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Michelle Barrette; Wanda Boyer; Patti-Jean Naylor; Nevin Harper – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
Children and youth in contemporary western society spend less time outdoors compared to previous generations. Increased use of technology, lack of green space, and concerns for risk and safety have contributed to a generation of children spending too much time indoors. A disconnection between children and nature has occurred. Our team conducted a…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Outdoor Education, Recreational Activities, Media Literacy
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Emma Ashworth; Joniece Thompson; Pooja Saini – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Despite emerging evidence for the effectiveness of school-based suicide prevention programmes worldwide, there are few being implemented in the United Kingdom, and their social validity (i.e., the feasibility, acceptability, and utility) is not yet known. Aims: We aimed to conduct a scoping study to determine: (1) the social validity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Suicide, Prevention, Health Promotion
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Al-Sheyab, Nihaya A.; Alyahya, Mohammad S.; Alqudah, Jumana A. – Health Education Research, 2021
The current study aimed to examine the effectiveness of multimedia messaging service (MMS) education on exercise benefits and barriers in patients with type 2 diabetes. A quasi-experimental, pretest-post-test design recruited 98 patients with type 2 diabetes. The intervention group received MMS education to improve perceived exercise benefits and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Telecommunications, Multimedia Materials, Handheld Devices
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Li, Yachao; Guan, Mengfei; Hammond, Paige; Berrey, Lane E. – Health Education Research, 2021
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, TikTok, an emerging social media platform, has created an information hub to provide users with engaging and authoritative COVID-19 information. This study investigates the video format, type and content of the COVID-19 TikTok videos, and how those video attributes are related to quantitative indicators of user…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Media, Information Dissemination
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Entringer, Aaron C.; Brannon, Laura A.; Whitaker, Whitney K. – Health Education Research, 2021
Excessive and unsafe sun exposure represents a concerning hazard to the health of individuals. Of particular interest are those who are most susceptible to sun exposure, such as outdoor workers. The current study used a 3 × 2 between-subjects design to investigate the effectiveness of messages that varied the extent of personalization (i.e.…
Descriptors: Employees, Work Environment, Occupational Safety and Health, Safety Education
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Squires, Vicki; London, Chad – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Campuses have never had such an intense focus on health promotion as they do at present as we work toward a post-pandemic future. This article examines the evolution of approaches from a student-centric focus to a systems approach, tracing the history of health promotion on Canadian campuses. Universities have evolved from the initial attempts at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Health Promotion, Holistic Approach
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Healy, Sean; Pacanowski, Carly; Kennedy, Lauren; Obrusnikova, Iva – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Personal beliefs and attitudes about body weight and body image are important determinants of weight management practices. To inform efforts to prevent and treat obesity among autistic adults, this study examined how autistic adults perceive weight management, body weight, and body image. Eleven adults participated in semi-structured interviews.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adults, Attitudes
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Townsley, Matt; Waldron, Jennifer; Alborn-Yilek, Susan; Schares, Denise; Huckstadt, Kim; McNamara, Scott; Gute, Deeanne – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: A statewide 6-month school administrator health and wellness program encouraged participants to use a fitness tracker to self-monitor their physical activity and sleep patterns. The purpose of this study was to examine participants' experience in a school administrator health and wellness program and their perceptions of the impact on…
Descriptors: School Administration, Experience, Health Promotion, Wellness
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Gonzalez, Diana Peña; Villaire, Michael – American Journal of Health Education, 2021
Healthy People 2030 has expressed the need for increased organizational health literacy. In order to support this growing effort, the Institute for Healthcare Advancement has developed 2 resources to help support health education professional development: (1) The Health Literacy Specialist Certificate Program as a rigorously designed professional…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Health Education, Health Promotion, Literacy
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Hoppe-Herfurth, Anne-Cathrin; Burkhardt, Birgit; John, Nancy; Bilz, Ludwig – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: Teachers are exposed to many stressors. Compared to other occupational groups, they are more frequently affected by psychosomatic complaints. In recent decades, numerous prevention and intervention measures for promoting health have been developed and implemented for this target group. However, it remains unclear how the uptake of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Lamia, Tamara L.; Lowry, Garry F.; McLees, Anita W.; Frazier, Cassandra M.; Young, Andrea C. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
The flexibility federal block grants provide recipients poses challenges for evaluation. These challenges include aggregating data on wide-ranging activities grant recipients implement and the outcomes they achieve. In 2014, we began designing an evaluation to address the challenges of assessing outcomes and to improve outcome accountability for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Grants, Program Evaluation, Health Services
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Lee, Sunwoo – Educational Gerontology, 2021
Obtaining adequate information using digital technology or online communities has become more prevalent during the COIVD-19 pandemic. Therefore, understanding collected resources and information plays a significant role in the ability of older adults to cope with the adversities during the pandemic. On the one hand, older adults are exposed to…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Older Adults, COVID-19
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Spotswood, Fiona; Vihalemm, Triin; Uibu, Marko; Korp, Leene – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: In this study, the authors offer a practice theory framing of school physical activity transition with conceptual and managerial contributions to whole school approaches (WSAs). Design/methodology/approach: Based on a literature overview of the limitations of WSA, ecological and systems theorisation and a practice theory framing of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Holistic Approach, Educational Practices
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Lunde, Hilde; Blaalid, Laila; Areskoug Josefsson, Kristina; Gerbild, Helle – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Background: Norwegian social educator students' attitudes towards addressing sexual health are unknown, even if their future clients often have needs related to sexual issues. Purpose: To investigate social educator students' readiness to address sexual health in their future profession. Methods: In 2019, 213 social educator students (response…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Sex Education, Health Education
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Rismayanthi, Cerika; Sugiyanto; Kristiyanto, Agus; Doewes, Muchsin – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2022
Increasing age that helps everyone will lead to the elderly group being vulnerable to various activities because of the decline in physiological functions. On the other hand, the elderly have to be able to survive. In addition to the psychological aspects, aspects of muscle, cardiovascular, balance, and mobility are essential factors to support…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Physical Fitness, Health Promotion, Delphi Technique
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