Publications by authors named "L Robbins"
Aim: To examine relationships between hypothesized potential predictors of vaccination and adolescent's Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination intention and whether these predictors differed by sex. We also investigated adolescents' experiences and preferences regarding learning about HPV through social media and other technology, to inform future tailored interventions.
Design: Cross-sectional research design.
Objectives: This study aimed to examine the preliminary efficacy of the versus usual care control on improving parents' lifestyle behaviours (moderate to vigorous physical activity, screen time, fruit/vegetable and fibre intake, skin carotenoids), nutrition and physical activity knowledge, self-efficacy, support, parenting style, feeding practices, home environment, anthropometric outcomes (body mass index, % body fat) and blood pressure from baseline to postintervention after adjusting for random cluster effects.
Design: A cluster randomised controlled trial with 10 Head Start daycare centres (five intervention, five control) was conducted using computer-generated randomisation after baseline data collection.
Setting: US Head Start daycare centres.
Water treatment residual (WTR) is a burden for many water treatment plants due to the large volumes and associated management costs. In this study, we transform aluminum-salt WTR (Al-WTR) into ceramsite (ASC) to recover phosphate from challenging waters. ASC showed remarkably higher specific surface area (SSA, 70.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Physicians understand that certain personal attributes are essential in medical leaders, but they often do not know what actions are expected of them as leaders or what they should do to be more effective leaders.
Purpose: We sought to compile, through interviews with senior leaders at an academic institution, real leadership scenarios for a series of case-based examples to be used during group mentoring sessions for aspiring medical leaders.
Methods: We conducted one-to-one interviews using open-ended questions with 11 current and emeritus chairpersons or chiefs of major departments or divisions at our academic medical center.