Patrece L Joseph
Biographic Data
| ID | 7181297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrece L Joseph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrece L |
| FAMILY NAME | Joseph |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPH P L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7386-3304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Understanding the Sociopolitical Climate and What That Means for Me and My Existence in this Country”
A growing body of literature has characterized critical consciousness as a developmental asset, especially among minoritized adolescents, given its association with positive developmental outcomes. However, much is unknown about how critical action (a key component of critical consciousness) develops among Black immigrant youth who uniquely experience both anti‐Black racism and xenophobia in the United States. This qualitative study examines the …
Understanding the knowledge gap in parents’ and teens’ perceptions of cannabis laws
As recreational cannabis becomes legalized, parents and teens may keep up with these changing laws differently, resulting in knowledge gaps in their understanding of this topic. This study aimed to explore parents’ and teens’ knowledge of cannabis legalization in Massachusetts when the law was being implemented in 2018. Interviews were conducted with 42 parents and teens (08/2018-07/2019) to assess their knowledge of cannabis laws, teens’ access …
Designing Health Interventions to Meet the Needs and Experiences of Minoritized Adolescents
Engagement in preventive health behaviors (PHBs; i.e., healthy eating, sleep, and physical activity) during adolescence is associated with reduced risks for chronic conditions, such as diabetes, in adulthood. Although several interventions seek to improve adolescents’ engagement in health promoting behaviors, racial- and income-based disparities across PHBs persist and may be even more pronounced for adolescents with multiple minoritized identiti…
A Study on How Libraries Operate as Health Spaces in the United States
Health literacy and health behaviors in parent-adolescent dyads
OBJECTIVE: Health literacy (HL), skills for accessing, appraising and using health information in health decision-making is implicated in adolescents' health behaviors. HL skills develop through scaffolding, modeling, practice and opportunity. Therefore, adolescents' HL skills are likely closely tied to parents' HL and health behaviors. Yet, no studies have examined the dyadic interdependence of the relationship between HL and health behaviors be…
Parenting, Peers, and Alcohol Use Initiation Among Black, White, and Black-White Adolescents
Alcohol use among Biracial adolescents remains understudied. This study examined how parenting and peer factors relate to age of alcohol use onset among Black, White, and Biracial Black-White adolescents and emerging adults. We used Add Health data to produce a final analytic sample of 13,528 adolescents who self-identified as White, Black, or Biracial Black-White. Discrete-time survival analysis implemented within logistic regression indicated B…
Census Tract Demographics Associated with Libraries’ Social, Economic, and Health-Related Programming
Background : Public libraries can contribute to reducing economic, social, and health inequities through their programming and practices. However, the extent to which libraries regularly provide programming that improve the social determinants of health (SDH) in underserved communities is unclear. Objective : This study explored the relationship between census tract demographic characteristics and library programming implicated in the SDH for und…
“The Way you Interpret Health”
BACKGROUND: Adolescents are required to take increased responsibility for their health. Although health literacy is implicated in adults' health decision-making and health behaviors, little is known about adolescents' health literacy and its relationship to their health behaviors. Furthermore, adolescent health literacy research overlooks adolescent development-specific needs and skills. Therefore, we qualitatively explored adolescents' (1) defin…
Disparities in Adolescents' Obesogenic Behaviors, 2005-2017
Objectives: Given the increasing national-level efforts to reduce disparities in obesogenic behaviors in youth, in this paper, we assessed the change in disparities in meeting guidelines for fruits and vegetables intake (FV), physical activity (PA), and sedentary behavior (SB) among adolescents in the United States in the last 13 years. Methods: Using the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (2005-2017), overall and characteristic-specific (se…
Adolescents' Health Literacy and Decision-making
Objective: Adolescents assume increased responsibility for their health, particularly regarding health decision-making for lifestyle behaviors. Prior research suggests a relationship between health literacy (HL) and health behaviors in adolescents. Yet, the specific role of HL in adolescents' health decision-making is unclear. This study qualitatively explored adolescents' use of HL in their health decision-making. Methods: Six focus groups with …
Applying the information-motivation-behavioral skills model to explain adolescents’ fruits and vegetables consumption
“They give you back that dignity”
Approximately 33% of the homeless population in 2017 were families with children. Researchers have argued for interventions and services to employ an ecological perspective to mitigate some of the unintentional harm inherent in existing programs designed to serve homeless families. This paper utilized a case study of a transitional housing program to (1) determine how well the program met recommendations informed by the ecological perspective and…
Adolescent health literacy and health behaviors
Exploring positive youth development among young people who leave school without graduating high school
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Exploring positive youth development among young people who leave school without graduating high school
Adolescent health literacy and health behaviors
“They give you back that dignity”
Approximately 33% of the homeless population in 2017 were families with children. Researchers have argued for interventions and services to employ an ecological perspective to mitigate some of the unintentional harm inherent in existing programs designed to serve homeless families. This paper utilized a case study of a transitional housing program to (1) determine how well the program met recommendations informed by the ecological perspective and…
Adolescents' Health Literacy and Decision-making
Objective: Adolescents assume increased responsibility for their health, particularly regarding health decision-making for lifestyle behaviors. Prior research suggests a relationship between health literacy (HL) and health behaviors in adolescents. Yet, the specific role of HL in adolescents' health decision-making is unclear. This study qualitatively explored adolescents' use of HL in their health decision-making. Methods: Six focus groups with …
Applying the information-motivation-behavioral skills model to explain adolescents’ fruits and vegetables consumption
“The Way you Interpret Health”
BACKGROUND: Adolescents are required to take increased responsibility for their health. Although health literacy is implicated in adults' health decision-making and health behaviors, little is known about adolescents' health literacy and its relationship to their health behaviors. Furthermore, adolescent health literacy research overlooks adolescent development-specific needs and skills. Therefore, we qualitatively explored adolescents' (1) defin…
Disparities in Adolescents' Obesogenic Behaviors, 2005-2017
Objectives: Given the increasing national-level efforts to reduce disparities in obesogenic behaviors in youth, in this paper, we assessed the change in disparities in meeting guidelines for fruits and vegetables intake (FV), physical activity (PA), and sedentary behavior (SB) among adolescents in the United States in the last 13 years. Methods: Using the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (2005-2017), overall and characteristic-specific (se…
Census Tract Demographics Associated with Libraries’ Social, Economic, and Health-Related Programming
Background : Public libraries can contribute to reducing economic, social, and health inequities through their programming and practices. However, the extent to which libraries regularly provide programming that improve the social determinants of health (SDH) in underserved communities is unclear. Objective : This study explored the relationship between census tract demographic characteristics and library programming implicated in the SDH for und…
Parenting, Peers, and Alcohol Use Initiation Among Black, White, and Black-White Adolescents
Alcohol use among Biracial adolescents remains understudied. This study examined how parenting and peer factors relate to age of alcohol use onset among Black, White, and Biracial Black-White adolescents and emerging adults. We used Add Health data to produce a final analytic sample of 13,528 adolescents who self-identified as White, Black, or Biracial Black-White. Discrete-time survival analysis implemented within logistic regression indicated B…
Health literacy and health behaviors in parent-adolescent dyads
OBJECTIVE: Health literacy (HL), skills for accessing, appraising and using health information in health decision-making is implicated in adolescents' health behaviors. HL skills develop through scaffolding, modeling, practice and opportunity. Therefore, adolescents' HL skills are likely closely tied to parents' HL and health behaviors. Yet, no studies have examined the dyadic interdependence of the relationship between HL and health behaviors be…
Understanding the knowledge gap in parents’ and teens’ perceptions of cannabis laws
As recreational cannabis becomes legalized, parents and teens may keep up with these changing laws differently, resulting in knowledge gaps in their understanding of this topic. This study aimed to explore parents’ and teens’ knowledge of cannabis legalization in Massachusetts when the law was being implemented in 2018. Interviews were conducted with 42 parents and teens (08/2018-07/2019) to assess their knowledge of cannabis laws, teens’ access …
Designing Health Interventions to Meet the Needs and Experiences of Minoritized Adolescents
Engagement in preventive health behaviors (PHBs; i.e., healthy eating, sleep, and physical activity) during adolescence is associated with reduced risks for chronic conditions, such as diabetes, in adulthood. Although several interventions seek to improve adolescents’ engagement in health promoting behaviors, racial- and income-based disparities across PHBs persist and may be even more pronounced for adolescents with multiple minoritized identiti…
A Study on How Libraries Operate as Health Spaces in the United States
“Understanding the Sociopolitical Climate and What That Means for Me and My Existence in this Country”
A growing body of literature has characterized critical consciousness as a developmental asset, especially among minoritized adolescents, given its association with positive developmental outcomes. However, much is unknown about how critical action (a key component of critical consciousness) develops among Black immigrant youth who uniquely experience both anti‐Black racism and xenophobia in the United States. This qualitative study examines the …
Medicine (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Health literacy (4 works)