Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2006
Attitudes, social influences and self-efficacy expectations across different motivational stages among immigrant smokers: replication of the Ø pattern.
Information about the factors that determine motivation to quit in immigrant populations is needed to enable the development of tailored smoking cessation programs for them. Dutch studies in the general population suggest that attitudes are important for motivating persons to change and self-efficacy for helping motivated persons to change. We analyzed whether this pattern also exists among Surinamese immigrants. ⋯ Similar attitudinal and self-efficacy patterns as those in the general population were found in an immigrant population. However, the items constituting the factors are culturally sensitive. Furthermore, many Surinamese smokers were unmotivated to quit smoking.
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2006
Biography Historical ArticleErnst L. Wynder, the entrepreneurial epidemiologist.
This article provides recollections and commentary regarding the lifelong achievements of the founding editor of Preventive Medicine.
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Pregnant smokers represent a major public health challenge. The objective of this study was to determine trends in smoking during pregnancy in Tennessee, a state with one of the highest smoking burdens in the nation, and to confirm characteristics of high-risk groups to target for smoking prevention. ⋯ Smoking rates increased significantly among pregnant women <25 years enrolled in Medicaid between 1996 and 2001. Tennessee needs smoking cessation and prevention efforts that target young, low-income women with less than a high school education.
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Preventive medicine · Jul 2006
Overweight status and weight control behaviors in adolescents: longitudinal and secular trends from 1999 to 2004.
This study examined 5-year longitudinal and secular trends in weight status and the use of healthy and unhealthy weight control behaviors in adolescents. ⋯ Overweight status and unhealthy weight control behaviors in adolescents are major public health concerns that warrant interventions addressing both problems.