Stephanie L Ayers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5186347 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephanie L Ayers |
| NOMBRES | Stephanie L |
| APELLIDO | Ayers |
| FIRMA | AYERS S L |
| AFILIACIONES | Arizona State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Youth vaping prevention with urban Indigenous communities of the southwest U.S
Background Indigenous adolescents have the highest rates of nicotine vaping and tend to initiate at an earlier age compared to other racial and ethnic groups. Despite this, no evidence-based intervention currently exists to prevent nicotine and cannabis vaping for Indigenous youth. Methods This study will partner with a long-established community organization and an Indigenous Youth Advisory Board to better understand the key risk and protective …
Parenting in 2 Worlds
Urban American Indian (AI) adolescents are more likely than non-Natives to have early sexual debut, teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and inadequate sexual health information. A RCT in three Arizona cities, with 585 parents of urban AI adolescents, tested whether a culturally tailored parenting intervention for urban AI families, Parenting in 2 Worlds (P2W), increased parent-adolescent communication about sexuality, compared to a…
Examining 24-Hour Activity and Sleep Behaviors and Related Determinants in Latino Adolescents and Young Adults With Obesity
Background. Few studies have examined 24-hour activity and sleep behaviors and their contribution to type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Latino adolescents and young adults with obesity. Aim. This study included quantitative data on T2D risk and 24-hour activity and sleep behaviors and qualitative data on individual, social, and environmental behavioral determinants. Method. A 7 day, 24-hour, wrist-worn accelerometer protocol assessed moderate-to-vigorous p…
Neighborhood Conditions and Type 2 Diabetes Risk among Latino Adolescents with Obesity in Phoenix
Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) has reached epidemic levels among the pediatric population. Furthermore, disparities in T2D among youth are distributed in a manner that reflects the social inequality between population sub-groups. Here, we investigated the neighborhood determinants of T2D risk among a sample of Latino adolescents with obesity residing in Phoenix, Arizona (n = 133). In doing so we linked together four separate contextual data sources: the A…
Testing a Culturally Adapted Youth Substance Use Prevention Program in a Mexican Border City
Background: This article reports on a test of a youth substance use prevention program conducted in Nogales-Sonora, a Mexican city on the US border. Objective: The study tested the efficacy of a version of the keepin' it REAL curriculum for middle school students that was culturally adapted for Mexico and renamed Mantente REAL. Methods: Students in 7th grade classrooms in four public schools participated in the study (N = 1,418, 49% female, mean …
Perceptions of Family-Level Social Factors That Influence Health Behaviors in Latinx Adolescents and Young Adults at High Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
Given that health behaviors occur within the context of familial social relationships, a deeper understanding of social factors that influence health behaviors in Latinx families is needed to develop more effective diabetes prevention programming. This qualitative study identified perceived family-level social factors that influence health behaviors in Latinx adolescents (12-16 years; N = 16) and young adults (18-24 years; N = 15) with obesity an…
Applicability of the Theory of Planned Behavior for Predicting Alcohol Use in Spanish Early Adolescents
According to the theory of planned behavior (TPB), intentions to perform a specific behavior are the result of attitudes, norms, and perceived control, and in turn, intentions and perceived control are the main predictors of the behavior. This study aimed to test the applicability of TPB in predicting alcohol use in normative pre-adolescents. The sample was composed of 755 Spanish adolescents aged 11 to 15 ( M = 12.24; SD = 0.56), 47.1% females, …
Parenting in 2 worlds
Culturally adapted parenting interventions like P2W that effectively build on AI cultural heritage can also promote greater AI cultural identification and involvement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
The Initial Assessment of a Community‐based Intervention With Mexican‐heritage Parents in Boosting the Effects of a Substance Use Prevention Intervention With Youth
Drawing from an ecodevelopmental framework, this article examines if adding a parenting component, Families Preparing the New Generation (Familias Preparando la Nueva Generación), to an efficacious classroom‐based drug abuse prevention intervention, keepin'it REAL, will boost the effects of the youth intervention in preventing substance use for middle school Mexican‐heritage students. Youth attending schools in a large urban area in the Southwest…
Reciprocal Effects of Alcohol Use and Violence Perpetration Among Early Adolescents in Mexico
Assessing Parenting and Family Functioning Measures for Urban American Indians
Urban American Indian (AI) families often “live in two worlds,” and widely used parenting measures may not adequately capture their parenting styles. Drawing from baseline surveys of AI parents living in 3 urban communities in Arizona (n = 606), this study examines the applicability of using 6 previously validated measures with urban AI parents: parent self‐agency, parental supervision, positive parenting practices, discipline, family cohesion, a…
The obesity pay gap
Bullying among urban Mexican-heritage youth
Reexamining the Acculturation Gap
Elevated rates of risky behavior among Latino youth have been linked to features of acculturation such as discrepant rates of acculturation between parents and adolescents. This study examined how parent-adolescent mainstream and Mexican cultural gaps are differentially related to adolescent risky behavior through family conflict, parental monitoring, and parental involvement among Mexican immigrant families. Contrary to the acculturation gap–dis…
Substance Use Prevention for Urban American Indian Youth
Religiosity and Migration Aspirations among Mexican Youth
Parenting in 2 Worlds
Familias
The results are promising and add to growing evidence that interventions tailored to the cultural characteristics and environments of parents and their children can strengthen positive parenting
The Impact of Ethnoracial Appearance on Substance Use in Mexican Heritage Adolescents in the Southwest United States
Latinos are a multiracial ethnic group, and as such, within-group differences in ethnoracial appearance deserve to be studied and understood within the racialized American context and in connection to specific health and mental health outcomes. This article presents the findings of a study conducted with middle school Mexican heritage students ( n = 1,150) in Phoenix, Arizona, and tested how non-White majority ethnoracial appearance predicted ado…
Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Psychological Distress
While a growing body of literature has established a relationship between "disordered" neighborhoods and psychological distress, less is known about the specific mechanisms at work. Using data collected in the 2008 Arizona Health Survey (N = 4,196), hierarchal linear regression was conducted to assess both the independent effect of perception of neighborhood safety on psychological distress, as well as the mediating effects of powerlessness, soci…
Religiosity and Adolescent Substance Use in Central Mexico
This study explores the multidimensional nature of religiosity on substance use among adolescents living in central Mexico. From a social capital perspective, this article investigates how external church attendance and internal religious importance interact to create differential pathways for adolescents, and how these pathways exert both risk and protective influences on Mexican youth. The data come from 506 self‐identified Roman Catholic youth…
Mexican adolescents' risky sexual behavior and migration intentions
Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the association between risky sexual behaviors and migration intentions among adolescents living in Guanajuato, Mexico. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected by self‐administered questionnaires to students enrolled in an alternative schooling system in Guanajuato, Mexico, during the school year of 2006‐2007. The sample size for this study includes 538 unmarried students, 35 percent male, …
Gender Differences in Drug Resistance Skills of Youth in Guanajuato, Mexico
Using factor analysis to create complementary and alternative medicine domains
Previous research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States has relied heavily on the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's (NCCAM) domains of CAM but with noted limitations. We conducted a multifaceted examination of previous CAM domains and tested if they represent actual patterns of CAM use. The data come from the 2002 United States' National Health Interview Survey and include 30,923 adults. O…
Chronic illness and health-seeking information on the Internet
ABSRACT By using the theories of help-seeking behavior and health-information seeking, this article demonstrates the relationship between chronic illness, retrieving health information from the Internet and changing health behavior. Research on the impact of health information on the Internet and changing health behavior is fairly new, given the growth of the Internet in recent years. Using US data on Internet use within the US population, multip…
Chronic illness and health-seeking information on the Internet
ABSRACT By using the theories of help-seeking behavior and health-information seeking, this article demonstrates the relationship between chronic illness, retrieving health information from the Internet and changing health behavior. Research on the impact of health information on the Internet and changing health behavior is fairly new, given the growth of the Internet in recent years. Using US data on Internet use within the US population, multip…
Familias
The results are promising and add to growing evidence that interventions tailored to the cultural characteristics and environments of parents and their children can strengthen positive parenting
Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Psychological Distress
While a growing body of literature has established a relationship between "disordered" neighborhoods and psychological distress, less is known about the specific mechanisms at work. Using data collected in the 2008 Arizona Health Survey (N = 4,196), hierarchal linear regression was conducted to assess both the independent effect of perception of neighborhood safety on psychological distress, as well as the mediating effects of powerlessness, soci…
The Impact of Ethnoracial Appearance on Substance Use in Mexican Heritage Adolescents in the Southwest United States
Latinos are a multiracial ethnic group, and as such, within-group differences in ethnoracial appearance deserve to be studied and understood within the racialized American context and in connection to specific health and mental health outcomes. This article presents the findings of a study conducted with middle school Mexican heritage students ( n = 1,150) in Phoenix, Arizona, and tested how non-White majority ethnoracial appearance predicted ado…
Bullying among urban Mexican-heritage youth
Substance Use Prevention for Urban American Indian Youth
Religiosity and Migration Aspirations among Mexican Youth
Reexamining the Acculturation Gap
Elevated rates of risky behavior among Latino youth have been linked to features of acculturation such as discrepant rates of acculturation between parents and adolescents. This study examined how parent-adolescent mainstream and Mexican cultural gaps are differentially related to adolescent risky behavior through family conflict, parental monitoring, and parental involvement among Mexican immigrant families. Contrary to the acculturation gap–dis…
Religiosity and Adolescent Substance Use in Central Mexico
This study explores the multidimensional nature of religiosity on substance use among adolescents living in central Mexico. From a social capital perspective, this article investigates how external church attendance and internal religious importance interact to create differential pathways for adolescents, and how these pathways exert both risk and protective influences on Mexican youth. The data come from 506 self‐identified Roman Catholic youth…
Using factor analysis to create complementary and alternative medicine domains
Previous research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States has relied heavily on the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's (NCCAM) domains of CAM but with noted limitations. We conducted a multifaceted examination of previous CAM domains and tested if they represent actual patterns of CAM use. The data come from the 2002 United States' National Health Interview Survey and include 30,923 adults. O…
Parenting in 2 worlds
Culturally adapted parenting interventions like P2W that effectively build on AI cultural heritage can also promote greater AI cultural identification and involvement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Assessing Parenting and Family Functioning Measures for Urban American Indians
Urban American Indian (AI) families often “live in two worlds,” and widely used parenting measures may not adequately capture their parenting styles. Drawing from baseline surveys of AI parents living in 3 urban communities in Arizona (n = 606), this study examines the applicability of using 6 previously validated measures with urban AI parents: parent self‐agency, parental supervision, positive parenting practices, discipline, family cohesion, a…
Reciprocal Effects of Alcohol Use and Violence Perpetration Among Early Adolescents in Mexico
Chronic illness and health-seeking information on the Internet
ABSRACT By using the theories of help-seeking behavior and health-information seeking, this article demonstrates the relationship between chronic illness, retrieving health information from the Internet and changing health behavior. Research on the impact of health information on the Internet and changing health behavior is fairly new, given the growth of the Internet in recent years. Using US data on Internet use within the US population, multip…
Using factor analysis to create complementary and alternative medicine domains
Previous research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States has relied heavily on the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's (NCCAM) domains of CAM but with noted limitations. We conducted a multifaceted examination of previous CAM domains and tested if they represent actual patterns of CAM use. The data come from the 2002 United States' National Health Interview Survey and include 30,923 adults. O…
Gender Differences in Drug Resistance Skills of Youth in Guanajuato, Mexico
Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Psychological Distress
While a growing body of literature has established a relationship between "disordered" neighborhoods and psychological distress, less is known about the specific mechanisms at work. Using data collected in the 2008 Arizona Health Survey (N = 4,196), hierarchal linear regression was conducted to assess both the independent effect of perception of neighborhood safety on psychological distress, as well as the mediating effects of powerlessness, soci…
Religiosity and Adolescent Substance Use in Central Mexico
This study explores the multidimensional nature of religiosity on substance use among adolescents living in central Mexico. From a social capital perspective, this article investigates how external church attendance and internal religious importance interact to create differential pathways for adolescents, and how these pathways exert both risk and protective influences on Mexican youth. The data come from 506 self‐identified Roman Catholic youth…
Mexican adolescents' risky sexual behavior and migration intentions
Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the association between risky sexual behaviors and migration intentions among adolescents living in Guanajuato, Mexico. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected by self‐administered questionnaires to students enrolled in an alternative schooling system in Guanajuato, Mexico, during the school year of 2006‐2007. The sample size for this study includes 538 unmarried students, 35 percent male, …
Familias
The results are promising and add to growing evidence that interventions tailored to the cultural characteristics and environments of parents and their children can strengthen positive parenting
The Impact of Ethnoracial Appearance on Substance Use in Mexican Heritage Adolescents in the Southwest United States
Latinos are a multiracial ethnic group, and as such, within-group differences in ethnoracial appearance deserve to be studied and understood within the racialized American context and in connection to specific health and mental health outcomes. This article presents the findings of a study conducted with middle school Mexican heritage students ( n = 1,150) in Phoenix, Arizona, and tested how non-White majority ethnoracial appearance predicted ado…
Parenting in 2 Worlds
Religiosity and Migration Aspirations among Mexican Youth
The obesity pay gap
Bullying among urban Mexican-heritage youth
Reexamining the Acculturation Gap
Elevated rates of risky behavior among Latino youth have been linked to features of acculturation such as discrepant rates of acculturation between parents and adolescents. This study examined how parent-adolescent mainstream and Mexican cultural gaps are differentially related to adolescent risky behavior through family conflict, parental monitoring, and parental involvement among Mexican immigrant families. Contrary to the acculturation gap–dis…
Substance Use Prevention for Urban American Indian Youth
Assessing Parenting and Family Functioning Measures for Urban American Indians
Urban American Indian (AI) families often “live in two worlds,” and widely used parenting measures may not adequately capture their parenting styles. Drawing from baseline surveys of AI parents living in 3 urban communities in Arizona (n = 606), this study examines the applicability of using 6 previously validated measures with urban AI parents: parent self‐agency, parental supervision, positive parenting practices, discipline, family cohesion, a…
Parenting in 2 worlds
Culturally adapted parenting interventions like P2W that effectively build on AI cultural heritage can also promote greater AI cultural identification and involvement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
The Initial Assessment of a Community‐based Intervention With Mexican‐heritage Parents in Boosting the Effects of a Substance Use Prevention Intervention With Youth
Drawing from an ecodevelopmental framework, this article examines if adding a parenting component, Families Preparing the New Generation (Familias Preparando la Nueva Generación), to an efficacious classroom‐based drug abuse prevention intervention, keepin'it REAL, will boost the effects of the youth intervention in preventing substance use for middle school Mexican‐heritage students. Youth attending schools in a large urban area in the Southwest…
Reciprocal Effects of Alcohol Use and Violence Perpetration Among Early Adolescents in Mexico
Applicability of the Theory of Planned Behavior for Predicting Alcohol Use in Spanish Early Adolescents
According to the theory of planned behavior (TPB), intentions to perform a specific behavior are the result of attitudes, norms, and perceived control, and in turn, intentions and perceived control are the main predictors of the behavior. This study aimed to test the applicability of TPB in predicting alcohol use in normative pre-adolescents. The sample was composed of 755 Spanish adolescents aged 11 to 15 ( M = 12.24; SD = 0.56), 47.1% females, …
Testing a Culturally Adapted Youth Substance Use Prevention Program in a Mexican Border City
Background: This article reports on a test of a youth substance use prevention program conducted in Nogales-Sonora, a Mexican city on the US border. Objective: The study tested the efficacy of a version of the keepin' it REAL curriculum for middle school students that was culturally adapted for Mexico and renamed Mantente REAL. Methods: Students in 7th grade classrooms in four public schools participated in the study (N = 1,418, 49% female, mean …
Perceptions of Family-Level Social Factors That Influence Health Behaviors in Latinx Adolescents and Young Adults at High Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
Given that health behaviors occur within the context of familial social relationships, a deeper understanding of social factors that influence health behaviors in Latinx families is needed to develop more effective diabetes prevention programming. This qualitative study identified perceived family-level social factors that influence health behaviors in Latinx adolescents (12-16 years; N = 16) and young adults (18-24 years; N = 15) with obesity an…
Examining 24-Hour Activity and Sleep Behaviors and Related Determinants in Latino Adolescents and Young Adults With Obesity
Background. Few studies have examined 24-hour activity and sleep behaviors and their contribution to type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Latino adolescents and young adults with obesity. Aim. This study included quantitative data on T2D risk and 24-hour activity and sleep behaviors and qualitative data on individual, social, and environmental behavioral determinants. Method. A 7 day, 24-hour, wrist-worn accelerometer protocol assessed moderate-to-vigorous p…
Neighborhood Conditions and Type 2 Diabetes Risk among Latino Adolescents with Obesity in Phoenix
Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) has reached epidemic levels among the pediatric population. Furthermore, disparities in T2D among youth are distributed in a manner that reflects the social inequality between population sub-groups. Here, we investigated the neighborhood determinants of T2D risk among a sample of Latino adolescents with obesity residing in Phoenix, Arizona (n = 133). In doing so we linked together four separate contextual data sources: the A…
Parenting in 2 Worlds
Urban American Indian (AI) adolescents are more likely than non-Natives to have early sexual debut, teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and inadequate sexual health information. A RCT in three Arizona cities, with 585 parents of urban AI adolescents, tested whether a culturally tailored parenting intervention for urban AI families, Parenting in 2 Worlds (P2W), increased parent-adolescent communication about sexuality, compared to a…
Youth vaping prevention with urban Indigenous communities of the southwest U.S
Background Indigenous adolescents have the highest rates of nicotine vaping and tend to initiate at an earlier age compared to other racial and ethnic groups. Despite this, no evidence-based intervention currently exists to prevent nicotine and cannabis vaping for Indigenous youth. Methods This study will partner with a long-established community organization and an Indigenous Youth Advisory Board to better understand the key risk and protective …
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