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Patty, Willard W. – Journal of School Health, 2001
This 1949 paper considers the evaluation of health education outcomes. It describes the nature of health education, discusses whether it is possible to measure all health education outcomes, then examines how to evaluate student health habits and skills, health attitudes, and health knowledge. It concludes that it is important to evaluate health…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Comprehensive School Health Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Becker, Marla G.; Barth, Richard P. – Child Welfare, 2000
Profiles the development and characteristics of the Power Through Choices curriculum designed to prevent adolescent pregnancy, HIV infection, and sexually transmitted diseases among out-of-home care adolescents. Highlights a 1997 evaluation of the curriculum's implementation, which found that students in the program responded positively to the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Foster Children, Health Behavior
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Gore-Felton, Cheryl; Rotheram-Borus, Mary Jane; Weinhardt, Lance S.; Kelly, Jeffrey A.; Lightfoot, Marguerita; Kirshenbaum, Sheri B.; Johnson, Mallory O.; Chesney, Margaret A.; Catz, Sheryl L.; Ehrhardt, Anke A.; Remien, Robert H.; Morin, Stephen F. – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2005
The NIMH Healthy Living Project (HLP), a randomized behavioral intervention trial for people living with HIV, enrolled 943 individuals, including women, heterosexual men, injection drug users, and men who have sex with men from Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, and San Francisco. The intervention, which is based on qualitative formative research…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Intervention, Individualized Programs, Anxiety
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Ward-Griffin, Catherine; Hobson, Sandra; Melles, Pauline; Kloseck, Marita; Vandervoort, Anthony; Crilly, Richard – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2004
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the everyday experience of community-dwelling elders, with particular attention to seniors' perceptions of safety, fear of falling, independence, and quality of life. We also aimed to identify contextual factors that influence the health of elders who had fallen and/or had a fear of…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Fear, Older Adults, Safety
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Gee, Ellen Margaret Thomas; Kobayashi, Karen M.; Prus, Steven G. – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2004
Recent studies have established that a healthy immigrant effect operates in Canada--immigrants are generally healthier than Canadian-born persons--but that this effect tends to diminish over time, as the health of immigrants converges to the Canadian norm. Although this effect has been examined by place of birth, language, marital status,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Public Health, Mental Health
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Nour, Kareen; Laforest, Sophie; Gignac, Monique; Gauvin, Lise – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2005
This paper draws a socio-demographic, physical, psychosocial, and behavioural profile of housebound older adults with arthritis and compares older adults with rheumatoid arthritis to those with osteoarthritis. Data from 125 housebound older adults with osteoarthritis (65%) or rheumatoid arthritis (35%) were compared to published samples and to…
Descriptors: Social Life, Self Efficacy, Depression (Psychology), Older Adults
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Yadrick, Kathleen – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2005
Individuals are bombarded every day with data on obesity and its health consequences, with information on weight loss treatments and their successes and failures, and with tips on how to reduce caloric intake and increase physical activity. Obesity has become a global epidemic, termed globesity (World Health Organization, 2003), and seen by many…
Descriptors: Public Health, Life Style, Physical Activity Level, Eating Habits
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Huba, G. J.; Panter, A. T.; Melchior, Lisa A.; Trevithick, Lee; Woods, Elizabeth R.; Wright, Eric; Feudo, Rudy; Tierney, Steven; Schneir, Arlene; Tenner, Adam; Remafedi, Gary; Greenberg, Brian; Sturdevant, Marsha; Goodman, Elizabeth; Hodgins, Antigone; Wallace, Michael; Brady, Russell E.; Singer, Barney; Marconi, Katherine – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2003
This article examines the structure of several HIV risk behaviors in an ethnically and geographically diverse sample of 8,251 clients from 10 innovative demonstration projects intended for adolescents living with, or at risk for, HIV. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses identified 2 risk factors for men (sexual intercourse with men and a…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Substance Abuse, Structural Equation Models, Risk
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Reed, Deborah B.; Browning, Steven R.; Westneat, Susan C.; Kidd, Pamela S. – Journal of Rural Health, 2006
Context: Children on farms perform work that places them at risk for acute and chronic negative health outcomes. Despite strategies for preventing and reducing the risk of disease and injury, children's use of personal protective equipment and safety equipped farm machinery has generally remained unreported. Purpose: This paper reports the use of…
Descriptors: Safety Equipment, Adolescents, Gender Differences, Predictor Variables
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Morrow, James R., Jr. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2005
The current state of physical fitness in American youth is unknown. While evidence exists that obesity levels are increasing in children and youth, data on declines in physical fitness measures (i.e., cardiorespiratory and musculoskeletal fitness) are lacking. Tracking of physical fitness components has been poorly done. Surveillance of behaviors…
Descriptors: Youth, Physical Activities, Obesity, Children
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Torre, Dario M.; Wang, Nae-Yuh; Meoni, Lucy A.; Young, J. Hunter; Klag, Michael J.; Ford, Daniel E. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2005
Physicians frequently are early adopters of healthy behaviors based on their knowledge and economic resources. The mortality patterns of physicians in the United States, particularly suicide, have not been rigorously described for over a decade. Previous studies have shown lower all-cause mortality among physicians yet reported conflicting results…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Physicians, Suicide, Matched Groups
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Fujino, Yoshihisa; Mizoue, Tetsuya; Tokui, Noritaka; Yoshimura, Takesumi – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2005
The association between many psychosocial factors and risk of suicide was examined. A cohort was conducted over 14 years of follow up among the general population (15,597 people) in Japan. A baseline survey of psychosocial characteristics was conducted by self-administrated questionnaire. The relative risks of occasional emotional stress,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Suicide, Anxiety
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Parker, Sarah C.; Lyons, John; Bonner, Julia – Journal of American College Health, 2005
The results of several studies have established the validity of the SCOFF questionnaire (a 5-question screening tool for eating disorders), but researchers need to explore further replicability using the US version in the graduate school population. In this study, the authors asked 335 graduate students attending the Northwestern student health…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Self Concept, Graduate Students, Eating Disorders
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Sheffield, Felicia D.; Darkes, Jack; Del Boca, Frances K.; Goldman, Mark S. – Journal of American College Health, 2005
Binge drinking and alcohol-related problems among students at traditional 4-year universities have been well documented. However, little is known about the frequency of their such behaviors and its consequences among community college students, who comprise roughly 44% of all undergraduate students in the United States. The present study examined…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Prevention, Intervention, Community Colleges
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Sprenger, Marilee – Educational Leadership, 2005
A glimpse is provided into a normal school day of an adolescent whose activities and responses are governed by the different stages of physical development. How an adolescent goes through constant fatigue, emotional ups and downs, social pressures and low impulse control compounded by poor nutrition, is a lesson in survival.
Descriptors: Self Control, Physical Development, Nutrition, Adolescents
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