Clara Manfredi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4229497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clara Manfredi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clara |
| FAMILY NAME | Manfredi |
| SIGNATURE | MANFREDI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Head Start parent involvement program as a vehicle for smoking reduction intervention
An eight-session smoking cessation program for mothers of children in the Head Start program was implemented in Chicago and evaluated in an experimental design (37 intervention and 28 control schools). The program was designed for schools with primarily black enrollment. A baseline parent population survey indicated smoking rates of 43%, confirming a need for the program. More than one third of smokers in the intervention schools attended at leas…
Smoking-related behavior, beliefs, and social environment of young black women in subsidized public housing in Chicago
Survey data indicate that young Black female smokers living in public housing are heavier smokers and have weaker motivation to quit, health beliefs and social environment less conducive to cessation, and less knowledge of where to get help to quit than other young Black female smokers in metropolitan Chicago. Compared with White women, the latter, other Black women smoke fewer cigarettes daily and have a stronger desire to quit and more concern …
Results of an intervention to improve compliance with referrals for evaluation of suspected malignancies at neighborhood public health centers
A study was conducted at Neighborhood Health Centers to evaluate procedures to improve compliance with referrals of patient at risk for cancer. Intervention consisted of a standardized communication from the exit nurse, a patient form to be returned after compliance, and one written and one telephone reminder as needed. Compliance was 68.2 percent in a control group and 89.0 percent among patients who received the experimental intervention, a sig…
Social and Psychological Correlates of Smoking Behavior Among Black Women
This paper reports a study offactors associated with smoking behavior among black ferqales. One purpose of the study was to test the applicability of a conceptualization of the process of cessation that combined two of the most commonly applied theoretical approaches used by other researchers in the field. A second goal was to ascertain the factors that best differentiated among four patterns of smoking behavior: continuous smoking, continuous sm…
Social psychological correlates of health behavior
Social and Psychological Correlates of Smoking Behavior Among Black Women
This paper reports a study offactors associated with smoking behavior among black ferqales. One purpose of the study was to test the applicability of a conceptualization of the process of cessation that combined two of the most commonly applied theoretical approaches used by other researchers in the field. A second goal was to ascertain the factors that best differentiated among four patterns of smoking behavior: continuous smoking, continuous sm…
Smoking-related behavior, beliefs, and social environment of young black women in subsidized public housing in Chicago
Survey data indicate that young Black female smokers living in public housing are heavier smokers and have weaker motivation to quit, health beliefs and social environment less conducive to cessation, and less knowledge of where to get help to quit than other young Black female smokers in metropolitan Chicago. Compared with White women, the latter, other Black women smoke fewer cigarettes daily and have a stronger desire to quit and more concern …
Results of an intervention to improve compliance with referrals for evaluation of suspected malignancies at neighborhood public health centers
A study was conducted at Neighborhood Health Centers to evaluate procedures to improve compliance with referrals of patient at risk for cancer. Intervention consisted of a standardized communication from the exit nurse, a patient form to be returned after compliance, and one written and one telephone reminder as needed. Compliance was 68.2 percent in a control group and 89.0 percent among patients who received the experimental intervention, a sig…
Social psychological correlates of health behavior
Social psychological correlates of health behavior
Social and Psychological Correlates of Smoking Behavior Among Black Women
This paper reports a study offactors associated with smoking behavior among black ferqales. One purpose of the study was to test the applicability of a conceptualization of the process of cessation that combined two of the most commonly applied theoretical approaches used by other researchers in the field. A second goal was to ascertain the factors that best differentiated among four patterns of smoking behavior: continuous smoking, continuous sm…
Results of an intervention to improve compliance with referrals for evaluation of suspected malignancies at neighborhood public health centers
A study was conducted at Neighborhood Health Centers to evaluate procedures to improve compliance with referrals of patient at risk for cancer. Intervention consisted of a standardized communication from the exit nurse, a patient form to be returned after compliance, and one written and one telephone reminder as needed. Compliance was 68.2 percent in a control group and 89.0 percent among patients who received the experimental intervention, a sig…
Smoking-related behavior, beliefs, and social environment of young black women in subsidized public housing in Chicago
Survey data indicate that young Black female smokers living in public housing are heavier smokers and have weaker motivation to quit, health beliefs and social environment less conducive to cessation, and less knowledge of where to get help to quit than other young Black female smokers in metropolitan Chicago. Compared with White women, the latter, other Black women smoke fewer cigarettes daily and have a stronger desire to quit and more concern …
The Head Start parent involvement program as a vehicle for smoking reduction intervention
An eight-session smoking cessation program for mothers of children in the Head Start program was implemented in Chicago and evaluated in an experimental design (37 intervention and 28 control schools). The program was designed for schools with primarily black enrollment. A baseline parent population survey indicated smoking rates of 43%, confirming a need for the program. More than one third of smokers in the intervention schools attended at leas…
Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Black women (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Nursing (2 works)