David R Strong
Biographic Data
| ID | 173631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Strong |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Strong |
| SIGNATURE | STRONG D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7227-5121 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tobacco advertising, cross-over effects, and US adolescent progression from never to current tobacco use
Among adolescents who were receptive to tobacco advertising but had never used tobacco at baseline, there was significant progression to current and daily tobacco use 6.6 years later. The cross-over advertising effect went beyond the particular advertised product and effectively promoted daily nicotine use, particularly among 12-14-year-old adolescents at baseline, with progression to e-cigarettes. Population increases in adolescent progression t…
The “pressure” of being an adolescent in the West Bank, Palestine: Prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension
Introduction: Over 27% of adults in Palestine are reported to have hypertension, and there is limited knowledge about hypertension rates among Palestinian adolescents residing in the West Bank, Palestine. Prolonged exposure to forced displacement has adverse impacts on health, including the risk of hypertension. This study assessed the relationship between refugee status, prehypertension, and hypertension among Palestinian adolescents residing in…
Cannabis use and progression to regular tobacco use among United States youth and young adults: Evidence from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (Path) study, 2017–2021
Among US youth and young adults who had never regularly used tobacco, cannabis use in 2017 was associated with a large increase in current regular tobacco use in 2021
Factors Associated With Oral Hygiene Practices Among Young Mexican‐Identifying Southern Californians
Improving perceptions of oral health importance and encouraging dental visits could enable increased oral hygiene behaviors among young Mexican-American identifying adults
Importance of Various E-Cigarette Device and E-Liquid Characteristics by Smoking Status among Young Adults Who Vape
Background E-cigarette product characteristics are known to influence appeal among young adults. Understanding which characteristics appeal to individuals with (vs. without) a history of combusted tobacco use is essential for developing effective tobacco control policies.Methods Anonymous, self-report data were collected from young adults (18-30 years) who had used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days (n = 295) online via Prolific from September-Octo…
Assessing the effects of Enhanced Multicomponent Proactive Navigator-Assisted Cessation of Tobacco Use within a federally qualified health center (Empact-Us): A protocol study
ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT05750537, Registered on March 1, 2023. https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05750537
Cigarette smoking decline among US young adults from 2000 to 2019, in relation to state-level cigarette price and tobacco control expenditure
National programmes may have filled a gap in state-level interventions, helping drive down the social acceptability of cigarette smoking among young adults across all states. Additional interventions are needed to assist high-prevalence states to further reduce smoking
Validation of a laboratory craving assessment and evaluation of 4 different interventions on cravings among adults with overweight or obesity
Factors predicting parent engagement in a family-based childhood obesity prevention and control program
NCT02197390, 22/07/2014
Declines in cigarette smoking among US adolescents and young adults: Indications of independence from e-cigarette vaping surge
Since 1997, a large decline in cigarette smoking occurred in the US population under age 24 years, that was independent of the 2017-19 adolescent surge in past 30-day e-cigarette vaping. Further research is needed to assess whether the 2014-15 to 2018-19 increase in exclusive vaping in those aged 18-24 years is a cohort effect from earlier dependence on e-cigarette vaping as adolescents
Discordance between assessments of food cue responsiveness: Implications for assessment in youth with overweight/obesity
Psychometric properties of the Eating in the Absence of Hunger Questionnaire in treatment-seeking adults with overweight and obesity
Understanding eating behaviors that contribute to overweight and obesity (OW/OB) is an important public health objective. One eating behavior known to contribute to overeating is eating in the absence of hunger (EAH). The Eating in the Absence of Hunger Questionnaire for Children was developed to assess external events and internal experiences that lead children to overeat. Despite the measure's adaptation for use with adults (i.e., EAH-A), its p…
Adults with overweight or obesity use less efficient memory strategies compared to adults with healthy weight on a verbal list learning task modified with food words
Several studies suggest poorer episodic memory among adults with overweight (OW) relative to those with healthy weight (HW); however, few have used food stimuli. To understand the salience of food-related items when assessing memory, we adapted an episodic memory task, by replacing some non-food words with snack foods. Participants were 96 weight-loss seeking adults with OW compared to 48 adults with HW from the community matched on age, gender, …
Effectiveness of e-cigarettes as aids for smoking cessation: Evidence from the Path Study cohort, 2017–2019
Sales increases in high nicotine e-cigarettes in 2017 did not translate to more smokers using these e-cigarettes to quit smoking. On average, using e-cigarettes for cessation in 2017 did not improve successful quitting or prevent relapse
Evaluating US smokers’ willingness to pay for different cigarette packaging designs before and after real-world exposure in a randomised trial
Compared with US branded packs, the negative valuation of non-branded GWL packs attenuates with even 3 months' use but does not generalise to non-used GWLs. This suggests that GWLs should be regularly refreshed. The appeal valuation of industry imagery suggests that the US plan to retain such imagery on packs may ameliorate the effect of GWLs
The complicated relationship among parent and child disinhibited eating behaviors
Disinhibited eating behaviors (e.g., loss of control eating (LOC) and eating in the absence of hunger (EAH)) contribute to overeating and obesity. This study aimed to evaluate whether these traits are related in parent-child dyads and how the reporter of child eating behavior (parent or child) impacts this relationship. Two-hundred and ninety treatment-seeking children, ages 8-13, with overweight or obesity (BMI percentile for age and sex 85-99.9…
Effects of menthol use and transitions in use on short-term and long-term cessation from cigarettes among US smokers
These results demonstrate that menthol impaired menthol smokers' attempts to quit smoking but switching from menthol improved success. This suggests that removing menthol may improve menthol smokers' success during quit attempts
Role of affective reactivity induced by cigarette packaging including graphic warning labels: The Casa Study
Initial reactions to GWL packs, a blank pack, and smokers' current US pack reflected negative, neutral, and positive affect, respectively. Different versions of the GWL pack elicited different levels and types of immediate negative affect
Narrative review of social media as a research tool for diet and weight loss
Tool to assess appeal–aversion response to graphic warning labels on cigarette packs among US smokers
Smokers indicated a willingness to pay substantial premiums to avoid purchasing graphic packaging. Results suggest that mandating graphic warnings on US cigarette packs would induce price aversion and may deter cigarette purchasing. Price valuations from this appeal-aversion tool could be useful for regulators to differentiate between graphic warning labels
Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Weight-Loss Outcomes in Pediatric Family-Based Obesity Treatment
The Go-VAR (Veterans Active Recovery): An Adjunctive, Exercise-Based Intervention for Veterans Recovering from Substance Use Disorders
Substance use disorders (SUD) are prevalent among veterans, and the relapse rate is estimated at ≥60% within one year of treatment. Exercise's broad health benefits make it an appealing adjunctive component to interventions preventing relapse among individuals with SUDs. After conducting formative research, we designed and conducted the Go-VAR! (Veterans Active Recovery) pilot study to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a multi-componen…
Cluster randomized control trial promoting child self-regulation around energy-dense food
Tobacco control in California compared with the rest of the USA: Trends in adult per capita cigarette consumption
Tobacco control strategies need to be continually updated to maintain momentum towards a smoke-free society
Farming Dwelling Thinking
In “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Heidegger discusses a bridge and a farmhouse as gathering things. He also suggests, but does not develop, that farming builds things by “nurs[ing] and nurtur[ing] the things that grow” (1975, 151). I show below that Bill McKibben’s work does develop, consciously or not, this sense of farming as a focal thing, to use the terms of Albert Borgmann. Furthermore, I will position McKibben’s environmentalism in light of …
E-Cigarette Use in the Past and Quitting Behavior in the Future: A Population-Based Study
Objectives. We examined whether smokers who used e-cigarettes are more likely to quit after 1 year than smokers who had never used e-cigarettes. Methods. We surveyed California smokers (n = 1000) at 2 time points 1 year apart. We conducted logistic regression analyses to determine whether history of e-cigarette use at baseline predicted quitting behavior at follow-up, adjusting for demographics and smoking behavior at baseline. We limited analyse…
Cluster randomized control trial promoting child self-regulation around energy-dense food
Rationale and Implementation of the SLICK Project: Screening for Limb, I-Eye, Cardiovascular and Kidney (SLICK) Complications in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes in Alberta’s First Nations Communities
Null hypotheses in ecology
Psychometric properties of the Eating in the Absence of Hunger Questionnaire in treatment-seeking adults with overweight and obesity
Understanding eating behaviors that contribute to overweight and obesity (OW/OB) is an important public health objective. One eating behavior known to contribute to overeating is eating in the absence of hunger (EAH). The Eating in the Absence of Hunger Questionnaire for Children was developed to assess external events and internal experiences that lead children to overeat. Despite the measure's adaptation for use with adults (i.e., EAH-A), its p…
The complicated relationship among parent and child disinhibited eating behaviors
Disinhibited eating behaviors (e.g., loss of control eating (LOC) and eating in the absence of hunger (EAH)) contribute to overeating and obesity. This study aimed to evaluate whether these traits are related in parent-child dyads and how the reporter of child eating behavior (parent or child) impacts this relationship. Two-hundred and ninety treatment-seeking children, ages 8-13, with overweight or obesity (BMI percentile for age and sex 85-99.9…
Endangered species management and ecosystem restoration: Finding the Common Ground
Casazza, M. L., C. T. Overton, T.-V. D. Bui, J. M. Hull, J. D. Albertson, V. K. Bloom, S. Bobzien, J. McBroom, M. Latta, P. Olofson, T. M. Rohmer, S. Schwarzbach, D. R. Strong, E. Grijalva, J. K. Wood, S. M. Skalos, and J. Takekawa. 2016. Endangered species management and ecosystem restoration: finding the common ground. Ecology and Society 21(1):19.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08134-210119
E-cigarettes are losing ground among smokers and non-smokers
AffiliationsWael K. Al-Delaimy, and David R. Strong are with the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego. Mark G. Myers is with the Psychology Service, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego
Improvements in Indicators of Diabetes-related Health Status Among First Nations Individuals Enrolled in a Community-driven Diabetes Complications Mobile Screening Program in Alberta, Canada
Null hypotheses in ecology
Ecological Communities: Conceptual Issues and the Evidence
Disclosive Discourse, Ecology, and Technology
Evaluation of a behavioral measure of risk taking: The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (Bart).
The present study (N = 86) sought to evaluate a laboratory-based behavioral measure of risk taking (the Balloon Analogue Risk Task; BART) and to test associations between this measure and self-report measures of risk-related constructs as well as self-reported real-world risk behaviors. The BART evidenced sound experimental properties, and riskiness on the BART was correlated with scores on measures of sensation seeking, impulsivity, and deficien…
Effects of motivational interviewing on smoking cessation in adolescents with psychiatric disorders
The positive effect of MI on self efficacy for quitting and the increase in intention to change in those with initially low levels of intentions suggest the benefits of such an intervention. However, the effects on these variables were relatively modest and only moderately related to outcome. The lack of overall effect of MI on smoking cessation outcomes suggests the need to further enhance and intensify this type of treatment approach for adoles…
Toward Efficient and Comprehensive Measurement of the Alcohol Problems Continuum in College Students: The Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire
BACKGROUND: Although a number of measures of alcohol problems in college students have been studied, the psychometric development and validation of these scales have been limited, for the most part, to methods based on classical test theory. In this study, we conducted analyses based on item response theory to select a set of items for measuring the alcohol problem severity continuum in college students that balances comprehensiveness and efficie…
The Relationship among Negative Affect, Distress Tolerance, and Length of Gambling Abstinence Attempt
Substance Use Disorder Characteristics and Externalizing Problems Among Inpatient Adolescent Smokers
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and/or conduct disorder (CD) have been found to be associated with substance use disorders and cigarette smoking among adolescents. However, studies have often failed to explore these relationships among females from a dimensional perspective, taking into account comorbidity between ADHD and CD symptomatology, and examining ADHD symptom subtypes (i.e., inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity) sepa…
Rationale and Implementation of the SLICK Project: Screening for Limb, I-Eye, Cardiovascular and Kidney (SLICK) Complications in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes in Alberta’s First Nations Communities
Improvements in Indicators of Diabetes-related Health Status Among First Nations Individuals Enrolled in a Community-driven Diabetes Complications Mobile Screening Program in Alberta, Canada
Association of Electronic Cigarette Use With Initiation of Combustible Tobacco Product Smoking in Early Adolescence
IMPORTANCE: Exposure to nicotine in electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) is becoming increasingly common among adolescents who report never having smoked combustible tobacco. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether e-cigarette use among 14-year-old adolescents who have never tried combustible tobacco is associated with risk of initiating use of 3 combustible tobacco products (ie, cigarettes, cigars, and hookah). DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Longitud…
An Exercise-Based Program for Veterans with Substance Use Disorders: Formative Research
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are prevalent among veteran populations. Adjunctive treatments for SUDs are warranted for many reasons, including high relapse rates. Physical exercise has broad health benefits as well as mood-enhancing, anxiolytic, and withdrawal-reducing effects, but veterans with SUDs report low rates of regular exercise. Evaluating exercise-based interventions that incorporate evidence-based behavior change strategies tailored …
Recall of Anti-Tobacco Advertisements and Effects on Quitting Behavior: Results From the California Smokers Cohort
Objectives. We assessed whether an anti-tobacco television advertisement called “Stages,” which depicted a woman giving a brief emotional narrative of her experiences with tobacco use, would be recalled more often and have a greater effect on smoking cessation than 3 other advertisements with different intended themes. Methods. Our data were derived from a sample of 2596 California adult smokers. We used multivariable log-binomial and modified Po…
E-cigarettes are losing ground among smokers and non-smokers
AffiliationsWael K. Al-Delaimy, and David R. Strong are with the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego. Mark G. Myers is with the Psychology Service, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego
E-Cigarette Use in the Past and Quitting Behavior in the Future: A Population-Based Study
Objectives. We examined whether smokers who used e-cigarettes are more likely to quit after 1 year than smokers who had never used e-cigarettes. Methods. We surveyed California smokers (n = 1000) at 2 time points 1 year apart. We conducted logistic regression analyses to determine whether history of e-cigarette use at baseline predicted quitting behavior at follow-up, adjusting for demographics and smoking behavior at baseline. We limited analyse…
Farming Dwelling Thinking
In “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Heidegger discusses a bridge and a farmhouse as gathering things. He also suggests, but does not develop, that farming builds things by “nurs[ing] and nurtur[ing] the things that grow” (1975, 151). I show below that Bill McKibben’s work does develop, consciously or not, this sense of farming as a focal thing, to use the terms of Albert Borgmann. Furthermore, I will position McKibben’s environmentalism in light of …
Endangered species management and ecosystem restoration: Finding the Common Ground
Casazza, M. L., C. T. Overton, T.-V. D. Bui, J. M. Hull, J. D. Albertson, V. K. Bloom, S. Bobzien, J. McBroom, M. Latta, P. Olofson, T. M. Rohmer, S. Schwarzbach, D. R. Strong, E. Grijalva, J. K. Wood, S. M. Skalos, and J. Takekawa. 2016. Endangered species management and ecosystem restoration: finding the common ground. Ecology and Society 21(1):19.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08134-210119
Tobacco control in California compared with the rest of the USA: Trends in adult per capita cigarette consumption
Tobacco control strategies need to be continually updated to maintain momentum towards a smoke-free society
The Go-VAR (Veterans Active Recovery): An Adjunctive, Exercise-Based Intervention for Veterans Recovering from Substance Use Disorders
Substance use disorders (SUD) are prevalent among veterans, and the relapse rate is estimated at ≥60% within one year of treatment. Exercise's broad health benefits make it an appealing adjunctive component to interventions preventing relapse among individuals with SUDs. After conducting formative research, we designed and conducted the Go-VAR! (Veterans Active Recovery) pilot study to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a multi-componen…
Cluster randomized control trial promoting child self-regulation around energy-dense food
Narrative review of social media as a research tool for diet and weight loss
Tool to assess appeal–aversion response to graphic warning labels on cigarette packs among US smokers
Smokers indicated a willingness to pay substantial premiums to avoid purchasing graphic packaging. Results suggest that mandating graphic warnings on US cigarette packs would induce price aversion and may deter cigarette purchasing. Price valuations from this appeal-aversion tool could be useful for regulators to differentiate between graphic warning labels
Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Weight-Loss Outcomes in Pediatric Family-Based Obesity Treatment
Effects of menthol use and transitions in use on short-term and long-term cessation from cigarettes among US smokers
These results demonstrate that menthol impaired menthol smokers' attempts to quit smoking but switching from menthol improved success. This suggests that removing menthol may improve menthol smokers' success during quit attempts
Role of affective reactivity induced by cigarette packaging including graphic warning labels: The Casa Study
Initial reactions to GWL packs, a blank pack, and smokers' current US pack reflected negative, neutral, and positive affect, respectively. Different versions of the GWL pack elicited different levels and types of immediate negative affect
Medicine (31 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Smoking Behavior and Cessation (17 works) · Environmental health (14 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Demography (12 works) · Internal Medicine (12 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (12 works) · Population (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works)