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The Minnesota DARE PLUS Project: creating community partnerships to prevent drug use and violenceC L Perry
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454, USA
J Sch Health 70:84-8. 2000..This article describes the background and conceptualization, the curriculum and additional intervention components, and the evaluation methods of the DARE PLUS Project...- Adolescent vegetarians: how well do their dietary patterns meet the healthy people 2010 objectives?Cheryl L Perry
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:431-7. 2002..To examine whether adolescent vegetarians were more likely than nonvegetarian peers to meet the dietary recommendations of the Healthy People 2010 objectives and to examine differences in other nutrients between these 2 groups... - Evaluation of a theater production about eating behavior of childrenCheryl L Perry
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 S Second St, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
J Sch Health 72:256-61. 2002..The study indicates that professional theater productions in schools can create at least a short-term effect on children's nutrition knowledge and behavior... - Characteristics of vegetarian adolescents in a multiethnic urban populationC L Perry
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454, USA
J Adolesc Health 29:406-16. 2001..To examine the prevalence of adolescents' vegetarianism in a multiethnic, urban population, and its correlates with demographic, personal, weight-related, and behavioral factors... - A randomized controlled trial of the middle and junior high school D.A.R.E. and D.A.R.E. Plus programsCheryl L Perry
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 S Second St, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:178-84. 2003..To evaluate the effect of the middle and junior high school Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) and D.A.R.E. Plus programs on drug use and violence... - Getting beyond technical rationality in developing health behavior programs with youthCheryl L Perry
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Am J Health Behav 28:558-68. 2004..To explore 2 major components of health behavior research, etiologic research and action research. To argue that action research is both an artistic as well as scientific process... - A randomized school trial of environmental strategies to encourage fruit and vegetable consumption among childrenCheryl L Perry
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454 1013, USA
Health Educ Behav 31:65-76. 2004..Process measures indicated that verbal encouragement by food-service staff was associated with outcomes. The outcomes suggest that multicomponent interventions are more powerful than cafeteria programs alone with this age group... - American Academy of Health Behavior 2005 Research Laureate, Steven Y. SussmanCheryl L Perry
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Am J Health Behav 29:487-8. 2005 - How did Project Northland reduce alcohol use among young adolescents? Analysis of mediating variablesK A Komro
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454 1015, USA
Health Educ Res 16:59-70. 2001..In addition, among those who did not use alcohol at baseline, self-efficacy to refuse offers of alcohol was a significant mediator... - 5-a-day Power Plus: process evaluation of a multicomponent elementary school program to increase fruit and vegetable consumptionM Story
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454, USA
Health Educ Behav 27:187-200. 2000..Future intervention research should focus on creating new and potent strategies for parental involvement and for increasing the appeal and availability of vegetables... - The impact of Project Northland on selected MMPI-A problem behavior scalesCheryl L Perry
School of Public Health, University of Texas, Austin Regional Campus, 313 E 12th St, Suite 220, Austin, TX 78701, USA
J Prim Prev 28:449-65. 2007..Replication and further examination of the mechanisms by which risk factors and outcomes are modified is necessary, but school administrators and public health officials could learn from this promising program and evaluation... - Measuring obesity among school-aged youth in India: a comparison of three growth referencesM H Stigler
Michael and Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living, School of Public Health, University of Texas, Austin and Houston, Texas, USA
Indian Pediatr 48:105-10. 2011..To compare three growth references that can be used to assess the weight status of school-aged youth living in India, with a particular focus on identifying overweight and obese youth... 
An evaluation of a theatre production to encourage non-smoking among elementary age children: 2 Smart 2 SmokeC L Perry
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454, USA
Tob Control 8:169-74. 1999..To evaluate the impact of a theatre production on smoking-related attitudes, norms, and intentions of children in grades 1-6 (aged 6-12 years)...- School functioning and violent behavior among young adolescents: a contextual analysisAmanda S Birnbaum
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Health Educ Res 18:389-403. 2003.... - Prevention in translation: tobacco use prevention in IndiaCheryl L Perry
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Health Promot Pract 9:378-86. 2008..Data to date suggest that this process has been successful, including high participation rates, teacher perceptions of appropriateness, and agreements for further implementation... - Qualitative assessment of training programs for alcohol servers and establishment managersT L Toomey
Div of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454 1015, USA
Public Health Rep 113:162-9. 1998..This study was designed to assess the available training programs for employees and managers and to identify states that either mandate training programs or encourage them by reducing establishments' legal liability... - Adoption of risk-related factors through early adolescence: associations with weight status and implications for causal mechanismsKeryn E Pasch
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
J Adolesc Health 43:387-93. 2008..To examine cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between weight status and measures of risk and protective factors in youth... - School climate and the institutionalization of the CATCH programGuy S Parcel
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Houston 77030, USA
Health Educ Behav 30:489-502. 2003..Measures of school climate may be useful in determining a school's readiness to adopt and implement an innovative health promotion curriculum... - Russian-American partners for prevention. Adaptation of a school-based parent-child programme for alcohol use preventionC L Williams
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454, USA
Eur J Public Health 11:314-21. 2001..The Slick Tracy Home Team Program was the first intervention of Project Northland, a large 3 year community trial of the efficacy of a public health intervention for under age drinking... - Are diet and physical activity patterns related to cigarette smoking in adolescents? Findings from Project EATNicole I Larson
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 4:A51. 2007..The purpose of this study was to describe smoking frequency among adolescents and its relationship to physical activity and dietary patterns... 
Outcomes from a randomized controlled trial of a multi-component alcohol use preventive intervention for urban youth: project northland ChicagoKelli A Komro
University of Minnesota, USA
Addiction 103:606-18. 2008..The goal of this group-randomized trial was to test the effectiveness of an adapted alcohol use preventive intervention for urban, low-income and multi-ethnic settings...- Weight-related concerns and behaviors among overweight and nonoverweight adolescents: implications for preventing weight-related disordersDianne Neumark-Sztainer
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 S Second St, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:171-8. 2002.... - Project Northland: long-term outcomes of community action to reduce adolescent alcohol useCheryl L Perry
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454, USA
Health Educ Res 17:117-32. 2002..There was no impact in Phase 2 on other student-level behavioral and psychosocial factors. Developmentally appropriate, multi-component, community-wide programs throughout adolescence appear to be needed to reduce alcohol use... - Effectiveness of monetary incentives for recruiting adolescents to an intervention trial to reduce smokingB C Martinson
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 1524, USA
Prev Med 31:706-13. 2000..The study objective is to evaluate the effect of monetary incentives on response rates of adolescents to a smoking-related survey as the first step toward participation in an intervention trial... - The Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH): intervention, implementation, and feasibility for elementary schools in the United StatesC L Perry
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Health Educ Behav 24:716-35. 1997..CATCH emerges as a model of a feasible multilevel health promotion program to improve eating and exercise behaviors for elementary schools in the United States... - Does outdoor alcohol advertising around elementary schools vary by the ethnicity of students in the school?Keryn E Pasch
Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Ethn Health 14:225-36. 2009.... - V.I.K. (Very Important Kids): a school-based program designed to reduce teasing and unhealthy weight-control behaviorsJess Haines
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Health Educ Res 21:884-95. 2006..Future research of interventions aimed at preventing teasing using a larger sample of schools is warranted... - Teasing apart a multiple component approach to adolescent alcohol prevention: what worked in Project Northland?Melissa H Stigler
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN, 55454, USA
Prev Sci 7:269-80. 2006..The interactions tested here did not provide support for synergistic effects between selected intervention components. Care must be taken when selecting and combining intervention strategies meant to reduce adolescent alcohol use... - Feasibility of Internet health screening to recruit college students to an online smoking cessation interventionLawrence C An
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 9:S11-8. 2007..Internet health screening can be used to quickly identify and enroll large numbers of college smokers in an online smoking cessation intervention... - Who needs liquor stores when parents will do? The importance of social sources of alcohol among young urban teensMary O Hearst
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Prev Med 44:471-6. 2007..Examine sources of alcohol over time in a large, ethnically diverse adolescent population from a poor, urban environment... - Adolescent smoking trajectories: results from a population-based cohort studyDebra H Bernat
School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Adolesc Health 43:334-40. 2008..To identify distinct smoking trajectories during adolescence and assess how smoking-related factors relate to trajectory membership... - Strategies for increasing adherence to an online smoking cessation intervention for college studentsLawrence C An
Department of Internal Medicine University of Minnesota, 6 153 PWB, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 8:S7-12. 2006..0%) compared with the beta participants (4.3%, p=.03). The modifications from the beta to RealU Web site described above resulted in high rates of sustained participation over 20 weeks... - Longitudinal associations between family dinner and adolescent perceptions of parent-child communication among racially diverse urban youthJayne A Fulkerson
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, School of Nursing, 5 160 Weaver Densford Hall, 308 Harvard Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Fam Psychol 24:261-70. 2010..In addition, the communication benefits of family dinner at the beginning of sixth grade may be protective through eighth grade... - Outdoor alcohol advertising near schools: what does it advertise and how is it related to intentions and use of alcohol among young adolescents?Keryn E Pasch
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:587-96. 2007.... - A randomized trial to evaluate a management training program to prevent illegal alcohol salesTraci L Toomey
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454, USA
Addiction 103:405-13; discussion 414-5. 2008.... - Differences in prevalence of tobacco use among Indian urban youth: the role of socioeconomic statusCharu Mathur
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 10:109-16. 2008..The psychosocial risk profile of government school students suggests they are more vulnerable to initiation and use and to outside influences that encourage use... - Longitudinal patterns of youth access to cigarettes and smoking progression: Minnesota Adolescent Community Cohort (MACC) study (2000-2003)Rachel Widome
Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center, Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, University of Minnesota, MN 55455 200, USA
Prev Med 45:442-6. 2007..To measure community-level changes in the methods youth use to obtain cigarettes over time and to relate these methods to the progression of smoking... - Symptoms of cough and shortness of breath among occasional young adult smokersLawrence C An
Department of General Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 11:126-33. 2009..The perception of negative health consequences is a common motive for quitting smoking, but specific information on the immediate health effects of occasional smoking among young adults is limited... - Sixth grade students who use alcohol: do we need primary prevention programs for "tweens"?Keryn E Pasch
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Health Educ Behav 36:673-95. 2009..Results suggest that primary prevention programs for alcohol use should occur prior to sixth grade, particularly for the substantial group at high risk for early use... - Understanding the perceived determinants of weight-related behaviors in late adolescence: a qualitative analysis among college youthMelissa C Nelson
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55454 1015, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 41:287-92. 2009..Identify key factors underlying college weight gain, nutrition, and physical activity... - The RealU online cessation intervention for college smokers: a randomized controlled trialLawrence C An
University of Minnesota, Department of Internal Medicine, 717 Delaware Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Prev Med 47:194-9. 2008..To determine the efficacy of providing online cessation intervention for college smokers... - Relationships between alcohol-related informal social control, parental monitoring and adolescent problem behaviors among racially diverse urban youthJayne A Fulkerson
School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0342, USA
J Community Health 33:425-33. 2008..Neighborhood norms and action against teenage drinking may be too distal to adolescent outcomes to be directly associated... - Food preparation by young adults is associated with better diet qualityNicole I Larson
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South 2nd St, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 106:2001-7. 2006..To describe food-preparation behaviors, cooking skills, resources for preparing food, and associations with diet quality among young adults... - Prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms in young adolescentsMartha Y Kubik
School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Am J Health Behav 27:546-53. 2003..To assess prevalence of elevated depressive symptoms in young adolescents and examine associations between symptoms and sociodemographic and behavioral factors... - Weight-control behaviors among adolescent girls and boys: implications for dietary intakeDianne Neumark-Sztainer
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 104:913-20. 2004..To examine associations between healthful and unhealthful weight-control behaviors and dietary intake among adolescents... - Food-related beliefs, eating behavior, and classroom food practices of middle school teachersMartha Y Kubik
School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, 6101 Weaver Densford Hall, 308 Harvard St, SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0342, USA
J Sch Health 72:339-45. 2002..School and health professionals should continue to advocate for schoolwide policies and programs that support students and teachers if the goal of an integrated healthy school food environment is to be realized... - Violence-related outcomes of the D.A.R.E. plus projectKelli A Komro
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Health Educ Behav 31:335-54. 2004.... - School-based approaches to affect adolescents' diets: results from the TEENS studyLeslie A Lytle
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55454, USA
Health Educ Behav 31:270-87. 2004..In addition, future work may consider the use of peer leaders, more intensive teacher training, ongoing formative assessment, and the testing of more powerful environmental change intervention strategies... - Peer harassment, school connectedness, and academic achievementMarla E Eisenberg
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second St, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
J Sch Health 73:311-6. 2003..A schoolwide approach using educational and policy components may provide an appropriate prevention strategy... - Are differences in exposure to a multicomponent school-based intervention associated with varying dietary outcomes in adolescents?Amanda S Birnbaum
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454, USA
Health Educ Behav 29:427-43. 2002..Control students' choices remained stable. Future studies may investigate mechanisms for peer leaders' changes, maximizing curriculum effectiveness, and improving environmental interventions... - The association of the school food environment with dietary behaviors of young adolescentsMartha Y Kubik
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, 55455, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1168-73. 2003..We examined the association between young adolescents' dietary behaviors and school vending machines, à la carte programs, and fried potatoes' being served at school lunch... - Correlates of unhealthy weight-control behaviors among adolescents: implications for prevention programsDianne Neumark-Sztainer
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454, USA
Health Psychol 22:88-98. 2003..Findings suggest the importance of addressing weight-body concerns within prevention programs and extending interventions beyond classroom settings to ensure changes in weight-related norms among peer groups and family members... - Depressive symptoms and adolescent eating and health behaviors: a multifaceted view in a population-based sampleJayne A Fulkerson
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454 1015, USA
Prev Med 38:865-75. 2004..However, no research to date has described associations between depressive symptoms and nutritional intake or physical activity among adolescents in a nonclinical, population-based sample... - Brief report: the adaptation of Project Northland for urban youthKelli A Komro
University of Minnesota Epidemiology, 1300 S 2nd St, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 29:457-66. 2004..The original Project Northland was successful in reducing alcohol use among a sample of mostly White, rural adolescents... - Peer-led, school-based nutrition education for young adolescents: feasibility and process evaluation of the TEENS studyMary Story
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South 2nd St, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
J Sch Health 72:121-7. 2002..Results show that peer-led nutrition education approaches in schools are feasible and have high acceptability among peer leaders, classroom students, and teachers... - Survey development for assessing correlates of young adolescents' eatingAmanda S Birnbaum
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454 1054, USA
Am J Health Behav 26:284-95. 2002..To describe the development and psychometric testing of a survey to assess multiple influences on young adolescents' eating behaviors... - Why are urban Indian 6th graders using more tobacco than 8th graders? Findings from Project MYTRIM H Stigler
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Tob Control 15:i54-60. 2006..To investigate why urban Indian 6th graders may be using more tobacco than urban Indian 8th graders... - Weight-related attitudes and behaviors of adolescent boys and girls who are encouraged to diet by their mothersJ A Fulkerson
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 26:1579-87. 2002..To assess the relationships between mothers' reports of dieting and encouraging adolescents to diet and adolescents' reports of their own dieting practices and weight-related concerns... - Comprehensive approaches to prevent adolescent drinking and related problemsKelli A Komro
University of Minnesota, School of Public Health-Division of Epidemiology, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454, USA
Recent Dev Alcohol 17:207-24. 2005 - Cardiovascular disease prevention among youth: visioning the futureC L Perry
School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454 1015, USA
Prev Med 29:S79-83. 1999..Moreover, successful prevention strategies among youth need to be disseminated globally as rapidly as they are found... - Project ARM: alcohol risk management to prevent sales to underage and intoxicated patronsT L Toomey
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454 1015, USA
Health Educ Behav 28:186-99. 2001..A one-on-one, outlet-specific training program for owners and managers is a promising way to reduce illegal alcohol sales, particularly to obviously intoxicated individuals... - The tobacco industry and underage youth smoking: tobacco industry documents from the Minnesota litigationC L Perry
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55403, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 153:935-41. 1999..To learn how underage youth have been regarded by the major tobacco companies, as revealed in industry documents during the Minnesota litigation... - The relationship of weight-related perceptions, goals, and behaviors with fruit and vegetable consumption in young adolescentsAlana A Nystrom
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Prev Med 40:203-8. 2005..These data support the inclusion of gender-specific intervention components related to weight-related perceptions, goals, and behaviors... - Achieving physiological change in school-based intervention trials: what makes a preventive intervention successful?Leslie A Lytle
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 1300 South Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Br J Nutr 88:219-21. 2002 - Maintenance of lightweight correlates with decreased cardiovascular risk factors in early adolescenceJohanna T Dwyer
Schools of Nutrition and Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, J T D, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
J Adolesc Health 31:117-24. 2002..To describe predictors of lightweight in 11-year-olds and how weight changes between ages 9-11 years affected selected cardiovascular risk factors... - Fifth through eighth grade longitudinal predictors of tobacco use among a racially diverse cohort: CATCHCarolyn C Johnson
Dept of Community Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal St, Room 2309, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
J Sch Health 72:58-64. 2002..The social environment of young people continues to be an important instigator of smoking onset. The connection between intention and behavior over time suggests students' intentions not to smoke reflect decision-making at an early age... - Tobacco and alcohol use outcomes of a school-based intervention in New DelhiK Srinath Reddy
Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi
Am J Health Behav 26:173-81. 2002..RESULTS: Intervention students were significantly less likely than controls to have been offered, received, experimented with, or have intentions to use tobacco. CONCLUSION: The project had a significant impact on tobacco use... - Associations between tobacco marketing and use among urban youth in IndiaMonika Arora
Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth, New Delhi, India
Am J Health Behav 32:283-94. 2008..To study if receptivity and exposure to tobacco marketing are correlated with tobacco use and psychosocial risk factors for tobacco use among a sample of urban Indian youth... - Lessons from planet healthCheryl L Perry
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:292-3. 2005 - Indian youth speak about tobacco: results of focus group discussions with school studentsArima Mishra
Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth HRIDAY, New Delhi, India
Health Educ Behav 32:363-79. 2005..These findings are being used to develop a comprehensive intervention program to prevent and control tobacco use among Indian youth... - Differences in tobacco use among young people in urban India by sex, socioeconomic status, age, and school grade: assessment of baseline survey dataK Srinath Reddy
Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Lancet 367:589-94. 2006.... - Cross-cultural adaptation and evaluation of a home-based program for alcohol use prevention among urban youth: the "Slick Tracy Home Team Program"Kelli A Komro
Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Florida, USA
J Prim Prev 27:135-54. 2006..e., normative expectations and outcome expectations) were achieved in the intervention group compared to the control group. However, no differences were observed for several other protective factors or alcohol use... - Contrasting mediating variables in two 5-a-day nutrition intervention programsKim D Reynolds
University of Southern California, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, Alhambra, CA 91803, USA
Prev Med 39:882-93. 2004..The conduct of mediational analyses within multi-site studies may provide advantages for the standardization of methods and for the replication and generalizability of findings... - "Stay away from them until you're old enough to make a decision": tobacco company testimony about youth smoking initiationMelanie Wakefield
Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, 100 Drummond Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
Tob Control 15:iv44-53. 2006..To determine common themes used by US tobacco industry witnesses pertaining to youth smoking initiation during litigation in the United States... - How renowned researchers were initiated into the world of researchCheryl L Perry
Am J Health Behav 27:564-73. 2003 - Predictors of violent behavior in an early adolescent cohort: similarities and differences across gendersJonathan L Blitstein
RTI International, Center for Health Promotion Research, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Health Educ Behav 32:175-94. 2005..Additional predictors of violent behavior specific to girls included both risk and protective factors... - Developing a school functioning index for middle schoolsAmanda S Birnbaum
Dept of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, 411 East 69th St, Room KB 209, New York, NY 10021, USA
J Sch Health 73:232-8. 2003..This work supports the feasibility of combining multiple school-level indicators to create a measure of overall school functioning. Further investigation of validity and more acceptable data collection methods are warranted... - Intermediate outcomes from Project MYTRI: mobilizing youth for tobacco-related initiatives in IndiaMelissa H Stigler
Michael and Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living, University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Campus, Austin, TX 78701, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:1050-6. 2007..02) or chew tobacco when they reached college (P < 0.01). No changes in actual tobacco use were observed at this stage of the study...