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Charissa N. Obeng-Nyarko; Penny A. Ralston; Kandauda K. A. S. Wickrama; Jennifer L. Lemacks; Jasminka Z. Ilich – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the leading cause of death in the United States, with African Americans experiencing higher age-adjusted mortality compared to Whites. African American women in particular carry a high CVD burden due to more exposure to adverse personal and socioenvironmental challenges. Church-based interventions can…
Descriptors: Heart Disorders, African Americans, Older Adults, Females
Traci Hayes; Wendy White; Kisa K. Harris; Amel Mohammed; Frances Henderson; Caroline E. Compretta – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The study aimed to understand the perceptions, knowledge, information sources, and coping skills pertaining to COVID-19 among two groups of African American young adults. Participants: African American ages 18-29 years enrolled in Historically Black Colleges and Universities and non-college enrolled young adults in Mississippi were the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers, Student Attitudes
Oztabak, Muhammet U. – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2020
Humans have had to immigrate from one country to another throughout the history because of economic problems, warfare, safety, etc. Warfare and migration definitely bring about traumatic incidents for all humanity. However, they are much more destructive for children. The current study aims to review the warfare-and-migration-themed drawings of…
Descriptors: Refugees, War, Freehand Drawing, Children
Feldman, Daniel – American Journal of Play, 2019
The author demonstrates that war places children's play under acute stress but does not eliminate it. He argues that the persistence of children's play and games during periods of armed conflict reflects the significance of play as a key mode for children to cope with conditions of war. Episodes of children's play drawn from the recent Syrian…
Descriptors: War, Play, Stress Variables, Coping
Eifert, Wendy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
School mass shootings have been increasing, leading to the need to better understand how exposure to these events affects high school and college students' academic performance, psychosocial functioning, and mental health. With a greater understanding of these effects, results can be used to inform the contemporary literature on the psychological…
Descriptors: Violence, Death, Crime, Trauma
Williams, Dorinda Silver; Mulrooney, Kathleen – Zero to Three (J), 2012
The decade of war since the attacks of 9-11 have meant lengthy and repeated combat deployment for millions of service members, many of whom are parents of very young children. In addition to the many challenges inherent to the deployment cycle, issues such as injury, combat stress, and the death of a service member parent are important realities…
Descriptors: Injuries, Military Personnel, Young Children, Research
Kelley, Melissa M.; Chan, Keith T. – Death Studies, 2012
Research has examined the relationship of styles of attachment to others and meaning with grief and the stress-related growth process. Less has been written on styles of attachment to God and patterns of religious coping and how these constructs may impact adjustment in persons dealing with loss. This study examines the roles of attachment to God,…
Descriptors: Grief, Structural Equation Models, Coping, Depression (Psychology)
Hibberd, Rachel – Death Studies, 2013
Recently there has been growing empirical and theoretical attention to the role of meaning in grief, along with increased recognition of the need for more sophisticated definitions of meaning. The present article highlights philosophical issues inherent in the study of meaning and grief, reviews the place of meaning in current theories of grief,…
Descriptors: Grief, Death, Coping, Theories
Vera, Elizabeth M.; Vacek, Kimberly; Blackmon, Sha'kema; Coyle, Laura; Gomez, Kenia; Jorgenson, Katherine; Luginbuhl, Paula; Moallem, Isabel; Steele, John C. – Youth & Society, 2012
This study examines stressors, general stress levels, coping strategies, and subjective well-being in a sample of 144 ethnically diverse, urban adolescents (mean age of 13). The most frequently reported stressors include the death of a family member, feeling socially isolated, family financial problems, injury of a family member, and parents…
Descriptors: Financial Problems, Life Satisfaction, Adolescents, Coping
Rassool, Sara B.; Nel, Pieter W. – Death Studies, 2012
Accidentally killing or feeling responsible for another person's death constitutes an event that is different from many typical traumatic stressors in that the responsibility for causing the trauma is located in the person themselves, rather than another person or persons. Research exploring the perspective of those who have accidentally caused a…
Descriptors: Accidents, Traffic Safety, Death, Psychological Patterns
Mauk, Gary W. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2011
Many students experience a personally significant loss of some nature during the school year. While some losses may appear trivial to adults, other losses are life-changing, such as the death of a loved one, and, compounded by normative developmental changes and transitions, may negatively impact students' emotional well-being, behavior, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Death, Adolescents, Grief
Yokota, Mitsue – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Recovering from the loss of a loved one can be difficult for anyone, but it can be especially trying for individuals already dealing with elevated levels of stress. Various studies have looked at the causes of stress in medical school students, but little has been done to understand the adjustments these students undergo after experiencing the…
Descriptors: Coping, Grief, Death, Stress Variables
Lacroix, Marie; Sabbah, Charlotte – Journal of Family Social Work, 2011
Social work practitioners are increasingly confronted with couples and families who have come from war-torn countries. Refugees may have experienced genocide, organized violence, ethnic wars, displacement, and losses of various kinds. Such experiences will often be carried through the post-migratory period and obscure legitimate individual and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Land Settlement, Death, Psychopathology
Lakeman, Richard – Death Studies, 2011
Homeless sector workers often encounter the deaths of service users. A modified grounded theory methodology project was used to explore how workers make sense of, respond to, and cope with sudden death. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 16 paid homeless sector workers who had experienced the death of someone with whom they worked.…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Homeless People, Altruism, Coping
Thomson, Paula – Death Studies, 2010
In this article, it is hypothesized that disorganizing, disorienting, and unresolved states of mind about loss experiences, as classified by the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) coding system, may offer insight into the bereaved mind and may guide clinical treatment approaches. This article discusses pre-loss attachment organizations and the…
Descriptors: Grief, Death, Attachment Behavior, Adults