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| Ardis OlsonSummaryAffiliation: Dartmouth Medical School Country: USA Publications
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Use of inexpensive technology to enhance adolescent health screening and counselingArdis L Olson
Clinicians Enhancing Child Health Network, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756 001, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 163:172-7. 2009..To describe the health issues reported using a personal digital assistant (PDA) to conduct screening at adolescent well visits, and to determine the effect of a PDA screening tool on the content and quality of the clinical interaction...- Changing adolescent health behaviors: the healthy teens counseling approachArdis L Olson
Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:S359-64. 2008..Whether health screening and motivational-interviewing-based counseling provided by clinicians during routine care can change behaviors is unknown... 
The impact of an appearance-based educational intervention on adolescent intention to use sunscreenArdis L Olson
Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Health Educ Res 23:763-9. 2008..1, P = 0.004). A brief educational intervention that emphasizes risk-to-appearance and personalizes the risks of UV exposure has the potential to influence early adolescent sun protection. Long-term studies of this approach are needed...
Primary care pediatricians' roles and perceived responsibilities in the identification and management of maternal depressionArdis L Olson
Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756 0001, USA
Pediatrics 110:1169-76. 2002..To describe the attitudes and approaches of primary care pediatricians in the identification and management of postpartum and other maternal depression...- SunSafe in the Middle School Years: a community-wide intervention to change early-adolescent sun protectionArdis L Olson
Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Pediatrics 119:e247-56. 2007..Our study objective was to determine if a multicomponent community-wide intervention could alter the decline in sun protection that begins in early adolescence... - Brief maternal depression screening at well-child visitsArdis L Olson
Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, HB 7450, 1 Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756 0011, USA
Pediatrics 118:207-16. 2006.... - Two approaches to maternal depression screening during well child visitsArdis L Olson
Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 26:169-76. 2005..With either of these screening approaches, pediatricians could enhance their detection of mothers at risk of depression. The outcomes of pediatrician screening and the best approach to follow-up care still need to be determined... - The healthy teen project: tools to enhance adolescent health counselingArdis L Olson
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:S63-5. 2005 - The challenge of intentional tanning in teens and young adultsArdis L Olson
Department of Pediatrics, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Dermatol Clin 24:131-6, v. 2006..The tanning industry benefits from recruiting new participants in this risky behavior. Research is just beginning to show some promising approaches, and will benefit from our experience attempting to change other risky behaviors... - Multi-institutional development and utilization of a computer-assisted learning program for the pediatrics clerkship: the CLIPP ProjectLeslie H Fall
Department of Pediatrics, DHMC, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Acad Med 80:847-55. 2005..Although CAI development is both time-consuming and costly, the initial investment decreases significantly with broad use over time... - Collaborating to integrate curriculum in primary care medical education: successes and challenges from three US medical schoolsCatherine F Pipas
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, USA
Fam Med 36:S126-32. 2004..This paper describes the approaches, successes, and challenges three institutions experienced when implementing an interdepartmental collaboration to create an integrated primary care clerkship experience... - An analysis of students' clinical experiences in an integrated primary care clerkshipPatricia A Carney
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03756, USA
Acad Med 77:681-7. 2002.... - Development of a handheld computer documentation system to enhance an integrated primary care clerkshipCatherine F Pipas
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Acad Med 77:600-9. 2002.... - A pediatric, practice-based, randomized trial of drinking and smoking prevention and bicycle helmet, gun, and seatbelt safety promotionMarguerite M Stevens
Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
Pediatrics 109:490-7. 2002.... - School professionals' perceptions about the impact of chronic illness in the classroomArdis L Olson
Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:53-8. 2004..Health care professionals can help by providing educators with appropriate information about the risk and functional impact of childhood chronic health conditions... - A longitudinal examination of the link between parent alcohol problems and youth drinking: the moderating roles of parent and child genderNicole L Coffelt
Department of Psychology, John Dewey Hall, University of Vermont, 2 Colchester Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405, United States
Addict Behav 31:593-605. 2006..Implications for preventive and interventive efforts are considered... - Implementing maternal depression screeningKathi J Kemper
Pediatrics 120:448-9; author reply 449-50. 2007 - Family socialization of adolescent's self-reported cigarette use: the role of parents' history of regular smoking and parenting styleSarah E Foster
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:481-93. 2007..To examine the main and interactive effects of parental history of regular cigarette smoking and parenting style on adolescent self-reported cigarette use... - Longitudinal retention of families in the assessment of a prevention program targeting adolescent alcohol and tobacco use: the utility of an ecological systems frameworkDeborah J Jones
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Behav Modif 31:638-59. 2007..Findings indicated that familial and child, but not extrafamilial, factors were associated with the participation of families in the 36-month assessment. Clinical implications and future research directions are discussed...
Research Grants
- Promoting Healthy Families Through Enhanced Primary CareArdis Olson; Fiscal Year: 2006..We will determine the respective impact of these two levels of post-visit support on stage of change, parental action on key obesity risk behaviors, child behaviors, and stabilization of BMI z scores after 6 months. ..
- UV Safe: New approaches to reduce teen UV exposureArdis Olson; Fiscal Year: 2007..In these development activities, we will include objective measures of skin color to determine if this methodology is feasible as an outcome measure in a subsequent community study. ..
- SKIN CANCER PREVENTION IN NH MIDDLE SCHOOLSArdis Olson; Fiscal Year: 2004..The evaluation will also assess intermediate mediating variables in students and change in the health promotion and sun protection behaviors of adult role models. ..