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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"National College Health Risk Behavior Survey"”.
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Locus of control and risk behavior among college students
… or external) and their degree of engaging in risk behavior. Participants were male (N=8) and female (N=24) undergraduate college students from Rowan University. Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale was used to assess the subject's attributions (internal vs. external) for the …
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Television Viewing Habits, Body Mass Index, Dietary Behaviors and Physical Activity Among University Students
… relationship between TV-viewing, BMI, dietary behaviors and physical activity in a purposive sample of university students. Twenty-three items from the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey were used. For data analysis, students were placed into dichotomous categories for TV-viewing …
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Culture of Obesity
… and Paulo Freire. Physical fitness and dietary risk behaviors in students were described using the instrument of the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey. Data was also gathered from official campus sources to describe the physical activity and nutritional environment to which …
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A Comparison of Health Risk Behaviors Among College Students Enrolled in a Required Personal Health Course vs. Enrolled in an Elective Personal Health Course
Information on the overall health risk behaviors of college students is limited and it is unknown if being enrolled in an elective or a required health course affects behavior change among the students. There are mixed reports on whether or not health education courses affect behavior change. …
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Differences in Health Risk Behaviors between College Freshmen Living in Special Interest Housing and Traditional Housing
Literature reveals that college freshmen that reside on American campuses partake in many risky health behaviors, but little is known on the effects of housing on these risk behaviors. The purpose of this study was to examine the health risk behaviors of college freshmen that lived in either …