Report of the 2011-2012 AACP Professional Affairs Committee: Addressing the Teaching Excellence of Volunteer Pharmacy Preceptors Betty Jean Harris, Chair, Michell Butler, Elizabeth Cardello, Robin Corelli, Wafa Dahdal, Mary Gurney, Kristopher Harrell, John Murphy, Douglas Pisano, Meghan Sullivan, Janet Teeters, Lynette Bradley-Baker Husson University School of Pharmacy, One College Circle, Bang...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the roles of identity formation and moral identity in predicting college student mental health (anxiety and depressive symptoms), health-risk behaviors (hazardous alcohol use and sexual risk taking), and psychological well-being (self-esteem and meaning). METHOD The sample comprised 9,500 college students (aged 18-25 years, mean = 19.78, standard deviation = 1.6...

BACKGROUND Persons with a college degree are more likely to engage in eHealth behaviors than persons without a college degree, compounding the health disadvantages of undereducated groups in the United States. However, the extent to which quality of recent eHealth experience reduces the education-based eHealth gap is unexplored. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to examine how eHealth info...

Introduction: Attempts from some colleges of medicine in Iraq were made trying to overcome the problems and suffocations that faced undergraduate medical studies in our country and trying to respond to our community health needs to increase awareness, evidence-campaign for staff members of the college and for administration and students focusing mainly on medical education quality and best prac...

For men of college age, the risks of disease, injury, and death are far greater than for women of the same age group, yet college men's health concerns receive little attention from health professionals. In this multidisciplinary overview, the author discusses college men's health risks, men's failure to adopt health-promoting behaviors, their propensity to engage in risky behaviors, their beli...

Based on cohort data obtained from 13,085 college freshmen's (2005 to 2011) SCL-90 (the Symptom Check-List-90) reports and their subsequent 4-year psychological counseling help-seeking records, this study examined the association between college students' mental health problems and help-seeking behaviors across four college years. Female students' mental health problems and help-seeking behavio...

OBJECTIVE To examine associations between technology usage and specific health factors among college students. METHODS The research employed was a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional design; undergraduate students enrolled in spring 2012 general health education courses were recruited to participate. To explore college students' specific technology usage and health-related behaviors, a...

Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK Biomedical Research Unit in Nutrition, Diet and Lifestyle, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Child Health Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Departmen...