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Disparities in firearms ownership and storage practices in North CarolinaTamera Coyne-Beasley
Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
South Med J 105:225-30. 2012..Because household firearms pose a risk to children, this study examined firearms accessibility in North Carolina households with children...
Fatal and nonfatal firearm injuries in North CarolinaTamera Coyne-Beasley
North Carolina Child Health Research Network, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
N C Med J 71:565-8. 2010..This commentary also provides an overview of strategies for reducing the risk of firearm-related injury and suggests future research to prevent these injuries...- Do partners with children know about firearms in their home? Evidence of a gender gap and implications for practitionersTamera Coyne-Beasley
Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7220, USA
Pediatrics 115:e662-7. 2005..Thus, the objective of this study was to examine the level of agreement on household firearms and storage practices among cohabiting partners... - Storage of poisonous substances and firearms in homes with young children visitors and older adultsTamera Coyne-Beasley
Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Am J Prev Med 28:109-15. 2005..This study examines storage of poisons and firearms among households with older adults, and households where young children reside compared to those where they visit only... - Unintentional injuries in the home in the United States Part II: morbidityCarol W Runyan
University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Am J Prev Med 28:80-7. 2005..Homes are an important setting for nonfatal unintentional injuries. The purpose of this study was to quantify and describe nonfatal, unintentional injuries in the United States, in which the injury took place at home... - Unintentional injuries in the home in the United States Part I: mortalityCarol W Runyan
Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Am J Prev Med 28:73-9. 2005..It is unclear, however, what proportion of these injuries occur in the home. The purpose of this paper is to quantify and describe fatal unintentional injuries that take place in the home environment... 
Risk and protective factors for fires, burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning in U.S. householdsCarol W Runyan
Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Am J Prev Med 28:102-8. 2005..More needs to be known about the prevalence of risk and protective factors for fires, burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning in U.S. households...- PREVENT: a program of the National Training Initiative on Injury and Violence PreventionCarol W Runyan
National Training Initiative on Injury and Violence Prevention, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7505, USA
Am J Prev Med 29:252-8. 2005..The project employs formative, process, and impact evaluation techniques aimed at improving delivery of the training as well as tracking changes in individual and organizations... - Disability and home hazards and safety practices in US householdsCatherine J Vladutiu
University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7505, USA
Disabil Health J 5:49-54. 2012..Individuals with disabilities have an elevated risk of residential injury. However, the prevalence of home hazards and safety practices among households where an individual with a disability resides is unknown... - Recommendations for home safety research and interventionCarol W Runyan
Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Am J Prev Med 28:116-8. 2005 - Adolescent femicide: a population-based studyTamera Coyne-Beasley
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Community Pediatrics, School of Medicine, the Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:355-60. 2003..However, few studies examine the contextual issues of adolescent femicide, especially among 11- to 14-year-old victims... - The association of handgun ownership and storage practices with safety consciousnessTamera Coyne-Beasley
Injury Prevention Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Community Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599 7225, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:763-8. 2002..As with other injury prevention practices, education about safe firearm storage is recommended to prevent injuries to children... - Sexually active students' willingness to use school-based health centers for reproductive health care services in North CarolinaTamera Coyne-Beasley
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7220, USA
Ambul Pediatr 3:196-202. 2003..We investigate sexually active students' willingness to seek these services at SBHCs if available and predictors of willingness to seek services... - Prevalence of selected risk and protective factors for falls in the homeStephen W Marshall
Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Am J Prev Med 28:95-101. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Considerable opportunity exists for increased use of antifall protective devices and reduction of fall hazards... - Firearm ownership and storage practices, U.S. households, 1992-2002. A systematic reviewRenee M Johnson
Injury Prevention Research Center, School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Am J Prev Med 27:173-82. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Although the methodologic rigor of published articles varies substantially, the literature clearly establishes that firearms are common in U.S. households, even in the homes of medical professionals and those with children... - Designing messages to motivate parents to get their preteenage sons vaccinated against human papillomavirusJoan R Cates
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 44:39-47. 2012..Parents are typically unaware of male HPV vaccine; messages that might motivate them to get their preteenage sons vaccinated are unexplored... - Injury prevention advice in top-selling parenting booksWanda M Hunter
The University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7505, USA
Pediatrics 116:1080-8. 2005..Pediatricians and primary care physicians need to be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of parenting manuals in providing adequate guidance related to injury prevention... - Heterosexually transmitted HIV infection among African Americans in North CarolinaAdaora A Adimora
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7030 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 41:616-23. 2006..Rates of heterosexually transmitted HIV infection among African Americans in the southeastern United States greatly exceed those for whites... - US women's choices of strategies to protect themselves from violenceCarol W Runyan
Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7505, USA
Inj Prev 13:270-5. 2007..To examine the extent to which US women's self-protection strategies are associated with either their personal or vicarious victimization experiences... - Maltreatment history and weapon carrying among early adolescentsTerri Lewis
Department of Biostatistics, Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC27599 8030, USA
Child Maltreat 12:259-68. 2007..Results indicated that perceived need for a weapon fully mediated the effect of physical abuse and partially mediated the effect of sexual abuse. Results are discussed in the context of self-protection theory... - Source of parental reports of child height and weight during phone interviews and influence on obesity prevalence estimates among children aged 3-17 yearsAsheley Cockrell Skinner
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, NC
Public Health Rep 128:46-53. 2013..We compared parental reports of children's height and weight when the values were estimated vs. parent-measured to determine how these reports influence the estimated prevalence of childhood obesity... - Aligning the goals of community-engaged research: why and how academic health centers can successfully engage with communities to improve healthLloyd Michener
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Acad Med 87:285-91. 2012.... - Perception of overweight and self-esteem during adolescenceEliana M Perrin
Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7225, USA
Int J Eat Disord 43:447-54. 2010..To examine sex- and race/ethnicity-specific relationships between adolescents' self-esteem and weight perception... - Primary prevention of violence against women: training needs of violence practitionersSandra L Martin
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Violence Against Women 15:44-56. 2009..They want to learn about working at the community level (rather than the individual level), developing and evaluating prevention activities, and identifying effective primary prevention programs... - Is weekly iron and folic acid supplementation as effective as daily supplementation for decreasing incidence of anemia in adolescent girls?Eliana Perrin
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7225, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:128-30. 2002 - Reducing firearm violence: a research agendaJanet Weiner
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6218, USA
Inj Prev 13:80-4. 2007..This article summarizes the Collaborative's conclusions and identifies priorities for research and funding... - Future physicians and firearms: the need for additional training in firearm injury prevention counselingTamera Coyne-Beasley
South Med J 99:198-9. 2006