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Jarim Kim – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study investigated the factors that impact the effectiveness of energy drink-related health messages. Specifically, this study examined how behavioral status moderates the effects of the temporal contexts described in messages related to energy drink consumption. Participants: A total of 823 college students enrolled in a…
Descriptors: College Students, Health Behavior, Student Attitudes, Information Dissemination
Christie Kirchoff; Karina Abadia; Cristina Palacios – Journal of American College Health, 2024
"Objective:" Evaluate college students' perception of the effectiveness of different vending machine (VM) interventions for improving snack selection. "Participants:" A total of 194 college students with the age of =18 years. "Method:" A cross-sectional survey among a purposive sampling near VM. "Results:"…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions
Navjot Pachu; Sandra Webber; Shaelyn Strachan – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Examine effects of self-affirmation on university students' processing of health risk messages related to sedentary behavior. Participants: Eighty-eight students from a Canadian university (females = 53; males = 35; M[subscript age] = 21.74, SD = 5.36) participated during the 2018-2019 academic year. Methods: Participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Behavior, Physical Activity Level
Eda Kilinç; Asiye Kartal – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the frequency of bicycle helmet use among college students and health beliefs about bicycle helmet attitude. Participants: Turkish university students (n = 799). Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted over the period 2019. A sociodemographic and cycling related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nursing Students, Counselor Training, Psychological Studies
Stuti J. Jaiswal; Ashna Aggarwal; Yunyue Zhang; Jeremy Orr; Kratika Mishra; Cathy Y. Lu; Eric Johnson; Nathan E. Wineinger; Robert L. Owens – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Examine how changes in sleep duration, objectively measured by activity trackers, impact weight gain in incoming college freshman. Participants: Incoming college freshmen, age [greater than equal to] 18. Methods: We measured weight and daily sleep duration before college entry and through the 1st college quarter. Additionally, we…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Sleep, Physical Activities, Telecommunications
Ziaul H. Rana; Cara L. Frankenfeld; Erika J. Kennedy; Jaclyn Bertoldo; Lilian De Jonge; Lawrence J. Cheskin – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The objective of the study was to evaluate how well college students meet U.S. dietary guidelines by examining the mean intakes of nutrients to limit (sodium, sugar, refined grains, and saturated fat), and what factors lead to exceeding the dietary recommendations. Participants: Participants were first-year undergraduate students (N =…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Food Standards, Dietetics, Nutrition
Anas Khurshid Nabil; Adam E. Barry; Hye-Chung Kum; Robert L. Ohsfeldt – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Electronic cigarette use represents an important college health concern. This investigation assessed demographic and behavioral correlates associated with actual and perceived e-cigarette use among a national sample of American college students. Methods: Respondents (n = 19,861) comprised college students from over 40 distinct American…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Behavior, College Students, Drinking
J. Hannah Lee; Hanna Suh – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: College drinking is a significant individual and societal problem, and thus, identifying risk factors to alcohol-related problems has been an important line of inquiry. Adding to this rich literature, the current study examined whether perfectionism dimensions were associated with alcohol-related problems and whether a poor…
Descriptors: Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Personality Traits, Health Behavior
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
Helen Melissa Ziegler – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate which components or programs within the higher education environment have the greatest influence on college students' intention to engage in physical activity. Participants: Undergraduates enrolled in colleges and universities in the southcentral United States were issued a questionnaire via…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Educational Environment, Physical Activities, Student Attitudes
Kelsey R. Habighorst; Lisa M. Cillessen; Heather M. Taylor; Jerilyn J. Reed; Paul O. Gubbins – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To evaluate college students' awareness of an educational initiative to increase campus influenza vaccination rates and strategies to improve it. Participants: Students attending a large public comprehensive university. Methods: An investigator-developed, online survey evaluated awareness of the initiative, the students' perception of…
Descriptors: College Students, Immunization Programs, Communicable Diseases, Knowledge Level
Samuele Porche; Benjamin Gardner – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Around 40% of US university students use cannabis, 25% of whom present with cannabis use disorder, which endangers health. We investigated the concurrent contribution of reflective processes, which generate action via conscious deliberation, and non-reflective processes, which prompt behavior automatically, to undergraduates' cannabis…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Undergraduate Students, Marijuana, Foreign Countries
Salome Mshigeni; Gilna Samuel; Winifred Scott – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The prevalence of illnesses related to VPDs is higher among older adults and college students experience them despite decades of vaccine availability. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and American College Health Association (ACHA) emphasizes that all students should provide vaccine proof or receive immunizations prior to…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Immunization Programs, First Generation College Students
Joseph Malechwanzi; Abdirizak Guyo; Christine Mwangangi – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Internet and development of digital media as a tool for online promotions provides avenues for early recruitment of college students into risky drinking. The objective of the study was to examine prevalence of alcohol promotions on web-based media and its possible effects on alcohol drinking by sex among college students in Kenya.…
Descriptors: Drinking, Advertising, College Students, Student Behavior
Joel Martin; Amanda Estep; Michael Tozcko; Bailey Hartzel; Ali Boolani – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To investigate the influence of grit on physical activity, sleep and diet in undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: 125 undergraduate students participated in the study. Participants completed an online survey while enrolled in an online class during June, 2020. Methods: The online questionairre featured the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Engineering Education