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Riley, Barbara L.; Kernoghan, Alison; Stockton, Lisa; Montague, Steve; Yessis, Jennifer; Willis, Cameron D. – Research Evaluation, 2018
Assessing societal impacts of research is more difficult than assessing advances in knowledge. Methods to evaluate research impact on policy processes and outcomes are especially underdeveloped, and are needed to optimize the influence of research on policy for addressing complex issues such as chronic diseases. Contribution analysis (CA), a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Public Health, Research and Development Centers
Litzelman, Kristin; Kent, Erin E.; Rowland, Julia H. – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Background: Recent research among cancer survivors suggests that health behaviors and coping are intertwined, with important implications for positive behavior change and health. Informal caregivers may have poor health behaviors, and caregivers' health behaviors have been linked to those of survivors. Aims: This hypothesis generating study…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Coping, Caregivers, Cancer
Kreitzberg, Daniel S.; Herrera, Ana Laura; Loukas, Alexandra; Pasch, Keryn E. – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between exposure to tobacco marketing and perceptions of peer tobacco use among college students. Participants: Participants were 5,767 undergraduate students from 19 colleges/universities in the State of Texas. Methods: Students completed an online survey, in the spring of 2016,…
Descriptors: College Students, Smoking, Marketing, Advertising
Ossip, Deborah J.; Johnson, Tye; Assibey-Mensah, Vanessa; Wang, Sijiu; McLaren, Donald; Calabro, Karen; Prokhorov, Alexander V.; McIntosh, Scott – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Background: Personal smoke-free policies (home and vehicle) reduce secondhand smoke exposure, improve health, and increase quitting among smokers. Overall, 83.0% and 78.1% of Americans report smoke-free homes and vehicles, respectively. However, little is known about such policies among 2-year community college (CC) students, who represent a…
Descriptors: Smoking, Two Year College Students, Incidence, Policy
Creamer, MeLisa R.; Loukas, Alexandra; Clendennen, Stephanie; Mantey, Dale; Pasch, Keryn E.; Marti, C. Nathan; Perry, Cheryl L. – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine differences between current and non-current cigarette users, focusing on sociodemographic factors, non-cigarette tobacco product use, parental and friend use, and alcohol and marijuana use; and to identify predictors of cigarette use six months later. Participants: Participants included young…
Descriptors: College Students, Smoking, Socioeconomic Influences, Parent Influence
Yildirim, Mehmet – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2018
The aim of this research is to determine the physical activity levels of physical education and sports school students and to examine the physical activity levels according to some demographic characteristics. The objective of the research is composed of 480 students who are studying different programs in Bozok University Physical Education and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activity Level, Foreign Countries, Team Sports
Weng, Chung-Bang; Sheu, Jiunn-Jye; Chen, Huey-Shys – Journal of School Nursing, 2022
Adolescents often practice unhealthy behaviors to lose weight or keep from gaining weight. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has conducted biennial Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) of various health risk behaviors since 1991 using U.S. representative samples of high school students and is therefore best for us to identify risk/preventive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Body Weight, Health Behavior
Gaiha, Shivani Mathur; Warnock, Amelia; Kile, Shelby; Brake, Kennon; Vong do Rosario, Clementino; Oates, Gabriela R.; Halpern-Felsher, Bonnie; Walley, Susan Chu – Health Education Journal, 2022
Background: E-cigarette prevention education aims to mitigate adolescent e-cigarette use. Such education is increasingly delivered through virtual/video-based teaching platforms (e.g. Zoom, Google Classrooms). However, there is little evidence about the effectiveness of virtual e-cigarette education compared to in-person education on adolescents'…
Descriptors: Smoking, In Person Learning, Health Behavior, Risk
Wang, Cheng; Butts, Carter T.; Hipp, John; Lakon, Cynthia M. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
The recent popularity of models that capture the dynamic coevolution of both network structure and behavior has driven the need for summary indices to assess the adequacy of these models to reproduce dynamic properties of scientific or practical importance. Whereas there are several existing indices for assessing the ability of the model to…
Descriptors: Models, Goodness of Fit, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software
Moss, Jennifer L.; Liu, Benmei; Zhu, Li – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Preventive behaviors established during adolescence can reduce cancer throughout the life span. Understanding the combinations of multiple behaviors, and how these behaviors vary across states, is important for identifying where additional interventions are needed. Using data on 2011-2015 vaccination, energy balance, and substance use from…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Smoking, Cancer, Prevention
Niederdeppe, J.; Kemp, D.; Jesch, E.; Scolere, L.; Greiner Safi, A.; Porticella, N.; Avery, R. J.; Dorf, M. C.; Mathios, A. D.; Byrne, S. – Health Education Research, 2019
Exposure to cigarette advertising can increase the likelihood of youth smoking initiation and may encourage people who already smoke to continue. Requiring prominent, graphic warning labels could reduce these effects. We test whether graphic versus text-only warning labels in cigarette advertisements influence cognitive and emotional factors…
Descriptors: Smoking, Cues, Advertising, Imagery
Farrant, Brad M.; Harrison, Linda J.; Wise, Sarah; Smith, Grant; Zubrick, Stephen R. – Child Care in Practice, 2019
Child care centre attendance is associated with an increased risk of concurrent ear infections, but what is less clear is whether there are any positive or negative long-term effects of early child care attendance on the incidence of ear infections in later childhood. This research assessed the impact of early child care attendance on concurrent…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Health, Diseases, Risk
dela Cruz, William; Christian, Cinda – Online Submission, 2019
In the spring of 2017, the AISD Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) administered the Substance Use and Safety Survey (SSUSS) to track middle and high school students' self-reported knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to substance use and perceptions of school safety. Results from this survey are used to inform and assist with…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Middle School Students, High School Students, School Safety
Miller, Stephen; Pike, James; Chapman, Jared; Xie, Bin; Hilton, Brian N.; Ames, Susan L.; Stacy, Alan W. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2017
This study examines the point-of-sale marketing practices used to promote electronic cigarettes at stores near schools that serve at-risk youths. One hundred stores selling tobacco products within a half-mile of alternative high schools in Southern California were assessed for this study. Seventy percent of stores in the sample sold electronic…
Descriptors: Smoking, At Risk Students, Nontraditional Education, Health Behavior
Tompkins, Lindsay K.; Sears, Clara G.; Hart, Joy L.; Walker, Kandi L.; Lee, Alexander S.; Bhatnagar, Aruni – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2017
Background: Multiple strategies have been utilized in attempts to decrease the prevalence of youth tobacco use. One strategy, raising the minimum legal sale age (MLSA) of tobacco products to 21, known as Tobacco 21, has recently gained popularity. Tobacco 21 legislation targets youth tobacco use by obstructing two main sources of youth tobacco…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Smoking, Student Attitudes