Submissions from 2015
An Integrated Framework For The Prevention And Treatment Of Obesity And Its Related Chronic Diseases., William H. Dietz, Loel S. Solomon, Nico Pronk, Sarah K. Ziegenhorn, Marion Standish, and et al.
Defining the "community": applying ethnographic methods for a Latino immigrant health intervention., Mark Edberg, Sean D. Cleary, L. B. Simmons, E. L. Andrade, and G. Gudger
Results From a National Survey of Health Communication Master's Degree Recipients: An Exploration of Training, Placement, Satisfaction, and Success., Timothy Edgar, Susan Scavo Gallagher, Kami J. Silk, Tess Boley Cruz, Lorien C. Abroms, W. Douglas Evans, Anna Marie Finley, and Gregory A. Miller
Systematic review of health branding: growth of a promising practice., W. Douglas Evans, Jonathan Blitstein, Donna Vallone, Samantha Post, and Wendy Nielsen
The 5-4-3-2-1 Go! Brand to Promote Nutrition and Physical Activity: A Case of Positive Behavior Change but Negative Change in Beliefs., W. Douglas Evans, Jasmine Wallace, and Jeremy Snider
Systematic review to inform dual tobacco use prevention, William Douglas Evans, Kimberly A. Horn, and Tiffany Gray
Dose-response effects of the Text4baby mobile health program: Randomized controlled trial, William Douglas Evans, Peter E. Nielsen, Daniel R. Szekely, Jasmine W. Bihm, Elizabeth A. Murray, Jeremy Snider, and Lorien C. Abroms
Medications that older adults in hospice care in the United States take, 2007, Lisa L. Fwyers MPH, Denys T. Lau PhD, and Josheph W. Shenga MD
Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Cigar Products in the United States., Ollie Ganz, Lyubov Teplitskaya, Jennifer Cantrell, Elizabeth C Hair, and Donna Vallone
Three Interventions That Reduce Childhood Obesity Are Projected To Save More Than They Cost To Implement., Steven L Gortmaker, Y Claire Wang, Michael W. Long, Catherine M Giles, Zachary J Ward, Jessica L Barrett, Erica L Kenney, Kendrin R Sonneville, Amna Sadaf Afzal, Stephen C Resch, and Angie L Cradock
Evidence supporting product standards for carcinogens in smokeless tobacco products, Dorothy K. Hatsukami, Irina Stepanov, Herb Severson, Joni A. Jensen, Bruce R. Lindgren, Kimberly Horn, Samir S. Khariwala, Julia Martin, Steven G. Carmella, Sharon E. Murphy, and Stephen S. Hecht
Examination of the Beck Depression Inventory-II Factor Structure Among Bariatric Surgery Candidates., Sharon Hayes, Nina Stoeckel, Melissa A. Napolitano, Charlotte Collins, G Craig Wood, Jamie Seiler, Heidi E Grunwald, Gary D Foster, and Christopher D Still
Impact of incarceration experiences on reported HIV status and associated risk behaviours and disease comorbidities., Robert Heimer, Olga S Levina, Victoria Osipenko, Monica S Ruiz, Boris Sergeyev, Aleksander V Sirotkin, and Inna Vyshemirskaya
Sensation Seeking as a Moderator of Gain- and Loss-Framed HIV-Test Promotion Message Effects., Shawnika J. Hull and Yangsun Hong
Factors associated with early growth in Egyptian infants: implications for addressing the dual burden of malnutrition., Justine A Kavle, Valerie L Flax, Ali Abdelmegeid, Farouk Salah, Seham Hafez, Magda Ramzy, Doaa Hamed, Gulsen Saleh, and Rae Galloway
Mother-adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of associations between racial socialization and adolescent psychological adjustment., Sharon F Lambert, Kathleen M Roche, Farzana T Saleem, and Jessica S Henry
Cost effectiveness of a mail-delivered individually tailored physical activity intervention for Latinas vs. a mailed contact control, Britta Larsen, Todd Gilmer, Dori Pekmezi, Melissa A. Napolitano, and Bess H. Marcus
Tapping into traditional norms for preventing HIV and unintended pregnancy : harnessing the influence of grandmothers (agogos) in Malawi., Rupali J. Limaye, Rajiv N. Rimal, Glory Mkandawire, and Veena Kamath
The effect of changes in health beliefs among African-American and rural white church congregants enrolled in an obesity intervention : a qualitative evaluation., Diane J. Martinez, Monique M. Turner, Mandi Pratt-Chapman, Kanako Kashima, Margaret K Hargreaves, Mark B Dignan, and James R Hébert
Cigarette packaging and health warnings: the impact of plain packaging and message framing on young smokers., Darren Mays, Raymond S Niaura, W Douglas Evans, David Hammond, George Luta, and Kenneth P Tercyak
Framing Pictorial Cigarette Warning Labels to Motivate Young Smokers to Quit., Darren Mays, Monique M. Turner, Xiaoquan Zhao, W. Douglas Evans, George Luta, and Kenneth P. Tercyak
Weighting patient satisfaction factors to inform health care providers of the patient experience in the age of social media consumer sentiment, Blaine Parrish, Amita N. Vyas, and Grace Kathryn Douglass
State-of-the-Art Office-Based Interventions to Eliminate Youth Tobacco Use: The Past Decade., Lori Pbert, Harold Farber, Kimberly Horn, Harry A Lando, Myra Muramoto, Jennifer O'Loughlin, Susanne Tanski, Robert J Wellman, Jonathan P Winickoff, and Jonathan D Klein
Energy and Nutrient Intake From Pizza in the United States., Lisa M. Powell, Binh T. Nguyen, and William H. Dietz
Interpersonal communication as an agent of normative influence: a mixed method study among the urban poor in India, Rajiv N. Rimal, Pooja Sripad, Ilene S. Speizer, and Lisa M. Calhoun
Family Violence and Child Sexual Abuse Among South Asians in the US., Hillary A Robertson, Nitasha Chaudhary Nagaraj, and Amita N. Vyas
Adolescent language brokering in diverse contexts: associations with parenting and parent-youth relationships in a new immigrant destination area., Kathleen M Roche, Sharon F Lambert, Sharon R Ghazarian, and Todd D Little
Empowering Women's Prenatal Communication: Does Literacy Matter?, Debra L Roter, Lori H Erby, Rajiv N Rimal, Katherine C Smith, Susan Larson, Ian M Bennett, Katie Washington Cole, Yue Guan, Matthew Molloy, and Jessica Bienstock
Impact Evaluation of a Policy Intervention for HIV Prevention in Washington, DC, Monica S. Ruiz, Allison O'Rourke, and Sean T. Allen
A Lancet Commission on obesity., Boyd Swinburn, William Dietz, and Sabine Kleinert
Severe Obesity In Adults Cost State Medicaid Programs Nearly $8 Billion In 2013., Y Claire Wang, John Pamplin, Michael W Long, Zachary J Ward, Steven L Gortmaker, and Tatiana Andreyeva
Assessing the Role of Masculinity in the Transmission of HIV: A Systematic Review to Inform HIV Risk Reduction Counseling Interventions for MSM, Robert J. Zeglin
Submissions from 2014
A randomized trial of Text2Quit: A text messaging program for smoking cessation, Lorien C. Abroms, Ashley L. Boal, Samuel J. Simmens, Judith A. Mendel, and Richard A. Windsor
Risk for coerced sex among female youth in Ghana: Roles of family context, school enrollment, and relationship experience, Jeffrey Bingenheimer and Elizabeth Reed
Trajectories of involvement in commercial sex exploitation and domestic trafficking of girls and young women: selected qualitative results from an evaluation study, Mark C. Edberg, Stephen Gies, Marcia Cohen, and Suepattra May-Slater
Initial outcomes from a 4-week follow-up study of the Text4baby program in the military women's population: Randomized controlled trial, W. Douglas Evans, Jasmine Wallace Bihm, Daniel Szekely, Peter E. Nielsen, Elizabeth Murray, Lorien C. Abroms, and Jeremy Snider
Effects of the Above the Influence brand on adolescent drug use prevention normative beliefs, W. Douglas Evans, Kristen Holtz, Tanya White, and Jeremy Snider
Stigma against people with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia, 2005-2011: Signs and predictors of improvement, Eshetu Girma, Lakew Gebretsadik, Michelle R. Kaufman, Rajiv N. Rimal, Sudhakar Morankar, and Rupali J. Limaye
Developing a dissemination model to improve intervention reach among West Virginia youth smokers, Kimberly Horn, Traci Jarrett, Andrew Anesett-Rothermel, Nancy O'Hara Tompkins, and Geri Dino
Facebook apps for smoking cessation: A review of content and adherence to evidence-based guidelines, Megan A. Jacobs, Caroline O. Cobb, Lorien C. Abroms, and Amanda L. Graham
Effect of a liver cancer education program on hepatitis B screening among Asian Americans in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, 2009-2010, Hee-Soon Juon, Sunmin Lee, Carol Strong, Rajiv N. Rimal, Gregory D. Kirk, and Janice Bowie
Using social and behavior change communication to increase HIV testing and condom use: The Malawi BRIDGE Project, Michelle R. Kaufman, Rajiv N. Rimal, Maria Carrasco, Olaoluwa Fajobi, Anthony Soko, Rupali Limaye, and Glory Mkandawire
Exercise advice by humans versus computers: maintenance effects at 18 months., Abby C King, Eric B Hekler, Cynthia M Castro, Matthew P Buman, Bess H Marcus, Robert H Friedman, and Melissa A. Napolitano
Internalized weight bias in weight-loss surgery patients: Psychosocial correlates and weight loss outcomes, Michelle R. Lent, Melissa A. Napolitano, G. Craig Wood, George Argyropoulous, Glenn S. Gerhard, Sharon Hayes, Gary D. Foster, Charlotte A. Collins, and Christopher D. Still
Informal alcohol in Malawi: Stakeholder perceptions and policy recommendations, Rupali J. Limaye, Lainie Rutkow, Rajiv N. Rimal, and Daivd Jernigan
A literature synthesis of health promotion research in salons and barbershops., Laura A. Linnan, Heather D'Angelo, and Cherise B. Harrington
Understanding the sources of normative influence on behavior: The example of tobacco, Erin L. Mead, Rajiv N. Rimal, Roberta Ferrence, and Joanna E. Cohen
Faith and HIV prevention: The conceptual framing of HIV prevention among Pentecostal Botswana teenagers, Elias Mpofu, Fidelis Nkomazana, Jabulani A. Muchado, Lovemore Togarasei, and Jeffrey Bingenheimer
Differences in the delivery of health education to patients with chronic disease by provider type, 2005-2009, Tamara S. Ritsema, Jeffrey Bingenheimer, Patty Scholting, and James F. Cawley
Mass media health communication campaigns combined with health-related product distribution: a community guide systematic review., Maren N Robinson, Kristin A Tansil, Randy W Elder, Robin E Soler, Magdala P Labre, William Douglas Evans, and +15 additional authors
Cultural orientations, parental beliefs and practices, and Latino adolescents' autonomy and independence, Kathleen Roche, Margaret Caughy, Mark Schuster, Laura Bogart, Patricia Dittus, and Luisa Franzini
Healthy Kids Out of School: Using Mixed Methods to Develop Principles for Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Out-of-School Settings in the United States., Sarah A. Sliwa, Shanti Sharma, William H. Dietz, Peter R. Dolan, Miriam E. Nelson, Molly B. Newman, Maya Rockeymoore, and Christina D. Economos
Fully integrated e-services for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections: Results of a 4-county study in California, Freya Spielberg, Vivian Levy, Shelly Lensing, Ishita Chattopadhyay, Lalitha Venkatasubramanian, Nincoshka Acevedo, Peter Wolff, Debra Callabresi, Susan Philip, Teresa P. Lopez, Nancy Padian, Diane R. Blake, and Charlotte A. Gaydos
Predicting visual attention to nutrition information on food products: The influence of motivation and ability, Monique M. Turner, Christine Skubisz, Sejal Patel Pandya, Meryl Silverman, and Lucinda L. Austin
Integrating stages of change models to cast new vision on interventions to improve global retinoblastoma and childhood cancer outcomes, Meaghann S. Weaver, Christina L. Heminger, and Catherine G. Lam
Effectiveness of the Smoking Cessation and Reduction in Pregnancy Treatment (SCRIPT) Dissemination Project: A science to prenatal care practice partnership, Richard A. Windsor, Jeannie Clark, Sean D. Cleary, Amanda Davis, Stephanie Thorn, Lorien C. Abroms, and John Wedeles
Understanding the influence of proximal networks on high school athletes' intentions to use androgenic anabolic steroids, Jules Woolf, Rajiv N. Rimal, and Pooja Sripad
Submissions from 2013
A content analysis of popular smartphone apps for smoking cessation, Lorien C. Abroms, J. Lee Westmaas, Jeuneviette Bontemps-Jones, Rathana Ramani, and Jenelle Mellerson
Adolescents and parents' perceptions of best time for sex and sexual communications from two communities in the Eastern and Volta Regions of Ghana: Implications for HIV and AIDS education, Emmanuel Asampong, Joseph Osafo, Jeffrey Bingenheimer, and Clement Ahiadeke
Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care: Lessons from a Study of Eleven States, Donna Behrens, Julia Graham Lear, and Olga Acosta Price
Reactance, restoration, and cognitive structure: Comparative statistics, Elena Bessarabova, Edward L. Fink, and Monique M. Turner
Provider imposed restrictions to clients' access to family planning in urban Uttar Pradesh, India: A mixed methods study, Lisa S. Calhoun, Ilene S. Speizer, Rajiv N. Rimal, Pooja Sripad, Nilesh Chatterjee, Pranita Achyut, and Priya Nanda
Development and assessment of traditional and innovative media to reduce individual HIV/AIDS-related stigma attitudes and beliefs in India, Caricia Catalani, Diego Castaneda, and Freya Spielberg
A conversation with E. Harvey Estes, M.D., James F. Cawley
Policy strategies to increase primary care, James F. Cawley
Turf battles in primary care: what about team?, James F. Cawley
Writing and Publishing in the Health Professions, James F. Cawley
Physician assistants in American medicine: The half-century mark, James F. Cawley and Roderick S. Hooker
Where are the PA researchers?, James F. Cawley and Tamara Ritsema
What do we know about retired physician assistants? A preliminary study, Jennifer M. Coombs, Roderick S. Hooker, and Kimberly D. Brunisholz
Physician assistants in primary care: Trends and characteristics, Bettie Coplan, James F. Cawley, and James Stoehr
Effectiveness of a national media campaign to promote parent-child communication about sex, Kevin C. Davis, William D. Evans, and Kian Kamyab
Essentials of Health, Culture, and Diversity: Understanding People, Reducing Disparities, Mark Edberg
A randomized clinical trial of trans-dermal nicotine replacement in pregnant African-American smokers., Ayman A.E. El-Mohandes, Richard Windsor, Sylvia Tan, David C. Perry, Marie G. Gantz, and Michele Kiely
A case for refining the WHO Global Strategy on Food Safety: perspectives from India., SubbaRao M Gavaravarapu, Katherine C Smith, and Rajiv N Rimal
Determining who responds better to a computer vs. human-delivered physical activity intervention: Results from the community health advice by telephone (CHAT) trial, Eric B. Hekler, Matthew P. Buman, Jennifer Otten, Cynthia M. Castro, Lauren Grieco, Bess Marcus, Robert H. Friedman, Melissa A. Napolitano, and Abby C. King
Physician assistant education: An analysis of the Journal of Physician Assistant Education, J. Hocking, Diana Crowley, and James F. Cawley
Urban Youths’ Experiences and Perceptions of a Community Cycling Initiative, Michael Hoffman, Sharon Hayes, and Melissa A. Napolitano
A physician assistant rheumatology fellowship, Roderick S. Hooker
Physician assistants working with the medically underserved., Roderick S. Hooker
Commentaries on health services research, Roderick S. Hooker and Richard W. Dehn
The changing physician assistant profession: A gender shift, Roderick S. Hooker, Stephen P. Robie, Jennifer M. Coombs, and James F. Cawley
Understanding physical activity outcomes as a function of teen smoking cessation, Kimberly Horn, Steven Branstetter, Jianjun Zhang, Traci Jarrett, Nancy O'Hara Tompkins, Andrew Anesetti-Rothermel, Melissa Olfert, Tony Richards, and Geri Dino
The impact of intimate partner violence, substance use, and HIV on depressive symptoms among abused low-income urban women, Samantha L. Illangasekare, Jessica G. Burke, Karen A. McDonnell, and Andrea C. Gielen
Addressing unmet need for HIV testing in emergency care settings: A role for computer-facilitated rapid HIV testing?, Anne E. Kurth, Anneleen Severynen, and Freya Spielberg
Smoking and alcohol use in gastric bypass patients, Michelle R. Lent, Sharon M. Hayes, G. Craig Wood, Melissa A. Napolitano, George Argyropoulous, Gary D. Foster, and Christopher D. Still
Treatment-as-prevention in AIDS control: Why communication still matters, Rupali J. Limaye, Jeffrey Bingenheimer, Rajiv N. Rimal, Susan Krenn, and Claudia Vondrasek
Role of environment and sex differences in the development of autoimmune diseases: A roundtable meeting report., Monica P. Mallampalli, Erika Davies, Debra Wood, Hilary Robertson, Federica Polato, and Christine L. Carter
Role of environment and sex differences in the development of autoimmune diseases: A roundtable meeting project, Monica P. Mallampalli, Erika Davies, Debra Wood, Hillary Robinson, Federica Polato, and Christine L. Carter
The impact of self-monitoring of blood glucose on a behavioral weight loss intervention for patients with type 2 diabetes., Lisa M McAndrew, Melissa A. Napolitano, Leonard M Pogach, Karen S Quigley, Kerri Leh Shantz, Stephanie S Vander Veur, and Gary D Foster
Time to first cigarette predicts cessation outcomes in adolescent smokers, Melissa Mercincavage, Steven A. Branstetter, Joshua Muscat, and Kimberly Horn
Healthy and unhealthy social norms and food selection: Findings from a field experiment, Saar Mollen, Rajiv N. Rimal, Robert A.C. Ruiter, and Gerjo Kok
Differential effects of a body image exposure session on smoking urge between physically active and sedentary female smokers, Uma S. Nair, Bradley N. Collins, and Melissa A. Napolitano
Using Facebook and text messaging to deliver a weight loss program to college students., Melissa A. Napolitano, Sharon Hayes, Gary G Bennett, Allison K Ives, and Gary D Foster
Using avatars to model weight loss behaviors: participant attitudes and technology development, Melissa A. Napolitano, Sharon Hayes, Giuseppe Russo, Debora Muresu, Antonio Giordano, and Gary D. Foster
The relevance of social contexts and social action in reducing substance use and victimization among women participating in an HIV prevention intervention in Cape Town, South Africa, Elizabeth Reed, Andrea N. Emanuel, Bronwyn Myers, Kim Johnson, and Wendee M. Wechsberg
Adolescent experiences of violence and relation to violence perpretration beyond young adulthood among an urban sample of black and African American males, Elizabeth Reed, Danielle A. Lawrence, M. C. Santana, C. Seth Welles, C. Robert Horsburgh, Jay G. Silverman, John A. Rich, and Anita Raj
Experiences of racial discrimination and relation to sexual risk for HIV among a sample of urban black and African American men, Elizabeth Reed, M. C. Santana, L. Bowleg, S. L. Welles, C. R. Horsburgh, and A. Raj
Motherhood and HIV risk among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: The need to consider women’s life contexts, Elizabeth Reed, J. G. Silverman, B. Stein, J. T. Erausquin, M. Biradavolu, A. Rosenberg, and K. M. Blankenship
Correctional facilities as partners in reducing HIV disparities, Josiah D. Rich, Ralph DiClemente, Judith Levy, Monica S. Ruiz, David L. Rosen, and Dora Dumont