Susan I Woodruff

Summary

Affiliation: San Diego State University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Pilot study using hair nicotine feedback to reduce Latino children's environmental tobacco smoke exposure
    Susan I Woodruff
    San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, Health Promotion Division, 9245 Sky Park Ct, Ste, 120 San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Am J Health Promot 22:93-7. 2007
  2. ncbi Recruitment, training outcomes, retention, and performance of community health advisors in two tobacco control interventions for Latinos
    Susan I Woodruff
    School of Social Work, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
    J Community Health 35:124-34. 2010
  3. ncbi Cigarette smoking and subsequent hospitalization in a cohort of young U.S. Navy female recruits
    Susan I Woodruff
    Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies, School of Social Work, San Diego State University, 6386 Alvarado Ct, Ste 224, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 12:365-73. 2010
  4. ncbi Sociodemographic and smoking-related psychosocial predictors of smoking behavior change among high school smokers
    Susan I Woodruff
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Addict Behav 33:354-8. 2008
  5. ncbi Measuring the stringency of states' indoor tanning regulations: instrument development and outcomes
    Susan I Woodruff
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, CA 92123, USA
    J Am Acad Dermatol 56:774-80. 2007
  6. ncbi Evaluation of an Internet virtual world chat room for adolescent smoking cessation
    Susan I Woodruff
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, 9245 Sky Park Ct, Ste 120, San Diego, CA 92123, United States
    Addict Behav 32:1769-86. 2007
  7. ncbi Smoking and quitting history correlates of readiness to quit in multiethnic adolescents
    Susan I Woodruff
    San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, 9245 Sky Park Court, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Am J Health Behav 30:663-74. 2006
  8. ncbi Parental prompts as risk factors for adolescent trial smoking: results of a prospective cohort study
    Susan I Woodruff
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, 9245 Sky Park Court, Suite 120, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Addict Behav 29:1869-73. 2004
  9. ncbi Ethnoracial differences in emergency department patients' tobacco use
    Susan I Woodruff
    Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies, School of Social Work, San Diego State University, 6386 Alvarado Ct Suite 224, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 13:1037-44. 2011
  10. ncbi Youth access to artificial UV radiation exposure: practices of 3647 US indoor tanning facilities
    Latrice C Pichon
    Graduate School of Public Health, 9245 Sky Park Ct, Ste 220, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Arch Dermatol 145:997-1002. 2009

Detail Information

Publications36

  1. ncbi Pilot study using hair nicotine feedback to reduce Latino children's environmental tobacco smoke exposure
    Susan I Woodruff
    San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, Health Promotion Division, 9245 Sky Park Ct, Ste, 120 San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Am J Health Promot 22:93-7. 2007
    ..This was a pilot study to assess the usability and impact of a feedback-based environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) reduction approach for Latino families...
  2. ncbi Recruitment, training outcomes, retention, and performance of community health advisors in two tobacco control interventions for Latinos
    Susan I Woodruff
    School of Social Work, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
    J Community Health 35:124-34. 2010
    ..Expert ratings of CHA performance were good, and recipients of the CHAs' efforts showed positive changes in behavior. This information may aid in planning for recruitment and evaluation of CHAs for future tobacco control programs...
  3. ncbi Cigarette smoking and subsequent hospitalization in a cohort of young U.S. Navy female recruits
    Susan I Woodruff
    Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies, School of Social Work, San Diego State University, 6386 Alvarado Ct, Ste 224, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 12:365-73. 2010
    ..Few prospective studies have examined the association of cigarette smoking with medical outcomes, particularly among initially healthy female military personnel...
  4. ncbi Sociodemographic and smoking-related psychosocial predictors of smoking behavior change among high school smokers
    Susan I Woodruff
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Addict Behav 33:354-8. 2008
    ..Self-efficacy for quitting, social support, and perceived benefits of quitting was related to positive short-term changes in smoking behavior...
  5. ncbi Measuring the stringency of states' indoor tanning regulations: instrument development and outcomes
    Susan I Woodruff
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, CA 92123, USA
    J Am Acad Dermatol 56:774-80. 2007
    ..The instrument was then used to rate the stringency of state laws...
  6. ncbi Evaluation of an Internet virtual world chat room for adolescent smoking cessation
    Susan I Woodruff
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, 9245 Sky Park Ct, Ste 120, San Diego, CA 92123, United States
    Addict Behav 32:1769-86. 2007
    ..05). The lack of longer-term results is discussed, as are methodological challenges in conducting a cluster-randomized smoking cessation study...
  7. ncbi Smoking and quitting history correlates of readiness to quit in multiethnic adolescents
    Susan I Woodruff
    San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, 9245 Sky Park Court, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Am J Health Behav 30:663-74. 2006
    ..To describe smoking and quitting history among multiethnic adolescent smokers and examine these as correlates of readiness to quit...
  8. ncbi Parental prompts as risk factors for adolescent trial smoking: results of a prospective cohort study
    Susan I Woodruff
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, 9245 Sky Park Court, Suite 120, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Addict Behav 29:1869-73. 2004
    ..This prospective study of 478 adolescent never-smokers, mostly Latino, suggests that parental prompts to smoke were not significantly related to smoking initiation among adolescents over a 1-year period...
  9. ncbi Ethnoracial differences in emergency department patients' tobacco use
    Susan I Woodruff
    Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies, School of Social Work, San Diego State University, 6386 Alvarado Ct Suite 224, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 13:1037-44. 2011
    ..In addition, ED patients' use rates were compared with those of a statewide sample...
  10. ncbi Youth access to artificial UV radiation exposure: practices of 3647 US indoor tanning facilities
    Latrice C Pichon
    Graduate School of Public Health, 9245 Sky Park Ct, Ste 220, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Arch Dermatol 145:997-1002. 2009
    ..To assess indoor tanning facility practices in a sample of facilities in 116 cities representing all 50 states...
  11. ncbi Adolescents' use of indoor tanning: a large-scale evaluation of psychosocial, environmental, and policy-level correlates
    Joni A Mayer
    School of Public Health, San Diego State University, CA, USA
    Am J Public Health 101:930-8. 2011
    ..We evaluated psychosocial, built-environmental, and policy-related correlates of adolescents' indoor tanning use...
  12. ncbi Density of indoor tanning facilities in 116 large U.S. cities
    Katherine D Hoerster
    Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego State University University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
    Am J Prev Med 36:243-6. 2009
    ..Because the availability of commercial indoor tanning facilities may influence use, data are needed on the number and density of such facilities...
  13. ncbi Parental prompting and smoking among Latino youth
    Rafael Laniado-Laborin
    Graduate School of Public Health, Center for Behavioral and Community Health Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 02111, USA
    Ethn Dis 12:508-16. 2002
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  14. ncbi Typologies of recanting of lifetime cigarette, alcohol and marijuana use during a six-year longitudinal panel study
    Audrey M Shillington
    San Diego State University, School of Social Work, College of Health and Human Services, Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Studies, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
    Drug Alcohol Depend 118:134-40. 2011
    ..To identify if there are different typologies for adolescent self-reporters and recanters for alcohol, cigarette and marijuana use...
  15. ncbi The influence of parents and peers on adolescent indoor tanning behavior: findings from a multi-city sample
    Katherine D Hoerster
    San Diego State University University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego, California, USA
    J Am Acad Dermatol 57:990-7. 2007
    ..Indoor tanning is common among adolescents...
  16. ncbi Pilot test of an assessment instrument for Latina community health advisors conducting an ETS intervention
    Vanessa M Rodriguez
    San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
    J Immigr Health 5:129-37. 2003
    ..Future research will investigate the relationship between the psychosocial characteristics measured in the assessment instrument and subsequent success implementing the ETS reduction intervention...
  17. ncbi Predictors of death and survival duration among a sample of persons living With HIV/AIDS
    Thom Reilly
    School of Social Work, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182 4119, USA
    Soc Work Health Care 49:783-98. 2010
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  18. ncbi Operation Stay Quit: evaluation of two smoking relapse prevention strategies for women after involuntary cessation during US Navy recruit training
    Terry L Conway
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, 9245 Sky Park Court, Suite 120, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Mil Med 169:236-42. 2004
    ..Results suggest the need for more aggressive relapse-prevention efforts, although quit rates were higher than expected "spontaneous" quit rates, indicating an impact of the totally smoke-free recruit training environment...
  19. ncbi Acceptability and validity of hair collection from Latino children to assess exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
    Susan I Woodruff
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 5:375-85. 2003
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  20. ncbi Enforcement of state indoor tanning laws in the United States
    Joni A Mayer
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, 9245 Sky Park Ct, Ste 220, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Prev Chronic Dis 5:A125. 2008
    ..To our knowledge, whether these state laws are actually enforced has not been evaluated previously in all 28 states. Therefore, we interviewed key informants in these states to assess enforcement practices...
  21. ncbi Availability of cigarettes as a risk factor for trial smoking in adolescents
    Susan I Woodruff
    San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Am J Health Behav 27:84-8. 2003
    ..To examine associations between cigarette availability measures with trial (ie, first) use of cigarettes...
  22. ncbi Smoking-related attitudes and their sociodemographic correlates among Mexican-origin adult smokers
    Veronica A Serrano
    San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, Center for Behavioral and Community Health Studies, CA 92123, USA
    J Community Health 28:209-20. 2003
    ..Results underscore the complexity between smoking-related attitudes and sociodemographic factors, and are discussed in terms of implications for culturally-tailored interventions...
  23. ncbi Sociodemographic and substance use correlates of tobacco use in a large, multi-ethnic sample of emergency department patients
    Cameron T McCabe
    Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies, San Diego, CA 92120, United States
    Addict Behav 36:899-905. 2011
    ..Future tobacco interventions in emergency settings should highlight these specific risk factors for Latinos, NLBs, and NLWs...
  24. ncbi Teen smoking cessation help via the Internet: a survey of search engines
    Christine C Edwards
    San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego, California, USA
    Health Promot Pract 4:262-5. 2003
    ..Smoking cessation Web sites need to be picked up on multiple search engine searches. Further evaluation of smoking cessation Web sites need to be conducted to identify the most effective help for teens...
  25. ncbi Incidence and predictors of mental health hospitalizations in a cohort of young U.S. Navy women
    Meghan Dana Freeman
    School of Social Work, Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies, 6386 Alvarado Court, Suite 224, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
    Mil Med 176:524-30. 2011
    ..This prospective cohort study analyzed hospitalization data over a 7-year period for 5,503 female Navy recruits first assessed in 1996-1997...
  26. ncbi Use of recombinant factor VIIA for control of combat-related haemorrhage
    Susan I Woodruff
    San Diego State University, School of Social Work, San Diego, USA
    Emerg Med J 27:121-4. 2010
    ..Recombinant activated human coagulation factor VII (rFVIIa), an intravascular strategy to promote clotting, is being used as an adjunct to surgical control of bleeding in combat trauma patients...
  27. ncbi Women's smoking history prior to entering the US Navy: a prospective predictor of performance
    Terry L Conway
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, 9245 Sky Park Court, Suite 120, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
    Tob Control 16:79-84. 2007
    ..A priori predictions were that smoking at entry into the Navy would be related to early attrition, poorer job performance, more disciplinary problems and lower likelihood of re-enlistment...
  28. ncbi Battlefield extremity injuries in Operation Iraqi Freedom
    Amber L Dougherty
    Health Research and Applied Technologies Division, Science Applications International Corporation, San Diego, CA, United States
    Injury 40:772-7. 2009
    ..The aim of the present study was to describe patients with battlefield extremity injuries in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and to compare characteristics of extremity injury patients with other combat wounded...
  29. ncbi Indoor tanning facility density in eighty U.S. cities
    Richard C Palmer
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, CA 92183-4162, USA
    J Community Health 27:191-202. 2002
    ..S. urban-dwellers. Cities having the higher density profile may be logical targets for interventions promoting less or safer use of these facilities...
  30. ncbi Comparing two methods of measuring legislation compliance among indoor tanning facilities
    Ami L Hurd
    Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182-4162, USA
    J Am Acad Dermatol 54:433-9. 2006
    ..LIMITATIONS: Levels of concordance for the confederates differed. CONCLUSION: Telephone assessment of compliance is fairly comparable with the more labor-intensive, face-to-face assessment...
  31. ncbi Effects of an introductory letter on response rates to a teen/parent telephone health survey
    Susan I Woodruff
    San Diego State University, USA
    Eval Rev 30:817-23. 2006
    ..Findings suggest that researchers should not assume that a letter sent in advance of a telephone survey will necessarily increase response rates enough to justify their use...
  32. ncbi Unsafe sex among HIV positive individuals: cross-sectional and prospective predictors
    Thom Reilly
    School of Social Work, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182 4119, USA
    J Community Health 35:115-23. 2010
    ..Significant predictors in the prospective analysis tended to be social support factors. This different pattern of prediction may be important to those designing interventions to influence risky sexual behavior...
  33. ncbi Injuries from combat explosions in Iraq: Injury type, location, and severity
    Susan L Eskridge
    Department of Medical Modeling and Simulation, Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States
    Injury 43:1678-82. 2012
    ..This study's objective was to determine the nature, body region, and severity of injuries caused by an explosion episode in male service personnel...
  34. ncbi Testing the length of time theory of recall decay: examining substance use report stability with 10 years of national longitudinal survey of youth data
    Audrey M Shillington
    Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92120, USA
    Subst Use Misuse 46:1105-12. 2011
    ..This article examines whether the proportion of recanters increases (or decreases) as a function of time o test length of time theory...
  35. ncbi Traumatic brain injury during Operation Iraqi Freedom: findings from the United States Navy-Marine Corps Combat Trauma Registry
    Michael R Galarneau
    Department of Medical Modeling, Simulation, and Mission Support, Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, CA 92106, USA
    J Neurosurg 108:950-7. 2008
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  36. ncbi Concordance between parental and children's reports of parental smoking prompts
    Rafael Laniado-Laborin
    Facultad de Medicina Tijuana, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico
    Chest 125:429-34. 2004
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