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Behavioral Ecological Model

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Alcohol/FAS

• Alcohol use among a low-income sample of Latinas of reproductive age: Opportunities for prevention and intervention (2002)

Asthma

• Reduction of secondary smoke exposure in asthmatic children: Parent counseling (1993)
• Parent smoking and asthmatic children's exposure patterns: A behavioral epidemiology study (1994)
• Reduction of environmental tobacco smoke exposure among asthmatic children: A controlled trial (1994)
• Project Zephyr: Reduction of passive smoking in asthmatic children (1997)
• Reduction of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Asthmatic Children: A Two-Year Follow-up (1997)
• Toward a simplified measure of asthma severity for applied research (1997)
• Health and social characteristics of low-income Latino families with asthmatic children (1999)
• Home environment of low-income latino children with asthma exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (1999)
• Quality of life in low income latino children with asthma (1999)
• Involuntary smoking and asthma (2000)
• Increasing asthma knowledge and changing home environments for Latino families with asthmatic children (2001)
• Asthma management and environmental tobacco smoke exposure reduction in Latino children: A controlled trial (2002)

Cancer

• Training breast self-examination to competence: Assessment of an educational program (1986)
• Breast self-examination: The effects of prescribed frequency on adherence, accuracy, and detection ability (1988)
• Breast self-examination among college women: Predictors for cancer control (1989)
• Mammography knowledge and intentions among insured women (1992)
• Evaluation of a worksite mammography program (1993)
• The effects of an instructional audiotape on breast self-examination proficiency (1993)

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Cardiac (heart disease, hypertension, etc)

• The experimental evidence for weight-loss treatment of essential hypertension: A critical review (1982)
• The effects of lay counseling on medication adherence and blood pressure: Adjunctive treatment for hypertension (1984)
• Applications of behavior modification to community health education: The case of heart disease prevention (1985)
• Behavioral and medical monitoring for hypertension control: A counselor feedback and consulting model (1985)
• Experimental analysis of adherence counseling: Implications for hypertension management (1985)
• Personalized versus usual care of previously uncontrolled hypertensive patients: An exploratory analysis (1986)
• The relationship between cynical hostility and blood pressure reactivity (1987)

Cystic Fibrosis

• A comparative study of the psychosocial assets of adults with cystic fibrosis and their healthy peers (1990)
• Functional status as an overall measure of health in adults with cystic fibrosis: Further validation of a generic health measure (1992)
• Increasing calorie consumption in children with cystic fibrosis: Replication with 2-year follow-up (1993)
• Eating in preschool children with cystic fibrosis and healthy peers: Behavioral analysis (1995)
• Behavioral intervention to improve calorie intake of children with cystic fibrosis: Treatment versus wait list control (1996)
• Descriptive analysis of eating behavior in school-age children with cystic fibrosis and healthy control children (1997)
• Increasing physical activity of children with cystic fibrosis: A home-based family intervention (1998)
• Observational assessment of family functioning at mealtime in preschool children with cystic fibrosis (2001)

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Measurement / Research Design

• The validity of a role-played measure of student's snack selections (1985)
• Recruiting survey respondents to mailed surveys: Controlled trials of incentives and prompts (1989)
• Correlates of health facilitator performance in a tobacco use prevention program: Implications for recruitment (1990)
• Functional status as an overall measure of health in adults with cystic fibrosis: Further validation of a generic health measure (1992)
• The accuracy of environmental tobacco smoke exposure measures among asthmatic children (1995)
• Cluster versus individual randomization in adolescent tobacco and alcohol studies: illustrations for design decisions (1997)
• Toward a simplified measure of asthma severity for applied research (1997)
• Measurement of environmental tobacco smoke exposure in infants and young children thorugh urine cotinine and memory-based parental reports: Empirical findings and discussion (1999)
• Mesurement of environmental tobacco smoke exposure: Trials and tribulations (2000)
• Urine testing to monitor adherence to TB preventive therapy (2002)

Miscelleneous

• Parents as agents of change in the remediation of classroom behavior problems (1974)
• Health service appointment keeping: A behavioral view and critical review (1978)
• Contingency management adherence to a complex medical regiment in an elderly heart patient (1979)
• In search of the sand man: Shaping an infant to sleep (1980)
• Teaching survival English skills and assessment of collateral behavior (1982)
• Assessing physician/patient perceptions in rheumatoid arthritis (1985)
• Risk of excess weight gain in university women: A three-year community controlled analysis (1985)
• Applying behavioral principles to motor vehicle occupant protection (1986)
• The Purdue stepped approach model: Application to leisure counseling service delivery (1987)
• Worksite stress management: A comparison of programs (1987)
• Families and intensive care nurses: Comparison of perceptions (1988)
• Occupational health risks for Mexican women: The case of the maquiladora along the Mexican-United States border (1988)
• Paradoxical effects of blood alcohol concentration charts (1991)
• Prevention of hepatitis B transmission in Indo-Chinese refugees with active and passive immunization (1991)
• Efficacy of health promotion videotapes in the U.S. Navy: A lesson for health educators (1993)
• Effects of resistance, balance, and gait training on reduction of risk factors leading to falls in elders (1997)

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Nutrition

• Long-term weight loss maintenance: Assessment of a behavioral and supplemented fasting regimen (1988)
• Modification of students' snacking: Comparison of behavioral teaching methods (1988)
• Behavioral intervention to improve calorie intake of children with cystic fibrosis: Treatment versus wait list control (1996)

Physical Activity

• An evaluation of elementary students' voluntary physical activity during recess (1978)
• Five-year follow-up to a behavioral weight-loss program (1983)
• A multivariate study of determinants of vigorous exercise in a community sample (1989)
• Identifying correlates of walking for exercise: An epidemiologic prerequisite for physical activity promotion (1989)
• Distance between homes and exercise facilities related to frequency of exercise among San Diego residents (1990)
• Lifetime history of relapse from exercise (1990)
• Social learning correlates of exercise self-efficacy: Early experiences with physical activity (1990)
• Identification of correlates of physical activity among Latino adults (1991)
• Illness, injury, and correlates of aerobic exercise and walking: A community study (1991)
• Correlates of change in walking for exercise: An exploratory analysis (1992)
• Explanation of vigorous physical activity during two years using social learning variables (1992)
• Parental behavior in relation to physical activity and fitness in 9-year-old children (1992)
• Predictors of adoption and maintenance of vigorous physical activity in men and women (1992)
• Reliability and validity of self-reported physical activity in Latinos (1992)
• Stages of change, self-efficacy, and adoption of vigorous exercise: A prospective analysis (1993)
• Correlates of vigorous exercise in a predominantly low SES and minority high school population (1994)
• Physical activity training for weight loss in Latinas: A controlled trial (1994)
• Say YES to Sports and NO to tobacco: A fun and effective community outreach program for high risk youth in San Diego (1994)
• Exposure to sports mass media and physical activity characteristics among ethnically diverse adolescents (1995)
• Parent support, physical activity, and correlates of adiposity in nine year olds: An exploratory study (1996)
• The effects of a 2-year physical education program (SPARK) on physical activity and fitness in elementary school students (1997)
• Children's television viewing, body fat, and physical fitness (1998)
• Increasing physical activity of children with cystic fibrosis: A home-based family intervention (1998)
• Interrelationships between physical activity and other health behaviors among university women and men (1998)
• Children's physical activity choices: A developmental analysis of gender, intensity levels, and time (1999)
• Predictors of change in children's physical activity over 20 months: Variations by gender and level of adiposity (1999)

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STD/Pregnancy

• Prevention of the teenage pregnancy epidemic: A social learning theory approach (1987)
• Assessing alcoholism as a risk factor for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (1988)
• Skills training for pregnancy and AIDS prevention in Anglo and Latino youth (1988)
• Pregnancy, STDs, and AIDS prevention: Evaluation of New Image Teen Theatre (1991)
• A behavioral-ecological model of adolescent sexual development: A template for AIDS prevention (1994)
• Family influences on Latino and Anglo adolescents' sexual behavior (1994)
• Patterns of communication about AIDS among Hispanic and Anglo adolescents (1995)
• Risks associated with long-term homelessness among women: Battery, rape, and HIV infection (1995)
• Regional training in AIDS prevention for health and behavioural science leaders in North-Eastern Brazil (1996)
• Enhancing HIV prevention skills of separated/divorced women (1997)
• Evaluating AIDS-related social skills in Anglo and Latino adolescents (1997)
• HIV Prevention skills of separated/divorced women (1997)
• Screening high-risk adolescent males for chlamydia trachomatis infection: Obtaining urine specimens in the field (1997)
• Enhancing HIV prevention skills of separated/divorced women (1999)
• Training AIDS and anger prevention social skills in at-risk adolescents (2001)

   

Safety

• Promoting law enforcement for child protection: A community analysis (1992)
• Firearm ownership and safety practices: A random-digit dial survey of San Diego (1995)

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Theoretical / Conceptual

• A survey of primary-care physician preventive services: Implications for smoking-cessation counseling (1984)
• Applications of behavior modification to community health education: The case of heart disease prevention (1985)
• Contingency-based strategies for preventing alcohol, drug, and tobacco use: Missing or unwanted components of adolescent health promotion? (1985)
• Behavior analysis and public health perspectives: Combining paradigms to effect prevention (1986)
• Primary care and health promotion: A model for preventive medicine (1987)
• Minimal intervention and arthritis treatment: Implications for patient and physician compliance (1989)
• The global relevance of behavioral medicine: Health and child survival in the developing world (1989)
• Some health dimensions of self-efficacy: Analysis of theoretical specificity (1990)
• Promoting prevention services in primary care: A controlled trial (1992)
• The power of nonspecific effects in healing: Implications for psychosocial and biological treatments (1993)
• A behavioral-ecological model of adolescent sexual development: A template for AIDS prevention (1994)
• Compliance with primary prevention in private practice: Creating a tobacco-free environment (1995)
• Predictors of tobacco use initiation in adolescents: A two-year prospective study and theoretical discussion (1997)
• Tracking and follow-up of 16,915 adolescents: Minimizing attrition bias (1997)
• Cultural competence among physicians treating Mexican American diabetics: A structural model (2000)

Tobacco

• A survey of primary-care physician preventive services: Implications for smoking-cessation counseling (1984)
• Contingency-based strategies for preventing alcohol, drug, and tobacco use: Missing or unwanted components of adolescent health promotion? (1987)
• Prevention of tobacco use among adolescents in public schools in San Diego County, U.S.A. (1989)
• Implementation and evaluation of a community-sponsored smoking cessation contest (1991)
• Reduction of secondary smoke exposure in asthmatic children: Parent counseling (1993)
• The long-term prevention of tobacco use among junior high school students: Classroom and telephone interventions (1993)
• Parent smoking and asthmatic children's exposure patterns: A behavioral epidemiology study (1994)
• Reduction of environmental tobacco smoke exposure among asthmatic children: A controlled trial (1994)
• Say YES to Sports and NO to tobacco: A fun and effective community outreach program for high risk youth in San Diego (1994)
• Compliance with primary prevention in private practice: Creating a tobacco-free environment (1995)
• The accuracy of environmental tobacco smoke exposure measures among asthmatic children (1995)
• An adolescent tobacco-use prevention trial in orthodontic offices (1996)
• Tobacco use prevalence and correlates among adolescents in a clinician initiated tobacco prevention trial in California, USA (1996)
• Clinician compliance with primary prevention of tobacco use: The impact of social contingencies (1997)
• Predictors of tobacco use initiation in adolescents: A two-year prospective study and theoretical discussion (1997)
• Project Zephyr: Reduction of passive smoking in asthmatic children (1997)
• Reduction of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Asthmatic Children: A Two-Year Follow-up (1997)
• Behavioral counseling for reducing babies' ETS exposure: Implementation in community clinics (1998)
• The new popularity of cigars: Smokers' descriptions (1998)
• Behavioral counseling to reduce babies' ETS exposure: Effect on home smoking policies (1999)
• Health and social characteristics of low-income Latino families with asthmatic children (1999)
• Home environment of low-income latino children with asthma exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (1999)
• Quality of life in low income latino children with asthma (1999)
• The Popularity of Cigars: Continuing Phenomenon or Fading Fad? (1999)
• Measurement of environmental tobacco smoke exposure in infants and young children thorugh urine cotinine and memory-based parental reports: Empirical findings and discussion (1999)
• Public health priorities (1999)
• Involuntary smoking and asthma (2000)
• Mesurement of environmental tobacco smoke exposure: Trials and tribulations (2000)
• The feasibility and efficacy of tobacco use prevention in orthodontics (2001)
• Asthma management and environmental tobacco smoke exposure reduction in Latino children: A controlled trial (2002)

Tuberculosis

• Urine testing to monitor adherence to TB preventive therapy (2002)

Violence / Abuse

• Risks associated with long-term homelessness among women: Battery, rape, and HIV infection (1995)

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