Lesley A Cottrell

Biographic Data

ID6081856
NAMELesley A Cottrell
GIVEN NAMESLesley A
FAMILY NAMECottrell
SIGNATURECOTTRELL L A
AFFILIATIONSRichard A. Wittberg is with the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department, Parkersburg, WV. Karen L. Northrup is with Wood County Schools, Parkersburg, WV. Lesley A. Cottrell is with the Department of Pediatrics, West Virginia University, Morgantown.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX0

  • A Latent Class Analysis of the Co-occurrence of Risk Behaviors among Adolescents

    Halima Ahmadi–Montecalvo, Halima Ahmadi-Montecalvo et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Health Behavior2019

    Objectives: In this study, we examined the co-occurrence of multiple health-risk behaviors to determine whether there are any differences in the pattern of co-occurrence by sex. Methods: We conducted latent class analysis using the national 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey data for the overall sample, and separately by sex (N = 13,583). Results: Over half of the sample (53%) belonged to the low risk subgroup (Class 1). Class 2 accounted for 15% of…

  • Children’s Aerobic Fitness and Academic Achievement

    Richard A Wittberg, Richard Wittberg et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2012References: 25

    Objectives. We assessed children’s potential differences in academic achievement based on aerobic fitness over a 2-year period. Methods. The longitudinal study sample included 3 cohorts of students (n = 1725; 50.1% male) enrolled in a West Virginia public school system. Students received baseline fitness and academic assessments as fifth graders and at a 2-year follow-up assessment. We used FitnessGram to assess fitness in aerobic capacity and WE…