This qualitative study aimed to understand continued perceptions of weekly SARS-CoV-2 screening testing of students…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, COVID-19, Pandemics, Screening Tests
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Sakineh Rakhshanderou; Morteza Charkhabi; Yousef Sherizadeh; Parisa Hosseini Koukamari; Laura Seidel; Frederic Dutheil; Mohtasham Ghaffari – American Journal of Health Education, 2024
Background: The dramatic increase in fast food consumption among students, particularly adolescents and children, over the past two decades reflects a significant shift in lifestyle, with nearly one-third of these young individuals consuming ready-made foods on a daily basis. Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the effect of an intervention based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Food, Student Behavior
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Suzanne Trask; Simon Thornley; Gerhard Sundborn – Health Education Research, 2024
Achieving greater alignment with national curriculum and local school and teacher objectives alongside a deeper understanding of student needs can enhance the impact and reach of health promotion interventions. This study reports on teacher perspectives of a multi-pathway curriculum outline supporting learning (Grades 7-9) about sugary drinks. The…
Descriptors: Food, Health Promotion, Secondary School Students, Intervention
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Christian Augustsson; Johan Högman; Annica Löfdahl Hultman – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: As an increasing number of children are identified as insufficiently physically active, the school environment has been targeted for efforts to promote physical activity (PA) among inactive children. While research has highlighted teachers' role in promoting generic school-based daily PA, less is known about the early childhood…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Physical Activity Level, Health Promotion, Preschool Children
Elizabeth A. Kerrick – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Anchor institutions play a vital role in their local communities and economies and have increasingly been expected to become active civic participants in improving health and well-being in their surrounding neighborhoods. This multicase study was conducted to understand how an urban, faith-based university's on-campus health care clinics engage…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Universities, Religious Schools, Campuses
Tanika Jackson-Richmond – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented challenges particularly among group homes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) given the close interactions and living arrangements of residents. Thus, the purpose of this project was to determine if an educational intervention focused on COVID-19 and COVID-19…
Descriptors: Group Homes, COVID-19, Pandemics, Intellectual Disability
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Mansfield, Dana; Sagan, Dylan; O'Donnell, Alexander J.; Takgbajouah, Mary; Loiacono, Bernardo; Clark Withington, Margaret H.; Cory, Molly; Buscemi, Joanna – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: This study examined student and caregiver preference for school communication and explored the feasibility and acceptability of a digital tool to assist with communication about school meal program between schools and families. Methods: The study used qualitative methodology through youth focus groups and caregiver semi-structured…
Descriptors: Higher Education, High School Students, Interpersonal Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Erica Martinez Zumba; Karriem S. Watson; Paola Torres; Barbara Williams; Nasima Mannan; Lauren Green; Brenda Owens; Nicole Gastala; Rocio Bueno; Brenda Soto; Leslie Carnahan; Yamile Molina; Vida Henderson – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Community-engaged patient navigation safety net programs are established as an evidence-based approach to address cancer prevention and early detection efforts, but barriers to expand and sustain such programs persist. In addition, few studies describe how these programs impact buy-in among communities and policy change within health care systems…
Descriptors: Cancer, Community Health Services, Public Health, Preventive Medicine
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Xiao Wei; Mengfan Xu; Li Yang; Zihan Gao; Jinke Kuang; Kexin Zhou – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Background. Health-promoting behaviors and positive lifestyle changes are crucial for effective stroke prevention. However, individuals at high risk of stroke exhibit poor health behavior due to a deficiency of individual motivation. Moreover, there are only a few studies on health-promoting behaviors that have applied behavior change theories in…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Behavior, At Risk Persons, Neurological Impairments
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Mansha Mirza; Jasmine P. Brown-Hollie; Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar; Deborah Parra-Medina; Sarah Camillone; Weiwen Zeng; Estefania Garcia-Gomez; Nazanin Heydarian; Sandy Magaña – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This systematic review evaluated interventions and relevant outcomes for health promotion and obesity prevention among children and adolescents with developmental disabilities (DD). Twenty-one studies including randomized control trials (n= 9) and quasi-experimental studies (n=12) published between 2010 and 2021 met inclusion criteria related to…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Obesity, Prevention, Intervention
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Pauline Heslop; Emily Lauer – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: We now have sufficient evidence demonstrating inequalities in specific avoidable causes of death for adults with intellectual disability compared to their peers without intellectual disability. Apart from COVID-19, the largest differentials that disadvantage people with intellectual disability are in relation to pneumonia, aspiration…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Death, At Risk Persons
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Sandy Whitelaw; Anthony Bell; Ailsa Mackay; Heather Hall – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
The need to foster resilience amongst young people with intellectual disabilities is increasingly recognised within policy. Critically, understanding of the actual means by which this aspiration might be most sensitively and effectively met is considered weak. This paper reports on an exploratory case-study of a social enterprise community café --…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Intellectual Disability, Community Programs, Business
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Sergio Fernando Juárez; C. Kyle Rudick – Communication Education, 2024
Health campaigns have long been viewed from a transmissive lens. That is, typically campaigns assume that medical experts, government officials, and nonprofit organizations have information about some form of care, prevention, or cure, which is then disseminated to those in need of their direction. Health communication scholars have started to…
Descriptors: Health Education, Communications, Health Promotion, Cultural Context
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Melissa N. Savage; Alexandra E. Candelaria – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
While there are many benefits to healthy nutrition, adults with intellectual disability often have poor nutrition habits. The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the use of a nutrition app and self- management intervention to increase awareness of healthy nutrition choices for adults with intellectual disability. Data was gathered on the…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Nutrition Instruction, Handheld Devices, Health Promotion
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Marta Díez; Águeda Parra; María del Carmen García-Mendoza; Inmaculada Queija-Sánchez – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Mental disorders constitute one of the population's principal health problems, especially among undergraduates. This quantitative study compared levels of depression, anxiety, and stress in a sample of emerging adult university undergraduates from a gender perspective (1) during the initial and intermediate years of emerging adulthood and (2) in…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences
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