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| Soledad Liliana Escobar-ChavesSummaryAffiliation: Baylor College of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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The Fun Families Study: intervention to reduce children's TV viewingSoledad Liliana Escobar-Chaves
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:S99-101. 2010..23, P < 0.01). There was a trend toward reducing actual media consumption but these outcomes did not reach statistical significance. Effective strategies to reduce children's TV viewing were identified...- Violent behavior among urban youth attending alternative schoolsS Liliana Escobar-Chaves
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin, 26th Floor, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Sch Health 72:357-62. 2002..Aggression related strongly to weapon carrying and fighting in the sample. Data indicate alternative school youth urgently need prevention and treatment programs to help them live in safer environments... - The relationship between violent video games, acculturation, and aggression among Latino adolescentsS Liliana Escobar-Chaves
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Biomedica 22:398-406. 2002..Students who reported speaking more Spanish at home and with their friends were less likely to spend large amounts of time playing video games and less likely to prefer violent video games (p < 0.05)... - Impact of the media on adolescent sexual attitudes and behaviorsS Liliana Escobar-Chaves
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas 77225 0036, USA
Pediatrics 116:303-26. 2005..One largely unexplored factor that may contribute to adolescents' sexual activity is their exposure to mass media... - Sexual risk avoidance and sexual risk reduction interventions for middle school youth: a randomized controlled trialChristine M Markham
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7000 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Adolesc Health 50:279-88. 2012..To evaluate the efficacy of two, theory-based, multimedia, middle school sexual education programs in delaying sexual initiation... - Media and risky behaviorsSoledad Liliana Escobar-Chaves
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, USA
Future Child 18:147-80. 2008..The authors note the need for more large-scale longitudinal studies that specifically examine the cumulative effects of electronic media on risky health behavior... 
Safer choices 2: rationale, design issues, and baseline results in evaluating school-based health promotion for alternative school studentsSusan R Tortolero
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 29:70-82. 2008..This paper describes the rationale, study design, and baseline results for the Safer Choices 2 program...- It's Your Game: Keep It Real: delaying sexual behavior with an effective middle school programSusan R Tortolero
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Adolesc Health 46:169-79. 2010..We hypothesized that the IYG intervention would decrease the number of adolescents who initiated sexual activity by the ninth grade compared with those in the comparison schools... - The relationship between future orientation and street substance use among Texas alternative school studentsR J Peters
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 77030, USA
Am J Addict 14:478-85. 2005..While the relationships tested in this study are exploratory, they provide evidence for an important connection between future orientation and substance use among adolescents attending alternative schools... - Recruiting and retaining minority women: findings from the Women on the Move studyS Liliana Escobar-Chaves
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 77030, USA
Ethn Dis 12:242-51. 2002..To describe the recruitment, enrollment, and retention of women participating in the Women on the Move study, a physical activity validation study targeting urban minority women aged 40 to 70 years... - Family connectedness and sexual risk-taking among urban youth attending alternative high schoolsChristine M Markham
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 35:174-9. 2003..Family connectedness is associated with reduced adolescent sexual risk-taking, although this association has not been tested among alternative school youth... - The relationship between sexual abuse and drug use: findings from Houston's Safer Choices 2 programRonald J Peters
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 77030, USA
J Drug Educ 33:49-59. 2003..9, p < or = 0.05). While the relationships tested in this study are exploratory, they provide evidence for an important connection between sexual abuse and substance use among female alternative school students... - Using intervention mapping to adapt an effective HIV, sexually transmitted disease, and pregnancy prevention program for high-risk minority youthSusan R Tortolero
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Health Promot Pract 6:286-98. 2005..IM is a detailed process that provides planners with a systematic method for decision making in each phase of developing or adapting an intervention to influence changes in behavior and environmental conditions...