"You Leave There Feeling Part of Something": A Qualitative Study of Hospitalized COPD Patients' Perceptions of Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

Rationale: Current guidelines recommend that patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) initiate pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) shortly after discharge from the hospital. However, fewer than 2 percent of Medicare beneficiaries do so. Few studies have examined hospitalized patients' perceptions of the barriers and facilitators to enroll in PR.

Increasing condom usage for African-American and hispanic young fathers in a community based intervention.

This paper investigates a community-based intervention for young fathers, , compared to care-as-usual, . We hypothesized that utilizing the intervention (a 15 session parenting intervention, 13 session employment class, paid internship, case management, and access to behavioral health services) will assist in readiness to use condoms and increase condom usage, which may differ by race/ethnicity. Eligible males ( = 328) were enrolled into a Randomized Control Trial.