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Download full textJoyvina K. Evans – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2024
Preparing students enrolled in healthcare programs for industry is paramount. While providing administrative and clinical education is essential, students must understand the health literacy levels of the population they serve and work diligently to ensure the population understands and comprehends the health information. Adults with low or…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Literacy, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Direct linkLaura Alonso Martínez; María Begoña Vigo-Arrazola – Health Education, 2024
Purpose: Government's role and sex education are vital in promoting inclusivity and sexual health. To understand the impact that the legislation has had on sex education, it is necessary to evaluate it at the different training levels. Design/methodology/approach: The method used is a critical review aimed at comparing educational and state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Educational Legislation, Social Justice
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
Sweileh, Waleed M. – American Journal of Health Education, 2023
Background: Unhealthy lifestyle habits developed during university years could continue into adulthood. Purpose: To analyze and map worldwide publications on physical activity among university students. Method: A pre-validated search strategy was used to find relevant articles in the Scopus database. The study period represented three decades…
Descriptors: Life Style, College Students, Physical Activity Level, Journal Articles
Rodrigo-Sanjoaquín, Javier; Murillo-Pardo, Berta; Corral-Abós, Ana; Lorente-Echeverría, Silvia; Zaragoza Casterad, Javier – Health Education Journal, 2023
Background: The Health-Promoting School (HPS) framework offers a comprehensive approach to promoting health in schools. Aragon's HPS network is a local organisation which has identified the need for closer cooperation between the education and health sectors as the main challenge facing its programme. Objectives: Previous studies from countries…
Descriptors: Barriers, Health Promotion, Health Education, Cooperation
Sofía M. Martínez-Sánchez; Laura M. Martínez-Sánchez; Concha Martínez-García – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Research suggests that women experience more barriers to physical exercise than men do. Advocating for increased physical exercise is a primary responsibility of professionals who have specialised in the field of physical activity and sports sciences. This study aimed to examine differences in barriers to the practise of physical…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Barriers, Exercise, Physical Education
European Students' Union, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, students in higher education experienced mental health issues whereby National Unions Students & local unions, Higher Education Institutions, and governments played a role in addressing them. Mental health and wellbeing among students have been analysed by external actors as the topic has been talked about already…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Mental Health, College Students, Student Attitudes
Marina Flores de Lizaur Gavilanes; Benito León del Barco – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2024
Introduction: The aim of this study is to identify which parenting styles are associated with optimal outcomes for in the psychological wellbeing of university students in Extremadura. The participants were 400 students from Extremadura, aged between 18 and 30, 80% of whom were women and 20% men. Parenting styles were divided into three categories…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Well Being, College Students, Foreign Countries
Perez-Dominguez, Francisco; Polanco-Ilabaca, Francisca; Pinto-Toledo, Fernanda; Michaeli, Daniel; Achiardi, Jadi; Santana, Valeria; Urnelli, Chiara; Sawaguchi, Yoshihiro; Rodríguez, Perla; Maldonado, Mónica; Raffeeq, Zaheer; de Araujo Madeiros, Otavio; Rebolledo, Cristián – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
The global pandemic caused by coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) disrupted both public and private life for many. Concerning medical students, practical teaching and classrooms were substituted with a virtual curriculum. However, how this new academic environment has affected students' health and lifestyles has yet to be studied. In this study,…
Descriptors: Life Style, Health Behavior, Medical Students, COVID-19
Dimitra Perifanou; Eleni Konstantinou; Anne Nikula; Kristina Grendova; Aija Ahokas; Joan-Carles Casas-Baroy; Daniela Cavani; Paola Ferri; Paola Galbany-Estragués; Cinzia Gradellini; Michaela Machajova; Daniela Mecugni; Sari Nyman; Xavier Palomar-Aumatell; Janka Prnova; Montse Romero Mas; Carme Roure Pujol; Heli Thomander; Evanthia Sakellari – Higher Education Studies, 2024
Immunization is a highly cost-effective investment in health, proven to be an effective tool in controlling and eliminating dangerous infectious diseases. Health science students require evidence-based knowledge to tackle challenges in healthcare, particularly in the field of vaccination. The aim of the current study is to asses students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immunization Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Communicable Diseases
Mireia Illescas-Navarro; Marta Cruz-Guzmán; Ana María Criado; Antonio García-Carmona – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2025
The conceptions that prospective primary teachers (PPTs) have about breastfeeding (BF) were explored as part of their training in school content related to health and the human body. For this, the PPTs answered a questionnaire designed ad hoc, without having received any prior training about the topic. The questionnaire had previously been…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Level, Scientific Literacy
Shen, Panshuo; Slater, Paul – International Education Studies, 2021
Occupational stress has been constantly rising among academics in universities globally, which affects their health and well-being. Although some studies reviewed occupational stress in academics, there has been less systematic evidence reviewed occupational stress of academic staff through the lens of the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Coping, Work Environment, College Faculty
Promethi Das Deep; Yixin Chen – Higher Education Studies, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted higher education. The sudden and profound transformations it necessitated had a direct and negative impact on higher education students, as evidenced by the widely reported instances of academic disengagement, decreased motivation, and lower performance. This was often due to student burnout caused by…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Fatigue (Biology)
Mauricio Blanco-Molina; Sacramento Pinazo-Hernandis; José M. Tomas – Educational Gerontology, 2025
The aim of this research is to compare a series of subjective indicators of healthy aging. We analyzed two samples of people 60 years or older enrolled in university courses in two public universities, the National University (Costa Rica, N = 206) and the University of Valencia (Spain, N = 857). The subjective indicators of successful aging…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, College Students, Foreign Countries
Marta Modrego-Alarcón; Héctor Morillo; Daniel Campos; María Teresa Navarro-Gil; Jesús Montero-Marín; Alicia Monreal-Bartolomé; Javier García-Campayo; Yolanda López-Del-Hoyo – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2025
Mindfulness practices have proven to be effective for improving the mental health of many populations, including university students. However, these practices can be challenging for naive meditators. Virtual reality (VR) can create virtual scenarios that facilitate the practice of mindfulness. This study presents secondary data from a randomized…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Metacognition, Technology Uses in Education, Universities
