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Zanchetta, M. S.; Kolawole Salami, B.; Perreault, M.; Leite, L. C. – Health Education Research, 2012
Health education for socially marginalized populations challenges the efficacy of existing strategies and methods, and the pertinence of the educational and philosophical principles that underpin them. The Brazilian Community Health Agents Initiative (CHAI) hires residents of deprived marginalized communities to undertake health promotion and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Civil Rights, Health Education
Addley, K.; Boyd, S.; Kerr, R.; McQuillan, P.; Houdmont, J.; McCrory, M. – Health Education Research, 2014
Health risk appraisals (HRA) are a common type of workplace health promotion programme offered by American employers. In the United Kingdom, evidence of their effectiveness for promoting health behaviour change remains inconclusive. This randomized controlled trial examined the effects of two HRA interventions on lifestyle parameters, mental…
Descriptors: Risk Assessment, Health Promotion, Health Programs, Intervention
Edwards, C. A.; Britton, M. L.; Jenkins, L.; Rickwood, D. J.; Gillham, K. E. – Health Education Research, 2014
Young people have higher rates of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) than the general population. Research has shown that there is a clear link between emotional distress, depression, substance abuse and sexual risk taking behaviours in young people. "headspace" is a youth mental health early intervention service operating in more…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Correlation, Emotional Problems
O'Mara, Ben; Carey, Gemma; Weier, Megan – Health Education Research, 2020
Refugee and migrant communities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Australia experience dependency, stigma, isolation, mental health issues, family issues and other problems associated with alcohol and other drugs. Yet, refugee and migrant communities also face major linguistic, cultural and technological barriers to health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Drinking, Drug Abuse
Abbas, Kiran; Nawaz, S. Muhammad A.; Amin, Nazish; Soomro, Fareena M.; Abid, Kanza; Ahmed, Moiz; Sayeed, Khalid A.; Ghazanfar, Shamas; Qureshi, Noorulain – Health Education Research, 2020
Proper training on the preventive measures against COVID-19 among health-care workers is crucial for mitigating the spread of viral infection. The present study evaluated the efficacy of a brief web-based module on the practice of hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette among respective health-care workers. A comparative study was conducted with a…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Education
Strand, Mark A.; He, Meizi; Johnson, Ryan; Perry, Judith; Yin, Zenong – Health Education Research, 2019
High prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes has emerged as a concern in China. The Pathway to Health Program was designed to prevent type 2 diabetes onset in prediabetic women in a north China urban community. This process evaluation of a randomized controlled trial analysed participant surveys at the 6- and 12-month assessment times, participant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Health Promotion, Prevention
Li, Yachao; Guan, Mengfei; Hammond, Paige; Berrey, Lane E. – Health Education Research, 2021
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, TikTok, an emerging social media platform, has created an information hub to provide users with engaging and authoritative COVID-19 information. This study investigates the video format, type and content of the COVID-19 TikTok videos, and how those video attributes are related to quantitative indicators of user…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Media, Information Dissemination
Ablah, Elizabeth; Umansky, Emily; Wilcox, Elizabeth A.; Usher, Jeff; Church, Jennifer; Barnes, Virginia – Health Education Research, 2019
Recruiting for wellness initiatives is challenging. WorkWell KS, a statewide worksite wellness initiative, offers unique worksite recruitment strategies that may serve as lessons. From 2012 to 2018, WorkWell KS utilized champions, well-connected local leaders, to recruit worksites. A total of 784 worksites were recruited for at least one WorkWell…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Wellness, Occupational Safety and Health, Employees
Hoffman, Beth L.; Shensa, Ariel; Wessel, Charles; Hoffman, Robert; Primack, Brian A. – Health Education Research, 2017
Fictional medical television programs have long been a staple of television programming, and they remain popular today. We aimed to examine published literature assessing the influence of medical television programs on health outcomes. We conducted systematic literature searches in PubMed, PsychINFO and CINAHL. Selected studies had to be scholarly…
Descriptors: Fiction, Television, Medicine, Popular Culture
Torres, Vanessa N.; Williams, Emily C.; Ceballos, Rachel M.; Donovan, Dennis M.; Duran, Bonnie; Ornelas, India J. – Health Education Research, 2020
Although Latino immigrant men experience many health disparities, they are underrepresented in research to understand and address disparities. Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has been identified to encourage participant engagement and increase representation in health disparities research. The CBPR conceptual model describes how…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Males, Immigrants, Access to Health Care
Li, V.; Carter, S. M.; Rychetnik, L. – Health Education Research, 2015
The use of evidence has become a foundational part of health promotion practice. Although there is a general consensus that adopting an evidence-based approach is necessary for practice, disagreement remains about what types of evidence practitioners should use to guide their work. An empirical understanding of how practitioners conceptualize and…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Grounded Theory, Semi Structured Interviews, Foreign Countries
Strong, Larkin L.; Hoover, Diana S.; Heredia, Natalia I.; Krasny, Sarah; Spears, Claire A.; Correa-Fernández, Virmarie; Wetter, David W.; Fernandez, Maria E. – Health Education Research, 2016
Key modifiable risk behaviors such as smoking, poor diet and physical inactivity often cluster and may have multiplicative adverse effects on health. This study investigated barriers and facilitators to healthy eating and physical activity (PA) in overweight Mexican-origin smokers to inform the adaptation of an evidence-based smoking cessation…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Eating Habits, Health Behavior, Gender Differences
Zuckermann, Alexandra M. E.; Gohari, Mahmood R.; de Groh, Margaret; Jiang, Ying; Leatherdale, Scott T. – Health Education Research, 2020
Reducing youth cannabis use in Canada is a public health priority with schools of interest as a potential modifier of behavior and as a venue for prevention programming. This work aimed to provide a basis for future policy and programming by evaluating pre-legalization cannabis use change patterns in schools and the impact of school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Marijuana, Drug Use
Prochnow, Tyler; Patterson, Megan S.; Umstattd Meyer, M. Renee – Health Education Research, 2020
Child physical activity (PA) is influenced by social environment. Self-perception and perception of others' behaviors may impact health behaviors such as PA. This study examines associations between child networks, perception of their own PA and the network's perception of their PA. Children (n = 89, M age = 10.00, SD = 1.34) at a summer care…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Social Influences, Environmental Influences, Self Concept
Nandha, B.; Meenakshy, V.; Abdul Khader, Nazer; Vijayakumar, K. N.; Jambulingam, P. – Health Education Research, 2019
Lymphatic filariasis (LF), a neglected tropical disease is targeted for elimination globally by 2020. National Health Policy of India set the goal by 2017 and annual single-dose mass drug administration (MDA) with anti-filarial drugs is in operation in endemic districts since 2004. Performance and effectiveness of MDA was diverse across the nation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Diseases, Immunization Programs