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| Antronette YanceySummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Correlation of obesity with elevated blood pressure among racial/ethnic minority children in two Los Angeles middle schoolsWilliam J McCarthy
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 5:A46. 2008..We explored the potential for using obesity or fitness level as screening variables for cardiovascular disease risk factors in these students...- Black art posters, an incentive to increase study enrollment among Blacks in a large cohort studyAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Prev Med 46:370-3. 2008..Black art posters were offered to replace or augment the established $10 incentive for questionnaire completion in a longitudinal cohort study... 
Physical activity as primary prevention to address cancer disparitiesAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services and Center to Eliminate Health Disparities CEHD, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Semin Oncol Nurs 23:253-63. 2007..To review the research literature on physical activity (PA) intervention trials, with an emphasis on underserved populations...- Population-based interventions engaging communities of color in healthy eating and active living: a reviewAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services and Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, UCLA School of Public Health, 71 279 CHS, 650 Charles Young Dr South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Phone 310 794 9284
Prev Chronic Dis 1:A09. 2004..Few data exist for ethnic minority groups. This article reviews studies of population-based interventions targeting communities of color or including sufficient samples to permit ethnic-specific analyses... - Bridging the Gap: understanding the structure of social inequities in childhood obesityAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, University of California Los Angeles, School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Am J Prev Med 33:S172-4. 2007 - Progress in the pipeline: replication of the minority training program in cancer control researchAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services and Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, UCLA School of Public Health, CA 90095, USA
J Cancer Educ 21:230-6. 2006..This paper evaluates the replicability of an NCI-funded didactic/experiential program to increase the diversity of doctorally-prepared cancer disparities investigators... - Effective recruitment and retention of minority research participantsAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services and Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 27:1-28. 2006..We then characterized the current state of this literature, discussing implications for future research needs and directions... - Challenges in improving fitness: results of a community-based, randomized, controlled lifestyle change interventionAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 15:412-29. 2006..This study tested the efficacy of an 8-week culturally targeted nutrition and physical activity intervention on body composition... - Creating a robust public health infrastructure for physical activity promotionAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services and Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:68-78. 2007.... - Ethnic and sex variations in overweight self-perception: relationship to sedentarinessAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6900, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:980-8. 2006..In this study, we examined ethnic and sex differences in overweight self-perception and their association with sedentariness in this sample... - Role models, ethnic identity, and health-risk behaviors in urban adolescentsAntronette K Yancey
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and School of Public Health, Department of Health Services, Box 956900, A2 125 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6900, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:55-61. 2002..However, there has been little empirical evaluation of the relationship between role model or mentor characteristics and health behaviors... 
The meta-volition model: organizational leadership is the key ingredient in getting society moving, literally!Antronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, Center for Health Policy Research, UCLA School of Public Health, 31 235 CHS, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Prev Med 49:342-51. 2009..MVM embodies public-private partnership principles, a collective investment in the high cost of achieving and maintaining active lifestyles...- Role modeling, risk, and resilience in California adolescentsAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services and Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, UCLA School of Public Health, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Adolesc Health 48:36-43. 2011..To examine the relationship between role model presence, type of role model, and various health-risk and health-protective behaviors among California adolescents... - Correlates of overweight and obesity among lesbian and bisexual womenAntronette K Yancey
Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Prev Med 36:676-83. 2003..This study examines correlates of obesity and exercise frequency among lesbians and bisexual women... - A graphical, computer-based decision-support tool to help decision makers evaluate policy options relating to physical activityAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Am J Prev Med 39:273-9. 2010..This decision-support tool may expand the capacity of public health practitioners to conduct first-pass assessments of policy options for physical activity promotion in underserved communities... - Physical activity: Cinderella or Rodney Dangerfield?Antronette K Yancey
UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Prev Med 49:277-9. 2009..The goal is to stimulate research institutions, public health agencies at all levels, and policy makers to raise physical activity as a priority commensurate with other pressing public health concerns... - Physical inactivity and overweight among Los Angeles County adultsAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
Am J Prev Med 27:146-52. 2004..The present study examines sociodemographic, health status, health behavioral, and health-related self-perception correlates of physical inactivity in a large, multiethnic urban population... - "Live, Learn and Play": building strategic alliances between professional sports and public healthAntronette Yancey
Department of Health Services, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
Prev Med 49:322-5. 2009.... - A cross-sectional prevalence study of ethnically targeted and general audience outdoor obesity-related advertisingAntronette K Yancey
UCLA School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Milbank Q 87:155-84. 2009.... - The Los Angeles Lift Off: a sociocultural environmental change intervention to integrate physical activity into the workplaceAntronette K Yancey
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Prev Med 38:848-56. 2004..To present the development and feasibility testing of a sociocultural environmental change intervention strategy aimed at integrating physical activity into workplace routine... - Building capacity to prevent and control chronic disease in underserved communities: expanding the wisdom of WISEWOMAN in intervening at the environmental levelAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 13:644-9. 2004 - Dissemination of physical activity promotion interventions in underserved populationsAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services, and Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
Am J Prev Med 31:S82-91. 2006..Researchers, practitioners, decision makers, and policymakers must partner to bridge the evidentiary gap so that the physically active lifestyle choices become the easier choices... - Implementing organizational physical activity and healthy eating strategies on paid time: process evaluation of the UCLA WORKING pilot studyJammie M Hopkins
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Health Educ Res 27:385-98. 2012..This pilot study has informed the conduct of WORKING II; a cluster randomized controlled trial aimed at enrolling 60-70 worksites in Los Angeles County... - Walking the talk: Fit WIC wellness programs improve self-efficacy in pediatric obesity prevention counselingPatricia B Crawford
Center for Weight and Health, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley 94720 3104, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1480-5. 2004..001), be physically active (P <.01), make positive changes in counseling parents about their children's weight (P <.01), and feel more comfortable in encouraging WIC clients to do physical activities with their children (P <.05)... - Regional differences in attitudes that may affect health behavior and willingness to participate in research among Black Seventh-day AdventistsAndy Lampkin
School of Religion, Loma Linda, California, USA
Ethn Dis 19:439-46. 2009..To identify the attitudes and perceptions of Black Seventh-day Adventists regarding health research and the healthcare system in two regions of the United States... - Pausa para tu Salud: reduction of weight and waistlines by integrating exercise breaks into workplace organizational routineAgustin Lara
Department of Health Services and Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 5:A12. 2008..This study describes implementation and evaluation of an intervention, Pausa para tu Salud (Pause for Your Health), that integrated a brief period of group exercise into the workday... - Engaging high-risk populations in community-level fitness promotion: ROCK! RichmondAntronette K Yancey
Department of Health Services, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Health Promot Pract 4:180-8. 2003..Certain high-risk segments of the population were successfully reached and involved in community fitness activities. Different recruitment methods may need to be used to recruit more from among the lowest socioeconomic strata... - Comparing self-reported disease outcomes, diet, and lifestyles in a national cohort of black and white Seventh-day AdventistsSusanne Montgomery
Loma Linda University, School of Public Health, 1709 Nichol Hall, Loma Linda, CA 92373, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 4:A62. 2007..This paper focuses on some preliminary baseline analyses of responses from the first group of participants recruited for AHS-2... - Leading by example: a local health department-community collaboration to incorporate physical activity into organizational practiceAntronette K Yancey
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Los Angeles, 90095-6900, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 10:116-23. 2004.... - Putting promotion into practice: the African Americans building a legacy of health organizational wellness programAntronette K Yancey
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
Health Promot Pract 7:233S-46S. 2006..3, p = .00). This model holds promise for extending the reach of environmentally focused work-site wellness programming to organizations and at-risk populations not traditionally engaged by such efforts... - Fighting cancer with fitness: dietary outcomes of a randomized, controlled lifestyle change intervention in healthy African-American womenWilliam J McCarthy
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, CA 90095, USA
Prev Med 44:246-53. 2007..This study tested the efficacy of an 8-week, culturally targeted community-based nutrition and physical activity promotion intervention, Fight Cancer with Fitness! (FCF)... - The contribution of soul and Caribbean foods to nutrient intake in a sample of Blacks of US and Caribbean descent in the Adventist Health Study-2: a pilot studyJabar A Akbar
School of Public Health, Dept of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Ethn Dis 17:244-9. 2007..To evaluate the dietary contribution of culturally preferred foods in a population of Black Seventh-Day Adventists from the eastern and southern United States in order to improve the standard food frequency questionnaire... - Improving the nutritional resource environment for healthy living through community-based participatory researchDavid C Sloane
School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0626, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:568-75. 2003.... - Resilience and patterns of health risk behaviors in California adolescentsRitesh Mistry
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Health Services, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, USA
Prev Med 48:291-7. 2009..Assess whether adolescent health risk behaviors cluster, and whether resiliency factors are associated with observed clusters... - Heterogeneity of health disparities among African American, Hispanic, and Asian American women: unrecognized influences of sexual orientationVickie M Mays
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Am J Public Health 92:632-9. 2002..This study compared health indicators among self-identified lesbians/bisexual women and heterosexual women residing in Los Angeles County... - Impact of a worksite wellness program on the nutrition and physical activity environment of child care centersWendi A Gosliner
Center for Weight and Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Am J Health Promot 24:186-9. 2010..To test whether implementing a staff wellness program affects the nutrition and physical activity environment at child care centers... - Adapting a 1% or less milk campaign for a Hispanic/Latino population: the Adelante Con Leche Semi-descremada 1% experienceArnell J Hinkle
California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness Program, Berkeley, California, USA
Am J Health Promot 23:108-11. 2008..Describe and evaluate a media campaign to encourage 1% or nonfat milk consumption... - Understanding the challenges in recruiting blacks to a longitudinal cohort study: the Adventist health studyPatti Herring
Department of Health Promotion and Education, Loma Linda University School of Public Health, Loma Linda, California, USA
Ethn Dis 14:423-30. 2004.... - Process evaluation of the Los Angeles Unified School District Nutrition NetworkRichard E Kratz
Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, 31 235 CHS, 650 Charles Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 5:A42. 2008..This study evaluated the Los Angeles Unified School District Nutrition Network, a large multicomponent nutrition and physical activity program in an ethnically diverse school district, launched in 2000... - African Americans' access to healthy food options in South Los Angeles restaurantsLaVonna Blair Lewis
School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California, 650 Childs Way, Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall Room 309, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0626, USA
Am J Public Health 95:668-73. 2005..We also considered environmental prompts that encourage the purchase of various foods... - Effects of exercise and weight loss on hypertensionWilliam J McCarthy
JAMA 290:885; author reply 886-7. 2003 - Discovering the full spectrum of cardiovascular disease: Minority Health Summit 2003: report of the Advocacy Writing GroupAntronette K Yancey
Circulation 111:e140-9. 2005 - Physical activity intervention studies: what we know and what we need to know: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism (Subcommittee on Physical Activity); Council on CardiovasculaBess H Marcus
Brown Medical School, USA
Circulation 114:2739-52. 2006..Our second purpose is to offer new ideas and recommendations to improve the state of the science within each area and, where possible, to propose ideas to help bridge the gaps between these existing categories of research... - Exercise and physical activity in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a statement from the Council on Clinical Cardiology (Subcommittee on Exercise, Rehabilitation, and Prevention) and the Council on Nutrition, PhysicalPaul D Thompson
Circulation 107:3109-16. 2003 - Assessing resource environments to target prevention interventions in community chronic disease controlDavid Sloane
School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 17:146-58. 2006.... - Poor attendance, poor outcomes: challenges facing the underservedAntronette K Yancey
J Cardiopulm Rehabil 24:313-6. 2004
Research Grants
- COMMUNITY STEPS TO MINORITY YOUTH FITNESSAntronette Yancey; Fiscal Year: 2002..Mediating variables are self-report behaviors and attitudes. 4. Compile and distribute a resource book that includes those behavior change strategies that were observed to work best with this population. ..