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Rajeswari Sambasivam; Edimansyah Abdin; P. V. AshaRani; Kumarasan Roystonn; Fiona Devi; Peizhi Wang; Eng Sing Lee; Chee Fang Sum; Mythily Subramaniam – Health Education Research, 2024
The War on Diabetes campaign was launched in 2016, encouraging Singapore residents to engage in regular exercise, adopt healthy dietary habits and screen for early detection of diabetes. This study aims to examine campaign awareness and its associations with sedentary behaviour, dietary habits and identifying diabetes. Data were obtained from the…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Dietetics
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Wufan Jia; Mengru Sun; Guanxiong Huang; Brett Payton; Wenting Yu – Health Education & Behavior, 2025
To unpack the process of how health information seeking influences health behaviors, we examined the mediating roles of interpersonal discussion and online information sharing in the associations between health information seeking and healthy lifestyle behaviors and the moderating role of health literacy in the associations among health…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Life Style, Health Behavior, Interpersonal Communication
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Joyla A. Furlano; Anisa Morava; Michelle Y. S. Wong; Nicholas W. Bray; Wuyou Sui; Joseph Munn; Harry Prapavessis – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Participation in regular exercise among post-secondary students is often low. Our cross-sectional study aimed to assess exercise levels, perceived barriers/motivators to exercise, and knowledge and use of exercise resources in graduate students. Participants: We recruited graduate students across various disciplines at a large Canadian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Behavior, Exercise, Physical Activity Level
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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
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Acari, Sevgi; Sivrikaya, Omer – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2022
It is known that pregnancy is essential in the contribution of exercise to human health and the formation of healthy societies. Phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research techniques, was used in the research. The attitudes of pregnant women towards exercise before and during pregnancy and the factors affecting these attitudes were…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Exercise, Females, Attitudes
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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
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Sanna Fjellström; Jessica Hölttä; Anna Nordström; Eva Flygare Wallén; Marie Lund Ohlsson; Elisabeth Hansen – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: People with intellectual disabilities are less physically active and suffer from ill-health more than the general population. Support staff play an important role in the person's life. This study aimed to explore the support staff's experiences regarding the feasibility of adapted web-based exercise for people with intellectual…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Physical Activity Level, Health Behavior, Web Based Instruction
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Wang, He; Fang, Yan; Zhang, Yilin; Zou, Haonan – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Since 2002, the Chinese Ministry of Education has conducted reform in the physical education (PE) curriculums of schools in China, with a focus on shifting from sports skills to regular participation in physical activity (PA) and promoting health. The aim of the study, therefore, is to examine the effects of school PE on the exercise…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activity Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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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
Pulat Demir, Halime; Serarslan, Mustafa Zahit – Online Submission, 2020
In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the perception of body, nutrition and exercise of obese children and their situations causing obesity. This study was carried out on 14 children aged 10 years old living in Avcilar district of Istanbul, who were classified as obese according to the World Health Organization (WHO) percentiles. Since the…
Descriptors: Obesity, Child Health, Nutrition, Human Body
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Orhan, Rüstem – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
This study aimed to analyze the physical inactivity problem from an educational perspective by investigating the profiles of individuals engaging in physical activities and fitness exercises in recreational areas, gyms, green areas, and walking tracks in Ankara, Bursa, Kirikkale and Nazilli city centers in Turkey. The other objectives of the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activity Level, Physical Activities, Physical Fitness
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Kutlay, Emine; Gönkek, Pelin; Köksal, Ahmet – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
The purpose of this study is to increase awareness among physical education teachers by analyzing the trends in reaching exercise programs on the Google platform during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The exercise trends sought on the Google Trends platform between March 2020 and March 2021, when the pandemic was most intense, were…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Searching
Holt-White, Erica; Shao, Xin; Montacute, Rebecca; Anders, Jake; Cullinane, Carl; De Gennaro, Alice; Yarde, James – Sutton Trust, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic affected the health of millions of people across the country -- at the time of publication, there have been over 20 million confirmed cases of the virus in England and just over 170,000 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, and the ONS estimate that 71% of the population have contracted the virus. Thinking about young…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Incidence
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Hsu, Hua-I; Liu, Chih-Chi; Yang, Stephanie Fu; Chen, Hsueh-Chih – Educational Gerontology, 2023
The importance of an integrated health promotion program has been proposed in recent years. However, the traditional program with lectures might decrease the effectiveness of learning. A game-based learning program provides a supportive social environment and further increases the quality of life and positive emotions. The present study evaluates…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Older Adults, Program Effectiveness, Health Behavior
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Yagmur, Rifat; Isik, Ozkan; Kilic, Yakup; Dogan, Ilkay – JTRM in Kinesiology, 2019
The aim of this study was to examine body weight loss methods and its effects on elite cadet Greco-Roman wrestlers' performance. The sample of research consisted of 146 elite Greco-Roman wrestlers. The "Athlete weight loss methodology and effects scale" and a personal information form were used. In addition to descriptive statistics,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletes, Athletics, Body Weight
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