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Anna-Clara Rönner; Anna Jakobsson; Niklas Gericke – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic had an immense impact on communities around the world. We know that new epidemic-prone diseases will emerge in the future. Consequently, it is important to investigate what impact the current pandemic had on school children's understanding of infectious diseases in order to develop biology education based on that novel…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Communicable Diseases, Middle School Students
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Brinley Kantorski; Kelly Bruzdewicz; Sarah Will; John A. Pollock – Discover Education, 2025
Games are a powerful tool for learning, offering unique benefits for student engagement, particularly when addressing complex or challenging topics. The general public's understanding of how vaccines are made is limited and the general public is unaware of the comprehensive research, development, and safety measures that are inherent in vaccine…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Cooperative Learning, Instructional Design, Research and Development
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Ogundari, Kolawole – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic outbreaks forced families to decide the safest and most effective learning environments for their children because of the virus's threat to health and life. Hence, because of the nationwide school closure, policymakers have raised concerns about the missing children cases-those who have not enrolled in school at all because…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Immunization Programs
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Lowry, Mark; Trivedi, Neha; Boyd, Patrick; Julian, Anne; Treviño, Melissa; Lama, Yuki; Heley, Kathryn; Perna, Frank – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Health misinformation is a problem on social media, and more understanding is needed about how users cognitively process it. In this study, participants' accuracy in determining whether 60 health claims were true (e.g., "Vaccines prevent disease outbreaks") or false (e.g., "Vaccines cause disease outbreaks") was assessed. The…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Social Media, Misconceptions, Smoking
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Caleb, Susan; Thompson, Danielle; Haimowitz, Rachel; Ciotoli, Carlo; Dannenbaum, Martha; Fu, Linda Y. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: The interventions colleges use to help students be compliant with vaccinations is unknown. This study describes colleges' use of practices consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations to encourage student body vaccination. Participants: Participants were a convenience sample of 136 student health…
Descriptors: Colleges, Intervention, Immunization Programs, Evidence Based Practice
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Parsons, Joanne; Grimley, Catherine; Newby, Katie – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Background: Pregnant women are at increased risk of complications from flu, but uptake of flu vaccination is below 75% targets. Evidence suggests that changing illness risk appraisals may increase vaccination behaviour. In 2018-2019, researchers, public health specialists, and pregnant women co-designed a short animation targeting (unhelpful)…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Immunization Programs, Information Dissemination, Animation
Acton, Riley K.; Cao, Wenjia; Cook, Emily E.; Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, Michael F. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
Since the spring of 2021, nearly 700 colleges and universities in the U.S. have mandated that their students become vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. We leverage rich data on colleges' vaccination policies and semester start dates, along with a variety of county-level public health outcomes, to provide the first estimates of the effects of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs, Disease Control
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Lee, Star W.; Tran, Stacy – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2023
To better prepare undergraduate students as informed citizens, they need skills to evaluate and interpret scientific data that are relevant to real world scenarios. Socioscientific issues are typically complicated or debatable issues that require individuals to evaluate their background knowledge and make decisions with respect to social and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Immunization Programs, Decision Making, Science Education
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Salman, Muhammed; Akcaoglu, Mustafa Öztürk; Ergün, Muammer – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
In order for societies to normalize in educational, economic, social and mental health areas, the COVID-19 pandemic must be ended as soon as possible. Currently, the most critical factor in eliminating the pandemic seems to be the vaccine. Vaccination is one of the most successful public health interventions and is a cornerstone for communicable…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Frank Wang – Numeracy, 2021
This tutorial uses publicly available data from drug makers and the Food and Drug Administration to guide learners to estimate the confidence intervals of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy rates with a Bayesian framework. Under the classical approach, there is no probability associated with a parameter, and the meaning of confidence intervals can be…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Lorien C. Abroms; Donald Koban; Nandita Krishnan; Melissa Napolitano; Samuel Simmens; Brendan Caskey; Tien-Chin Wu; David A. Broniatowski – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Background: Vaccine misinformation has been widely spread on social media, but attempts to combat it have not taken advantage of the attributes of social media platforms for health education. Methods: The objective was to test the efficacy of moderated social media discussions about COVID-19 vaccines in private Facebook groups. Unvaccinated U.S.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs, Social Media
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Heba A. T. Aref; Salisa Westrick; Chiahung Chou; Debra Worthington; Kimberly Garza – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of text and video formats of an online theory-based Meningitis B (MenB) health message intervention on college students. Participants: College freshmen and transfer students admitted at a Southern U.S. University. Methods: In a 2-arm randomized study, knowledge, perceptions, and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Transfer Students, Immunization Programs, Communicable Diseases
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Aditi Tomar; Idethia Shevon Harvey; Xiao Meng – American Journal of Health Education, 2024
Background: HPV is associated with several cancers, yet HPV vaccine uptake rates remain suboptimal. Enhancing HPV vaccine promotion requires looking beyond individual characteristics and conducting a thorough evaluation of how health-related and health system factors may influence HPV vaccine uptake. Purpose: Our study explores the relationship of…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Health Education, Patient Education
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Murat Genç; Esra Uçak – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Purpose: Teacher roles and classroom discourses have great influence on classroom discussions within the context of socio-scientific issues. Investigation of teacher roles and classroom discourses is of great importance in the construction of the classroom environment in which students can support their views and the reasons underlying their views…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs
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Sarah Batbold; Gabrielle Cummings; Kirsten A. Riggan; Marsha Michie; Megan Allyse – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) experience increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recent studies suggest that a vaccine against AD may be forthcoming. Parental buy-in is critical to the success of any intervention in this population, as adults with DS often rely on familial support. This study aims to characterize parents' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Down Syndrome, Children, Alzheimers Disease
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