5131.0 Parents: Role models or risk factors?

Wednesday, November 10, 2010: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Parental attitudes and behaviors can promote or detract from their children's health. Interventions aimed solely at children often fail when parents fail to provide a supportive environment. This session provides examples of studies and programs examining the role of parents both as protective and risk factors on child health.
Session Objectives: 1. Discuss the parental role in promoting health. 2. Describe ways in which parents' attitudes and behaviors place their children at risk.
Moderator:
Lucy Annang, PhD, MPH

10:30am
Decision-making processes and health care experiences of parents who chose not to vaccinate their children
Nicole Wagner, MPH, Jo Ann Shoup, MSW and Jason Glanz, PhD
     
10:45am
Changes in rural parents' vaccination-related attitudes and intention to vaccinate middle and high school children against influenza following influenza vaccination intervention
Jessica Sales, PhD, Julia Painter, PhD, MPH, Karen Pazol, PhD, Lisa Gargano, PhD, LaDawna Jones, MPH, Walter Orenstein, MD, James Hughes, MD and Ralph J. DiClemente, PhD
     
11:00am
An examination of the use of food and physical activity as reinforcers by parents of normal weight and overweight children
Molly Matthews, MS, Emily Murphy, PhD, Christa Ice, PhD, William A. Neal, MD and Lesley A. Cottrell, PhD
     
11:15am
Improving parent-child sexual health communication among Hispanics
Sheetal Malhotra, MBBS, MS, Diane M. Santa Maria, MSN APRN-BC, Hilda M. Chavarria, BS and Katherine Hendricks, MD, MPH&TM
     
11:30am
For Our Sons: Gender-targeted, culturally relevant, parent education to reduce sexual and related risks among young black males
Athi Myint-U, EdM, Deborah McLean Leow, MSW and Lydia O'Donnell, EdD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, School Health Education and Services, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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