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Intervention Focus

 

 

Christopher N. Sciamanna

Amy Zampi

Martin A. Weinstock

 

 

 

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Applied Research Briefs: Medical Self-Care

Comparison of Sun Protection Behaviors Among Physicians and Patients

Sun protection behaviors were compared between 100 patients and 85 physicians in a university-based clinic and hospital. Physicians were more likely to use sunscreen, but patients were more likely to wear long sleeve shirts and stay in the shade to avoid the sun. There was no statistically significant difference in the frequency or number of sun protection behaviors utilized.

 

 

 

Isabel C. Scarinci

Janet Thomas

Phillip J. Brantley

Glenn N. Jones

 

 

 

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Smoking Control

Examination of the Temporal Relationship Between Smoking and Major Depressive Disorder Among Low-income Women in Public Primary Care Clinics

The relationship between Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and smoking status and initiation was examined through personal interviews which followed the Diagnostic Interview Schedule protocols for the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV, among 338 low-income women in two public primary care clinics. The prevalence of MDD was significantly higher in current smokers (56.6%) than former smokers (37.5%) and never smokers (30.3%). Most ever-smokers (81.3%) began smoking and were nicotine dependent (63.6%) prior to their first episode of MDD. The odds of having a MDD decreased 8.2% for each year smoking initiation was delayed.

 

 

 

John A. Brett

Jerianne Heimendinger

Carol Boender

Cathy Morin

Julie A. Marshall

 

 

 

 

331

Social Health: Methods, Issues, and Results in Evaluation and Research

Using Ethnography to Improve Intervention Design

A series of open-ended interviews was conducted with 29 families in a small, low-income town in Colorado to examine the factors that impact people's decisions about physical activity and diet to help develop interventions to motivate them to make lifestyle changes. Social, structural, and cultural barriers, and a range of factors that could facilitate behavior change were discovered.

Strategies

 

 

 

Nancy E. Sherwood

Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

Mary Story

Trish Beuhring

Michael D. Resnick

 

 

 

 

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Applied Research Briefs: Behavior Change; Weight Control

Weight-Related Sports Involvement in Girls: Who Is At Risk for Disordered Eating?

A 225-item questionnaire was completed by 5163 female 7th, 9th and 11th grade public school students in their classrooms to examine factors associated with eating disorders among girls involved in weight-related sports. Eating disorder symptoms were found in almost one third of girls involved in weight-related and non–weight-related sports. However, after controlling for grade, race, SES, and study design effect, girls in weight-related sports were 51% more likely to have eating disorder symptoms. Also, among girls in weight-related sports who had eating disorders, substance abuse, physical and sexual abuse history, depressive symptoms, suicide attempts, low family communication, and low parental caring were 98% to 377% more common.

Research

Abstracts

DataBase: Research and Evaluation Results

 

 

 

 

25 abstracts are featured from a variety of publications.

Four new studies are critiqued and added to the DataBase chart.

 

American Journal of Health Promotion 248-682-0707

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