5069.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Oral Session

The Internet and Health Behavior Change

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Presider(s):Barbara Giloth, MPH, CHES
8:30 AMConnect and Control: Evaluation of an Internet-based, interactive self-management program
Jenny Lipana, MPH, CHES, Shannon Whetstone Mescher, MEd, CHES, Michele Boutaugh, BSN, MPH, Nancy Weaver, MPH
8:45 AMProviding internet based health information for underserved populations: A promotora model
Barbara A. Hau, RN, MS
9:00 AMRelationships among using Internet health information, patient behavior and self-efficacy in newly diagnosed cancer patients
Sarah Bauerle Bass, PhD(c), MPH, Sheryl Burt Ruzek, PhD, MPH, Linda Fleisher, MPH, Nancy McKeown-Conn
9:15 AMEvaluating web-based tailored health communications: Illustrations from the MI-HEART project
Rita Kukafka, DrPH, MA, CHES, Yves Lussier, MD, James J Cimino, MD
9:30 AMPatients on the Web: A model program to improve access to health information in underserved communities
Gala True, PhD, Julie A. Becker, PhD(c), MPH
Sponsor:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Cosponsors:Public Health Nursing; School Health Education and Services
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA