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“Breathe Free” Teaching Smoking Prevention to Sixth Grade Inner City Students |
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Sixth graders at Public School 17 in Rochester, NY were taught, in a classroom environment, about smoking prevention. |
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Population Specific Educational Materials Focused on Smoking and the Orthopaedic Patient |
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Project aimed at increasing patient awareness regarding the adverse affects of smoking on orthopaedic health and educating them on the importance of smoking cessation. |
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Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in the Rochester Community with Focus on Women |
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Project designed to promote cardiovascular awareness in women in the Rochester community through the patients understanding of blood pressure and BMI numbers, risk for cardiovascular disease, and a heart healthy lifestyle. |
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Promoting Avoidance of Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs in the Adolescent Community |
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Improving Urban Adolescent Health Behaviors Through Sports Physicals, Behavior Screening, and Counseling |
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This project was a continuation of an ongoing volunteer offering of the University of Rochester, targeting students within the Rochester City School District. The intervention includes providing free physicals to high school teens for eligibility in extra curricula activities. |
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Saturday School; Health Literacy and Health Modules |
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The goals of this project were to improve the ability for the students to become health literate through development of basic reading, writing, and math skills, and to address common health-related issues facing the students through health modules. |
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Two Perspectives on Smoking Cessation: A Program Evaluation and an Internet-Based Counseling Analysis |
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This project focuses on a web-assisted tobacco counseling resource. A collaboration between smoking cessation researchers at two universities, the program allows a current smoker to meet privately with a healthcare provider in an online chat room. |
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Empowering Women through the Sojourner House Health Lifestyles Project |
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This project was based at the Sojourner House, an agency which provides transitional housing to high-risk women. An evaluation component was instituted to an existing program, to assess changes in participants’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings of self-efficacy. Key partners included AIDS Rochester, AHA, ACS, and Planned Parenthood. |
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Smoking Prevention and Cessation in an American Muslim Sub-population |
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This project attempted to prevent smoking among American Muslim youth in Rochester through a modification of the Tarwars program. Cessation efforts were directed towards adult Muslim smokers. |
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Staged Based Behavioral Counseling |
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Staged Based Counseling (SBC) is a behavioral modification modality targeting clients at all levels of readiness to change. This project created SBC as an elective for medical students at the University of Rochester. The goal is to increase trained individuals in this method, and ultimately address the needs of the Rochester Community. |
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UR Well Homeless Outreach |
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UR Well Homeless Outreach will extend the role of the UR Well Student Outreach project to allow medical students the opportunity to work with Rochester’s homeless population. |
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Increasing Awareness of Environment Tobacco Smoke Within the Monroe County Department of Child and Family Services |
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By partnering with the Monroe County Department of Child and Family Services (MCDCFS) and the Greater Rochester Area Tobacco Cessation Center (GRATCC), education about health effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) was promoted. |
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Hoops for Health |
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The Hoops for Health after school program was created to target those children at greatest risk. With the help of coordinators at Quad A, a partnership was created with students at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and School 34 staff, ultimately leading to the development of the Hoops for Health program in 2003. |
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UR Well Smoking Cessation Program Evaluation |
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For this project, an evaluation of this program was performed with both quantitative and qualitative data collection. Based on the results, several improvements were made to the current program and recommendations for possible future expansion of smoking cessation services were developed. |
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The Hair Salon Project: Bringing a Lay Health Education Model to Tonja's Personal Touch Salon |
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This project aimed to introduce a lay health education model into a salon serving African American women in the Southwedge neighborhood of Rochester. This program was tested in a focus group and was well received by community members. |
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