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Translating evidence based violence and drug use prevention to obesity prevention: development and construction of the Pathways program.
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PMID:  21987475     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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Effective school-based obesity prevention programs are needed to prevent and reduce the growing obesity risk among youth. Utilizing the evidence-rich areas of violence and substance use prevention, translation science may provide an efficient means for developing curricula across multiple health behaviors. This paper introduces Pathways to Health, a school-based obesity prevention program that was developed by translating from evidence-based violence and drug use prevention programs, Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies and the Midwestern Prevention Project STAR (STAR). We illustrate how a hypothesized underlying behavior change mechanism in two domains of risk behavior, violence and substance use, can be applied to obesity prevention. A 4-step translational process is provided and may be relevant for use in developing other curricula to address multiple health risk behaviors. Practical application and decision points are also provided.
Authors:
Kari-Lyn K Sakuma; Nathaniel R Riggs; Mary Ann Pentz
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-10-10
Journal Detail:
Title:  Health education research     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1465-3648     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Oct 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-10-11     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  8608459     Medline TA:  Health Educ Res     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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1Prevention Research Center, College of Health.uman Development, The Pennsylvania State University, 402 Marion Place, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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