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| R F OmanSummaryAffiliation: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Country: USA Publications
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Associations between youth assets and sexual activity: does adult supervision play a role?L Harris
Department of Health Administration and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73190, USA
Child Care Health Dev 33:448-54. 2007..This study examined how the relationships of nine youth assets and sexual activity may vary according to the stratification of youth into two groups: self-care and supervised...
The effect of life events and exercise program format on the adoption and maintenance of exercise behaviorR F Oman
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City 73190, USA
Health Psychol 19:605-12. 2000..e., Months 1 to 6). The deleterious effect of life events emphasizes the importance of instruction regarding how to prepare for high-risk situations that can lead to missed exercise sessions or to program attrition...
Methodological considerations in a community-based longitudinal studyRoy F Oman
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73190, USA
Am J Health Behav 33:58-68. 2009..To describe methodological issues and strategies relevant to conducting a community-based longitudinal study...
Youth assets, aggression, and delinquency within the context of family structureRoy F Oman
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73190, USA
Am J Health Behav 29:557-68. 2005..To identify youth assets associated with reduced aggressive and delinquent behavior of youth residing in 1-parent households but not of youth residing in 2-parent households...
Youth assets and sexual risk behavior: the importance of assets for youth residing in one-parent householdsRoy F Oman
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 37:25-31. 2005..Youth assets are associated with a reduction in sexual risk behavior; however, little is known about this association among youth at high risk of engaging in unsafe behavior, such as those in one-parent households...
Reliability and validity of the youth asset survey: an updateRoy F Oman
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, 73190, USA
Am J Health Promot 25:e13-24. 2010..Improve and expand an existing youth asset scale...
The association between multiple youth assets and sexual behaviorRoy F Oman
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, PO Box 26901, Room 369, Oklahoma City, OK 73190, USA
Am J Health Promot 19:12-8. 2004..To investigate the possible positive cumulative effects that youth assets may have on youth sexual behaviors...
The potential protective effect of youth assets on adolescent alcohol and drug useRoy F Oman
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, PO Box 26901, CHB Room 369, Oklahoma City, OK 73190, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1425-30. 2004..We examined the association between adolescent alcohol and drug use and 9 youth assets in a low-income, inner-city population...
A case-control study of psychosocial and aerobic exercise factors in women with symptoms of depressionRoy F Oman
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City 73104, USA
J Psychol 137:338-50. 2003..Those results suggest that provisional social support, as well as specific dimensions of hardiness, should be the focus of interventions for women with symptoms of depression...
A youth development approach to profiling sexual abstinenceRoy F Oman
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73190, USA
Am J Health Behav 27:S80-93. 2003..To use youth and parent demographic factors, youth assets (strengths), and community constructs to develop age-group-specific profiles for youth who abstain from sexual activity...
Reliability and validity of the youth asset survey (YAS)Roy F Oman
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA
J Adolesc Health 31:247-55. 2002..The paper details the ten youth developmental assets measures within the survey, including the psychometric properties of those measures derived from factor analysis and reliability testing...
A matched case-control study: investigating the relationship between youth assets and sexual intercourse among 13- to 14-year-oldsJ R Doss
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73014, USA
Child Care Health Dev 33:40-4. 2007..This can become a major challenge when trying to determine why teens continue to have sex. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the relationship between youth assets and sexual intercourse among 13- to 14-year-olds...
Adolescent tobacco use: the protective effects of developmental assetsLeslie A Atkins
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, P.O. Box 26901, Room 369, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
Am J Health Promot 16:198-205. 2002..Limitations include cross-sectional data and three scales with alphas below .7...
An adolescent age group approach to examining youth risk behaviorsRoy F Oman
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Health Promotion Science, 801 NE 13th Street, Room 369, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
Am J Health Promot 16:167-76. 2002..The study protocol also includes specific sampling methods that may be useful for future studies that intend to collect data from difficult-to-reach populations...
Youth assets and sexual abstinence in Native American youthRoy F Oman
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Helath Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 17:775-88. 2006..Youth with the Non-Parental Adult Role Models asset were 3.8 times more likely to have never had sex compared with youth without the asset. Further study of the influence of protective factors among Native American youth is warranted...
The relationships among constructs in the health belief model and the transtheoretical model among African-American college women for physical activityKelly C Juniper
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73190, USA
Am J Health Promot 18:354-7. 2004..A limitation was that some scales were modified specifically for this population and were not validated...
Parental communication and youth sexual behaviourCheryl B Aspy
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 900 NE 10th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
J Adolesc 30:449-66. 2007..Our conclusion is that parents have the opportunity and ability to influence their children's sexual behaviour decisions...
Youth-parent communication and youth sexual behavior: implications for physiciansCheryl B Aspy
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, 73104, USA
Fam Med 38:500-4. 2006..The study's objective was to determine if the amount of agreement was associated with youth sexual behavior...
The potential protective effects of youth assets from adolescent sexual risk behaviorsSara K Vesely
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73190, USA
J Adolesc Health 34:356-65. 2004..To examine the relationship among individual youth assets and adolescent sexual risk behaviors...
Protective assets for non-use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs among urban American Indian youth in OklahomaLaura A Beebe
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 801 NE 13th Street, CHB 309, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
Matern Child Health J 12:82-90. 2008..This study explored associations between nine youth assets and tobacco, alcohol and other drug non-use among participating American Indian adolescents...
Stability and convergent validity of the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE)M K Dinger
Department of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
J Sports Med Phys Fitness 44:186-92. 2004..Actigraph Monitors (Actigraph) as the direct criterion measure...
Relationships among youth assets and neighborhood and community resourcesMichelle Crozier Kegler
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Health Educ Behav 32:380-97. 2005..Findings suggest that neighborhood and community-level influences should be considered when designing youth development interventions to reduce risk behaviors...
Views on exercise and physical activity among rural-dwelling senior citizensRobert E Aronson
Department of Public Health Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402 6170, USA
J Rural Health 20:76-9. 2004..These communities are both predominantly white, with the largest minority population being American Indian. Both communities are more than 60 miles from a metropolitan area and have a history of farming and ranching...
A collaborative approach to program evaluation of community-based teen pregnancy prevention projectsJanene D Fluhr
College of Public Health at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, USA
Health Promot Pract 5:127-37. 2004..The result of this collaborative model has been a quality program evaluation for the projects while maintaining community input regarding program improvements that reflect local population needs...
Research Grants
- Prospective Study of Youth Assets and Teen PregnancyRoy Oman; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
