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Schmidt, Carsten Oliver; Fahland, Ruth A.; Franze, Marco; Splieth, Christian; Thyrian, Jochen Rene; Plachta-Danielzik, Sandra; Hoffmann, Wolfgang; Kohlmann, Thomas – Health Education Research, 2010
Enhancing health literacy is a keystone in health promotion. Yet, most studies on health literacy are limited to functional literacy levels. Furthermore, little evidence is available from children. Based on Nutbeam's outcome model for health promotion, this study aims (i) to elaborate a set of short scales to measure important health literacy…
Descriptors: Social Status, Health Promotion, Self Efficacy, Gender Differences
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Maruska, K.; Morgenstern, M.; Isensee, B.; Hanewinkel, R. – Health Education Research, 2010
Effects of the life skills programme "Eigenstandig werden" (Becoming independent) on life skills and on identified antecedents of adolescent health risk behaviour, childhood internalizing and externalizing behaviour were tested in an elementary school setting. A quasi-experimental controlled trial with five repeated measures was…
Descriptors: Risk, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Adolescents
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Hanewinkel, Reiner; Abhauer, Martin – Health Education Research, 2004
The life-kills approach to smoking prevention was tested in this study. In total, 1024 pupils (mean age 11.4 years, SD = 0.90) from Austria, Denmark, Luxembourg and Germany were recruited as an experimental group, and a sample of 834 matched pupils served as a control group. While the pupils from the control group received no specific…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Smoking