Kevin Dadaczynski

Fulda University of Applied Sciences · Department of Health Science

Regular physical activity and high physical fitness levels have positive effects on health and well-being over the entire lifespan. Moreover, their potential impact on educational outcomes has been increasingly discussed. Hence, the aim of this paper is to systematically analyze longitudinal studies dealing with impacts of physical activity and fit...

Background: Worldwide, one third of the adult population is insufficiently physically active. This fact has led to a strong demand for public health initiatives. Given the mixed evidence on the effectiveness of worksite interventions promoting physical activity (PA), a pedometer-based and gamified intervention, Healingo Fit, was developed and evalu...

Background: Digital communication technologies are playing an important role in the health communication strategies of governments and public health authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The internet and social media have become important sources of health-related information on COVID-19 and on protective behaviors. In addition, the COVID-19 in...

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their underlying risk factors are seen as major public health problems that threaten health and welfare systems worldwide. The holistic and resource oriented Health Promoting School (HPS) approach can serve as an appropriate framework for the prevention and control of NCDs. The paper aimed to map the implementati...

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, in welchem Ausmaß Schulen Maßnahmen der Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention während der COVID-19-Pandemie umsetzen. Von besonderem Interesse sind hierbei Unterschiede nach demografischen Variablen, Schulform, Bundesland und die Beteiligung an Landesinitiativen der Gesundheitsförderung....

Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic halted everyday life in higher education along with social and psychological impacts. The objective of our study was to explore the factors related to sense of coherence (SoC) from a gender perspective among university students in Turkey. This is a cross-sectional...

Background Physical inactivity is a contributing factor in the development of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and is one of the leading risk factors for premature death. Stair climbing offers a low-threshold strategy to increase physical activity levels in everyday life. Empirical findings report positive effects of so-called “nudges” in connection...

Background: With the growing concern and interest in the mental health and well-being of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) including those in schools, many studies have explored the bivariate relationship between subjective social status (SSS) and AYAs' subjective well-being (SWB). Acknowledging the spurious nature of this relationship, we assess...

Background: Digital health literacy (DHL) enables healthy decisions, improves protective behaviors and adherence to COVID-19 measures, especially during the era of the "infodemic", and enhances psychological well-being. Objective: We aimed to explore the mediating roles of fear of COVID-19, information satisfaction, and the importance of online...

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Die COVID-19-Pandemie hat das Lernen und die Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen beeinflusst. Ziel des Beitrags ist, psychische Auffälligkeiten von SchülerInnen im Pandemieverlauf, familiäre Belastungen sowie Unterstützungsbedarf in Abhängigkeit von der Schulform zu untersuchen. Ansätze schulischer Prävention und Ge...

Given its promising role in public health to address hard to reach population groups, game-based interventions (i.e., Games for Health, G4H) have experienced growing interest in recent years. Therefore, it is surprising that they have played only a minor role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, the aim of this paper is to reflect the opportunities...

Abstract Background Mental health concerns of university students are gaining more attention since the emergence of the coronavirus disease. Consequently, scholars in education, health and psychology‐related fields have attributed the dwindling subjective well‐being (SWB) of students to their low levels of digital health literacy (DHL). However, li...

Gender appears to be a strong predictor of online health information-seeking behaviour (OHISB), which is related to Digital Health Literacy (DHL). Gender differences in OHISB have been studied in different countries with different results, but no studies have investigated gender-specific OHISB among University students during the COVID-19 pandemic....

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an avalanche of information, which, if not properly addressed, generates uncertainty and limits healthy decision-making. On the other hand, the pandemic has exacerbated mental health problems among young people and adolescents, causing a worsening of their wellbeing. Previous studies have found that di...

Background: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has influenced educational systems worldwide. School principals coped with numerous significant challenges regarding school management during the epidemiological crisis that could generate a lot of work-related stress. Thus, the presented study examines Polish school principals' perceived stress and its as...

Objectives The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic developed rapidly, with changing guidelines, misinformation, inaccurate health information and rumors. This situation has highlighted the importance of health literacy, especially among educators. The aims of this study were (i) to assess COVID-19-specific health literacy among school teac...

The health and well-being of school leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic have been largely neglected compared to the health and well-being of students and teachers. This study assessed the magnitude of perceived stress and well-being and the associated factors, including number of working hours, work-related sense of coherence (work-SoC), perceived...

Background: Previous research has established a strong association between COVID‐19 digital health literacy (DHL) and subjective well‐being among several populations, including students. With the growing misinformation and heightenedfear of COVID‐19 among persons with an underlying medical condition, several scholars have questioned the direct rela...

Schools are considered as important settings for health education and the promotion of functioning, healthy people. Health-promoting schools (HPS) take a holistic approach to health promotion that addresses all school levels and members of the school community. Although it is assumed that school leaders are crucial in the implementation of HPS, lit...

Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) entails health-related risks for all humans, especially for vulnerable people. People at the age of 50 or older, smokers and people with obesity and comorbidities are at higher risk for a severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) course. For this population group in parti...

School teachers have faced many challenges due to the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and public health-related containment measures. Recent studies have demonstrated high levels of stress and mental health issues among school teachers. To better understand teacher well-being and inform practices to support them in the face of the ongo...

Background: On 4 August 2020, an explosion shook Beirut, killing more than 200 people and leaving thousands injured or homeless. Aims: This study examined mental health of university students through a cross-sectional online survey between December 2020 and January 2021. Methods: The questionnaire consisted of the WHO-5, sense of coherence (So...

Der Lebensalltag von jungen Erwachsenen ist zunehmend digital geprägt, weshalb davon auszugehen ist, dass Studierende auch bei gesundheitlichen Anliegen vielfach auf internetbasierte Informationsquellen zurückgreifen. Während die bisherige Forschung vor allem die allgemeine Gesundheitskompetenz in den Blick genommen hat, mangelt es jedoch an Erkenn...

Hintergrund und Ziele Menschen mit Behinderung befinden sich in einer vulnerablen Lebenslage, da sie aufgrund ihres Bildungs- und Einkommenshintergrunds und ihrer gesundheitlichen (Ausgangs-)Situation benachteiligt sind. Die Förderung der Gesundheit von Menschen mit Behinderung ist daher von großer Bedeutung und rückt zunehmend in den Fokus von Ge...

Background This study examines the extent to which schools implement activities on health promotion and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, potential differences with regard to demographic variables, school type, state, and participation in state public health and health promotion initiatives are determined. Methods As part of the i...

Background Digital communication technologies had a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the internet and Social Media as highly frequented sources for retrieving health information. University student's health and well-being were highly affected and most interaction with peers and professionals migrated to the digital realm, which made...

Gender appears to be a strong predictor of online health information-seeking behaviour (OHISB). Gender differences in OHISB have been studied in different countries with different results, but no studies investigated gender-specific behaviour among University students during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has brought with it a consequential infodemic...

Background Due to the high availability and use of digital media, health-related information is increasingly shifting into the digital space. While there are increasing empirical findings on general health literacy (HL), there is a lack of evidence on digital HL in adolescence and its association with health behavior. Methods A cross-sectional stu...

The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with far-reaching challenges for the educational system, which impact the health of all involved in the school context, making it a critical public health topic. Consequences include school-closures, a switch from face-to-face classroom learning to homeschooling via online learning, resulting in uncertainty, stre...

Settings und Lebenswelten gelten weltweit als Schlüsselstrategie zur Umsetzung der Prinzipien der Primärprävention und Gesundheitsförderung. Entsprechend finden sich in der aktuellen Interventionslandschaft zahlreiche Vorhaben, die mehr oder minder stark auf den Setting- und/oder Lebensweltansatz rekurrieren. Neben einer unklaren theoretischen Fund...

Die hohe Prävalenz psychischer Erkrankungen weist auf einen Bedarf an entsprechenden Maßnahmen zur Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention hin. In beiden Bereichen stellt der Einsatz von gamifizierten Anwendungen und Serious Games, darunter insbesondere in Bezug auf psychische Gesundheit, ein noch sehr junges Forschungsgebiet dar. Dennoch konnten erste...

To date, we know little about COVID-19-related health literacy among school leaders, particularly in East Asia. The present study aimed to assess the level of COVID-19-related health literacy and associated factors (vaccine hesitancy, self-endangering behaviour, and work satisfaction) among school leaders in Hong Kong. A cross-sectional study of 25...

We aimed to evaluate the associations between information searching about public health and social measures (PHSM) and university students' digital health literacy (DHL) related to the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 3,084 Portuguese university students (75.7% females), with an average age o...

Health literacy can help explain health inequalities in childhood and adolescence. However, suitable instruments for assessing health literacy in this age group are rare, especially in the German-speaking countries. One economical measure is the 10-item Health Literacy in School-Aged Children (HLSAC) scale, developed and reviewed as part of the WHO...

Während in der Anfangsphase der deutschsprachigen Gesundheitskompetenzforschung der Fokus vor allem auf der Durchführung von populationsbezogenen Studien lag, findet seit einigen Jahren eine zunehmende Hinwendung zu einzelnen Settings und spezifischen Adressatengruppen statt. Für das Setting Schule liegt der Fokus bislang auf Schülerinnen und Schül...

Einleitung Die Corona-Pandemie ging mit umfangreichen Veränderungen des Alltages an Grund- und weiterführenden Schulen einher. Aktuelle Studien deuten auf ein hohes Belastungserleben und eine psychische Beanspruchung von Schulleitungen und Lehrpersonen während der Corona-Pandemie hin. Für das Schulleitungs- und Lehrpersonal an Schulen in Hessen lie...

Einleitung Bislang liegen wenige Studien zur Gesundheitskompetenz und psychischen Gesundheit von Menschen mit chronischer Erkrankung und/oder Behinderung während der Pandemie vor. Für diese Gruppe besteht ein erhöhtes Risiko für die körperliche und psychische Gesundheit. Ziel des Beitrages ist (1) die coronaspezifische und digitale Gesundheitskompe...

Objectives Examine if pre-COVID-19 pandemic (prior March 2020) health-related behaviours during primary school are associated with (1) being tested for SARS-CoV-2 and (2) testing positive between 1 March 2020 and 31 August 2021. Design Retrospective cohort study using an online cohort survey (January 2018 to February 2020) linked with routine PCR...

Einleitung Organisationale Gesundheitskompetenz umfasst alle organisationalen Maßnahmen, die es Mitarbeitenden und Patient*innen/Bewohner*innen/Klient*innen erleichtern Gesundheitsinformationen und -leistungen zu verstehen. Organisationale Gesundheitskompetenz ermöglicht es angemessene Entscheidungen für die Gesundheit treffen zu können. Bislang is...

Die verfügbare empirische Befundlage deutet für einen hohen Anteil der Kinder und Jugendlichen in Deutschland auf eine eingeschränkte Gesundheitskompetenz (GK) hin. Maßnahmen zur Förderung der GK sind in dieser Bevölkerungsgruppe bislang nur vereinzelt verfügbar und fokussieren vor allem individuelle Fähigkeitsaspekte, während die Strukturen und Ra...

Background School principals have been reported to have a higher prevalence of burnout and psychological problems than their colleagues. During the pandemic, extra workload and pressure from unprecedented situations potentially cause fear, stress and depression. Therefore, we aimed to explore associated factors of stress, fear of COVID-19 (F-CoV-19...

(1) Background: Health literacy is considered a personal asset, important for meeting health-related challenges of the 21st century. Measures for assisting students’ health literacy development and improving health outcomes can be implemented in the school setting. First, this is achieved by providing students with learning opportunities to foster...

Zusammenfassung Die Schule ist einer der wichtigsten Orte, an dem die Förderung der Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen ansetzen kann, u. a. weil die Schülerinnen und Schüler hier einen Großteil ihrer Zeit verbringen. Allerdings kann sich Schule nur in Teilen der Gesundheitsförderung widmen und die Schule ist selbst nur ein Teil der alltägliche...

Hintergrund: Während vermehrt Studienbefunde zur allgemeinen Gesundheitskompetenz (GK) vorliegen, mangelt es an Erkenntnissen zur digitalen GK im Jugendalter und deren Assoziationen mit Indikatoren des Gesundheitsverhaltens. Methodik: Empirische Basis bildet eine von Oktober 2019 bis Februar 2020 im Bundesland Hessen durchgeführte Querschnittstudi...

Zusammenfassung Gesundheitsbezogene Informationen werden zunehmend über digitale Medien angeboten und vor allem von jungen Altersgruppen häufig rezipiert. Diese Entwicklung wurde durch die COVID-19 Pandemie beschleunigt. Vor diesem Hintergrund nimmt die digitale Gesundheitskompetenz einen höheren Stellenwert ein. Im Vordergrund dieses Beitrags steh...

Zusammenfassung Gesundheitskompetenz adressiert den Umgang mit gesundheitsbezogenen Informationen. Dazu gehören die Fähigkeiten des Individuums, aber auch die des Gesundheitssystems, responsiv auf diese Fähigkeiten einzugehen. Trotz großer Fortschritte in den letzten Jahren besteht hoher wissenschaftlicher Entwicklungsbedarf, z.B. im Hinblick auf D...

The Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic and the associated “infodemic” have shown the importance of surveillance and promotion of health literacy, especially for young adults such as university students who use digital media to a very high degree. This study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of the Italian version of the COVID-19...

We face an unprecedented period of history during which COVID-19 is clustered with other global conditions, such as obesity, undernutrition, an infodemic, and climate change. This syndemic (synergy of epidemics) calls for the development of children’s and youth’s health literacy and socioemotional skills, support for behavioural hygiene (e.g. washi...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing interest in online information about coronavirus worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the digital health literacy (DHL) level, information-seeking behaviour, and satisfaction of information on COVID-19 among East and South East Asia university students. This cross-sectional web-based study was...

Background This study investigates university students’ digital health literacy and web-based information-seeking behaviours during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in England. It compares undergraduate and postgraduate students in non-health related subjects with health care students, many of whom were preparing for, or working in, frontl...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the concomitant infodemic have emphasized the importance of digital health literacy (DHL) to global public health research and practice. The aim of this study was to examine information-seeking behavior, the ability to find, understand and deal with health information among university college students in Denmark and/in add...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the concomitant infodemic have emphasized the importance of digital health literacy (DHL) to global public health research and practice. The aim of this study was to examine information-seeking behavior, the ability to find, understand and deal with health information among university college students in Denmark and/in add...

Digital health literacy is crucial in accessing and applying health information in the COVID-19 pandemic period. Young college students are exposed daily to digital technologies, and they have further increased the use of digital information during the COVID-19 period. This study aimed to adapt DHLI into Korean and to assess the psychometric proper...

merz - Zeitschrift für Medienpädagogik, Ausgabe 2022/01 "Gesundheit und Medien"; Abstract: Nicht zuletzt auch infolge der mit der COVID-19 Pandemie einhergehenden Flut an Informationen ist die Fähigkeit des Suchens, Verstehens, der kritischen Bewertung und Anwendung gesundheitsbezogener Informationen eine zentrale Ressource des gesunden Aufwachse...

Background Health literacy is an important skill to deal with and information and positively influences individual and community health. Information concerning health is available from a plethora of online resources. The concept of digital health literacy has gained prominence with the pandemic. The absence of valid tools to analyze digital literac...

Hintergrund: Der Nationale Aktionsplan zur Gesundheitskompetenz fordert eine nutzer-freundliche und gesundheitskompetente Entwicklung des Gesundheitswesens auf allen Ebenen. Während bislang vor allem die individuelle Perspektive auf Gesundheitskompetenz betrachtet wurde, wird das Augenmerk seit einiger Zeit verstärkt auf die organisationale Gesundh...

Dieses Referenzwerk bietet einen umfangreichen Überblick zu den zentralen Themen der Gesundheitskompetenz. Die einzelnen Sektionen behandeln sowohl die Grundlagen und Historie, als auch aktuelle Entwicklungen dieses spannenden Fachgebietes. Das Standardwerk richtet sich an Studierende, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher Disz...

Einrichtungen der (Gesundheits-)Versorgung sehen sich zunehmend mit der Forderung nach der Gestaltung einer gesundheitskompetenten Organisation konfrontiert. Für die Stärkung dieser sog. organisationalen Gesundheitskompetenz liegen bereits Tools für das Krankenhaus vor, nicht jedoch für andere Versorgungsbereiche (d. h. Pflege und Eingliederungs...

Objectives Examine if prior health-related behaviours during primary school are associated with being tested for SARS-CoV-2 and testing positive during adolescence. Design Retrospective cohort study using an online cohort survey (1 April 2014 to 28 February 2020) linked to routine PCR SARS-CoV-2 test results (1 March 2020 to 31 August 2021) Setti...

Settings und Lebenswelten gelten weltweit als Schlüsselstrategie zur Umsetzung der Prinzipien der Primärprävention und Gesundheitsförderung. Entsprechend finden sich in der aktuellen Interventionslandschaft zahlreiche Vorhaben, die mehr oder minder stark auf den Setting- und/oder Lebensweltansatz rekurrieren. Neben einer unklaren theoretischen Fund...

Emerging empirical evidence indicates a limited health literacy for a substantial proportion of children and adolescents. Although it is generally agreed upon promoting health literacy as early as possible in the lifespan, there is a lack of interventions addressing children and adolescents and their primary living environments. This article descri...

Digital health literacy in university students and the capacity of academic and public institutions to maintain and promote health are timely, critical, and applicable to the whole world, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has impacted society at whole. It changed the ways students access public health information and communicate...

As a result of international epidemiological findings, health literacy (HL) is seen as an urgent public health issue and should be promoted as early as possible. However, there is a lack of universal interventions addressing young people regardless potential health risks or already existing health problems. Available interventions often focus on th...

Background Digital communication technologies are playing an important role in the health communication strategies of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The internet and social media have become important sources of health-related information on COVID-19 and digital health literacy is a key competence to navigate web-based COVID-19 i...

Background: The public health importance of digital health literacy has significantly increased during COVID-19 pandemic all over the world. Health literacy enables individuals in informed and timely decision making. Anxiety particularly during difficult situations may hinders the decision making ability of individuals. The aim of this study was to...

Der vorliegende Bericht stellt erstmals ausgewählte Ergebnisse der „COVID-19 Health Literacy“ (COVID-HL) Schulleitungsstudie vor. Im Fokus stehen Ergebnisse zu arbeitsbedingten Stressbelastungen, gesundheitsriskanten Arbeitsbewältigungsstrategien sowie zu gesundheitlichen Beanspruchungen von Schulleitungen und Schulleitungsmitgliedern während der d...