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Stephanie M. Asdell; Rachel D. Bennett; Sabrina A. Cordon; Qiuhong Zhao; Jeffrey F. Peipert – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To assess the relationship between knowledge of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and intention to use LARC among female students. Participants: Participants consisted of a convenience sample of 292 female undergraduate and graduate students at a large midwestern university. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional in-person…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Intention, College Students, Contraception
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Cook, Amanda C.; Reisling, Alannah – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To determine the impact of fraternity and sorority membership on condom use during sex. Methods: Utilizing data from The American College Health Association (ACHA) National College Health Assessment from 2016-2018, we estimated a linear probability, logistic, and instrumental variable model to determine the relationship between…
Descriptors: Fraternities, Sororities, Sexuality, Contraception
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Jerman, Petra; Berglas, Nancy F.; Rohrbach, Louise A.; Constantine, Norman A. – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: Although Hispanic adolescents in the USA are often the focus of sexual health interventions, their response to survey measures has rarely been assessed within evaluation studies. This study documents the test-retest reliability of a wide range of self-reported sexual health values, attitudes, knowledge and behaviours among Hispanic…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Hispanic Americans, Intervention, Surveys
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS) has a long history of providing representative data on the nation's high school students. These assessments are crucial to CDC's mission of identifying health behaviors and experiences; understanding the determinants and co-occurrence of risks;…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, High School Students, National Surveys, Risk
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Hall, Cougar; West, Joshua; Herbert, Patrick C. – Health Educator, 2015
Adolescent consumption of screen media continues to increase. A variety of theoretical constructs hypothesize the impact of media content on health-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. This study uses a coding instrument based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Youth Risk Behavior Survey to analyze health behavior contained in…
Descriptors: Risk, Health Behavior, Programming (Broadcast), Eating Habits
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Leston, Jessica D.; Jessen, Cornelia M.; Simons, Brenna C. – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2012
Background: The disparity in rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), HIV/AIDS, and unplanned pregnancy between Alaska Native (AN) and non-AN populations, particularly among young adults and females, is significant and concerning. Focus groups were conducted to better understand the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of rural Alaska youth…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Rural Youth, Alaska Natives, Focus Groups
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Huettman, Julie K. Doidge; Sarvela, Paul D. – Eta Sigma Gamman, 1992
A university birth control education program was created to improve student knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Students attended a birth control class before visiting the health clinic for prescriptions. Pre- and posttest questionnaires and clinician assessments indicated knowledge of birth control improved significantly, and students became…
Descriptors: College Students, Contraception, Formative Evaluation, Health Behavior