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Direct linkWilliams, Jaime; Tucker, Carolyn M.; Wippold, Guillermo; Roncoroni, Julia; Moutinho, Maria E.; Lee, Susan; Desmond, Frederic; Ateyah, Wafaa – American Journal of Health Education, 2020
Background: Health initiatives have been established in many workplaces to promote healthy behaviors among employees. Health Self-Empowerment Theory (HSET) suggests that personal, modifiable factors, such as motivation to engage in healthy behaviors, are pathways to increasing such behaviors. Purpose: The present study examined the effects of the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Employee Attitudes, Health Behavior
Winskell, K.; Sabben, G.; Akelo, V.; Ondeng'e, K.; Odero, I.; Mudhune, V. – Health Education Research, 2020
Electronic games delivered via smartphones have the potential to become valuable tools in HIV prevention in high-prevalence and low-resource international settings. To ground theoretical elaboration around novel mHealth interventions in contextual realities, it is important to understand the mechanisms of their effects as perceived by local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
Download full textMiller, Isabel; Jensen, Karin – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic created and exacerbated numerous stressors for students, who already report high levels of stress. In transitioning an upper-level engineering core course to remote delivery, we invited interested students to participate in short mindfulness activities at the end of each synchronous class session. Students shared…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Stress Management, Online Courses, Distance Education
Ares-Pernas, Ana; Carvajal, Carmen Coronado; Gomis Rodríguez, Alfonso; Fernández Ibáñez, María Isabel; Díaz Casás, Vicente; Zaragoza Fernández, María Sonia; Bouza Fernández, María Sonia; Santos Pita, Manuela del Pilar; García Allut, Antonio Domingo; Comesaña Pérez, María Pilar; Caínzos López, María Jesús; Feal Cabezón, Belén; Torres Miño, Araceli – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to present and describe the main actions carried out in six different faculties and common areas such as cultural and research centres and administrative buildings in the Ferrol campus at the University of A Coruña to achieve the second green flag on a Galician University. Design/methodology/approach: A case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Conservation (Environment), Sustainable Development
Koch, Julie M.; Murrell, Lindsay; Knutson, Douglas; Federici, Dillon J. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2020
Increased demand for mental health services on college campuses has prompted an expansion of what it means to support mental and emotional well-being in the campus community. Although college counseling centers are vitally important, literature suggests that residence life staff already play prominent roles in promoting college students' mental…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, Health Services, College Students
Schoen, Eva; Clougher, Kelly; Wiese, Joanna – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2020
This article describes the development and implementation of a peer advocate program for eating disorders and body image outreach on a college campus. Empirical and conceptual literature on the use of peer educators and peer advocates in college student mental health is reviewed. Peer advocate program mission, history, implementation, and training…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Advocacy, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
Baskan, Aytekin Hamdi – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
This study aims to investigate the effects of recreational gymnastics training on the quality of life of children aged 4-12 years. The research is a structured case study with the parents of children attending a private gymnasium in Giresun. 7 questions prepared by the researcher as a data collection tool were directed to the parents in the form…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Athletics, Program Effectiveness, Quality of Life
Biber, Duke – College Teaching, 2020
Students learn in conjunction with others, and effective teaching and learning incorporates academic, social, and emotional components. Strategies, such as self-compassion training and gratitude training, can be implemented in a college classroom to promote mental health and academic flourishing. Self-compassion involves treating yourself with the…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Educational Benefits, Daily Living Skills
Uy, Tricia; Dimaano, Christian – Health Education Journal, 2020
Objective: "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman is a critically acclaimed book describing the importance of understanding cultural influence on health care and health outcomes. Although this book has been incorporated into standard curriculum in the university and medical school training settings, consideration of…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Undergraduate Students, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences
Ragab, Islam I.; Kamal, Ahmed – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Wound cleansing remains a corner stone in the management of diabetic foot ulcer. Hydrogen Peroxide (H[subscript 2]O[subscript 2]) and Povidone Iodine are topical antimicrobial agents but known to be toxic to cells involved in the wound healing cascade. The biggest challenge for the physicians and nurses is searching for a safe, noncytotoxic and…
Descriptors: Injuries, Diabetes, Randomized Controlled Trials, Foreign Countries
Osman, Amira; Thrasher, James F.; Yong, Hua-Hie; Arillo-Santillán, Edna; Hammond, David – Health Education Research, 2017
Health warning labels (HWLs) on cigarette packs that use strong fear appeals may evoke defensive responses including acts of disparaging the warnings. Whether warning disparagement undermines HWL effectiveness remains unclear. We assessed correlates of one type of HWL disparagement and its association with subsequent cessation attempts.…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Promotion, Longitudinal Studies, Adults
Kubacki, Krzysztof; Ronti, Rimante; Lahtinen, Ville; Pang, Bo; Rundle-Thiele, Sharyn – Health Education, 2017
Purpose: A significant proportion of the world's adult population is insufficiently active. One approach used to overcome barriers and facilitate participation in physical activity is social marketing. The purpose of this paper are twofold: first, this review seeks to provide a contemporary review of social marketing's effectiveness in changing…
Descriptors: Adults, Physical Activity Level, Intervention, Marketing
McKee, Alan – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2017
The "Girlfriend Guide to Life" was a commercial entertainment product co-edited by an entertainment producer and an academic researcher to reach 14-17-year olds with information they wanted to know about sexual health, in language, genres and designs that they wanted. Entertainment-Education is a familiar approach to distributing…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Adolescents, Sexuality, Health Promotion
Daniels-Witt, Quri; Thompson, Amy; Glassman, Tavis; Federman, Sara; Bott, Katie – Journal of American College Health, 2017
Opiate abuse in the United States is on the rise among the college student population. This public health crisis requires immediate action from professionals and stakeholders who are committed to addressing the needs of prospective, current, and recovering opiate users using comprehensive prevention methods. Such approaches have been used to…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Abuse, College Students, Public Health
Flynn, Christopher; Sharma, Micky M. – New Directions for Student Services, 2016
Tragedy can strike a college campus in unpredictable and often horrific ways that may lead to traumatic responses for individuals and the entire campus community. Crises on campus demand an appropriate response to support the community, provide assistance to affected individuals and guide healing efforts.
Descriptors: College Students, Trauma, Mental Health, Health Promotion
