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Purpose:
To examine sexual, mobile technology, and sexting behaviors of college students.
Design:
A cross-sectional study design was employed.
Setting:
Study sites were 2 universities in the southern United States.
Subjects:
Data were collected from 254 participants via online survey of college students.
Measures:
The survey included 268 i...
Background
Waterpipe tobacco smoking rates in the Eastern Mediterranean region are some of the highest worldwide, especially among young people. This study aimed to improve our knowledge of the policy-relevant context of waterpipe smoking among six countries in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
Methods
In-depth interviews were conducted in Bahrain...
Purpose:
To examine interest and concerns among those who fund and operate state-run smoking cessation helplines (quitlines) about the concept of creating a centralized smokers' registry that could be used to reengage smokers after they receive initial quitline support services.
Design:
We conducted 3, hour-long focus groups with stakeholders, c...
“Air toxics” is a term that is often used colloquially, but for the purposes of this article it will be used following the specific definition set forth by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Toxic (or Hazardous) air pollutants are those pollutants that are known or suspected of causing cancer or other serious health effects [1]. Air toxi...
With funding from the CDC Community Transformation Grant, the Healthy South Carolina Initiative (HSCI) is a new statewide program that focuses on the implementation of evidence based policy and environmental interventions addressing nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco use. The HSCI is a collaborative led by the SC Department of Health and Env...
Given the racial/ethnic disparities that characterize STI trends and recent increases in heterosexually transmitted HIV infection in the US, an understanding of factors underlying condom use among young adults in minority communities is vitally important. To this end, this paper presents findings from a community venue-based survey examining the in...
Having concurrent sexual partners is a risk factor for STIs and HIV/AIDS, yet few studies have investigated the cultural meanings and functions of concurrency. A multi-method qualitative/quantitative study of sexual ideas, attitudes, and behaviors among inner-city Puerto Rican and African American emergent adults (age 18-25) in Hartford, Connecticu...
Common strategies employed in preventing STI/AIDS transmission among young adults in America include abstinence, monogamy and safer sex. These strategies require a high level of vigilance and responsibility and, according to inner city participants in Project PHRESH.comm, neither option is always desirable, available, or rational in the context of...
Most physicians prescribe Lyme disease antibiotic therapy regimens that are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and the National Institutes of Health. An alternative approach by some physicians consists of prolonged antibiotic treatment for >2 months because they believe that Lym...
Most researchers agree that assessing intercoder agreement is a key element of qualitative data analysis. However, there is little agreement about how best to assess it. The use of quantitative measures to assess intercoder reliability has been criticized on a variety of grounds. Yet, few alternatives exist for ensuring consistent and reliable codi...
Having concurrent sexual partners is a risk factor for STIs and HIV/AIDS, yet few studies have investigated the cultural meanings and functions of concurrency. Our multi-method qualitative/quantitative study of sexual ideas, attitudes, and behaviors among inner city Puerto Rican and African American emerging adults age 18-25 in Hartford suggests th...
Multipartnered fertility is the latest reproductive social problem to be identified. It is "a problem whose importance is perhaps equal to that of non-marital childbearing, unintended childbearing, and childbearing among women younger than age 18."(Klerman 2007: 56). It is more likely among women who are single when they have their first child, who...
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States and is endemic in the Northeast. The aims of this research were to examine how people living in an area endemic for Lyme disease attempt to prevent catching the disease, and why they choose certain prevention measures over others. This dissertation research had three goals. T...
