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| Project Leader: | Kayli Koonce kaylikoonce@tamu.edu Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology |
| Faculty Mentor: | Dr. Marissa Cisneros, Ph.D. |
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Meeting Times:
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Tuesday/Thursday 3:15 – 4:30 |
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Team Size:
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5
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| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Potential to contribute to scientific research and have the opportunity to participate in research presentations |
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Team Needs:
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Students will examine the challenges in communicating relevant information about a healthy lifestyle and wellness to college students at Texas A&M University. Plan to collect preliminary data and design a community intervention tool that will culminate in a mobile application. The participation of students in our research will only benefit the learning environment of our university and does not intend to exploit any personal information gathered from the survey and focus group participants |
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Description:
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Texas A&M University undergraduates are offered a wide array of academic help throughout their time in the university. Resources like the Academic Success Center offer options in personal academic success coaching, supplemental instruction sessions for major classes as well as a wide array of free tutoring. In my experience, even with this wealth of resources, students still struggle with stress management when juggling 5+ college classes per semester. In a study done by Serap Akgun it shows that students that have learned to be resourceful in their studying have higher academic success and are more likely to be able to control their negative emotions and manage stressful tasks. The academic resources on campus are here to develop this resourcefulness, however, do the time constraints of being a student hinder undergraduates from reaching out and taking advantage of these resources? The inability to cope with stress can lead to many preventative health problems that are seen disproportionately in college students, as being studied in our main project. Producing a mobile application with all of the academic resources and information available with ease may help to improve their overall health and well being. This project is a subsection of the project below: In 2013, research has found that compared to the rest of the United States population, college students experience a disproportionate number of preventative health problems. These are attributed to improper sleep, diet, exercise, and stress management. Effective health education may aid in helping college students recognize, minimize, and respond effectively to potential health problems. Producing a mobile application may provide a resource to properly educate college students on the resources and other possible approaches to improve their overall health and well-being. The purpose of this project is to investigate how providing accessible health and resource information in the form of a mobile application to university students increases their overall health. Our research question stands to be: Do time constraints of being a university student reduce willingness to seek medical attention? |