Karen B Friend
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6034508 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Karen B Friend |
| NOMBRES | Karen B |
| APELLIDO | Friend |
| FIRMA | FRIEND K B |
| AFILIACIONES | Decision Sciences (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7936-2930 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Community-Level Adult Daily Smoking Prevalence Moderates the Association Between Adolescents’ Cigarette Smoking and Perceived Smoking by Friends
Rating the Effectiveness of Local Tobacco Policies for Reducing Youth Smoking
An Examination of Peer, Family, and Community Context Risk Factors for Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Intentions in Early Adolescents
This study examines the relationship between peer, family, and community context risk factors and alcohol use; gender is examined as a potential moderator of these relationships. Hierarchical logistic regressions conducted in a sample of 781 seventh grade students found that normative beliefs about peers’ alcohol use emerged as the most consistent predictor of current use, lifetime alcohol initiation, and intentions to initiate drinking. Poorer p…
Simulation Modeling of Policies Directed at Youth Sugar‐Sweetened Beverage Consumption
Childhood obesity is a significant public health problem requiring innovative solutions. While recent reviews indicate that some policies show promise, there is a lack of information regarding which policies, and policy combinations, work best. Low‐nutrition, energy‐dense foods and beverages such as sugar‐sweetened beverages (SSBs) have been identified as a major contributor to the problem. The purpose of this paper is to use simulation modeling …
Evaluating Environmental Change Strategies
In this introductory article we define environmental change strategies (ECS), summarize the primary challenges associated with evaluating ECS, and provide an overview of the methods researchers have employed to begin to address these challenges. This special issue provides a range of examples, from researchers and practitioners in the field, of different approaches for addressing these challenges. These articles present new methods to understand …
Coalitional Capacities and Environmental Strategies to Prevent Underage Drinking
Coalitions are the most common platform for implementing community‐level environmental strategies (ES), such as media, policy, or enforcement for substance use prevention. The current study examines the associations between two types of coalition capacity (general and innovation‐specific) and ES implementation efforts and outputs within 14 intervention communities over a three‐year period. Efforts refer to the amount of energy exerted to implemen…
Contextual and community factors associated with youth access to cigarettes through commercial sources
This study enhances our understanding of the associations between contextual and community characteristics and youth access to tobacco through commercial sources which can help policymakers to identify and target at-risk communities and outlets to decrease youth access to tobacco
The Interactive Systems Framework Applied to the Strategic Prevention Framework
The Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation (ISF) was introduced as a heuristic systems level model to help bridge the gap between research and practice (Wandersman et al., in Am J Commun Psychol 41:171–181, 2008). This model describes three interacting systems with distinct functions that (1) distill knowledge to develop innovations; (2) provide supportive training and technical assistance for dissemination to; (3) a p…
Alcohol use and sudden infant death syndrome
Examining the effects of tobacco treatment policies on smoking rates and smoking related deaths using the SimSmoke computer simulation model
Tobacco treatment policies, especially those with broad and flexible coverage, have the potential to increase smoking cessation substantially and decrease smoking rates in the short term, with fairly immediate reductions in deaths
Effect of clean indoor air laws on smokers
Clean indoor air laws have the ability to reduce smoking rates substantially and save lives, but their impact is likely to depend on their comprehensiveness and prior private worksite restrictions in place
Effect of policies directed at youth access to smoking
A well designed youth access policy has the ability to affect youth smoking rates in the short term, and will lead to savings in lives in future years. The ability of retail oriented policies to reduce youth smoking, however, is limited. Other tobacco control policies, including those directed at non-retail sources of cigarettes, are also needed
Youths' Social Sources of Cigarettes
Federal, state, and local policies aimed at reducing youth access to tobacco have been successful at increasing retail compliance, but they have had limited impact on actual youth smoking rates. One of the reasons that retail-based policies have failed to significantly reduce youth smoking rates is attributable in part to youths, substituting social or non-retail sources of cigarettes for retail supply. The widespread availability of cigarettes t…
An Examination of Peer, Family, and Community Context Risk Factors for Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Intentions in Early Adolescents
This study examines the relationship between peer, family, and community context risk factors and alcohol use; gender is examined as a potential moderator of these relationships. Hierarchical logistic regressions conducted in a sample of 781 seventh grade students found that normative beliefs about peers’ alcohol use emerged as the most consistent predictor of current use, lifetime alcohol initiation, and intentions to initiate drinking. Poorer p…
Coalitional Capacities and Environmental Strategies to Prevent Underage Drinking
Coalitions are the most common platform for implementing community‐level environmental strategies (ES), such as media, policy, or enforcement for substance use prevention. The current study examines the associations between two types of coalition capacity (general and innovation‐specific) and ES implementation efforts and outputs within 14 intervention communities over a three‐year period. Efforts refer to the amount of energy exerted to implemen…
The Interactive Systems Framework Applied to the Strategic Prevention Framework
The Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation (ISF) was introduced as a heuristic systems level model to help bridge the gap between research and practice (Wandersman et al., in Am J Commun Psychol 41:171–181, 2008). This model describes three interacting systems with distinct functions that (1) distill knowledge to develop innovations; (2) provide supportive training and technical assistance for dissemination to; (3) a p…
Evaluating Environmental Change Strategies
In this introductory article we define environmental change strategies (ECS), summarize the primary challenges associated with evaluating ECS, and provide an overview of the methods researchers have employed to begin to address these challenges. This special issue provides a range of examples, from researchers and practitioners in the field, of different approaches for addressing these challenges. These articles present new methods to understand …
Effect of clean indoor air laws on smokers
Clean indoor air laws have the ability to reduce smoking rates substantially and save lives, but their impact is likely to depend on their comprehensiveness and prior private worksite restrictions in place
Effect of policies directed at youth access to smoking
A well designed youth access policy has the ability to affect youth smoking rates in the short term, and will lead to savings in lives in future years. The ability of retail oriented policies to reduce youth smoking, however, is limited. Other tobacco control policies, including those directed at non-retail sources of cigarettes, are also needed
Youths' Social Sources of Cigarettes
Federal, state, and local policies aimed at reducing youth access to tobacco have been successful at increasing retail compliance, but they have had limited impact on actual youth smoking rates. One of the reasons that retail-based policies have failed to significantly reduce youth smoking rates is attributable in part to youths, substituting social or non-retail sources of cigarettes for retail supply. The widespread availability of cigarettes t…
Examining the effects of tobacco treatment policies on smoking rates and smoking related deaths using the SimSmoke computer simulation model
Tobacco treatment policies, especially those with broad and flexible coverage, have the potential to increase smoking cessation substantially and decrease smoking rates in the short term, with fairly immediate reductions in deaths
Alcohol use and sudden infant death syndrome
Contextual and community factors associated with youth access to cigarettes through commercial sources
This study enhances our understanding of the associations between contextual and community characteristics and youth access to tobacco through commercial sources which can help policymakers to identify and target at-risk communities and outlets to decrease youth access to tobacco
The Interactive Systems Framework Applied to the Strategic Prevention Framework
The Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation (ISF) was introduced as a heuristic systems level model to help bridge the gap between research and practice (Wandersman et al., in Am J Commun Psychol 41:171–181, 2008). This model describes three interacting systems with distinct functions that (1) distill knowledge to develop innovations; (2) provide supportive training and technical assistance for dissemination to; (3) a p…
Rating the Effectiveness of Local Tobacco Policies for Reducing Youth Smoking
An Examination of Peer, Family, and Community Context Risk Factors for Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Intentions in Early Adolescents
This study examines the relationship between peer, family, and community context risk factors and alcohol use; gender is examined as a potential moderator of these relationships. Hierarchical logistic regressions conducted in a sample of 781 seventh grade students found that normative beliefs about peers’ alcohol use emerged as the most consistent predictor of current use, lifetime alcohol initiation, and intentions to initiate drinking. Poorer p…
Simulation Modeling of Policies Directed at Youth Sugar‐Sweetened Beverage Consumption
Childhood obesity is a significant public health problem requiring innovative solutions. While recent reviews indicate that some policies show promise, there is a lack of information regarding which policies, and policy combinations, work best. Low‐nutrition, energy‐dense foods and beverages such as sugar‐sweetened beverages (SSBs) have been identified as a major contributor to the problem. The purpose of this paper is to use simulation modeling …
Evaluating Environmental Change Strategies
In this introductory article we define environmental change strategies (ECS), summarize the primary challenges associated with evaluating ECS, and provide an overview of the methods researchers have employed to begin to address these challenges. This special issue provides a range of examples, from researchers and practitioners in the field, of different approaches for addressing these challenges. These articles present new methods to understand …
Coalitional Capacities and Environmental Strategies to Prevent Underage Drinking
Coalitions are the most common platform for implementing community‐level environmental strategies (ES), such as media, policy, or enforcement for substance use prevention. The current study examines the associations between two types of coalition capacity (general and innovation‐specific) and ES implementation efforts and outputs within 14 intervention communities over a three‐year period. Efforts refer to the amount of energy exerted to implemen…
Community-Level Adult Daily Smoking Prevalence Moderates the Association Between Adolescents’ Cigarette Smoking and Perceived Smoking by Friends
Medicine (13 obras) · Environmental health (11 obras) · Public health (11 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Smoking Behavior and Cessation (8 obras) · Health psychology (6 obras) · Nursing (6 obras) · Tobacco control (6 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Youth smoking (5 obras)