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Timothy Piatkowski; Cheya Clarke; Cheneal Puljevic; Kim M. Caudwell – Health Education Journal, 2025
Objective: Vaping, initially a smoking cessation aid, is now a widespread recreational activity sometimes associated with perceived health concerns. This study explored attitudes, harm perceptions and cessation barriers in the context of participants' vaping behaviours, guided by the theoretical lens of fundamental social causes. Design and…
Descriptors: Smoking, Adults, Attitudes, Health Behavior
Madison Weinstock; Taylor Vashro; Taryn Henning; Suzanne E. Mazzeo – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: Dieting is a known risk factor for disordered eating, yet many college women engage in this behavior. Given the popularity of diets, and the risks associated with dieting, it is important to enhance understanding of dieters' experiences. This study utilized a qualitative approach to investigate college women's experiences of dieting.…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Eating Disorders, Females, Undergraduate Students
Skyler M. Hoover; Molly J. Swinney; Lauren A. Greenspoon; Michael B. Madson; Byron L. Zamboanga; Morgan Haga – Journal of Drug Education, 2025
This study investigated differences in alcohol protective behavioral strategy (PBSA) use and negative consequences (ARNC) experienced among heavy alcohol users and non-heavy alcohol users, and risky and non-risky drinkers. Participants were from 12 universities in the United States (n = 2,163 college students, M[subscript age] = 19.47),…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Drinking, College Students, Student Behavior
Alexa G. Deyo; Alison Vrabec; Katherine M. Kidwell – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To examine associations among college students' worry about COVID-19, use of healthy and unhealthy coping techniques, and sleep-related impairment. Participants: The sample consisted of 366 undergraduate students (M[subscript age] =19.48 ± 1.76 years, 63.4% women; 62.6% college freshman). Methods: University students completed a series…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Coping, Stress Management
J. Hannah Lee; Hanna Suh – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: College drinking is a significant individual and societal problem, and thus, identifying risk factors to alcohol-related problems has been an important line of inquiry. Adding to this rich literature, the current study examined whether perfectionism dimensions were associated with alcohol-related problems and whether a poor…
Descriptors: Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Personality Traits, Health Behavior
Sarah J. Hatteberg; Christy Kollath-Cattano – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges worked to minimize transmission through non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). The objective of this study was to apply the Health Belief Model to assess correlates of US college students' early stage NPI uptake. Participants: Sample includes 1,223 students from a medium-sized university who…
Descriptors: College Students, Health Behavior, COVID-19, Pandemics
Nicole R. Skaar – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2024
The goal of this project was to substantiate a more positive conceptualization of adolescent risk behavior and to compare adolescent viewpoints of risk behavior to the items on the Prosocial and Health Adolescent Risk Behavior Scale (PHARBS). A total of 57 high school students participated in the research. Researchers recruited students from an…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Behavior, Definitions, Measurement
Diana M. Doumas; Raissa Miller; Susan Esp – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Sensation seeking is a significant predictor of alcohol-related consequences among high school students. High school seniors report the highest prevalence rates of alcohol use and binge drinking among students in high school. Among high sensation-seeking students, higher rates of Protective Behavioral Strategies (PBS) use are associated with fewer…
Descriptors: Risk, Predictor Variables, Drinking, High School Seniors
Meng Chen; Laramie D. Taylor; Robert A. Bell – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Narratives have been widely acknowledged as a powerful persuasion tool in health promotion and education. Recently, great efforts have been devoted to identifying message components and causal pathways that maximize a narrative's persuasion power. Specifically, we investigated how narrator point of view and readers' subjective relative risk…
Descriptors: Diseases, Personal Narratives, Risk, Intention
Güzin Ünlü Suvari; Meltem Kaydirak – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
This study aimed to assess the effect of web-based reproductive health education provided to university students in Turkey on their belief in sexual myths and risky behaviours. A randomised controlled trial was conducted in a state university between March-October 2021 with 96 students. The web-based health education was developed using the ADDIE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Health Education, College Students
Wellington Segheto; Sabrina Fontes Domingues; Braian Rodrigues Campos; Mr. Marcela Alvarenga Abreu; Luciana Moreira Lima – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
The university is considered an environment that favors the initiation and use of substances, especially those that are legal, such as alcohol. This consumption can be differentiated in university students, which makes it necessary to better understand this behavior. Taking into account these aspects, we analyzed the abusive consumption of…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Drinking, College Students, Socioeconomic Status
M. C. Farrelly; B. Levine; M. L. Cavazos – Health Education Research, 2024
Tobacco surveillance in the United States is robust but cannot be quickly modified to capture newly identified tobacco products or behaviors. We present an example of a rapidly deployed nonprobability survey using social media recruitment that collected data on rapidly changing tobacco use behaviors. We recruited 15- to 17-year old current vapers…
Descriptors: Smoking, Drug Use, Adolescents, Risk
Kai Hong; Syeda Sana Fatima; Amy Ellen Schwartz; Leanna Stiefel; Sherry Glied – Education Economics, 2024
We evaluate the impacts of small high schools on youth risky behaviors and mental health in New York City, using a two-sample-instrumental-variable approach to address endogenous school enrollment. We find heterogeneous effects. School size, overall, has little effect. Among "students" most likely to attend small schools opened…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Risk, Mental Health, Small Schools
Siti Maryam Md Nor; Haslinda Abdullah; Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh; Syuhaily Osman; Wan Munira Wan Jaafar – Health Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the determinants of healthy lifestyle behavior in married people. It also sought to propose an integrative model that incorporates variables from two theoretical models, namely, the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the health belief model (HBM), as well as two additional variables, namely habit and body…
Descriptors: Life Style, Marriage, Predictor Variables, Human Body
Matthew Lovesky; Laura Merrell; Suzanne Grossman; Dayna Henry – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To assess changes in perceptions of COVID-19 worry and perceived severity, changes in COVID-19 vaccination status, and barriers to COVID-19 vaccination among college students. Participants: 2,252 participants were recruited from a personal wellness course across four academic semesters at a large public university. Methods: Participants…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs, Student Attitudes