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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
 APHA 2005
 
Session: Children and Young Adults as Health Education Opportunities
5072.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Children and Young Adults as Health Education Opportunities
As target populations for health education and health promotion activities, children and young adults present specific challenges and opportunities. The panelists in this session will describe studies and interventions designed to understand adolescents' perceptions of physical activity and opportunities for sexual intimacy, as well as a program to prevent tobacco use among Asian and Pacific Islander middle school youth. This session will present the importance of these target populations and the implications for health education of working with these groups.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
  1. Identify characteristics of children and young adults that provide special challenges and opportunities for health education interventions;
  2. Describe assessments of children's and young adults' perceptions of phyiscal activity; and
  3. Understand how parents and schools can and do influence adolescents' sexual activity.
8:30 AMCollege students' engagement in physical activities: Motivations and peer influence
Fangfang Diao, Itzhak Yanovitzky, PhD
8:45 AMBarriers to Physical Activity of Adolescent Native American Females  [ Recorded presentation ]
Sonia R. Tinoco, J. Kristin Olson-Garewal, MD
9:00 AMSexual opportunity during adolescence  [ Recorded presentation ]
Kelly L'Engle, MPH, Christine Jackson, PhD, Kristin Kenneavy
9:15 AMRelationship of children’s self-perception to self-efficacy and outcome expectations regarding physical activity: Implications for health education  [ Recorded presentation ]
Mary Jo Nolin, PhD, Lance Potter, MA, Alicia D. Powers, Jennnifer Duke, PhD, Carrie Heitzler, MPH
9:30 AMA tobacco use prevention play for Asian and Pacific Islander middle school youth  [ Recorded presentation ]
Doris Segal Matsunaga, MPH, Karen Ululani Loebl, BA, Diane B. Mitschke, MSW, Elitei Tatafu Jr, Hali Robinett, MPH
9:45 AMHow to (and how not to) use performing arts in health education for youth  [ Recorded presentation ]
Forrest G. Hartl, Molly M. Jackson, Miguel Chion, MD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by:School Health Education and Services
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA