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Session: Current Topics in Student Research
4296.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
Current Topics in Student Research
This session includes presentations on current student research. Topics include physicians' teaching of testicular self-examination, demographic patterns of stage at diagnosis and survival for ovarian cancer, effectiveness of faith-based screening of obesity, and investigation of energy balance and weight maintenance of college males.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) will be able to: 1. Identify barriers to teaching testicular self-examination.; 2. Assess the effects of not receiving routine health care on diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer.; 3. List benefits of a faith-based screening program.; and 4. Apply ideas about healthy eating and physical activity to obesity prevention programming for college males.
Organizer(s):Kristy A. Siegel, MPH, CHES
Mariza Luna, BS
Moderator(s):Joyce Edmonds, RN, MPH
Kenya Hunter
Kineret Oren
4:30 PMAssessment of physicians' teaching of testicular self-examination in the outpatient setting  [ Recorded presentation ]
Andrew Horowitz, BS, Steve E. Reinert, MS, Caldamone Anthony, MD
4:50 PMDemographic patterns of stage at diagnosis and survival for ovarian cancer: Analysis of Rhode Island women utilizing gynecologic oncology services
Daniel P. Kelly, BS, Sherry Weitzen, PhD, Paul DiSilvestro, MD
5:10 PMObesity and overweight in Black Women: Assessing the effectiveness of a faith-based screening program  [ Recorded presentation ]
Yola Patricia Duhaney, RN, BSN
5:30 PMInvestigating energy balance and weight maintenance in college males  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jennifer Roy, BS, Adrienne A. White, PhD, RD, Mary Greaney, PhD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:APHA-Student Assembly
Endorsed by:Epidemiology
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA