Pravention und Gesundheitsforderung最新文献

Background: The abrupt change to distance learning due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic imposed great challenges on tertiary education. While aspects such as mental health and stress exposure have been investigated, little research has been conducted regarding the impact of distance learning on students' health behaviors. This article investigates the influence of the teaching mode (in situ vs. distance) on students' physical activity and nutrition.

Methods: A retrospective questionnaire study was conducted comparing two student cohorts who had attended the same course in two subsequent years. One group had participated in situ before the pandemic, while the other one participated via distance learning during the pandemic. A total of 79 questionnaires were submitted by students belonging to the latter and 51 by students of the former group. Data were compared regarding differences in students' health behavior.

Results: Findings indicate that online classes facilitated the pursuit of physical activities and healthy eating. Students with in situ teaching felt restricted in their exercise activities. Findings for healthy nutrition are similar.

Conclusion: Students in distance learning found themselves in a more flexible learning environment and in a position to allocate their time resources more autonomously. Student health promotion in face-to-face teaching settings should be improved and the opportunities presented by distance learning utilized.

Introduction: Relatively little is known about students' health and illness. Their effects on academic success have hardly been researched. The aim of the study is to examine associations between health status and study load completed among students.

Methods: Of 23,699 students enrolled at the University of Kassel, 3330 participated in the voluntary survey (computer-assisted web interviews) in March 2022. The response rate was 14.1% under conditions of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Results: In all, 80.5% of students rated their general health status as very good or good. There were significant differences between men and women in terms of general health status (84.4% vs. 78.6%) and the global activity limitation indicator (GALI). Women were more often than men severely limited in usual activities due to health problems (3.2% vs. 2.6%) or limited but not severely (9.6% vs. 5.7%) for at least the past 6 months. Reported prevalence rates of mental illness were striking. They were higher in women than in men (25.3% vs. 15.4%). Furthermore, 15.1% of students reported that their study load completed was "much less" than required by the study regulations of current degree programs. A multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that students who were limited in activities of daily life because of a health problem had a significantly increased odds ratio of 1.56 (95%-confidence interval [CI] 1.07-2.27) for a much lower study load, and those students who were severely limited had a significantly increased odds ratio of 2.81 (95%-CI 1.64-4.80).

Conclusion: The study identified strong associations between health and study load. It points out the need not only for more health promotion but also for health management for students with disabilities and limitations due to health problems.

Background: Many students in Germany face health problems, primarily stress and psychological strain. The prevalence of mental disorders is continuously increasing among students. In the context of the student health management at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, we recorded needs and wishes regarding health areas that students consider to be relevant for their studies and we also assessed their knowledge about existing health offers.

Methods: In May 2022, we sent a standardized online questionnaire via email to all students at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt. Differences between university locations and between German- and non-German-native speaking students were determined using non-parametric tests.

Results: Stress and psychological strain are health-threatening problems that respondents face particularly frequently. Studying in Schweinfurt and being a foreign language speaker relate to an increased relevance of some health areas. Respondents desire support especially in the areas of sports/exercise, mental stress/illness, and stress reduction. Students sometimes have little knowledge about existing offers. Especially students in Schweinfurt and international students are barely informed.

Conclusions: First, offers to reduce stress and mental burden should be implemented at the university as a matter of priority. Second, the health concerns of students in Schweinfurt and international students should be given greater attention in the future. Third, all students should be informed more about existing offers.

Background: In Germany, health is not a subject in general schooling, yet school education is supposed to contribute to health promotion. The interpretation of this objective ranges from a health-promoting effect through exercise to the claim of a reflexive understanding of health that can be described by the construct of health literacy (HL).

Objective and methods: In order to examine the extent to which a reflexive understanding of health is applied in school education in Germany according to the HL approach, 33 currently valid curricula of general education schools in Germany are evaluated by content analysis.

Results: In particular, biology and physical education classes from the primary level onward aim to promote health-related competencies. The analysis shows that a sport motoric and, thus, exercise-oriented promotion of HL dominates in physical education. Furthermore, only in a few federal states is physical education intended to stimulate the understanding, evaluation, communication, and decision-making concerning these contents.

Conclusion: It remains unclear whether health-related content should be the focus of instruction or whether the health reference merely serves as a label. Nevertheless, physical education especially has the potential to sensitize adolescents early and comprehensively to health-related topics.