Health Education

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A preliminary controlled evaluation of a school-based media literacy program and self-esteem program for reducing eating disorder risk factors.

OBJECTIVE: This study compared the efficacy of a media literacy program and a self-esteem program designed to reduce general and specific risk factors for eating disorders. METHOD: Four classes of 86 grade 8 students (53 boys and 33 girls), mean age of ...
Tracey D Wade, Susan Davidson, Jennifer A ODea (Int J Eat Disord, 200305)
preliminary-controlled-evaluation-school-based-media-literacy-program.asp

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Health policy and the coloring of an American male crisis: a perspective on community-based health services.

Health services at the community level are organized and financed in such a way that men need access but encounter barriers to care such as poor service design, lack of insurance, and the absence of health literacy. Community health delivery systems may ...
Amos L Smith (Am J Public Health, 200305)
health-policy-coloring-american-male-crisis-perspective-community.asp

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Parents attitudes to childrens participation in randomized controlled trials.

OBJECTIVE: To explore parents attitudes to childrens participation in randomized controlled trials. STUDY DESIGN: Qualitative analysis of focus group discussions involving 33 parents from a pediatric teaching hospital and local school in Australia. ...
Patrina H y Caldwell, Phyllis N Butow, Jonathan C Craig (J Pediatr, 200305)
parents-attitudes-children-s-participation-randomized-controlled.asp

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Use of the stages of change model in improving nutrition and exercise habits in enlisted Air Force men.

Thirty-nine U.S. Air Force enlisted men participated in a randomized controlled study that evaluated an experimental program designed to enhance fitness. Subjects were assigned to either a treatment (access to the program) or control (no access to ...
Donald V Veverka, Jennifer Anderson, Garry W Auld, Gary R Coulter, Cathy Kennedy, Phillip L Chapman (Mil Med, 200305)
stages-change-model-improving-nutrition-exercise-habits-enlisted-air.asp

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Using the Web to improve seniors awareness of their role in preventing medical errors.

The purpose of this project was to assess the value of using the Web to teacholder consumers about their role in preventing medical errors. Consumers were recruited from a metropolitan Detroit senior community center. The majority of the participants had ...
Marilyn H Oermann, JoJean Hamilton, Marley L Shook (J Nurs Care Qual, 200304-06)
web-improve-seniors-awareness-role-preventing-medical-errors.asp

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Moving into Parenthood: a program for new adolescent mothers combining parent education with creative physical activity.

ISSUES AND PURPOSE: To describe a school-based program combining traditional parent education with creative physical activity classes to assist newly delivered adolescent mothers to develop positive parenting behaviors while remaining in school. ...
Lois S Sadler, Ann Cowlin (J Spec Pediatr Nurs, 200304-06)
moving-parenthood-program-new-adolescent-mothers-combining-parent.asp

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Effects of in-home training for culturally diverse fathers of children with autism.

Recently there has been mounting interest in the role of fathers and the effect of their increasing involvement on child development. However, to date, little has been reported regarding the role of fathers with developmentally delayed children (e.g., ...
Jennifer H Elder, Gregory Valcante, Daeyoung Won, Robert Zylis (Issues Ment Health Nurs, 200304-05)
effects-home-training-culturally-diverse-fathers-children-autism.asp

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Past, present, and future of computer-tailored nutrition education.

Computer-tailored nutrition education is an innovative and promising tool to motivate people to make healthy dietary changes. It provides respondents with individualized feedback about their dietary behaviors, motivations, attitudes, norms, and skills ...
Johannes Brug, Anke Oenema, Marci Campbell (Am J Clin Nutr, 200304)
past-present-future-computer-tailored-nutrition-education.asp

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"What are they going to do with the information?" Latino/Latina and African American perspectives on the Human Genome Project.

New developments in genetic science raise questions regarding their application and implications. Dialogue about these questions has not often included the perspectives of the general population and, in particular, the voices of labeled racial or ethnic ...
Amy Schulz, Cleopatra Caldwell, Sarah Foster (Health Educ Behav, 200304)
going-information-latino-latina-african-american-perspectives-human.asp

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What to tell dementia caregivers--the rule of threes.

OBJECTIVES: To determine and prioritise what information dementia caregivers wish to know at the time of diagnosis and later on in the illness, and in what form this information should be presented. METHOD: 100 carers were recruited from community mental ...
Claudia Wald, Martin Fahy, Zuzana Walker, Gill Livingston (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry, 200304)
tell-dementia-caregivers-rule-threes.asp