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16 items were found with the keyword "parents".
PI: Amanda F. Dempsey, MD, PhD, MPH
This project is designed to test the effectiveness of cultural and individual tailoring on decisions about HPV vaccines. (01/01/2013 - 12/31/2015)
PI: Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN FAAN
This project builds off a previous intervention developed by Dr. Villaruel that is designed to teach parents how to talk to their teenagers about safer sex and preventing HIV and STIs. CHCR is providing consultation about how to make the existing program more interactive for the participants. (12/01/2012 - 11/30/2017)
Our long-term goal is wide-scale dissemination of a mobile application that is highly usable within the USAF context and is tailored to USAF fathers of young children. We use the term “father” in the broadest definition to include biological, adoptive, and step-fathers as well as father surrogates. The objective of this proposal is to provide a demonstration that a smartphone-based approach with a sound conceptual base and documented effectiveness can be adapted to the specific needs of USAF fathers. The rationale for this proposal is that a smartphone application, called Mobile Dad Baby Book (or Baby Book for short), will be responsive to mobility demands faced by USAF personnel. Further, it will provide a highly cost-effective method for delivering parenting support for all fathers within the USAF context whether they are active duty USAF or non-USAF personnel acting as a caregiver while their USAF spouse/ partner is deployed. (07/01/2012 - 06/30/2013)
The increasing rate of obesity has become a major public health concern in the United States. Recent reports indicate that 40% of African American adolescents are considered overweight or obese.1 Although effective lifestyle approaches for weight loss have been demonstrated in Caucasian youth, little is known about effective weight loss interventions in ethnic minority adolescents. In part, this is because research has shown that ethnic minorities attend fewer intervention sessions, have higher attrition rates and lose less weight compared to Caucasians. Two fundamental problems related to this lack of progress are addressed in this proposal and include 1) the lack of appropriate content of weight loss interventions for African American adolescents that integrate cultural issues, parenting skills, and motivational strategies for increasing long-term change and, 2) the poor dose of weight loss interventions because of participant fatigue, drop out and barriers faced by underserved families. The goal of this project is to conduct a randomized controlled efficacy trial to address the problems with past intervention studies by 1) making the face-to-face group intervention shorter, 2) using an on-line program to compliment the group-based intervention for increasing dose, and by 3) tailoring a motivational and parenting skills program directly to parents and adolescents skill levels and cultural background. (07/01/2012 - 06/30/2017)
The overarching goal of this study is to strengthen our understanding of the patient and physician perspective of nephrotic syndrome, therapy, prognosis, and factors influencing disease management and to use the information generated from stakeholder engagement to inform the creation of a shared-learning online decision support tool. (06/01/2012 - 05/31/2014)
PI: Rachel E. Davis, PhD, MPH , Suzanne M. Cole, PhD , Karen E. Peterson, DSc
The goal of this study is to identify key ingredients of tailored narratives to promote childhood obesity prevention behaviors among mothers of preschool-aged Mexican American children. (09/01/2011 - 08/31/2012)
PI: Kathryn L. Moseley, MD, MPH, FAAP
PRAAIS (Project for African American Infant Safety) defines the specific barriers to infant supine sleep encountered by African American parents and how parents of supine sleeping infants overcame them. Intervention group parents receive a two dose tailored intervention (brochures and DVDs) mailed to them at infant ages 4-6 weeks old and 4 months. Control group parents receive brochures encouraging supine sleep published by the CDC and AAP mailed at the same time intervals as the intervention materials. (09/30/2010 - 05/31/2015)
PI: Amanda F. Dempsey, MD, PhD, MPH
This intervention seeks to improve adolescent vaccine uptake. The intervention includes:Reminder / recall systems to alert parents and providers about when vaccine doses are neededA tailored educational web-based tool to parents to address the barrier of their unique attitudes about vaccines that hinder utilization (09/01/2010 - 08/31/2014)
Healthy Moms Healthy Daughters investigates the efficacy of an individually tailored web-based intervention to improve human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates among adolescent daughters of African American women. This study has potential high impact in reducing racial disparities in cervical cancer incidence and mortality. It addresses a significant public health issue by improving HPV vaccination in an at-risk population with a disproportionate incidence of (HPV) caused cervical cancer. (05/01/2010 - 07/31/2011)
PI: Amanda F. Dempsey, MD, PhD, MPH
Vax Facts offers a tailored brochure to address parents' concerns about HPV vaccines. The intervention draws on our previous data on reasons parents decline HPV vaccines for their daughters. This data is used to develop questions and responses that elicit and address parental beliefs that hinder HPV vaccine series initiation. Intervention messages are tailored to address these beliefs and concerns. (01/01/2010 - 12/31/2010)
There remains a compelling need for evidenced-based intervention models to assist primary care practitioners to treat their overweight pediatric patients. This project is an efficacy trial to test two potentially generalizable interventions that address many of the key barriers to obesity counseling in pediatric primary care. (04/01/2007 - 01/31/2013)
BMi2 is a DVD for pediatricians and dietitians that have completed a 2-day intensive motivational interviewing (MI) training session. The DVD is a take-home resource that offers additional practice in the core MI skills of reflective listening, building motivation, and eliciting change talk. In this DVD, the application of MI is used to help prevent and treat pediatric obesity, including nuances of working with parents of young children as well as working directly with older children. (02/01/2007 - 08/31/2008)
PI: Amid I. Ismail, BDS, MPH, MBA, DrPH
This project aims to develop a tailored behavior change expert system intervention to promote and maintain good oral health and prevent oral diseases among low-income area children and their caregivers. (09/01/2001 - 06/30/2002)
Take the Pledge II updates part of the CISRC tailored print intervention for fruit and vegetable consumption for a wider audience. (05/01/2000 - 01/31/2001)
PI: Victor J. Strecher, PhD, MPH
The goal of this project is to create a channel for the Michigan Interactive Health Kiosk Project on how to buy a good bicycle helmet and use it properly. (01/01/1996 - 09/30/1997)
PI: Victor J. Strecher, PhD, MPH
The goal of this project is to create a channel for the Michigan Interactive Health Kiosk Project on why it is important to immunize children, which immunizations are needed, and when to immunize. (01/01/1996 - 09/30/1997)
