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Assessing sustainability of Lifestyle Education for Activity Program (LEAP)R P Saunders
Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Health Educ Res 27:319-30. 2012....
Developing a process-evaluation plan for assessing health promotion program implementation: a how-to guideRuth P Saunders
Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
Health Promot Pract 6:134-47. 2005..The purpose of this article is to describe and illustrate the steps involved in developing a process evaluation plan for any health promotion program...- Community agency survey formative research results from the TAAG studyRuth P Saunders
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Health Educ Behav 33:12-24. 2006..Many agencies report partnerships, some involving schools, although not necessarily related to physical activity. Implications for the TAAG intervention are presented... - Comparison of social variables for understanding physical activity in adolescent girlsRuth P Saunders
Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Am J Health Behav 28:426-36. 2004..To evaluate social support and theory of planned behavior (TPB) constructs in explaining physical activity in adolescent girls... - Promotion of physical activity among high-school girls: a randomized controlled trialRussell R Pate
Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, 730 Devine St, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Am J Public Health 95:1582-7. 2005..Our study examined the effects of a comprehensive school-based intervention on physical activity among high-school girls... - Promoting physical activity in girls: a case study of one school's successGwen Felton
College of Nursing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
J Sch Health 75:57-62. 2005..01) and vigorous physical activity (p = .04). Other schools can use this case to modify components of the CSHP model to increase physical activity among high school girls... - Evaluation of a community-based intervention to promote physical activity in youth: lessons from Active WinnersRussell R Pate
Department of Exercise Science, NJA School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Am J Health Promot 17:171-82. 2003..To test the effects of a community-based physical activity intervention designed to increase physical activity and to conduct an extensive process evaluation of the intervention... 
Commercial facilities, social cognitive variables, and physical activity of 12th grade girlsMarsha Dowda
Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, 921 Assembly Street, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Ann Behav Med 37:77-87. 2009..Recent studies have found a relationship between access to neighborhood physical activity (PA) facilities and physical activity in youth...- Physical activity and sedentary pursuits of children living in residential children's homesMarsha Dowda
Department of Exercise Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
J Phys Act Health 6:195-202. 2009..Our goal was to describe the types of physical activities and sedentary pursuits reported by children living in residential children's homes and make comparisons by age, gender, and race/ethnic groups... - The impact of states' small group health insurance reforms on uninsurance ratesSudha Xirasagar
University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
J Health Soc Policy 20:11-50. 2005..Possible reasons for the lack of impact are discussed... - Small group health insurance: ranking the states on the depth of reform, 1999Sudha Xirasagar
University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, Department of Health Services Policy and Management, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
J Health Soc Policy 19:1-35. 2004..The conceptual linkages between specific regulations and the documented small group market problems lead to normative expectations of an association between the depth of state reforms and the prevalence of uninsurance... - Physician-patient interaction and hysterectomy decision making: the ENDOW study. Ethnicity, Needs, and Decisions of WomenDonna L Richter
Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Norman J Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia 29208, USA
Am J Health Behav 26:431-41. 2002..To investigate physician-patient communication in the context of hysterectomy decision making... - Medical homes for children with special health care needs: a program evaluationAmy Brock Martin
South Carolina Rural Health Research Center SCRHRC, Department of Health Services, Policy, and Management, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina SC, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 18:916-30. 2007..This study differs from previous work in that it monitors a cohort of CSHCN one year prior to and two years after participation in a medical home intervention utilizing a quasi-experimental design... - Assessing levels of adaptation during implementation of evidence-based interventions: introducing the Rogers-Rütten frameworkShelly Ann K Bowen
Bureau of Community Health and Chronic Disease Prevention, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, USA
Health Educ Behav 37:815-30. 2010..This framework and its measures assess organizational and program-related factors associated with adaptation and could serve as a model to assess implementation and adaptation in fields outside of HIV prevention... - An overview and proposed framework of social-environmental influences on the physical-activity behavior of womenJoEllen Vrazel
Department of Exercise Science, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, 817 23rd Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA
Am J Health Promot 23:2-12. 2008..The primary purposes of this review were to identify key social-environmental influences on the physical-activity behavior of women and to propose an organizing framework of these influences in the social environment... - Examining social-cognitive determinants of intention and physical activity among black and white adolescent girls using structural equation modelingRobert W Motl
Department of Exercise Science, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-6554, USA
Health Psychol 21:459-67. 2002..Self-efficacy and perceived behavioral control are independent influences on physical activity among Black and White adolescent girls and warrant study as potential mediators in physical activity interventions... - Data to action: using formative research to develop intervention programs to increase physical activity in adolescent girlsDeborah Rohm Young
Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Health Educ Behav 33:97-111. 2006..g., enjoyable activities, opportunity to socialize) and barriers (e.g., lack of skills, fear of injury) for physical activity. The challenges of using formative research for intervention development are discussed... - Comparison of barriers self-efficacy and perceived behavioral control for explaining physical activity across 1 year among adolescent girlsRobert W Motl
Department of Exercise Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-6554, USA
Health Psychol 24:106-11. 2005.... - Goals and intentions mediate efficacy beliefs and declining physical activity in high school girlsRod K Dishman
Department of Kinesiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 6554, USA
Am J Prev Med 31:475-83. 2006..We tested those ideas while observing naturally occurring change during high school... - Perceptions of physical and social environment variables and self-efficacy as correlates of self-reported physical activity among adolescent girlsRobert W Motl
Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 332 Freer Hall, 906 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801 3895, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:6-12. 2007..This cross-sectional study examined the direct and indirect effects of perceived equipment accessibility, neighborhood safety, and social support on self-reported physical activity among older adolescent girls... - Correlates of recreational and transportation physical activity among adults in a New England communityPhilip J Troped
Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Prev Med 37:304-10. 2003..Promotion of transportation-related physical activity is consistent with current national recommendations. However, few studies have simultaneously examined correlates of recreational and transportation physical activity... - Perceived physical environment and physical activity across one year among adolescent girls: self-efficacy as a possible mediator?Robert W Motl
Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801 3895, USA
J Adolesc Health 37:403-8. 2005..This study involved an examination of the direct and mediated effects of perceived equipment accessibility and neighborhood safety on physical activity across a one-year period among adolescent girls...