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Gabriela López; Jennifer E. Merrill; Rose Marie Ward – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Background: Links between alcohol-induced blackouts and sexual assault (SA) are understudied. We tested whether: (1) history of blackouts, past 30-day blackouts, and past 30-day blackout intentions would be higher among women with histories of SA relative to women without; (2) baseline history of blackouts, past 30-day blackouts, and blackout…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Rape, Females
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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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Jensen, Jessica L. King; Rashid, Mariam; Ajith, Aniruddh; Jewett, Bambi; Hacker, Kiana; Phan, Lilianna; Choi, Kelvin; Chen-Sankey, Julia – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
We examined the prevalence and correlates of anticipated responses to hypothetical cigar price increases. Data are from a 2021 representative sample of U.S. adults who reported past-30-day cigar use (n = 454; mean age = 39.8 years). Weighted multivariable logistic regressions assessed the correlates of behavior change responses. If cigar price…
Descriptors: Smoking, Costs, Adults, Behavior Change
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Megan E. Douglas; Heidemarie Blumenthal; Charles A. Guarnaccia – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The transition to college is marked by poorer eating behaviors, making emerging adulthood a particularly salient intervention point for improving lifelong health. The present study aims to better understand what psychosocial factors predict eating behaviors of college students using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Participants…
Descriptors: College Students, Eating Habits, Predictor Variables, Food
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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
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Christy Kollath-Cattano; Sarah J. Hatteberg; Samantha Petillo; Morgan Giancaterini – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To examine correlates of and barriers to COVID-19 vaccine initiation and intention among college students. Participants: 1,171 students attending a public university in the South. Methods: Multivariate logistic regression was used to assess the correlates of vaccine intention and initiation. Reasons for pursuing or foregoing vaccination…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs, College Students
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Jia Yan; Elisabeth Bigsby – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: This study investigated correlations between college students' intentions to adopt COVID-19 prevention behaviors (i.e., handwashing, mask wearing, and social distancing) and their attitudes, perceived norms, perceived efficacy, and information seeking. Participants: Students (N = 326) from a large Midwestern university recruited via…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Behavior, Prevention
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Ma, Zexin; Ma, Rong – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Alcohol is a known carcinogen. However, public awareness of cancer risk associated with alcohol use is low. A promising approach to raising awareness is to include cancer warning labels on alcohol-containing products, but there is limited knowledge of the design and effect of such warnings. The present study investigated the impact of visual…
Descriptors: Cancer, Merchandise Information, Drinking, Risk
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Bae, Beom Jun; Heald, Gary – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: The current study explores non-linear effects of absolute risk and effects of comparative risk information about skin cancer on individuals' safety ratings, affective responses and behavioral intentions. Method: An experimental survey was conducted among college students (N = 563) to test the effects of absolute and comparative risk…
Descriptors: Cancer, College Students, Risk, Safety
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de Saint Laurent, Constance; Murphy, Gillian; Hegarty, Karen; Greene, Ciara M. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Misinformation has been a pressing issue since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, threatening our ability to effectively act on the crisis. Nevertheless, little is known about the actual effects of fake news on behavioural intentions. Does exposure to or belief in misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines affect people's intentions to receive…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Beliefs, Intention, Health Behavior
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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
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Amy M. Kemp; Gabriella Norton; Madison Neese; Yalian Pei; Katy H. O'Brien – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: This mixed method study examined how psychosocial factors from the Theory of Planned Behavior and Reasoned Action (TPB/RA) influence health-seeking behaviors after concussion, expanding from student-athlete TPB/RA research to assess the influence of psychosocial factors within a general college population. Participants: Two hundred and…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Head Injuries, Brain, Student Athletes
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Hannah R. Hamilton; Julie Longua Peterson; Tracy DeHart – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The Theory of Planned Behavior has been applied to COVID-19 protective behaviors, but evidence suggests this theory may be less predictive over time and less valid in individualistic societies. The current study applied this theory among American college students as vaccines became available and added perceived risk. Participants: 242…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Risk, Health Behavior
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Eggers, Matthew E.; Fajobi, OlaOluwa; Kelly, Lisa K.; Thompson, Jesse; Nonnemaker, James M. – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: With the proliferation of vaping in recent years, vaping-related mass media campaigns have been implemented to discourage vaping among youth and young adults. Research on salient vaping-related themes for vaping cessation is lacking. This study aimed to identify promising belief themes for use in young adult-targeted vaping cessation…
Descriptors: Smoking, Young Adults, Health Promotion, Beliefs
Megan Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2023
College students experience negative sexual health outcomes such as sexually transmitted infections (STI) and unintended pregnancies. Increasing their use of clinical sexual health services may help reduce these poor outcomes. Currently, little is known about the sexual health service utilization of college students in Alabama or the factors that…
Descriptors: College Students, Sexuality, Health, Health Services
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