Students

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Perception of university students in Ghana about emergency contraception.

Emergency contraception (EC) refers to methods that women can use to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sexual intercourse, method failure, or incorrect use. There is growing worldwide acceptance and promotion of EC as a measure to reduce the level of ...
Frank Baiden, Elizabeth Awini, Christine Clerk (Contraception, 200207)
perception-university-students-ghana-emergency-contraception.asp

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Links between past abuse, suicide ideation, and sexual orientation among San Diego college students.

The authors explored relationships among childhood abuse, suicidal ideation, and sexual orientation of 18- to 30-year-old students enrolled in 2 San Diego area colleges, using responses from anonymous questionnaires. Sixty percent of the 138 eligible ...
Jacob Garcia, Joyce Adams, Lawrence Friedman, Patricia East (J Am Coll Health, 200207)
links-past-abuse-suicide-ideation-sexual-orientation-san-diego.asp

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Assessing student staff motivation and satisfaction to strengthen health education services.

A student staff inquiry project in the department of health education at a large state university assessed the motivation and satisfaction of student staff and peer educators. The students who managed this Student Inquiry Project created the interview ...
Brian R Grossman, Fern Walter Goodhart (J Am Coll Health, 200207)
assessing-student-staff-motivation-satisfaction-strengthen-health.asp

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Drinking to cope among college students: prevalence, problems and coping processes.

OBJECTIVE: To examine four issues regarding college-student drinking to cope: (1) The prevalence of drinking to cope among students in a medium-sized Midwestern state university; (2) the relationships among drinking to cope and alcohol-related outcomes; ...
Crystal L Park, Michael R Levenson (J Stud Alcohol, 200207)
drinking-cope-college-students-prevalence-problems-coping-processes.asp

515.

An evaluation of physical fitness parameters for graduate students.

Although graduate physical therapy students are taught the principles of fitness for incorporation into their professional lives, they have difficulty finding the time to implement these principles during graduate school. The authors studied 3 successive ...
J Wesley McWhorter, Harvey Wallmann, Richard D Tandy (J Am Coll Health, 200207)
evaluation-physical-fitness-parameters-graduate-students.asp

516.

Learning abstract relations from using categories.

When people learn categories, the importance of the features and relations in the category representation reflects both their diagnosticity for classification and their relevance to the use of the category. In earlier work in which the influence of ...
Brian H Ross, Justin L Warren (Mem Cognit, 200207)
learning-abstract-relations-categories.asp

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Preoccupation with weight and disordered eating behaviors of entering students at a university in Lebanon.

OBJECTIVES: This research explores the prevalence of preoccupation with weight indicators and disordered eating behaviors among entering university students, and identifies factors associated with these indicators and behaviors. METHOD: Data was ...
Rema A Afifi-Soweid, Martine B Najem Kteily, Mona C Shediac-Rizkallah (Int J Eat Disord, 200207)
preoccupation-weight-disordered-eating-behaviors-entering-students.asp

518.

Category induction from distributional cues in an artificial language.

The ability to identify the grammatical category of a word (e.g., noun, verb, adjective) is a fundamental aspect of competence in a natural language. Children show evidence of categorization by as early as 18 months, and in some cases younger. However, ...
Toben H Mintz (Mem Cognit, 200207)
category-induction-distributional-cues-artificial-language.asp

519.

Stages of change among ethnically diverse college students.

The authors applied the stage-of-change construct in the transtheoretical model to examine the distribution of Asian (n = 869), African American (n = 373), White (n = 1322), and Hispanic (n = 535) American undergraduate students across the 5 stages of ...
Richard R Suminski, Rick Petosa (J Am Coll Health, 200207)
stages-change-ethnically-diverse-college-students.asp

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Environmental NO2 concentration and exposure in daily life along main roads in Tokyo.

Environmental suspended particulate matter and NO2 are possible factors causing chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. These and other pollutants are monitored at the National Ambient Air Pollution Monitoring Stations and local monitoring stations. ...
Yasushi Kodama, Keiichi Arashidani, Noritaka Tokui, Toshihiro Kawamoto, Koji Matsuno, Naoki Kunugita, Naoto Minakawa (Environ Res, 200207)
environmental-concentration-exposure-daily-life-along-main-roads-tokyo.asp