@article{ref1,
title="A web-based, health promotion program for adolescent girls and their mothers who reside in public housing",
journal="Addictive behaviors",
year="2014",
author="Schwinn, Traci M. and Schinke, Steven and Fang, Lin and Kandasamy, Suganthi",
volume="39",
number="4",
pages="757-760",
abstract="This study tested a brief web-based, family-involvement health promotion program aimed at drug use, physical activity, and nutrition for adolescent girls, aged 10 to 12 years, who reside in public housing. Separately, girls (n=67) and their mothers (n=67) completed baseline measures online. Following baseline, 36 randomly assigned mother-daughter dyads jointly completed a 3-session, health promotion program online. Subsequently, all girls and mothers separately completed posttest and 5-month follow-up measures. Attrition at posttest and 5-month follow-up measures was 3% and 9%, respectively. At posttest, intervention-arm girls, relative to control-arm girls, reported greater mother-daughter communication and parental monitoring. Intervention-arm mothers reported greater mother-daughter communication and closeness as well as increased vegetable intake and physical activity. At 5-month follow-up, intervention-arm girls and mothers, relative to those in the control arm, reported greater levels of parental monitoring. Intervention-arm girls also reported greater mother-daughter communication and closeness, reduced stress, greater refusal skills, and increased fruit intake. <br><br>FINDINGS indicate the potential of a brief, web-based program to improve the health of low-income girls and their mothers.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-4603",
doi="10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.11.029",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.11.029"
}