Half of all sexually active young people will get an STD before the age of 25. Most will not know it.

GYT campaign youth poster 24x36Get yourself talking.Talk to your partner.Talk to your health care provider.GYT logo with the url www.cdc.gov/gytGYT was launched in April 2009 as an ongoing promotion under It's Your (Sex) Life, a longstanding public information partnership of MTV, and the Kaiser Family Foundation. Supporting partners of GYT include: American College Health Association (ACHA), Kaiser Family Foundation, National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD), MTV, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Technical consultation is provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).CDC-INFO Pub ID 221800-- 221800 -

The Prevalence of Victimization and Use of Victims\u27 Services on College Campuses: Are There Differences in the LGBQT Community?

Research has identified the prevalence of victimization among college students, but the extent to which LGBQT college students experience victimization and how that may vary by type of victimization is unknown. Additionally, differences among these groups in the utilization of available victim services on college campuses have not been examined. In order to explore these concerns, the current study uses data from The National College Health Assessment by The American College Health Association (ACHA-NCHA), which includes data on students enrolled in universities and colleges from across the United States. Results from this study have policy and practice implications for both LGBQT and other college students and institutions of higher learning

An Assessment of Health Disparities among a Community Sample of LGBQ College Students

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) individuals are a marginalized population in the United States, and this status places them at a greater risk for adverse health outcomes, such as tobacco and substance use, obesity, cancer, sexually-transmitted infections, violence, mental health issues, and suicide. The present study used individual- and microsystem-level data from the American College Health Association (ACHA)-National College Health Assessment (NCHA) to compose a risk assessment for LGBQ students at a mid-Atlantic university. The study incorporated various levels of the ecological social model in an analysis of potentially influential factors on the development of LGBQ health disparities. 856 participants completed a self-administered anonymous survey that included questions assessing a broad variety of health indicators, such as alcohol, tobacco, and other substance use, sexual health, mental health, nutrition, and personal safety and violence. A significant minority of the sample identified with a sexual orientation other than heterosexual (n=184, 21.6%). Sexual minority students reported significantly higher rates of various types of substance use [e.g., sedatives x2 (1,N=856)=3.543,

A Study of AIDS Policies as Reported by Practical Nursing Programs of Indiana

Many of the nation’s nursing schools have yet to develop AIDS policies. Without such policy implementation, nursing educators face many problems. A recent study of nursing programs in Nebraska revealed that none of the schools’ policies met all of the twenty-one criteria set forth by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American College Health Association (ACHA). The purposes of this study were to determine how many of Indiana’s practical nursing programs have created or implemented AIDS policies and to compare and contrast those policies with the criteria set by Witmer (1992), the CDC, and the ACHA. A self-reporting questionnaire was sent to 24 practical nursing programs in Indiana. Of the 24 surveys mailed, 13 (54%) were returned. All of the submitted policies were deficient in meeting the suggested criteria set forth by the CDC and the ACHA

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ObjectiveTo obtain information on varicella pre-matriculation requirements in US colleges for undergraduate students during the 2014\u20132015 academic year.ParticipantsHealthcare professionals and member-schools of the American College Health Association (ACHA).MethodsAn electronic survey was sent to ACHA members regarding school characteristics and whether schools had policies in place requiring that students show proof of 2-doses of varicella vaccination for school attendance.ResultsOnly 27% (101/370) of schools had a varicella pre-matriculation requirement for undergraduate students. Only 68% of schools always enforced this requirement. Private schools, 4-year schools, Northeastern schools, those with <5,000 students, and schools located in a state with a 2-dose varicella vaccine mandate were significantly more likely to have a varicella pre-matriculation requirement.ConclusionsA small proportion of US colleges have a varicella pre-matriculation requirement for varicella immunity. College vaccination requirements are an important tool for controlling varicella in these settings.CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States2018-01-08T00:00:00Z26829449PMC57573746348vault:2579

Does the Andersen Behavioral Model for Health Services Use Predict How Health Impacts College Students’ Academic Performance?

College is a critical time in a person’s life. Young adults experience transitional changes in their independence, physical and mental health, and utilization of health care. The purpose of this research study is to examine the use of the Andersen Behavioral Model of Health Services Use in predicting how health impacts the academic performance of college students through predisposing, enabling, and need factors. Data was collected from 438 college students attending a large university in the Southeast. Students answered questions about their demographic characteristics, health, healthcare use, and academics using a survey adapted from the 2018 National College Health Assessment (NCHA) II conducted by the American College Health Association (ACHA). Bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses were run on the data and summarized. Results indicate that the Andersen Model is a useful model for framing the relationship between health and academic performance among college students. Enabling factors were more likely to predict health impact on academic performance while predisposing factors were least likely to predict these impacts. University administrators and government personnel can use these findings to explore the health- related needs of college students and implement services to accommodate these needs

Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Among the LGBTQ+ College Population

College-aged students have the highest sexual assault and intimate partner violence victimization rates. Previous studies have linked victimization with poor mental health scores, especially in the LGBTQ+ college population. They also showed a higher rate of victimization for LGBTQ+ students. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between victimization and mental health in the LGBTQ+ college population. To conduct this study, I used data from the Spring 2021 and 2022, American College Health Association (ACHA) - National College Health Assessment (NCHA). The results of the study established statistical significance in the rates of sexual violence in LGBTQ+ and cisgender heteronormative students. There was also statistical significance in mental health scores between the two groups. Recognizing how the rates of victimization and mental health scores differ between LGBTQ+ and cisgender heteronormative students can help in understanding and assisting these minority groups

Resilience 101: A Resilience Education Intervention for College Freshmen

This evidence-based project sought to evaluate resilience in freshmen college students enrolled in a Bridge scholar program (BSP) in a liberal arts university in the southeastern United States. The American College Health Association (ACHA) found that stress and anxiety were the top two indicators for impacting academics in 2019 and had been at the top since 2009 at the university of study (ACHA, 2019). The study used a pretest and posttest design method with the implementation of a five-week resilience education intervention. There was no significant difference found in students’ resilience, health promoting behaviors, anxiety or stress from baseline to two months. However, there was a significant increase in students’ knowledge of resilience, stress and anxiety demonstrated from baseline to 2 months supporting the hypothesis (Z=2.787, p=.005). Results of the data may have been influenced by the current pandemic. Limitations of the study included a small sample size and limited time for the intervention. Future research should focus on a resilience education intervention for all college students, beginning in their freshmen year and continuing throughout their college career in an effort to prevent mental health problems and support student\u27s future well-being. Keywords: resilience, anxiety, stress, intervention, college student

An Assessment of America\u27s Tobacco-Free Colleges and Universities: Policies, Procedures, Practices, and Adherence to Acha\u27s 2009 Guidelines and Recommendations

The purpose of the study was to survey each of the 100% tobacco-free campuses in the nation (N=175) to assess their policies, procedures, and practices, and the extent to which they adhere to American College Health Association (ACHA) guidelines promoting tobacco-free environments in colleges and universities. One key informant from each participating institution completed an online 35-item survey regarding school tobacco policies, practices, and enforcement. A scoring rubric was devised to measure compliance with ACHA guidelines. One hundred sixty-two institutions responded to the online survey, yielding a response rate of 92.6%. Cross-tabulations and Fisher\u27s Exact Tests were used to examine the relationship of geographic region, institution type, enrollment size, and geographic location to compliance with ACHA guidelines. Results demonstrated that tobacco-free schools fall short of total compliance with current ACHA guidelines. Institutional type and enrollment size appear to be the most closely related factors among demographic variables, with public colleges/universities having the highest degree of compliance, and smaller schools (\u3c10,000) more likely to enforce tobacco control policies. Larger schools are more likely to employ a tobacco control task force of a variety of members to enforce tobacco control policies. Findings from this study may serve as a helpful resource to colleges and universities for development of public health policies, practices, and enforcement for tobacco control

Investigating the Impact of College Stress and Utilization of Campus Wellness Services Through an Occupational Health Lens

Stress is a universal experience. For many people attending college during the period of emerging adulthood, stress can be a pressing daily occurrence. Shearer et al. (2016)[1] put it succinctly: “college is stressful” (p. 233). As a college student majoring in occupational therapy, I have both studied and experienced the pressure and effects of stress on myself and my peers. With the prevalence of stress throughout college campuses and methods to combat this stress, there is limited research regarding the reason that students participate in wellness options. I am doing research on the wellness options that students select and their primary and secondary motivators for participation. In addition to my own personal research, I have completed a literature review analyzing and evaluating prior research and commentary regarding this topic. While there are studies on student knowledge of health and wellness (Shearer et al., 2016) asking students how college could better serve their wellness endeavors and what students perceive as benefits of a college’s wellness offerings, more research on the topic is warranted. Through examination of current literature about college students’ stressors, I weighed the statistics surrounding mental health and stressors in the college population (American College Health Association (ACHA), 2015, 2017, 2019) and then integrated the dimensions and components of health and wellness into survey research to investigate what students in higher education are doing to cope with stress