Mark Wolfson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 245536 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mark Wolfson |
| PRENOMES | Mark |
| SOBRENOME | Wolfson |
| ASSINATURA | WOLFSON M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7901-774X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The I-Acted study (investigating action civics training through an experimental design)
NCT04514133 (date of registration September 25, 2020)
The Development and Testing of a Point-of-Sale E-Cigarette Health Communication Campaign
Adolescents and young adults continue to use e-cigarettes, and communication campaigns are needed to decrease use among these populations. We developed and tested a point-of-sale communication campaign focused on e-cigarette chemical exposure. We developed messages based on formative research and tested them (versus text-only messages) in a nationally-representative online survey among adolescents and young adults (16–25) (Phase 1). Based on surv…
Point-of-Sale Health Communication Campaigns for Cigarillos and Waterpipe Tobacco
Many adolescents and young adults hold erroneous beliefs that cigarillos and waterpipe tobacco (WT) are safer than cigarettes, contributing to use. Communication campaigns can correct misperceptions and increase risk beliefs. We tested point-of-sale (POS) communication campaigns focused on chemical exposure for cigarillos and WT. We conducted two cluster randomized trials at 20 gas stations with convenience stores (10 stores for cigarillos, 10 fo…
Repeal of state laws permitting denial of health claims resulting from alcohol impairment
This study documented that AEL repeal may have had a significant impact on the number of treatment admissions for AUD. These findings suggest that AELs function as a barrier to treatment-seeking behavior
Are Waterpipe Café, Vape Shop, and Traditional Tobacco Retailer Locations Associated with Community Composition and Young Adult Tobacco Use in North Carolina and Virginia
Purpose We examined whether waterpipe café, vape shop, and traditional tobacco retailer (e.g. stores selling cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco) locations were associated with census tract composition and tobacco use among young adults in North Carolina and Virginia. Methods: We identified waterpipe cafés, vape shops, and traditional tobacco retailers in North Carolina and Virginia and conducted multivariable analyses between community charact…
Encouraging disposal of unused opioid analgesics in Appalachia
The Appalachian region has been disproportionately impacted by the opioid epidemic. This study, informed by the Health Belief Model (HBM), explored Appalachian community members' perspectives on prescription opioid misuse and community-based programs to dispose of unused opioid analgesics. In 2018, we conducted ten focus groups (n=94 participants) in 5 Appalachian counties. Thirteen themes across 5 of the HBM constructs emerged from our analysis.…
Trends in Opioid Misuse among Marijuana Users and Non-Users in the U.S. from 2007–2017
Prescription-opioid misus e continues to be a significant health concern in the United States. The relationship between marijuana use and prescription-opioid misuse is not clear from the extant literature. This study examined national trends in prescription-opioid misuse among marijuana users and non-users using the 2007-2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Cochran-Armitage tests were used to assess the statistical significance of changes…
Health claims made in vape shops
Many vape shops displayed e-cigarette health claims, which are all now FDA prohibited. These claims could mislead consumers and influence behaviour. Findings highlight the need for retailer education, continued surveillance, enforcement specific to advertising and research on consumer perceptions of claims
Taxes and Business Strategy
Electronic Cigarette Trial and Use among Young Adults
This paper identifies predictors of trial and current use, and reasons for trying and ceasing use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) among young adults, with particular attention to former and never smokers. Data are from a mail survey of a population-based sample of adults aged 18 to 35 (N = 4740) in three U.S. metropolitan areas. Survey items assessed trial and use of e-cigarettes, cigarette smoking status, and reasons for trial and for ce…
The Impact of Trying Electronic Cigarettes on Cigarette Smoking by College Students
Objectives. We assessed the impact of trying electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) on future cigarette smoking in a sample of smokers enrolled in college. Methods. In this longitudinal study, first-semester college students at 7 colleges in North Carolina and 4 in Virginia completed a baseline survey and 5 follow-up surveys between fall 2010 and fall 2013. Current cigarette smoking at wave 6 was the primary outcome. Participants (n = 271) reported…
Taxes & Business Strategy
Alcohol-related injury among Greek-letter college students
Members of Greek-letter societies are the heaviest drinkers on college campuses, and experience more alcohol-related problems than their peers. This study reports the results of a web-based survey administered to stratified random samples of college students from 10 North Carolina universities. Greek-letter status was a significant independent risk factor for increased injury (both experienced and caused to others), even after adjusting for drink…
Prevalence Estimates of Health Risk Behaviors of Immigrant Latino Men Who Have Sex With Men
Purpose: Little is known about the health status of rural immigrant Latino men who have sex with men (MSM). These MSM comprise a subpopulation that tends to remain “hidden” from both researchers and practitioners. This study was designed to estimate the prevalence of tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, and sexual risk behaviors of Latino MSM living in rural North Carolina. Methods: A community‐based participatory research (CBPR) partnership used resp…
Tobacco Use by College Students
Nondaily and daily smokers differed on several demographic and contextual factors, but reported mostly similar health risk behaviors
Free Alcohol Use and Consequences
Approximately 25% of undergraduates frequently obtained free alcohol. Females obtained more often, had higher odds of high-risk drinking, and experienced fewer consequences compared to males
Risk behavior of runaways who return home
Purpose: Few studies have examined the risk behaviors of youth who run away and return home. Most studies have focused on youth who end up as chronic runaways or become homeless for whom the expected trajectory is a path filled with numerous negative outcomes. Methods: Using data from a multisite phone survey of a random sample of youth aged 16–20 years (N = 1191), we present comparisons of runaways and non-runaways on demographic and background …
Latino men who have sex with men and HIV in the rural south-eastern USA
A community-based participatory research partnership explored HIV risk and potentially effective intervention characteristics to reduce exposure and transmission among immigrant Latino men who have sex with men living in the rural south-eastern USA. Twenty-one participants enrolled and completed a total of 62 ethnographic in-depth interviews. Mean age was 31 (range 18-48) years and English-language proficiency was limited; 18 participants were fr…
Behavioral Risk Disparities in a Random Sample of Self-Identifying Gay and Non-Gay Male University Students
This Internet-based study was designed to compare health risk behaviors of gay and non-gay university students from stratified random cross-sectional samples of undergraduate students. Mean age of the 4,167 male participants was 20.5 (+/-2.7) years. Of these, 206 (4.9%) self-identified as gay and 3,961 (95.1%) self-identified as heterosexual. After adjusting for selected characteristics and clustering within university, gay men had higher odds of…
The Fight against Big Tobacco
Tobacco control leaders were extremely proud of the movement's achievements in the state of Minnesota. In sharing their perspectives and experiences with Mark Wolfson, they found a way of making sure that the story would get told. His training in social movements had given him an appreciation of the importance of understanding the social infrastructure on which movements are built, and Minnesota had built heavily on the infrastructure of health c…
Communities mobilizing for change on alcohol
Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA) is a 15-community randomized trial designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a 21⁄2 year community organizing intervention to change policies and practices of major community institutions. Pre- and post-data were collected via: surveys of high school students, surveys of youth age 18–20, surveys of alcohol retailers, alcohol purchase attempts, content analyses of media coverage, arrest and ca…
Communities mobilizing for change on alcohol
Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA) is a 15-community randomized trial designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a 21⁄2 year community organizing intervention to change policies and practices of major community institutions. Pre- and post-data were collected via: surveys of high school students, surveys of youth age 18–20, surveys of alcohol retailers, alcohol purchase attempts, content analyses of media coverage, arrest and ca…
The effects of community policies to reduce youth access to tobacco
OBJECTIVES: This study tested the hypothesis that adoption and implementation of local policies regarding youth access to tobacco can affect adolescent smoking. METHODS: A randomized community trial was conducted in 14 Minnesota communities. Seven intervention communities participated in a 32-month community-organizing effort to mobilize citizens and activate the community. The goal was to change ordinances, merchant policies and practices, and e…
Civic participation by 18- to 20-year-olds as a predictor of support for alcohol control policies
Evidence is accumulating that federal, state, and local alcohol control policies effectively reduce alcohol consumption and subsequent alcohol-related problems among young adults (Toomey et al., 1993; Wagenaar & Farrell, 1989; Ritson, 1994; Anderson & Lehto, 1994). Increasing the legal age for consumption of alcoholic beverages from 18 years to 21 years has been associated with reduced traffic fatality rates (O'Malley & Wagenaar, 1991) and with a…
Adolescent smokers' provision of tobacco to other adolescents
OBJECTIVES: This study examined adolescent smokers provision of tobacco to other adolescents. METHODS: Data from a survey of 8th-, 9th-, and 10th-grade students in Minnesota were analyzed by using mixed-model logistic regression. RESULTS: More than two thirds (68.8%) of adolescent smokers had provided tobacco to another adolescent in the previous 30 days. Mother's smoking, number of friends who smoke, owning tobacco merchandise, number of cigaret…
Resource Mobilization by Local Social Movement Organizations
Mobilization of resources is a central concern among analysts of social movements. However little research has focused on factors that influence the types and amounts of resources collective actors are able to mobilize. In this study, data from local social movement organizations opposing drinking and driving are used to assess the roles of agency (i.e., amount of effort), strategy, organizational structure, and nature of national affiliation in …
Project Northland
OBJECTIVES. Project Northland is an efficacy trial with the goal of preventing or reducing alcohol use among young adolescents by using a multilevel, communitywide approach. METHODS. Conducted in 24 school districts and adjacent communities in northeastern Minnesota since 1991, the intervention targets the class of 1998 (sixth-grade students in 1991) and has been implemented for 3 school years (1991 to 1994). The intervention consists of social-b…
The effects of community policies to reduce youth access to tobacco
OBJECTIVES: This study tested the hypothesis that adoption and implementation of local policies regarding youth access to tobacco can affect adolescent smoking. METHODS: A randomized community trial was conducted in 14 Minnesota communities. Seven intervention communities participated in a 32-month community-organizing effort to mobilize citizens and activate the community. The goal was to change ordinances, merchant policies and practices, and e…
Adolescent smokers' provision of tobacco to other adolescents
OBJECTIVES: This study examined adolescent smokers provision of tobacco to other adolescents. METHODS: Data from a survey of 8th-, 9th-, and 10th-grade students in Minnesota were analyzed by using mixed-model logistic regression. RESULTS: More than two thirds (68.8%) of adolescent smokers had provided tobacco to another adolescent in the previous 30 days. Mother's smoking, number of friends who smoke, owning tobacco merchandise, number of cigaret…
Behavioral Risk Disparities in a Random Sample of Self-Identifying Gay and Non-Gay Male University Students
This Internet-based study was designed to compare health risk behaviors of gay and non-gay university students from stratified random cross-sectional samples of undergraduate students. Mean age of the 4,167 male participants was 20.5 (+/-2.7) years. Of these, 206 (4.9%) self-identified as gay and 3,961 (95.1%) self-identified as heterosexual. After adjusting for selected characteristics and clustering within university, gay men had higher odds of…
The Impact of Trying Electronic Cigarettes on Cigarette Smoking by College Students
Objectives. We assessed the impact of trying electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) on future cigarette smoking in a sample of smokers enrolled in college. Methods. In this longitudinal study, first-semester college students at 7 colleges in North Carolina and 4 in Virginia completed a baseline survey and 5 follow-up surveys between fall 2010 and fall 2013. Current cigarette smoking at wave 6 was the primary outcome. Participants (n = 271) reported…
Alcohol-related injury among Greek-letter college students
Members of Greek-letter societies are the heaviest drinkers on college campuses, and experience more alcohol-related problems than their peers. This study reports the results of a web-based survey administered to stratified random samples of college students from 10 North Carolina universities. Greek-letter status was a significant independent risk factor for increased injury (both experienced and caused to others), even after adjusting for drink…
Linking Citizens to Government
List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Organized groups and the political system 2. A unified framework for understanding citizens' decision making: a theory of experimental search 3. Who contributes? 4. Why do citizens join groups? 5. The internal politics of organizations I: learning and retention 6. The internal politics of organizations II: activism 7. The internal politics of organizations III: leadership 8. Does group activity make a dif…
Survey of city ordinances and local enforcement regarding commercial availability of tobacco to minors in Minnesota, United States
OBJECTIVES: To determine the extent and nature of local ordinances to regulate tobacco sales to minors, the level of enforcement of local and state laws concerning tobacco availability to minors, and sanctions applied as a result of enforcement. DESIGN: Tobacco control ordinances were collected in 1993 from 222 of the 229 cities greater than or equal to 2000 population in Minnesota, United States. In addition a telephone survey with the head of t…
Project Northland
OBJECTIVES. Project Northland is an efficacy trial with the goal of preventing or reducing alcohol use among young adolescents by using a multilevel, communitywide approach. METHODS. Conducted in 24 school districts and adjacent communities in northeastern Minnesota since 1991, the intervention targets the class of 1998 (sixth-grade students in 1991) and has been implemented for 3 school years (1991 to 1994). The intervention consists of social-b…
Resource Mobilization by Local Social Movement Organizations
Mobilization of resources is a central concern among analysts of social movements. However little research has focused on factors that influence the types and amounts of resources collective actors are able to mobilize. In this study, data from local social movement organizations opposing drinking and driving are used to assess the roles of agency (i.e., amount of effort), strategy, organizational structure, and nature of national affiliation in …
Civic participation by 18- to 20-year-olds as a predictor of support for alcohol control policies
Evidence is accumulating that federal, state, and local alcohol control policies effectively reduce alcohol consumption and subsequent alcohol-related problems among young adults (Toomey et al., 1993; Wagenaar & Farrell, 1989; Ritson, 1994; Anderson & Lehto, 1994). Increasing the legal age for consumption of alcoholic beverages from 18 years to 21 years has been associated with reduced traffic fatality rates (O'Malley & Wagenaar, 1991) and with a…
Adolescent smokers' provision of tobacco to other adolescents
OBJECTIVES: This study examined adolescent smokers provision of tobacco to other adolescents. METHODS: Data from a survey of 8th-, 9th-, and 10th-grade students in Minnesota were analyzed by using mixed-model logistic regression. RESULTS: More than two thirds (68.8%) of adolescent smokers had provided tobacco to another adolescent in the previous 30 days. Mother's smoking, number of friends who smoke, owning tobacco merchandise, number of cigaret…
The effects of community policies to reduce youth access to tobacco
OBJECTIVES: This study tested the hypothesis that adoption and implementation of local policies regarding youth access to tobacco can affect adolescent smoking. METHODS: A randomized community trial was conducted in 14 Minnesota communities. Seven intervention communities participated in a 32-month community-organizing effort to mobilize citizens and activate the community. The goal was to change ordinances, merchant policies and practices, and e…
Communities mobilizing for change on alcohol
Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA) is a 15-community randomized trial designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a 21⁄2 year community organizing intervention to change policies and practices of major community institutions. Pre- and post-data were collected via: surveys of high school students, surveys of youth age 18–20, surveys of alcohol retailers, alcohol purchase attempts, content analyses of media coverage, arrest and ca…
Communities mobilizing for change on alcohol
Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA) is a 15-community randomized trial designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a 21⁄2 year community organizing intervention to change policies and practices of major community institutions. Pre- and post-data were collected via: surveys of high school students, surveys of youth age 18–20, surveys of alcohol retailers, alcohol purchase attempts, content analyses of media coverage, arrest and ca…
The Fight against Big Tobacco
Tobacco control leaders were extremely proud of the movement's achievements in the state of Minnesota. In sharing their perspectives and experiences with Mark Wolfson, they found a way of making sure that the story would get told. His training in social movements had given him an appreciation of the importance of understanding the social infrastructure on which movements are built, and Minnesota had built heavily on the infrastructure of health c…
Behavioral Risk Disparities in a Random Sample of Self-Identifying Gay and Non-Gay Male University Students
This Internet-based study was designed to compare health risk behaviors of gay and non-gay university students from stratified random cross-sectional samples of undergraduate students. Mean age of the 4,167 male participants was 20.5 (+/-2.7) years. Of these, 206 (4.9%) self-identified as gay and 3,961 (95.1%) self-identified as heterosexual. After adjusting for selected characteristics and clustering within university, gay men had higher odds of…
Latino men who have sex with men and HIV in the rural south-eastern USA
A community-based participatory research partnership explored HIV risk and potentially effective intervention characteristics to reduce exposure and transmission among immigrant Latino men who have sex with men living in the rural south-eastern USA. Twenty-one participants enrolled and completed a total of 62 ethnographic in-depth interviews. Mean age was 31 (range 18-48) years and English-language proficiency was limited; 18 participants were fr…
Prevalence Estimates of Health Risk Behaviors of Immigrant Latino Men Who Have Sex With Men
Purpose: Little is known about the health status of rural immigrant Latino men who have sex with men (MSM). These MSM comprise a subpopulation that tends to remain “hidden” from both researchers and practitioners. This study was designed to estimate the prevalence of tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, and sexual risk behaviors of Latino MSM living in rural North Carolina. Methods: A community‐based participatory research (CBPR) partnership used resp…
Tobacco Use by College Students
Nondaily and daily smokers differed on several demographic and contextual factors, but reported mostly similar health risk behaviors
Free Alcohol Use and Consequences
Approximately 25% of undergraduates frequently obtained free alcohol. Females obtained more often, had higher odds of high-risk drinking, and experienced fewer consequences compared to males
Risk behavior of runaways who return home
Purpose: Few studies have examined the risk behaviors of youth who run away and return home. Most studies have focused on youth who end up as chronic runaways or become homeless for whom the expected trajectory is a path filled with numerous negative outcomes. Methods: Using data from a multisite phone survey of a random sample of youth aged 16–20 years (N = 1191), we present comparisons of runaways and non-runaways on demographic and background …
Alcohol-related injury among Greek-letter college students
Members of Greek-letter societies are the heaviest drinkers on college campuses, and experience more alcohol-related problems than their peers. This study reports the results of a web-based survey administered to stratified random samples of college students from 10 North Carolina universities. Greek-letter status was a significant independent risk factor for increased injury (both experienced and caused to others), even after adjusting for drink…
Taxes & Business Strategy
Taxes and Business Strategy
Electronic Cigarette Trial and Use among Young Adults
This paper identifies predictors of trial and current use, and reasons for trying and ceasing use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) among young adults, with particular attention to former and never smokers. Data are from a mail survey of a population-based sample of adults aged 18 to 35 (N = 4740) in three U.S. metropolitan areas. Survey items assessed trial and use of e-cigarettes, cigarette smoking status, and reasons for trial and for ce…
The Impact of Trying Electronic Cigarettes on Cigarette Smoking by College Students
Objectives. We assessed the impact of trying electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) on future cigarette smoking in a sample of smokers enrolled in college. Methods. In this longitudinal study, first-semester college students at 7 colleges in North Carolina and 4 in Virginia completed a baseline survey and 5 follow-up surveys between fall 2010 and fall 2013. Current cigarette smoking at wave 6 was the primary outcome. Participants (n = 271) reported…
Trends in Opioid Misuse among Marijuana Users and Non-Users in the U.S. from 2007–2017
Prescription-opioid misus e continues to be a significant health concern in the United States. The relationship between marijuana use and prescription-opioid misuse is not clear from the extant literature. This study examined national trends in prescription-opioid misuse among marijuana users and non-users using the 2007-2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Cochran-Armitage tests were used to assess the statistical significance of changes…
Health claims made in vape shops
Many vape shops displayed e-cigarette health claims, which are all now FDA prohibited. These claims could mislead consumers and influence behaviour. Findings highlight the need for retailer education, continued surveillance, enforcement specific to advertising and research on consumer perceptions of claims
Are Waterpipe Café, Vape Shop, and Traditional Tobacco Retailer Locations Associated with Community Composition and Young Adult Tobacco Use in North Carolina and Virginia
Purpose We examined whether waterpipe café, vape shop, and traditional tobacco retailer (e.g. stores selling cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco) locations were associated with census tract composition and tobacco use among young adults in North Carolina and Virginia. Methods: We identified waterpipe cafés, vape shops, and traditional tobacco retailers in North Carolina and Virginia and conducted multivariable analyses between community charact…
Encouraging disposal of unused opioid analgesics in Appalachia
The Appalachian region has been disproportionately impacted by the opioid epidemic. This study, informed by the Health Belief Model (HBM), explored Appalachian community members' perspectives on prescription opioid misuse and community-based programs to dispose of unused opioid analgesics. In 2018, we conducted ten focus groups (n=94 participants) in 5 Appalachian counties. Thirteen themes across 5 of the HBM constructs emerged from our analysis.…
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