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National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent and School Health. 2006, 2000, 1994. School health policies and programs study: Questionnaires. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent and School Health,

Annotation: These questionnaires are designed to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. Components include health education, physical education and activity, health services, mental health and social services, nutrition services and foods and beverages available at school, healthy and safe school environment, physical school environments, faculty and staff health promotion, and family and community involvement in schools.

Contact: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027, Telephone: (800) 232-4636 Secondary Telephone: (888) 232-6348 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/index.htm Available from the website.

Keywords: Food service, Health education, Health policy, Health services, Local government, Physical education, Policies, Programs, Questionnaires, Schools, State government, Survey tools, Teachers

Aday LA. 2006. Designing and conducting health surveys: A comprehensive guide. (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 518 pp. (Jossey-Bass health series; Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series)

Annotation: This book draws upon the latest developments in survey design, marketing research, and cognitive psychology to provide comprehensive guidance on designing and conducting health surveys. It offers practical strategies for planning and managing each stage of the survey process and includes information on selecting topics for surveys, designing survey variables, choosing the appropriate data collection methodology, developing sampling techniques, formulating questions, interpreting the data, and writing reports about the findings.

Contact: Jossey-Bass Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Corporate Headquarters, 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, Telephone: (201) 748-6000 Fax: (201) 748-6088 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.JosseyBass.com Available in libraries. Document Number: ISBN 0-7879-0294-2.

Keywords: Guidelines, Health surveys, Survey tools

Nelkin VS. 1994. Implementing the Surgeon General's action agenda: To improve access to care and quality of life for all children with special health needs and their families—Survey of SPRANS/MCHIP grantees: Final report. St. Paul, MN: Pathfinder Resources, 55 pp.

Annotation: This report presents the results of a survey taken of SPRANS and MCHIP grant recipients to determine the their progress toward implementing the Surgeon General's 1987 action agenda to improve the care and the quality of life for children with special health needs and their families. The report includes the methodology used, and presents the survey results for the five-year period ending in March 1993. The author provides information on the agenda's seven action steps, and contains an overview and detailed tables for each. Appendixes include examples of project activities for each step, data tables, and examples of the survey instruments. This report contains the results of the written survey; a related publication, "Lessons Learned, " contains the results of the telephone survey.

Keywords: Access to care, Children with special health care needs, Community based services, Cost containment, Culturally competent services, Demonstration programs, Families, Family centered services, Health care financing, Information dissemination, Professional education, Program development, Research, SPRANS, Service coordination, Statistics, Survey tools, Surveys

Kumpfer KL, Shur GH, Ross JG, Bunnell KK, Librett JJ, Millward AR. 1993. Measurements in prevention: A manual on selecting and using instruments to evaluate prevention programs. Rockville, MD: U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, 204 pp. (CSAP technical report; 8)

Annotation: This manual provides guidance in selecting cultural, ethnic, gender-sensitive, and linguistically appropriate evaluation instruments designed to measure the outcomes of substance abuse prevention programs. It provides a basic introduction to the rationale and methodology of evaluation, and it includes appendices which describe standardized evaluation instruments, worksheets, review forms, rating forms, and a list of the instruments organized by the focus of intervention. The descriptions of the individual instruments include the title, authorship, age levels, methods, scales, reliability, language, costs, and contact information.

Keywords: Adolescents, Evaluation methods, High risk adolescents, Intervention, Prevention programs, Substance abuse, Survey tools

Garbarino J, Schellenbach CJ, Sebes JM. 1986. Troubled youth, troubled families. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 356 pp.

Annotation: This book, evolving from work done on an NCCAN grant at Penn State University, is based on an in-depth study of 64 families from 1981 through 1983, conducted to understand the origin, dynamics and outcomes of abuse and neglect in the lives of the adolescents involved. This 'Family Intervention Project' investigated psychological and social aspects of two-parent families coping with adolescents' behavior, ranging from normal to seriously pathological. The study focused on the degree to which parent adolescent relations were at risk for emotional or physical abuse. The book provides some theories concerning adolescent maltreatment, and concerning child abuse and juvenile delinquency. The concept of high risk is presented and defined as are the measurement tools for determining that high risk and the resulting characteristics of high risk families. Factors of adolescent competence, behavior problems, socioeconomic stress, changes in family structure (as in step-families) are explored. Current interventions, prevention strategies with parents, support strategies for adolescents are discussed. Future prospects and programs for intervention are presented along with current evaluations or indicated needs for evaluation. A final chapter discusses the investigators' prognosis for troubled adolescents in troubled families.

Contact: Walter de Gruyter, Inc., 545 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1650, New York, NY 10018, Telephone: (212) 564-9223 Fax: (212) 564-9224 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.degruyter.com/ $41.95 plus $3.50 shipping and handling.

Keywords: Adolescents, Alcohol abuse, Behavioral sciences, Child abuse, Clinical medicine, Counseling, Crisis intervention, Drug abuse, Family violence, Injury prevention, Physical abuse, Research, Risk factors, Socioeconomic status, Survey tools

   

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