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Mother–Daughter Communication About Sex: The Influence of Authoritative Parenting Style (with Natasha S. Askelson and Sandi Smith), Health Communication (2012)

Parent–child communication about sex has been shown to delay sexual activity and increase contraceptive and...

 

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Mother–Daughter Communication About Sex: The Influence of Authoritative Parenting Style (with Natasha M. Askelson and Sandi Smith), Health Communication (2012)

Parent–child communication about sex has been shown to delay sexual activity and increase contraceptive and...

 

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African American Women and Weight Loss: Disregarding Environmental Challenges (with Teresa Mastin and Natasha M. Askelson), Journal of Transcultural Nursing (2012)

In the United States, almost 80% of African American women are either overweight or obese....

 

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The Birds, the Bees, and the HPVs: What Drives Mothers’ Intentions to Use the HPV Vaccination as a Chance to Talk About Sex? (with Natoshia M. Askelson and Sandi Smith), Journal of Pediatric Health Care (2011)

Parent-child communication about sex is a way to protect adolescents from engaging in risky behavior....

 

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Completely Isolated? Health Information Seeking Among Social Isolates (with Natoshia M. Askelson and Knute D. Carter), Health Education Behavior (2011)

To better target messages it is important to determine where people seek their health information....

 

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The Secondhand Effects of College Drinking: The Need for Media Relations (with Natoshia M. Askelson and Teresa Mastin), Public Relations Journal (2011)

Heavy episodic drinking can lead to significant harmful effects for the drinker and others. Rates...

 

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Unlocking the condoms: The effect on sales and theft. (with Daniel Ashwood and Karen B. Farris), Pharmacy Practice (2011)

Community pharmacies may place condoms in locked displays or behind glass, thereby reducing access and...

 

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Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Mothers’ Intentions to Vaccinate Their Daughters Against HPV (with Natoshia M. Askelson and John B. Lowe), Journal of School Nursing (2010)

This study assessed mothers’ intentions to vaccinate their daughters against human papillomavirus (HPV) using the...

 

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Caution, The Use of Humor May Lead to Confusion: Evaluation of a Video Podcast of the Midwest Teen Sex Show (with Natoshia M. Askelson), American Journal of Sexuality Education (2010)

Web sites about sexual health lack the interactivity, humor, and “viral” nature required to attract...

 

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Factors Related to Physicians' Willingness to Vaccinate Girls Against HPV: The Importance of Subjective Norms and Perceived Behavioral Control (with Natoshia M. Askelson, John B. Lowe, and Leslie K. Dennis), Women & Health (2010)

This study assessed factors related to physicians' intentions to vaccinate patients against human papillomavirus. A...

 

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Preventing Unintended Pregnancies and Improving Contraceptive Use Among Young Adult Women in a Rural, Midwestern State: Health Promotion Implications (with Natoshia M. Askelson), Women & Health (2010)

Despite high rates of unintended pregnancy among women aged 18 to 30 years, little research...

 

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Using evidence-basedresearch to redirectaconversation: Newspapers’ coverage of strategies to address college binge drinking (with Natoshia M. Askelson, Mary Slonske, and Teresa Mastin), Public Relations Review (2009)

This study examines selected newspapers’ coverage of college binge drinking while also serving as an...

 

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The Missing Role of Parents: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Parenting Practices and Communication Strategies for Addressing Binge Drinking (with Natasha M. Askelson, Teresa Mastin, and Mary Slonske), Communication Research Reports (2009)

Parents can employ communication strategies to prevent alcohol use among college students. This investigation utilizes...

 

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The Green Acres Effect: The Need for a New Colorectal Cancer Screening Campaign Tailored to Rural Audiences (with N. M. Askelson and Tracy Rothsong), Health Education & Behavior (2008)

National health communication campaign developers have ignored rural audiences in campaign development and testing, despite...

 

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Fact or Wishful Thinking? Biased Expectations in I Think I Look Better When I'm Tanned (with Samita Banerjee and Kathryn Greene), American Journal of Health Behavior (2008)

Objective: To examine the impact of tanned female images on respondents' perceptions of attractiveness, healthiness,...

 

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Indoor Tanning and Problem Behavior (with Zhanna Bagdasarov, Smita Banerjee, and Kathryn Greene), Journal of American College Health (2008)

Objective: The authors examined factors predicting college students' use of tanning beds. Participants and Methods:...

 

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Smoking, but not smokers – self-labeling among college students who smoke cigarettes. (with Arnold H. Levinson), Nicotine & Tobacco Research (2007)

Cigarette smoking in college is often described as social smoking, but the term lacks definition...

 

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Placing the Burden on the Individual: Overweight and Obesity in African American and Mainstream Women's Magazines (with Teresa Mastin), Health Communication (2007)

One third of all U.S. adult women, and more than 75% of African American women,...

 

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Conflicting Messages: Overweight and Obesity Advertisements and Articles in Black Magazines (with Teresa Mastin), Howard Journal of Communications (2006)

Three-quarters of U.S. Black women are overweight or obese, putting them at increased risk of...

 

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Stepping Back from Social Norms Campaigns: Comparing Normative Influences to Other Predictors of Health Behaviors (with Kenzie A. Cameron), Health Communication (2006)

Recent health campaigns on college campuses have used a social norms approach, which suggests that...

 

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Differential Effects of Exposure to Social Norms Campaigns: A Cause for Concern (with Kenzie A. Cameron), Health Communication (2006)

College students' processing of alcohol social norms messages, related effects on normative judgments, attitudes toward...

 

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Framing Breastfeeding and Formula-Feeding Messages in Popular U.S. Magazines (with Julie L. . Andsager), Women and Health (2006)

Media framing of infant feeding has the ability to influence knowledge and views of the...

 

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In Black and White: Coverage of U.S. Slave Reparations by the Mainstream and Black Press, Howard Journal of Communications (2005)

The issue of reparations being awarded to descendants of U.S. slaves has appeared on both...

 

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Prevalence and Profiling: Hazing Among College Students and Points of Intervention (with Gretchen Poulos and John W. Sipple), American Journal of Health Behavior, (2005)

Objective: To examine university students' attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs related to hazing. Methods: A random...

 

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Social norms and expectancy violation theories: assessing the effectiveness of health communication campaigns (with Kenzie A. Cameron and Dominique Brossard), Communication Monographs (2004)

College students' processing of alcohol, smoking, and exercise social norms messages, and related effects on...

 

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Drinking, Alcohol Policy, and Attitudes Toward a Campus Riot (with Stan A. Kaplowitz), Journal Of College Student Development (2004)

Results from a survey of college students (N = 2,008) indicate that most disapproved of...

 

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Predicting and Explaining Public Opinion Regarding U.S. Slavery Reparations (with Teresa Mastin and M. S. Frazer), Howard Journal of Communications (2004)

Slavery reparations have long been a discussion topic within the African American community and press....

 

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Are Social Norms Campaigns Really Magic Bullets? Assessing the Effects of Students' Misperceptions on Drinking Behavior (with Dominique Brossard, S. Frazer, and Timothy Marchell), Health Communication (2003)

In an attempt to curb excessive drinking on college campuses, many universities have turned to...

 

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Advocating for controversial issues: The effect of activism on compliance‐gaining strategy likelihood of use (with Kenzie A. Cameron and Dominique Brossard), Communication Studies (2003)

Previous research has demonstrated that compliance‐gaining strategies can he arrayed on an unidimensional continuum, anchored...

 

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Cancer Patients' Desires for Communication of Prognosis Information (with Stan A. Kaplowitz and Wai Tat Chiu), Health Communication (2002)

A mail survey was sent to cancer patients to determine how often they want, request,...

 

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The persuasive effects of statistical evidence in the presence of exemplars (with Frnaklin J. Boster and Kenzie A. Cameron), Communication Studies (2000)

This paper explores the impact of statistical evidence by varying it while pairing it with...

 

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Farmers' Perspectives of Michigan State University Extension: Trends and Lessons from 1996 and 1999 (with Murari Suvedi and Maria K. Lapinski), Journal of Extension (2000)

In 1994, Michigan State University Extension (MSUE) reorganized into Area of Expertise teams (AOE) linking...

 

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Social Marketing and Diffusion-Based Strategies for Communicating with Unique Populations: HIV Prevention in San Francisco (with James W. Dearing, Everett M. Rogers, and Gary Meyer), Journal of Health Communication (1996)

We conducted a 2-year investigation of the extent to which strategies based on social marketing...

 

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Communication and Community in a City Under Siege (with Everett M. Rogers, James W. Dearing, and Nagesh Rao), Communication Research (1995)

The history of urban life has been shaped and directed by the impact of disaster...

 

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Modified Trap Designs and Heights for Increased Capture of Japanese Beetle Adults (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) (with Stephen R. Alm and Tamson Yeh), Journal of Economic Entomology (1994)

Several trap designs and trap heights were tested on a golf course for effectiveness of...

 

Contributions to Books

Being convincing : talking to others persuasively / (with Natoshia M. Askelson and Mary L. Aquilino), The resilient nurse empowering your practice (2011)
 

You are what you consume: The role of media in obesity (with T. Mastin and N. A. Askelson), Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence (2008)
 

Physician communication with seriously ill cancer patients Results of a physician survey (with S. A. Kaplowitz), End of life issues : interdisciplinary and multidimensional perspectives (1999)