Harvey A Skinner
Biographic Data
| ID | 323893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harvey A Skinner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harvey A |
| FAMILY NAME | Skinner |
| SIGNATURE | SKINNER H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5600-6136 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Health Materials and Strategies for the Prevention of Immigrants’ Weight-Related Problems
Existing health education materials dealing with healthy eating, active living, and body image were examined by immigrant parents of elementary school children to determine their relevance, cultural competence, and accessibility. A total of 13 immigrant mothers from Sri Lanka and China participated in a series of three focus groups. Study findings indicate that the present health education materials intended to help prevent weight-related problem…
Enhancing global capacity in the surveillance, prevention, and control of chronic diseases
BACKGROUND: Chronic diseases are now a major health problem in developing countries as well as in the developed world. Although chronic diseases cannot be communicated from person to person, their risk factors (for example, smoking, inactivity, dietary habits) are readily transferred around the world. With increasing human progress and technological advance, the pandemic of chronic diseases will become an even bigger threat to global health. METH…
E-Par
There is increasing interest in `moving upstream' in youth health promotion efforts to focus on building youth self-esteem, self-efficacy and civic engagement. Participatory Action Research (PAR) can be a powerful mechanism for galvanizing youth to become active agents of this change. Engaging youth in PAR and health promotion, however, is not always an easy task. This article describes a model (e-PAR) for using technology and Participatory Actio…
Building cooperation through health initiatives
Arab and Israeli health professionals were prepared to get involved for two types of reasons: a) Project Level: opportunity to address a significant health issue (e.g. congenital hearing loss) while enhancing their professional careers, and b) Meta Level: concern about taking positive steps for building cooperation in the region. We invite discussion about roles that health professionals can play in building "cooperation networks" for underpinnin…
Youth Voices
When conducted with sensitivity and reflexivity, participatory action research (PAR) can be an empowering process that is particularly relevant for engaging young people in reflection and dialogue for social change. As the theory and practice of PAR evolve, researchers have evaluated the experiences of community participants, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. However, only a limited number of evaluations have focused on PAR proc…
Knowledge Synthesis of Smoking Cessation Among Employed and Unemployed Young Adults
Objectives. We synthesized evidence regarding effective strategies for smoking cessation among employed or unemployed young adults aged 18 to 24 years. Methods. For this knowledge synthesis, we used (1) a systematic review of the scientific literature, (2) a Delphi panel of experts, and (3) 6 focus groups of employed and unemployed young adult smokers. Results. Of 51 related studies, only 4 included employed and unemployed young adults in their s…
Vision for a Global Registry of Anticipated Public Health Studies
In public health, the generation, management, and transfer of knowledge all need major improvement. Problems in generating knowledge include an imbalance in research funding, publication bias, unnecessary studies, adherence to fashion, and undue interest in novel and immediate issues. Impaired generation of knowledge, combined with a dated and inadequate process for managing knowledge and an inefficient system for transferring knowledge, mean a d…
Global Youth Voices
eHeals
BACKGROUND: Electronic health resources are helpful only when people are able to use them, yet there remain few tools available to assess consumers' capacity for engaging in eHealth. Over 40% of US and Canadian adults have low basic literacy levels, suggesting that eHealth resources are likely to be inaccessible to large segments of the population. Using information technology for health requires eHealth literacy-the ability to read, use computer…
eHealth Literacy
Electronic health tools provide little value if the intended users lack the skills to effectively engage them. With nearly half the adult population in the United States and Canada having literacy levels below what is needed to fully engage in an information-rich society, the implications for using information technology to promote health and aid in health care, or for eHealth, are considerable. Engaging with eHealth requires a skill set, or lite…
Rethinking Schools of Public Health
Engaging Youth About Gambling Using the Internet
Falling Through the Cracks of the Big Cities
Dares to Addiction
Ethical Dilemmas in Research on Internet Communities
There has been a rapid growth in the number of articles using Internet data sources to illuminate health behavior. However, little has been written about the ethical considerations of online research, especially studies involving data from Internet discussion boards. Guidelines are needed to ensure ethical conduct. In this article, the authors examine how a youth-focused research program negotiated ethical practices in the creation of its compreh…
Quality of internet access
Family Assessment Measure (FAM) and Process Model of Family Functioning
This paper provides an overview of twenty years' work in the development of the Family Assessment Measure (FAM), based on the Process Model of Family Functioning. The Process Model describes a conceptual framework for conducting family assessments according to seven key dimensions: task accomplishment, role performance, communication, affective expression, involvement, control, values and norms. The FAM provides measures of these dimensions at th…
Gambling
Structural relationships between social support and coping
Alcohol Dependence Scale (ADS) user's guide
A Comparison of Cluster Analysis Techniques Withing a Sequential Validation Framework
This study involved the comparison of 23 different methods of cluster analysis in a four-stage sequential validation design. These stages included derivation, replication, external validation, and cross-validation. Data were obtained from 750 alcohol abusers on a number of socio-behavioral variables. Results demonstrated that the solution given by Ward's method of cluster analysis was particularly powerful in comparison to solutions yielded by ot…
The drug abuse screening test
What Difference Does Language Make? Structural Analysis Of The Personality Research Form
Using the analysis of covariance structures approach, a simultaneous factor analysis was conducted on English (N=1,465) and French (N=695) language versions of the Personality Research Form. A five factor solution that was restricted to be identical in both populations provided a good fit to the data, as measured by the size of residual correlations and difference between x[SUP2] values for respective models. The five factors were labelled: (1) O…
Modal Profile Analysis
A FORTRAN program is described for the identification and cross-validation of relatively homogeneous subgroups within a dimensional or ordination space. This classification approach is designed for use with several samples in a replication design. The program consists of three stages: (1) identification of preliminary types within each of m samples, (2) replication of these types across samples, and (3) generalizability of the typology with new s…
Differential Weights in Life Change Research
The simple count of life event changes (SRE) and the differential weighting of these events (SRRS) were compared in a clinical sample (N = 353). Composite scores from the SRE and SRRS correlated almost perfectly at 0.97, and correlations from brief subscales (3 to 8 events) ranged from 0.93 to 0.99. Moreover, a virtually identical pattern of correlations for either composite was evident with external variables (demographic characteristics, physic…
Ethical Dilemmas in Research on Internet Communities
There has been a rapid growth in the number of articles using Internet data sources to illuminate health behavior. However, little has been written about the ethical considerations of online research, especially studies involving data from Internet discussion boards. Guidelines are needed to ensure ethical conduct. In this article, the authors examine how a youth-focused research program negotiated ethical practices in the creation of its compreh…
E-Par
There is increasing interest in `moving upstream' in youth health promotion efforts to focus on building youth self-esteem, self-efficacy and civic engagement. Participatory Action Research (PAR) can be a powerful mechanism for galvanizing youth to become active agents of this change. Engaging youth in PAR and health promotion, however, is not always an easy task. This article describes a model (e-PAR) for using technology and Participatory Actio…
Quality of internet access
Structural relationships between social support and coping
Falling Through the Cracks of the Big Cities
Enhancing global capacity in the surveillance, prevention, and control of chronic diseases
BACKGROUND: Chronic diseases are now a major health problem in developing countries as well as in the developed world. Although chronic diseases cannot be communicated from person to person, their risk factors (for example, smoking, inactivity, dietary habits) are readily transferred around the world. With increasing human progress and technological advance, the pandemic of chronic diseases will become an even bigger threat to global health. METH…
Global Youth Voices
The art of exploring predictor-criterion relationships
Knowledge Synthesis of Smoking Cessation Among Employed and Unemployed Young Adults
Objectives. We synthesized evidence regarding effective strategies for smoking cessation among employed or unemployed young adults aged 18 to 24 years. Methods. For this knowledge synthesis, we used (1) a systematic review of the scientific literature, (2) a Delphi panel of experts, and (3) 6 focus groups of employed and unemployed young adult smokers. Results. Of 51 related studies, only 4 included employed and unemployed young adults in their s…
Vision for a Global Registry of Anticipated Public Health Studies
In public health, the generation, management, and transfer of knowledge all need major improvement. Problems in generating knowledge include an imbalance in research funding, publication bias, unnecessary studies, adherence to fashion, and undue interest in novel and immediate issues. Impaired generation of knowledge, combined with a dated and inadequate process for managing knowledge and an inefficient system for transferring knowledge, mean a d…
Dares to Addiction
Univocal Varimax
Univocal varimax is an orthogonal factor rotation strategy aimed at improving upon the simple structure qualities of a preliminary varimax solution. This is accomplished by targetting for patterned rotation the highest element in each row of the varimax factor loading matrix. This tends to yield a solution in which each variable in the final rotated matrix maximally loads on only one factor. Univocal varimax is particularly relevant to research p…
Explore
EXPLORE is a flexible computer program for analyzing multiple data sets. For the case of two data sets, the output includes: (1) the complete multiple correlation analysis of each variable (component) in one set regressed on all variates of the other set, (2) a canonical correlation solution, and (3) a final transformation to enhance substantive interpretation of the data. The investigator has the option of focusing upon the original variables, o…
Exploring Relationships Among Multiple Data Sets
This paper has two related aims. First, some conceptual and mathematical relationships are discussed among alternative procedures for analyzing multiple data sets, including: inter-battery factor analysis (Tucker, 1958; Kristof, 1967), multiple regression, canonical correlation, generalized canonical correlation (Horst, 1965; Kettenring, 1971), longitudinal factor analysis (Corballis and Traub, 1970), and multiple set factor analysis (Golding and…
Differentiating the Contribution of Elevation, Scatter and Shape in Profile Similarity
The aims of this paper are: (1) to present a similarity generating function composed of elevation, scatter and shape parameters; (2) to describe linear models for integrating these parameters either for euclidean distance or vector-product association indices; and (3) to suggest a computational strategy based upon the Eckart-Young (1936) theorem that has certain advantages for minimizing the effects of measurement error in estimating profile simi…
The art of exploring predictor-criterion relationships
Modal Profile Analysis
A FORTRAN program is described for the identification and cross-validation of relatively homogeneous subgroups within a dimensional or ordination space. This classification approach is designed for use with several samples in a replication design. The program consists of three stages: (1) identification of preliminary types within each of m samples, (2) replication of these types across samples, and (3) generalizability of the typology with new s…
Differential Weights in Life Change Research
The simple count of life event changes (SRE) and the differential weighting of these events (SRRS) were compared in a clinical sample (N = 353). Composite scores from the SRE and SRRS correlated almost perfectly at 0.97, and correlations from brief subscales (3 to 8 events) ranged from 0.93 to 0.99. Moreover, a virtually identical pattern of correlations for either composite was evident with external variables (demographic characteristics, physic…
The drug abuse screening test
What Difference Does Language Make? Structural Analysis Of The Personality Research Form
Using the analysis of covariance structures approach, a simultaneous factor analysis was conducted on English (N=1,465) and French (N=695) language versions of the Personality Research Form. A five factor solution that was restricted to be identical in both populations provided a good fit to the data, as measured by the size of residual correlations and difference between x[SUP2] values for respective models. The five factors were labelled: (1) O…
A Comparison of Cluster Analysis Techniques Withing a Sequential Validation Framework
This study involved the comparison of 23 different methods of cluster analysis in a four-stage sequential validation design. These stages included derivation, replication, external validation, and cross-validation. Data were obtained from 750 alcohol abusers on a number of socio-behavioral variables. Results demonstrated that the solution given by Ward's method of cluster analysis was particularly powerful in comparison to solutions yielded by ot…
Alcohol Dependence Scale (ADS) user's guide
Structural relationships between social support and coping
Gambling
Family Assessment Measure (FAM) and Process Model of Family Functioning
This paper provides an overview of twenty years' work in the development of the Family Assessment Measure (FAM), based on the Process Model of Family Functioning. The Process Model describes a conceptual framework for conducting family assessments according to seven key dimensions: task accomplishment, role performance, communication, affective expression, involvement, control, values and norms. The FAM provides measures of these dimensions at th…
Quality of internet access
Dares to Addiction
Ethical Dilemmas in Research on Internet Communities
There has been a rapid growth in the number of articles using Internet data sources to illuminate health behavior. However, little has been written about the ethical considerations of online research, especially studies involving data from Internet discussion boards. Guidelines are needed to ensure ethical conduct. In this article, the authors examine how a youth-focused research program negotiated ethical practices in the creation of its compreh…
Falling Through the Cracks of the Big Cities
eHeals
BACKGROUND: Electronic health resources are helpful only when people are able to use them, yet there remain few tools available to assess consumers' capacity for engaging in eHealth. Over 40% of US and Canadian adults have low basic literacy levels, suggesting that eHealth resources are likely to be inaccessible to large segments of the population. Using information technology for health requires eHealth literacy-the ability to read, use computer…
eHealth Literacy
Electronic health tools provide little value if the intended users lack the skills to effectively engage them. With nearly half the adult population in the United States and Canada having literacy levels below what is needed to fully engage in an information-rich society, the implications for using information technology to promote health and aid in health care, or for eHealth, are considerable. Engaging with eHealth requires a skill set, or lite…
Rethinking Schools of Public Health
Engaging Youth About Gambling Using the Internet
Building cooperation through health initiatives
Arab and Israeli health professionals were prepared to get involved for two types of reasons: a) Project Level: opportunity to address a significant health issue (e.g. congenital hearing loss) while enhancing their professional careers, and b) Meta Level: concern about taking positive steps for building cooperation in the region. We invite discussion about roles that health professionals can play in building "cooperation networks" for underpinnin…
Youth Voices
When conducted with sensitivity and reflexivity, participatory action research (PAR) can be an empowering process that is particularly relevant for engaging young people in reflection and dialogue for social change. As the theory and practice of PAR evolve, researchers have evaluated the experiences of community participants, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. However, only a limited number of evaluations have focused on PAR proc…
Knowledge Synthesis of Smoking Cessation Among Employed and Unemployed Young Adults
Objectives. We synthesized evidence regarding effective strategies for smoking cessation among employed or unemployed young adults aged 18 to 24 years. Methods. For this knowledge synthesis, we used (1) a systematic review of the scientific literature, (2) a Delphi panel of experts, and (3) 6 focus groups of employed and unemployed young adult smokers. Results. Of 51 related studies, only 4 included employed and unemployed young adults in their s…
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Statistics (8 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)