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Tim Bogg; Phuong T. Vo – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The efficacy of effort appraisal exercise action plans was tested among underactive and inactive university students (N = 221). Methods: Students were randomized across three conditions (information, action planning, or realistic effort action planning (REAP)) and participated in psychoeducational small-group sessions. Students returned…
Descriptors: College Students, Physical Activity Level, Physical Education, Intervention
Bhibha M. Das; Katrina D. DuBose; Sue-L Cohen – Journal of American College Health, 2024
One strategy to encourage college students to meet physical activity and public health guidelines is the Exercise is Medicine on Campus Initiative (EIM-OC), whose goal is to promote physical activity as a vital health sign within universities. To develop, implement, and evaluate the EIM-OC Initiative, it is critical to understand the mechanics of…
Descriptors: Exercise, Physical Activity Level, Health Promotion, Logical Thinking
Heather A. Davis; Molly Rush; Gregory T. Smith – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Body dissatisfaction elevates the risk for disordered eating behaviors. Excessive exercise is prevalent among college women and associated with harm. Risk theory posits a bidirectional relationship between risk factors for disordered eating behaviors and the behaviors themselves. This study investigated the longitudinal, reciprocal…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Negative Attitudes, Eating Disorders, Exercise
Barrack, Michelle T.; Gray, Virginia B.; Olson, Caroline; Richard, Chyann; West, Jazmine – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To evaluate the agreement between a 61-item Nutrition Screening Survey (NSS) and 127-item validated Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ). Participants: Forty-seven college students (male, n = 29; female, n = 18), age 21.7 ± 0.4 years, BMI of 23.5 ± 0.4 kg/m[superscript 2]. Methods: Participants completed the NSS, Block FFQ, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Physical Activity Level, Eating Habits, Nutrition
Carson, Traci L.; Hazzard, Vivienne M.; Finn, Erin; Lipson, Sarah K. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: The objective of this study was to identify university-sponsored activities associated with increased odds of menstrual disturbance among female college students. Participants: The sample included 3,277 female-identifying students at 12 colleges and universities participating in the Healthy Bodies Study during the 2013-2014 and…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Females, College Students, Sororities
Vasiliki Vlacha; Persefoni Perivolaropoulou – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic had implications on students' life. This study aims to identify positive and negative effects of COVID-19 pandemic on students' life habits with the final goal to promote their general wellbeing. Methods: An online questionnaire was administered to Greek undergraduate and graduate college students during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Eating Habits
Wilson, Oliver W. A.; Bopp, Melissa – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To adopt an intersectional approach to examine differences in aerobic and muscle-strengthening participation based on the intersection of gender and race/ethnicity among college students. Methods: Data from the American College Health Association (ACHA) National College Health Assessment collected between 2015 and 2018 were analyzed.…
Descriptors: College Students, Exercise, Health Behavior, Physical Fitness
Ke, Wei; Huang, Jianhao – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
The interruption of regular physical exercise among Chinese college students is a key cause of the lack of motivation to exercise. Therefore, on the basis of self-efficacy theory, this study analysed the interrelationships between the perception of transformational leadership in physical education (PE) by teachers, physical self-efficacy, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Physical Education Teachers
Xu Zhang – International Education Studies, 2024
The prediction of physical ability is a key point to understand the physical training effect of college students. This paper uses the error Back Propagation neural network algorithms to investigate the college students' physical test results, and predicts the future trends of the results. The findings indicate that, in future ten years, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Exercise, Physical Activity Level
Keating, Rebecca; Ahern, Sally; Bisgood, Louisa; Mernagh, Katie; Nicolson, Gail H.; Barrett, Emer M. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To assess the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of an active break designed to disrupt prolonged sitting in university students. Participants: Students attending lectures in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Methods: Participants took part in an active break, which consisted of following a short exercise video lasting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Physical Activity Level, Physical Activities
Newsome, A'Naja; Gilliard, Tiffany; Phillips, Amelia; Dedrick, Robert – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To understand salient beliefs related to physical activity (PA) in sedentary college students. Participants: Thirty-seven students from a large research university participating in a larger research project were subsequently invited to participate in small focus groups. Methods: Using the Theory of Planned Behavior as a framework,…
Descriptors: College Students, Life Style, Physical Activity Level, Student Attitudes
Cheema, Sohaila; Maisonneuve, Patrick; Abraham, Amit; Chaabna, Karima; Yousuf, Wajiha; Mushannen, Tasnim; Ibrahim, Hania; Tom, Abdallah; Lowenfels, Albert B.; Mamtani, Ravinder – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: We aimed to investigate the association between university students' dietary patterns, their demographics and lifestyle in a cross-sectional study in Qatar. Participants: 370 students in eight universities in Qatar enrolled between February 2017 and February 2018. Methods: Based on a structured questionnaire, dietary patterns were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Eating Habits, Student Characteristics
Töre, Özlem; Karabacak, Sercan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
Regular physical activities, called exercise, have an important role in maintaining both physical and mental health. However, some researches have shown that exercise done at uncontrollable rates can be harmful and cause addiction. The study adopted survey method and aimed to examine the exercise addictions of the students in the Faculty of Sports…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exercise, Student Behavior, Physical Activity Level
Ceylan, Ramazan – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
The aim of this study is to compare high-intensity interval running exercises for physical education students in the field and the pool in terms of their effects on anaerobic power and blood lactate. 20 amateur male athletes that is student at physical education department participated in this study on a voluntary basis (Age: 22 ± 4 years, Height:…
Descriptors: Exercise Physiology, Physical Activity Level, Physical Education, College Students
Haibo Xu; Ahmad Albattat; Jeong Chun Phuoc; Baogui Wang – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is that the teaching style of college physical education (PE) teachers affects the establishment of college students' exercise habits. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses the teaching style scale for 32 PE teachers and the autonomic motivation and exercise habits scale for 320 college students in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, College Students