- Communicating COVID-19 information on TikTok: a content analysis of TikTok videos from official accounts featured in the COVID-19 information hub. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2021 Mar 01 [Online ahead of print]HE
- 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 engagement, including numbers of views, likes, comments an…
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- Effect of a church-based intervention on abstinence communication among African-American caregiver-child dyads: the role of gender of caregiver and child. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2021 Feb 26 [Online ahead of print]HE
- Parent-child sexual-health communication is critical. Religious involvement is important in many African-American families, but can be a barrier to sexual-health communication. We tested a theory-based, culturally tailored intervention to increase sexual-abstinence communication among church-attending African-American parent-child dyads. In a randomized controlled trial, 613 parent-child dyads we…
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- The effect of education based on PEN-3 cultural model on students' menstrual health behaviors: a mixed method study. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2021 Feb 20 [Online ahead of print]HE
- Menstruation is a natural process in girls, but sometimes it is accompanied by beliefs and behaviors with cultural roots that result in poor health consequences; this study aimed to consider perceptions of individual, families and community to current cultural beliefs, and to determine the effect of education based on the PEN-3 cultural model on students' menstrual health behaviors in Iran. Study…
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- Public health crisis in the refugee community: little change in social determinants of health preserve health disparities. [Journal Article]
- Structural inequities and lack of resources put vulnerable refugee communities at great risk. Refugees flee their country of origin to escape persecution and flee from war, famine and torture. Resettled refugee communities become particularly vulnerable during times of crisis due to limited English proficiency and poor social determinants of health (SDOH), which create barriers to attaining and s…
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- Effective recruitment strategies for African-American men and women: the Nutritious Eating with Soul study. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2021 Feb 13 [Online ahead of print]HE
- Previous studies have found it challenging to recruit African-American (AA) participants into health education research studies. The goal of this article is to describe the recruitment methods used for the Nutritious Eating with Soul (NEW Soul) study, a 2-year randomized behavioral health education intervention, conducted in two cohorts, with emphasis on methods used for reaching men. Participant…
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- Exploring the social and emotional representations used by students from the University of the Basque Country to face the first outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. [Journal Article]
- In 2020, COVID-19, a new emerging infectious disease (EID), was spread throughout the world, including Europe. Spain, in particular, witnessed a significant outbreak of the pandemic. In consequence, all classes were cancelled and the Government declared a state of emergency, ordering the lockdown of the entire population from March to May. The aim of this research is to explore the impact of the …
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- Gender-sexuality alliance membership and activities: associations with students' comfort, confidence and awareness regarding substance use resources. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2021 Feb 05 [Online ahead of print]HE
- Belonging to a school Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) is associated with lower substance use among LGBTQ+ youth. However, it is unknown whether GSA participation facilitates access to resources for substance use concerns. Using longitudinal data from 38 Massachusetts high schools, we compared sources of support for substance use concerns listed by GSA members (n = 361) and nonmembers (n = 153…
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- Linking health information seeking to patient-centered communication and healthy lifestyles: an exploratory study in China. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2021 Feb 05 [Online ahead of print]HE
- The existing research routinely measures the influence of health information-seeking behavior (HISB) as a whole, which does not capture the complexity and diversity of media channel usage in HISB. The influence of HISB on patient's lifestyle behaviors and the mediation process through patient-centered communication (PCC) in medical encounters has been understudied in previous literature. Drawing …
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- A mobile-based educational intervention on STI-related preventive behavior among Iranian women. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2021 Jan 29 [Online ahead of print]HE
- While rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Iran are alarming, little is known about preventive sexual behaviors. The purpose of this article was to assess the effect of a mobile-based educational program to promote preventive behaviors regarding STIs in Iranian women. Using Roger's protection motivation theory, the following measures were developed as the study's conceptual framewor…
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- Adherence to COVID-19 mitigation measures among American adults: the need for consistent and unified messaging. [Journal Article]
- In the United States, elite and media communications about the risks of, and mitigation strategies for, COVID-19 have been characterized by lack of consensus. In this study, we draw from a nationally representative sample of American adults to examine the associations between exposure to different media and platforms (mainstream, conservative, liberal or social media) and adherence to COVID-19 mi…
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- Identifying knowledge, self-efficacy and response efficacy of alternative discipline strategies among low-income Black, Latino and White parents. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2021 Jan 14 [Online ahead of print]HE
- Corporal punishment (CP) leads to detrimental mental and physical consequences for a child. One way to prevent CP is to encourage parents to apply alternative discipline strategies that do not involve violence. Based on the knowledge-behavior gap framework in public health education, this study analyzed the focus group data of 75 low-income Black, Latino and White parents to uncover commonalties …
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- Testing risk and protective factor assumptions in the Icelandic model of adolescent substance use prevention. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2021 Jan 12 [Online ahead of print]HE
- Iceland has witnessed a dramatic decline in adolescent substance use that may be partly the result of efforts related to the Icelandic prevention model (IPM). We sought to test risk and protective factor assumptions of the IPM using a prospective cohort study with 12 months separating baseline from follow-up. Participants were students in grades 8 and 9 in the national Icelandic school system enr…
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- Intention to receive a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in Italy and its association with trust, worry and beliefs about the origin of the virus. [Journal Article]
- The aim of the current study was to determine the extent to which Italian people intend to receive a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 and to investigate its associations with worry, institutional trust and beliefs about the non-natural origin of the virus. A sample of 624 people living in Italy was recruited in April 2020 using an online platform. The survey included questions about intention to receiv…
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- A positive deviance-based qualitative study of stress, coping, and feeding practices among low-income, Hispanic mothers whose children do versus do not meet guidelines for fruit and vegetable intake. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2020 Dec 23; 35(6):584-604.HE
- Less than 1% of children in the United States concurrently meet guidelines for fruit/vegetable intake, physical activity, screen time, and sugar-sweetened beverages. Prior evidence suggests that parents of this 1% potentially cope with stress differently. This qualitative study used a positive deviance-based approach to locate mothers whose children avoided negative feeding outcomes despite being…
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- Teachers' professional identities in the context of school-based sexuality education in Uganda-a qualitative study. [Journal Article]
- School-based sexuality education makes teachers important gatekeepers of students' access to information about sexual and reproductive health and rights. The school setting has the potential to reach large numbers of students. However, teachers' professional identities may go beyond, differ from or even conflict with the qualities required of sexuality educators. To gain a better understanding of…
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- Lessons learnt from the field: a qualitative evaluation of adolescent experiences of a universal mental health education program. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2020 Dec 26 [Online ahead of print]HE
- teen Mental Health First Aid (teenMHFA) is a school-based mental health program that trains adolescents to support peers who are experiencing mental health problems or crises. The program has been evaluated for adolescents aged 15-18 years as part of a randomized controlled trial, however qualitative feedback from students on their perceptions of the program is yet to be explored. The current stu…
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- Effectiveness of pictographs in improving patient education outcomes: a systematic review. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2020 Dec 17 [Online ahead of print]HE
- The objective of this review was to investigate process of pictograph development and the effectiveness of pictographs in patient education. We conducted searches in Medline/PubMed, CINAHL with full text, PsycInfo, ERIC and Cochrane Library with keywords: (pictograph or pictorial) AND (patient education) NOT (children or adolescent or youth or child or teenagers). After excluding manuscripts that…
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- Parenting style as longitudinal predictor of adolescents' health behaviors in Lebanon. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2020 Dec 16 [Online ahead of print]HE
- This prospective study aimed to examine how parenting style relates to health behaviors and body mass index of Lebanese adolescents while checking for interactive effect of child characteristics (age and gender). About 341 students from private and public schools in Mount Lebanon and Beirut area, aged between 16 and 18 years, completed a self-administered survey assessing socio-demographics, pare…
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- Getting the right message: a content analysis and application of the health literacy INDEX tool to online HIV resources in Australia. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2020 Dec 15 [Online ahead of print]HE
- Health literacy is considered by some as a determinant of health. Research suggests that different levels of health literacy may be associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) knowledge and behaviour, including willingness to test. This study assessed the health literacy demands of existing Australia HIV prevention resources available online using a health literacy assessment and content a…
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- Is type of practice setting associated with physician's cultural competency training? Analysis from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2020 Dec 12 [Online ahead of print]HE
- This study examined whether type of physician practice settings was associated with cultural competency training for newly hired physicians. We used data from the 2016 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Supplement on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services for Office-based Physician Survey. The survey contains a sample of 397 office-based physician responses completed during the p…
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- A systematic review of alcohol education programs for young people: do these programs change behavior? [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2020 Dec 11 [Online ahead of print]HE
- Numerous education programs have addressed young peoples' alcohol use. To date, no peer-reviewed publication has evaluated the effectiveness of such programs delivered across a range of contexts to change alcohol-related behaviors, attitudes and/or knowledge. This systematic review aimed to identify alcohol education programs addressing young people, and determine whether they changed alcohol-rel…
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- Comparative evaluation of webinar, powerpoint presentation and lecture as oral health educational interventions among school children: a randomized controlled trial. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2020 Dec 07 [Online ahead of print]HE
- The study compared the effectiveness of three teaching methods on the oral health status of high school children. The study population of 791 school children selected from three different schools was randomly allocated to one of three intervention groups: (i) Webinar group (Online presentation)-260 subjects, (ii) Face to Face lecture using PowerPoint presentation (F2F PP group)-261 subjects and (…
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- Application of the theory of planned behavior to predict smoking intentions: cross-cultural comparison of Kenyan and American young adults. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2020 Dec 03 [Online ahead of print]HE
- Despite well-established research on the applications of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in the American culture, TPB has not been fully tested in the Kenyan culture. This study compared the applications of TPB in predicting smoking intentions (i.e., future and weekend smoking intentions) of Kenyan and American young adults. Data were collected from 252 Kenyans and 227 Americans. The Kenyan …
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- Efficacy of Canadian health warning statements on caffeinated energy drinks: an experimental study among young Canadians. [Journal Article]
- The current study examined the efficacy of health warnings on caffeinated energy drinks (CEDs). Participants aged 12-24 years (n = 2040) completed an online survey where they were asked to recall any existing warning statements on CED products and were randomized to one of 29 experimental warning conditions. Regression models were fitted to examine differences between conditions in product appeal…
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- Implementation and outcome evaluation of a team nutrition intervention: increasing knowledge, attitudes, and preferences. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2020 Nov 22 [Online ahead of print]HE
- Low-income, rural children are at a greater risk for poor dietary intake. Schools offer a venue to deliver appropriate interventions. Our aim was to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of Healthy Schools, Healthy Students (HSHS). We conducted a mixed-methods evaluation using a cluster-randomized trial design with 20 schools in a rural, Midwestern state. HSHS included education sessions,…
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- Process evaluation of HAT TRICK: feasibility, acceptability and opportunities for programme refinement. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2020 Dec 23; 35(6):605-617.HE
- Preventive lifestyle interventions are needed to address challenges in engaging men in conventional health programmes. This process evaluation examined the feasibility and acceptability of HAT TRICK, a gender-sensitized programme targeting physical activity, healthy eating and social connectedness. A mixed-methods approach was utilized to examine the effectiveness of recruitment and selection pro…
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- Measuring the effect of interpersonal communication on awareness and knowledge of COVID-19 among rural communities in Eastern Nigeria. [Journal Article]
- Awareness and knowledge have been identified as essential requirements to successfully combat the global threat which COVID-19 currently poses. Rural communities are particularly at risk because of their low socio-economic status and high illiteracy level. There is currently uncertainty regarding how to effectively raise awareness about the pandemic and educate rural communities about it. In this…
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- Evaluation of hand hygiene behaviour in basic schools in Ghana: a case study of the Ablekuma Central Municipality in the greater region of Ghana. [Journal Article]Health Educ Res. 2020 Oct 01; 35(5):362-375.HE
- Hand washing is effective for the prevention and transmission of pathogens but washing with water only is not effective at reducing contamination. The study focussed on the evaluation of hand washing behaviour in Basic schools (Primary and Junior High Schools) in Ghana. Results of the study revealed that 75% of responding schools have hand washing stands to promote hand washing with soap. Sixty p…
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- How do Nigerian newspapers report COVID-19 pandemic? The implication for awareness and prevention. [Journal Article]
- This study examined media coverage of COVID-19 in Nigeria with attention to the frequency and depth of coverage, story format, news sources, media tone and themes. Four widely read newspapers were content analysed between February 2020 and April 2020. Focus was on Daily Sun, Vanguard, Daily Trust and Leadership. Results indicated that the Nigerian media performed well in terms of covering the pan…
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- Modelling the antecedent factors that affect online fake news sharing on COVID-19: the moderating role of fake news knowledge. [Journal Article]
- We proposed a conceptual model combining three theories: uses and gratification theory, social networking sites (SNS) dependency theory and social impact theory to understand the factors that predict fake news sharing related to COVID-19. We also tested the moderating role of fake news knowledge in reducing the tendency to share fake news. Data were drawn from social media users (n = 650) in Nige…
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