Knowlton Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4100553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Knowlton Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Knowlton |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An Oral Health Promotion Strategy for Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disability: An Exploratory Randomized Trial Comparing Intervention and Control Group Homes
Findings demonstrate that skills-based, experiential training with coaching can be effective in enhancing skill sets and increasing behaviors about oral health among DSP. In addition, results showed that the strategy used can improve oral health outcomes for residents. However, given that there were only improved outcomes in residents' lower anterior sextant, more research is needed to determine how to adequately assess and improve resident outco…
Developing a sustainability readiness strategy for health systems: Toolkit, interactive tools, and virtual support system
Gender differences in Afghan drug-abuse treatment: An assessment of treatment entry characteristics, dropout, and outcomes
Results provide preliminary evidence for potential treatment success of women-tailored DAT programming in Afghanistan. Results also indicate that DAT appears to be successful among Afghan men; however, lower positive outcomes for men when compared to women suggest that more efforts should focus on tailoring DAT programming to the specific needs of Afghan men as well. Study limitations are addressed, and important policy implications are discussed
An Exploratory Study of 2 Parenting Styles and Family Health Behaviors
This study indicates that family-oriented nutrition and physical activity programs may benefit from including a focus on decreasing laissez-faire parenting, as well as helping overweight parents reduce their BMIs
Sustaining Innovations in Community Prevention Systems: A Data‐informed Sustainability Strategy
This article presents a sustainability strategy, its implementation protocols, and a pilot study of implementation and sustainability readiness. The strategy is guided by a conceptual framework that integrates (a) a strategy for sustaining prevention infrastructure and interventions and (b) a planning and evaluation process known as Getting To Outcomes. Data‐informed decision making is key to this strategy, which includes initial assessment of su…
Community reinsertion success of street children programs in Brazil and Peru
Increasing dental care utilization by Medicaid-eligible children: A dental care coordinator intervention
The dental care coordinator intervention significantly increased dental utilization compared with similar children who received routine Medicaid member services. Public health programs and communities endeavoring to reduce oral health disparities may want to consider incorporating a dental care coordinator along with other initiatives to increase dental utilization by disadvantaged children
The Effects of “Self-Help” Precautionary Measures on Criminal Victimization and Fear: Lmplications for Crime-Prevention Policy
“Self-help” precautionary measures taken at the individual or household level are widely used by citizens to confront the problems of crime and fear. In this article, we assess the effectiveness of precautionary behavior as it varies naturally within a general population sample. Using data from a two-wave panel study of victims and nonvictims in Kentucky, and controlling for the effects of nine other “vulnerability factors” in hierarchical regres…
Law Enforcement Training in Southeast Asia: A Theory‐Driven Evaluation
This evaluation assesses an international law enforcement training program designed to aid law enforcement officials in combating international crime. Analyses of data from a sample of 214 participants across four training cohorts showed that favorable reaction was adequate to very adequate, their knowledge increased significantly, commitment to knowledge use remained moderately high, and their use of the training positively influenced individual…
Building capacity and sustainable prevention innovations: A sustainability planning model
Mobilizing Church Communities to Prevent Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse: A Model Strategy and Its Evaluation
This article presents a community mobilization strategy that focuses on the dynamics of organizing church communities to implement and evaluate alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse prevention programs. Although the literature abounds with extensive discussions and case studies of community practice models, it clearly lacks documentation of successful strategies for empowering communities to engage in program implementation and evaluation. A model c…
Obtaining Active Parental Consent for Evaluation Research: A Case Study
This study assesses the effectiveness of a strategy for obtaining active written parental consent for the outcome evaluation of an alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) abuse prevention program. A local school-based strategy that was implemented in 16 middle schools in ten rural and suburban school districts is presented. Using a multiple case study approach and an adequacy of performance analysis, it was found that seven of the ten districts a…
Structural Equation Modeling in Practice: Testing a Theory for Research Use
Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is gaining attention in social work as an analytical method for studying social policy and testing theories for practice. This paper demonstrates a special SEM application to test a theory for research use in the human services. Data from 294 decision-makers in human service organizational units of federal, state, and local governments are used to show the appropriateness of using composites instead of multiple …
Professional Help and Crime Victims
This study uses a two-wave panel design to examine the role professional help played in the recovery of crime victims from psychological distress. A disproportionate statewide random sample of 664 respondents was selected for an analysis of crime experience(s), use of professional services, and recovery from psychological distress. Respondents participated in two telephone interviews conducted 6 months apart. The results show that victims of nont…
Reducing Alcohol and Other Drug Use by Strengthening Community, Family, and Youth Resiliency: An Evaluation of the Creating Lasting Connections Program
The Creating Lasting Connections 5-year demonstration project was designed to delay onset and reduce frequency of alcohol and other drug use among high-risk 12-through 14-year-old youth by positively impacting resiliency factors in three domains: church community, family, and individual (youth). Major program components included church community mobilization, parent/guardian training, youth training, early intervention services, and follow-up cas…
Impact of a university-government partnership in criminal justice: A linkage model for the 1990s
Evaluation findings of a social experiment involving a university-government partnership in the Commonwealth of Kentucky are presented. The findings are based on telephone interviews in 1987 with 677 decision makers of state and local governmental offices who had been sent research products from six studies conducted over a two-year period by a university-based criminal justice statistical analysis center. It was found that dissemination strategi…
Research Influence in Decision Making to Control and Prevent Violence
There have been frequent reports of policymakers' lack of responsiveness to research knowledge in the public sector. Earlier studies point to a variety of factors that reportedly explain why research does not have a direct impact on policy decisions. This article focuses on organizational actions that were directly influenced by research and actions influenced by other sources of knowledge. Attention will also be given to determing whether differ…
The Quest for Academic and Occupational Relevance: An Experiment in Evaluation Research Training
Curriculum in criminology bridging from academic knowledge and method to professional law enforcement
Stimulating Evaluation Use by Integrating Academia and Practice
The importance of police contact in the formulation of youths' attitudes toward police
Change Agents Working from Below: Implications for Higher Education in Criminal Justice
Change the bureaucracy from within or below? A course with that as objective
The importance of police contact in the formulation of youths' attitudes toward police
Reducing Alcohol and Other Drug Use by Strengthening Community, Family, and Youth Resiliency: An Evaluation of the Creating Lasting Connections Program
The Creating Lasting Connections 5-year demonstration project was designed to delay onset and reduce frequency of alcohol and other drug use among high-risk 12-through 14-year-old youth by positively impacting resiliency factors in three domains: church community, family, and individual (youth). Major program components included church community mobilization, parent/guardian training, youth training, early intervention services, and follow-up cas…
Stimulating Evaluation Use by Integrating Academia and Practice
The Effects of “Self-Help” Precautionary Measures on Criminal Victimization and Fear: Lmplications for Crime-Prevention Policy
“Self-help” precautionary measures taken at the individual or household level are widely used by citizens to confront the problems of crime and fear. In this article, we assess the effectiveness of precautionary behavior as it varies naturally within a general population sample. Using data from a two-wave panel study of victims and nonvictims in Kentucky, and controlling for the effects of nine other “vulnerability factors” in hierarchical regres…
Community reinsertion success of street children programs in Brazil and Peru
Mobilizing Church Communities to Prevent Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse: A Model Strategy and Its Evaluation
This article presents a community mobilization strategy that focuses on the dynamics of organizing church communities to implement and evaluate alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse prevention programs. Although the literature abounds with extensive discussions and case studies of community practice models, it clearly lacks documentation of successful strategies for empowering communities to engage in program implementation and evaluation. A model c…
Obtaining Active Parental Consent for Evaluation Research: A Case Study
This study assesses the effectiveness of a strategy for obtaining active written parental consent for the outcome evaluation of an alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) abuse prevention program. A local school-based strategy that was implemented in 16 middle schools in ten rural and suburban school districts is presented. Using a multiple case study approach and an adequacy of performance analysis, it was found that seven of the ten districts a…
Structural Equation Modeling in Practice: Testing a Theory for Research Use
Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is gaining attention in social work as an analytical method for studying social policy and testing theories for practice. This paper demonstrates a special SEM application to test a theory for research use in the human services. Data from 294 decision-makers in human service organizational units of federal, state, and local governments are used to show the appropriateness of using composites instead of multiple …
Professional Help and Crime Victims
This study uses a two-wave panel design to examine the role professional help played in the recovery of crime victims from psychological distress. A disproportionate statewide random sample of 664 respondents was selected for an analysis of crime experience(s), use of professional services, and recovery from psychological distress. Respondents participated in two telephone interviews conducted 6 months apart. The results show that victims of nont…
Research Influence in Decision Making to Control and Prevent Violence
There have been frequent reports of policymakers' lack of responsiveness to research knowledge in the public sector. Earlier studies point to a variety of factors that reportedly explain why research does not have a direct impact on policy decisions. This article focuses on organizational actions that were directly influenced by research and actions influenced by other sources of knowledge. Attention will also be given to determing whether differ…
Change Agents Working from Below: Implications for Higher Education in Criminal Justice
Change the bureaucracy from within or below? A course with that as objective
Change Agents Working from Below: Implications for Higher Education in Criminal Justice
Change the bureaucracy from within or below? A course with that as objective
The importance of police contact in the formulation of youths' attitudes toward police
Stimulating Evaluation Use by Integrating Academia and Practice
The Quest for Academic and Occupational Relevance: An Experiment in Evaluation Research Training
Curriculum in criminology bridging from academic knowledge and method to professional law enforcement
Research Influence in Decision Making to Control and Prevent Violence
There have been frequent reports of policymakers' lack of responsiveness to research knowledge in the public sector. Earlier studies point to a variety of factors that reportedly explain why research does not have a direct impact on policy decisions. This article focuses on organizational actions that were directly influenced by research and actions influenced by other sources of knowledge. Attention will also be given to determing whether differ…
Impact of a university-government partnership in criminal justice: A linkage model for the 1990s
Evaluation findings of a social experiment involving a university-government partnership in the Commonwealth of Kentucky are presented. The findings are based on telephone interviews in 1987 with 677 decision makers of state and local governmental offices who had been sent research products from six studies conducted over a two-year period by a university-based criminal justice statistical analysis center. It was found that dissemination strategi…
Reducing Alcohol and Other Drug Use by Strengthening Community, Family, and Youth Resiliency: An Evaluation of the Creating Lasting Connections Program
The Creating Lasting Connections 5-year demonstration project was designed to delay onset and reduce frequency of alcohol and other drug use among high-risk 12-through 14-year-old youth by positively impacting resiliency factors in three domains: church community, family, and individual (youth). Major program components included church community mobilization, parent/guardian training, youth training, early intervention services, and follow-up cas…
Professional Help and Crime Victims
This study uses a two-wave panel design to examine the role professional help played in the recovery of crime victims from psychological distress. A disproportionate statewide random sample of 664 respondents was selected for an analysis of crime experience(s), use of professional services, and recovery from psychological distress. Respondents participated in two telephone interviews conducted 6 months apart. The results show that victims of nont…
Obtaining Active Parental Consent for Evaluation Research: A Case Study
This study assesses the effectiveness of a strategy for obtaining active written parental consent for the outcome evaluation of an alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) abuse prevention program. A local school-based strategy that was implemented in 16 middle schools in ten rural and suburban school districts is presented. Using a multiple case study approach and an adequacy of performance analysis, it was found that seven of the ten districts a…
Structural Equation Modeling in Practice: Testing a Theory for Research Use
Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is gaining attention in social work as an analytical method for studying social policy and testing theories for practice. This paper demonstrates a special SEM application to test a theory for research use in the human services. Data from 294 decision-makers in human service organizational units of federal, state, and local governments are used to show the appropriateness of using composites instead of multiple …
Mobilizing Church Communities to Prevent Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse: A Model Strategy and Its Evaluation
This article presents a community mobilization strategy that focuses on the dynamics of organizing church communities to implement and evaluate alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse prevention programs. Although the literature abounds with extensive discussions and case studies of community practice models, it clearly lacks documentation of successful strategies for empowering communities to engage in program implementation and evaluation. A model c…
Building capacity and sustainable prevention innovations: A sustainability planning model
Law Enforcement Training in Southeast Asia: A Theory‐Driven Evaluation
This evaluation assesses an international law enforcement training program designed to aid law enforcement officials in combating international crime. Analyses of data from a sample of 214 participants across four training cohorts showed that favorable reaction was adequate to very adequate, their knowledge increased significantly, commitment to knowledge use remained moderately high, and their use of the training positively influenced individual…
The Effects of “Self-Help” Precautionary Measures on Criminal Victimization and Fear: Lmplications for Crime-Prevention Policy
“Self-help” precautionary measures taken at the individual or household level are widely used by citizens to confront the problems of crime and fear. In this article, we assess the effectiveness of precautionary behavior as it varies naturally within a general population sample. Using data from a two-wave panel study of victims and nonvictims in Kentucky, and controlling for the effects of nine other “vulnerability factors” in hierarchical regres…
Increasing dental care utilization by Medicaid-eligible children: A dental care coordinator intervention
The dental care coordinator intervention significantly increased dental utilization compared with similar children who received routine Medicaid member services. Public health programs and communities endeavoring to reduce oral health disparities may want to consider incorporating a dental care coordinator along with other initiatives to increase dental utilization by disadvantaged children
Community reinsertion success of street children programs in Brazil and Peru
An Exploratory Study of 2 Parenting Styles and Family Health Behaviors
This study indicates that family-oriented nutrition and physical activity programs may benefit from including a focus on decreasing laissez-faire parenting, as well as helping overweight parents reduce their BMIs
Sustaining Innovations in Community Prevention Systems: A Data‐informed Sustainability Strategy
This article presents a sustainability strategy, its implementation protocols, and a pilot study of implementation and sustainability readiness. The strategy is guided by a conceptual framework that integrates (a) a strategy for sustaining prevention infrastructure and interventions and (b) a planning and evaluation process known as Getting To Outcomes. Data‐informed decision making is key to this strategy, which includes initial assessment of su…
Gender differences in Afghan drug-abuse treatment: An assessment of treatment entry characteristics, dropout, and outcomes
Results provide preliminary evidence for potential treatment success of women-tailored DAT programming in Afghanistan. Results also indicate that DAT appears to be successful among Afghan men; however, lower positive outcomes for men when compared to women suggest that more efforts should focus on tailoring DAT programming to the specific needs of Afghan men as well. Study limitations are addressed, and important policy implications are discussed
Developing a sustainability readiness strategy for health systems: Toolkit, interactive tools, and virtual support system
An Oral Health Promotion Strategy for Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disability: An Exploratory Randomized Trial Comparing Intervention and Control Group Homes
Findings demonstrate that skills-based, experiential training with coaching can be effective in enhancing skill sets and increasing behaviors about oral health among DSP. In addition, results showed that the strategy used can improve oral health outcomes for residents. However, given that there were only improved outcomes in residents' lower anterior sextant, more research is needed to determine how to adequately assess and improve resident outco…
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