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| S T EnnettSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Peer smoking, other peer attributes, and adolescent cigarette smoking: a social network analysisSusan T Ennett
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Prev Sci 9:88-98. 2008..Data were collected over five waves of assessment from a longitudinal sample of 6,579 students in three school districts. Findings suggest a greater complexity in the peer context of smoking than previously recognized...
The social ecology of adolescent alcohol misuseSusan T Ennett
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7440, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Child Dev 79:1777-91. 2008..S. Census. All contexts were uniquely implicated in development of alcohol misuse from ages 11 through 17 years, and most alcohol modeling effects were contingent on attributes of social bonds...- A social contextual analysis of youth cigarette smoking developmentSusan T Ennett
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7440, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 12:950-62. 2010..We examine the contributions of family, peer, school, and neighborhood contexts. Context attributes examined were derived from social learning and social control theories... 
Mediation in a family-directed program for prevention of adolescent tobacco and alcohol useS T Ennett
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
Prev Med 33:333-46. 2001..This paper reports analyses conducted to identify the mediators through which the program influenced adolescent smoking and drinking...- Evidence-based practice in school substance use prevention: fidelity of implementation under real-world conditionsS T Ennett
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Health Educ Res 26:361-71. 2011..Results suggest the need for continued emphasis on fidelity in program materials, trainings and on-going technical support. Particular attention should be paid to supporting use of interactive delivery strategies... - A comparison of current practice in school-based substance use prevention programs with meta-analysis findingsSusan T Ennett
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7440, USA
Prev Sci 4:1-14. 2003..The findings indicate that the transfer to practice of research knowledge about school-based substance use prevention programming has been limited... - Influence of a family-directed program on adolescent cigarette and alcohol cessationK E Bauman
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Prev Sci 1:227-37. 2000..Data were collected by telephone at baseline and 3 and 12 months after the program was completed. No statistically significant program effects were observed for cessation or decrease in smoking and drinking by users... - Controlling for the endogeneity of peer substance use on adolescent alcohol and tobacco useE C Norton
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599 7400, USA
Health Econ 7:439-53. 1998..Living in a single-parent family was by far the strongest predictor of adolescent drinking and smoking... - The influence of a family program on adolescent tobacco and alcohol useK E Bauman
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Am J Public Health 91:604-10. 2001..This study examined a family-directed program's effectiveness in preventing adolescent tobacco and alcohol use in a general population... - Sex differences in the effects of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and social organization on rural adolescents' aggression trajectoriesKatherine J Karriker-Jaffe
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Am J Community Psychol 43:189-203. 2009..Neighborhood disadvantage is detrimental for rural girls regardless of the level of social organization... - Social network characteristics associated with risky behaviors among runaway and homeless youthS T Ennett
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599 7400, USA
J Health Soc Behav 40:63-78. 1999..Our results indicate that networks had risk-enhancing and risk-decreasing properties in that network characteristics were associated in both positive and negative directions with risky behaviors... - The prevalence of effective substance use prevention curricula in the nation's high schoolsChris Ringwalt
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 1516 East Franklin Street, Suite 200, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
J Prim Prev 29:479-88. 2008..This should challenge researchers and government officials to improve dissemination and school officials to utilize evaluated programs... - Correlates of participation in a family-directed tobacco and alcohol prevention program for adolescentsK E Bauman
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Institute, USA
Health Educ Behav 28:440-61. 2001..The findings are considered in the context of similar programs and future research on family-directed programs to prevent adolescent tobacco and alcohol use... - How measures of perception from survey data lead to inconsistent regression results: evidence from adolescent and peer substance useEdward C Norton
Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27559 7400, USA
Health Econ 12:139-48. 2003..We discuss why each effect may cause inconsistency, derive formulas for the probability limit to quantify their effects, and illustrate with three examples of adolescent smoking and drinking... - What accounts for demographic differences in trajectories of adolescent dating violence? An examination of intrapersonal and contextual mediatorsVangie A Foshee
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7440, USA
J Adolesc Health 42:596-604. 2008.... - Assessing the effects of the dating violence prevention program "safe dates" using random coefficient regression modelingVangie A Foshee
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599 7440, USA
Prev Sci 6:245-58. 2005..Program effects were mediated by changes in dating violence norms, gender-role norms, and awareness of community services... - Parental perceptions of their preschool-aged children's oral healthBhavna S Talekar
Department of Health Policy and Administration, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7411, USA
J Am Dent Assoc 136:364-72; quiz 381. 2005..The purpose of the authors' study was to determine parental perceptions of their children's oral health status and factors correlated with these perceptions of health... - Longitudinal predictors of serious physical and sexual dating violence victimization during adolescenceVangie Ann Foshee
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7400, USA
Prev Med 39:1007-16. 2004..This study identifies potentially modifiable risk factors for the onset of and chronic victimization from serious physical and sexual dating violence... - Students' special needs and problems as reasons for the adaptation of substance abuse prevention curricula in the nation's middle schoolsChris Ringwalt
Chapel Hill Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 1516 E Franklin St, Suite 200, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 2812, USA
Prev Sci 5:197-206. 2004..We discuss the need for curriculum developers to recognize the frequency with which, and reasons for which, teachers are adapting their curricula, and to include appropriate optional content that addresses students' needs... - Who's calling the shots? Decision-makers and the adoption of effective school-based substance use prevention curriculaChris Ringwalt
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 2812, USA
J Drug Educ 34:19-31. 2004..However, we did find some support for our hypothesis from our district-level informants, who indicated that community groups and advisory committees also play a modest role in the selection of such curricula... - Implementing evidence-based substance use prevention curricula with fidelity: the role of teacher trainingSean Hanley
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
J Drug Educ 39:39-58. 2009..Analyses revealed that teachers whose training emphasized adherence were 5 times as likely to be more adherent. We present recommendations for training-related factors that may increase fidelity of implementation... - The role of heavy alcohol use in the developmental process of desistance in dating aggression during adolescenceHeathe Luz McNaughton Reyes
Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 29975 7440, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 39:239-50. 2011..Implications for prevention and for understanding developmental relations between the two behaviors are discussed... - Assessing the long-term effects of the Safe Dates program and a booster in preventing and reducing adolescent dating violence victimization and perpetrationVangie A Foshee
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599 7440, USA
Am J Public Health 94:619-24. 2004..This study determined 4-year postintervention effects of Safe Dates on dating violence, booster effects, and moderators of the program effects... - Risk and protective factors distinguishing profiles of adolescent peer and dating violence perpetrationVangie A Foshee
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7400, USA
J Adolesc Health 48:344-50. 2011.... - Influence of a family program on adolescent smoking and drinking prevalenceKarl E Bauman
School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Prev Sci 3:35-42. 2002..These findings are discussed in the context of earlier reports of research on the family program and implications for public health... - The prevalence of evidence-based drug use prevention curricula in U.S. middle schools in 2005Chris Ringwalt
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 1516 E Franklin Street, Suite 200, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA
Prev Sci 10:33-40. 2009..More information is needed as to why over three-quarters of the nation's schools with middle school grades continue to administer curricula that have not been identified as effective... - Responses to positive results from suspicionless random drug tests in US public school districtsChris Ringwalt
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 1516 E Franklin St, Suite 200, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
J Sch Health 79:177-83. 2009..The primary purpose of the current study was to describe school districts' responses to students' first positive result in districts with SRDT programs... - Protective effects of maternal and peer support on depressive symptoms during adolescenceChristine A Vaughan
Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 38:261-72. 2010..Findings highlight the robustness of the protective effects of maternal and peer support during adolescence among girls and white youth... - Effects of a tailored follow-up intervention on health behaviors, beliefs, and attitudesAlissa D Jacobs
Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 13:557-68. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Mailed computer-tailored health messages and telephone counseling calls favorably modified forward physical activity stage movement but did not appreciably affect any other psychosocial or behavioral outcomes... - The prevalence of evidence-based substance use prevention curricula in the nation's elementary schoolsSean M Hanley
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, USA
J Drug Educ 40:51-60. 2010..We present prevalence estimates for specific evidence-based curricula and conclude by discussing possible reasons for and implications of our findings... - Random drug testing in US public school districtsChris Ringwalt
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 1516 E Franklin St, Suite 200, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
Am J Public Health 98:826-8. 2008..Almost all districts randomly tested athletes, and 65% randomly tested other students engaged in extracurricular activities; 28% randomly tested all students, exceeding the current sanction of the US Supreme Court... - The development of aggression during adolescence: sex differences in trajectories of physical and social aggression among youth in rural areasKatherine J Karriker-Jaffe
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:1227-36. 2008..Given the characteristics of the developmental trajectories observed, interventions with both boys and girls targeting physically and socially aggressive behaviors are needed in early adolescence to slow the development of aggression... - Factors associated with adoption of evidence-based substance use prevention curricula in US school districtsLouise Ann Rohrbach
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Alhambra, 91803, USA
Health Educ Res 20:514-26. 2005..State and federal agencies should increase their efforts to disseminate information about evidence-based programs, targeting in particular the district substance use prevention coordinator... - The principles of effectiveness: early awareness and plans for implementation in a national sample of public schools and their districtsAshley P Simons-Rudolph
RTI International, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
J Sch Health 73:181-5. 2003..Results suggest a need for greater communication about the principles to school districts, and in turn, a need for greater communication between district and school-level substance use prevention staff... - Comprehensiveness of substance use prevention programs in U.S. middle schoolsDana L Wenter
Center for Research in Education, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Adolesc Health 30:455-62. 2002.... - Neighborhood influences on adolescent cigarette and alcohol use: mediating effects through parent and peer behaviorsYing Chih Chuang
Graduate Institute of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wu Hsing Street, Taipei 110, Taiwan
J Health Soc Behav 46:187-204. 2005..Low SES neighborhoods were associated with increased parental monitoring and increased peer drinking, which were in turn associated with decreased and increased adolescent alcohol use, respectively... - Mechanisms through which drug, sex partner, and friendship network characteristics relate to risky needle use among high risk youth and young adultsCynthia M Lakon
University of Southern California, Alhambra, CA, USA
Soc Sci Med 63:2489-99. 2006..The findings demonstrate that network mechanisms explaining risky needle use differ for drug user and sex partner networks in ways consistent with the functional nature of each type of network tie...
Research Grants
- THE CONTEXT OF ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE USESusan Ennett; Fiscal Year: 2004..Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Latent Curve Analysis will be used to test the study hypotheses. ..