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Wellness Promotion Courses in University Settings: A Review of the Outcome Research

Beauchemin, James, Gibbs, Todd, Granello, Paul·2018·Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal
DOI 10.18061/bhac.v2i1.6344
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Background: Improving college student wellness continues to be a challenge due to concerns related to lifestyle, unhealthy behavior, and lack of accessible supports, often resulting in poor academic performance and high drop-out rates. As a result there has been an increase in wellness-promoting academic courses across colleges and universities with the goal of helping students to establish healthy lifestyle behaviors.Aim: This article critically reviews the existing literature related to college courses designed to promote student wellness.Methods: This scoping review examines research related to courses designed to improve wellness within the college student population between the years 2000-2017 using multiple electronic databases. Results: Review findings include a lack of rigorous research designs, lack of integration of evidence-based models of wellness, challenges associated with consensus conceptualizations of wellness, fidelity, and replicability of wellness-related courses.Conclusions: Wellness as an emerging paradigm continues to gain attention in the literature, particularly related to college students. However, there is a need for more rigorous study designs, examination of mechanisms of change, and consensus related to conceptualizations of wellness and component definitions to inform wellness-promotion efforts, and ultimately support health-enhancing change within the existing lifestyle culture on college campuses.

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Authors
Beauchemin, J., Gibbs, T., & Granello, P.
Venue
Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal
Publisher
The Ohio State University Libraries
Published
2018-06-20
Volume
2
Issue
1
Pages
36-49
ISSN
2573-7643
DOI
10.18061/bhac.v2i1.6344
Cited by
7
References
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creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 (unspecified)

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