The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Health Promotion Posters II
4306.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Poster
Health Promotion Posters II
This session will involve ten papers reporting studies in health promotion. Topics will include research on physical activity, prevention of obesity, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, and encouraging tobacco free life styles.
Learning Objectives: Those attending this session will be able to 1. review and discuss ten studies addressing health promotion issues, and 2. idenitfy and become acquainted with several health promotion researchers.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organizer(s):William B. Cissell, PhD, CHES
Presider(s):Carolyn K. Mikanowicz
Board 1A behavior modification program for obesity prevention among a sample of urban and minority adolescents
MJ murphy, NP, Lorraine Tiezzi, MS, Roger Vaughan, DrPH
Board 2Cancer prevention for high school students: An innovative three-session curriculum
T. G. Hislop, MDCM, Rob W. Inrig, MEd
Board 3Child and adolescent behaviors in long-term evolution (CABLE): A school-based health lifestyle study
Lee-Lan Yen, ScD, Likwang Chen, PhD, Szu-Hsien Tony Lee, PhD, Ling-Yen Pan, PhD, Chuhsing Kate Hsiao, PhD
Board 4A review of sexuality education programs to prevent unintended pregnancy and promote abstinence and safe sex among school-aged youth
Linda Wright-De Agüero, PhD MPH, Ping Hu Johnson, MD, PhD, CHES, Karen Taylor Valverde, MA, Kate Curtis, PhD, Barbara Cohen, BA, Meredith Reynolds, PhD, Craig W. Thomas, MA, Susan Scrimshaw
Board 5Specific alcohol beverage use among middle school youth
Edessa C. Jobli, MPH, CHES, Chudley E. Werch, PhD, Michele J. Moore, PhD, Deborah M. Owen, MSH, CHES, Joan M. Carlson, MSW, Rhonda L. Bledsoe, MPH, CHES
Board 6Seventeenth-century Puritanism: The plight of twentyfirst-century school health policy
Cushing Hurd, BA
Board 7Comparison of sexually transmitted infection knowledge among adolescents
Patti A. Murphey, MAE, Rachel L. Abbott, MS, Stephen Nagy, PhD
Board 8Eighth Grade Students and their HIV SECRETS
Torrance T. Brown, MPH, Robert E. Bailey II, Tricia Hall, BS, Colleen DiIorio, PhD, RN, Pamela Denzmore, MPH, Ruth Bedell, MS, Phillip Williams, BS, Frances McCarty, PhD, Patrice D. Lee, MS
Board 9Parents and other caregivers of early adolescents: An important component of a school-based adolescent pregnancy prevention program conducted among fifth grade students in Washington DC
Allison Rose, MHS, Greg White, MSW, Helen P. Koo, PhD, Renee Jenkins, MD, Karen M. Anderson, PhD, Barbara K. Wingrove, MPH, Isabel Ricardo, PhD, Brinda Bhaskar, MS
Organized by:School Health Education and Services
CE Credits:Nursing, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA