Home

Mission

Research

Resources

Who We Are

Library

Opportunities

Directions to CBEACH

Links

Awards

Behavioral Ecological Model

Students/Advisees

CBEACH conducts scientific investigations into the following broad areas:

• Behavioral epidemiology: Determinants of health related behavior
• Measurement: How to best measure behavioral and health outcomes
• Interventions: How to change behavior to reduce or prevent disease or enhance wellness
  • Clinical
  • Community-based

CBEACH is funded extramurally via grants and contracts from:

• Private foundations (eg. Robert Wood Johnson, etc)
• California statewide (eg. Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program)
• Federal (eg. National Institutes of Health)

The following topics are among those that have been studied through CBEACH. Projects are listed below in the most relevant category(ies).

Clicking on a project name will take you to a more detailed description of the project.

 

• Alcohol/FAS
  • Healthy Mothers: Assessing and reducing alcohol consumption among Latina mothers using WIC services
    • Funding: Association of Schools of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control

     

• Asthma
  • Project Zephyr: Reduction of passive smoking in asthmatic children: A clinical trial
    • Behavioral counseling for families recruited from allergy/asthma specialty clinics
  • Hijos Sanos: Reduction of passive smoking among asthmatic Latino children
    • Behavioral counseling for low income Latino families from the community

   

• Cancer
  • Breast cancer study

   

• Cystic Fibrosis
  • CF Exercise: Aerobic exercise in cystic fibrosis: a one-year intervention
  • CF Nutrition: Increased calorie consumption among children with CF

   

• HIV/STD
  • Bridges to Health: Risk reduction for high-risk repeat HIV testers
  • Healthy Options: Enhancing condom use & prevention skills of separated women
  • Project STARRT: Skills Training for AIDS Risk Reduction in Teens
  • Project STARRT suppl: Reliability and validity analyses of AIDS-related social skills in Anglo and Latino youth
  • Separated women: HIV prevention among recently-separated and divorced women
  • Social activism for AIDS prevention in high risk youth

• Miscelleneous
  • Homeless Women Study: A study of long term homelss women, their health, relationships and risk factors for abuse
  • Project Alert: The effects of shiftwork on health-related behaviors
  • Anger and violence: Anger and violence reduction in high-risk youth

   

• Nutrition
  • CF Nutrition: Increased calorie consumption among children with CF
  • Project Hypp: Healthy Youth and Parents Program (Osteoporosis prevention)

   

• Physical Activity
  • Airport Study: Effects of models and predictors of stair use at Lindberg Field international airport
  • Familia Sana/Project Andale: Increasing exercise in Hispanic women
  • Familia Sana/Project Andale Continuation: Increasing exercise in Hispanic women
  • CF Exercise: Aerobic exercise in cystic fibrosis: a one-year intervention
  • CHA: Prevalence & determinants of physical activity in low SES Latinas

   

• Tobacco
  • Best for Baby: Reduction of maternal ETS exposure among infants via pediatrician counseling
    • Funding: American Heart Association
  • Cigar study: Descriptive epidemiology and determinants of cigar use
    • Funding: Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (University of California)
  • ETS substudy: Collaborative study with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of ETS interventions, measures
    • Funding: Collaborative substudy under RWJ foundation Smoke Free Families program
  • Healthy Babies (RWJ): Reduction of maternal ETS exposure among WIC infants
    • Funding: Robert Wood Johnson foundation, Smoke Free Families program
  • Healthy Babies (MCH): Clinic-based counseling for reduction of maternal ETS exposure among infants
    • Funding: Maternal & Child Health Bureau
  • Healthy Tots: WIC Families who Smoke: A Behavioral Counseling Study
    • Funding: Maternal & Child Health Bureau
  • Hijos Sanos: Reduction of passive smoking among asthmatic Latino children
    • Behavioral counseling for low income Latino families from the community
  • Project Zephyr: Reduction of passive smoking in asthmatic children: A clinical trial
    • Behavioral counseling for families recruited from allergy/asthma specialty clinics
  • Project Sirocco: ETS Reduction in high-risk preteens: A controlled trial
    • Behavioral counseling for high-risk 8-12 year-old youths
  • Project SanTiGua: Tobacco use & policies: San Diego Mexican American Residents
  • Smiles Plus: Clinician-initiated smoking prevention: A controlled trial
    • Minimal intervention counseling provided in 154 Southern California orthodontists' offices

   

• Tuberculosis
  • Project Fiesta: Promoting adherence to TB regimens for Latino adolescents
  • Project Fiesta 2: Promoting adherence to TB regimens in high-risk youth

Visit the Library for selected abstracts from these and other studies