141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Schools

Monday, November 4, 2013: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Oral
This session focuses on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in schools. Two of the presentations focus on Asthma, another focuses on Obesity, while the last presentation focuses on smoking prevention strategies.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe two health promotion activities presented in this session. 2. Discuss the findings of two research studies regarding school health promotion programs.
Moderator:
Gale Spencer, PhD, RN

2:30pm
Influence of asthma and obesity on physical activity levels in 9th grade girls: A secondary analysis of the 2011 youth risk behavior survey   
Valine Bogue, BSN student and Sarah Kelly, PhD, RN
2:50pm
Performance of the school nurse's asthma management behaviors in relationship to their asthma knowledge, asthma attitude and asthma self-efficacy   
Judith Quaranta, PhD, RN, CPN, AE-C, FNAP and Gale A. Spencer, PhD, RN
     
3:10pm
Partnering with school nurses to address childood obesity   
Mary Jane O'Brien, PhD, RN
     
3:30pm
Cpspss: Measuring precontemplator smoking prevention strategies with African American children   
Huey-Shys Chen, RN, PhD, MCHES, FAAN

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Nursing
Endorsed by: School Health Education and Services

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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