BOUNCE: an exploratory healthy lifestyle summer intervention for girls.

Objectives: To assess the efficacy of the BOUNCE parent-daughter intervention in promoting selected physical fitness measures and activity.

Methods: Thirty-seven Latino and African American parent-daughter pairs participated. The intervention entailed physical activities, nutrition classes, and self-esteem activities.

Efficiency, comprehensiveness and cost-effectiveness when comparing dictation and electronic templates for operative reports.

Surgeons typically document operative events using dictation services. Dictated reports are frequently incomplete or delayed. Electronic note templates could potentially improve this process.

Psychosocial and spiritual factors associated with smoking and substance use during pregnancy in African American and White low-income women.

Objective: To determine the associations between sociodemographic, psychosocial, and spiritual factors to health risk behaviors during pregnancy in African American and White low-income women.

Design: Descriptive, using prenatal interviews and medical record review as data sources.

Setting: An urban prenatal clinic in the Midwestern United States.

Are you often sad and depressed? Brief measures to identify women at risk for depression in pregnancy.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test brief depression screening measures as an initial step to identify women at risk for depression in pregnancy.

Study Design And Methods: Psychometric theory and a prospective correlational research design with a convenience sample of 130 low-income women guided this study. Measurements included (a) single-item depression-screening measures, (b) a two-item depression screening measure, (c) the Brief Depression Screen (BDS), and (d) the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), a standardized measure of self-reported depression that has been used widely in pregnancy.

Postpartum Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections that are diagnosed during the postpartum period (defined as the 3 months after delivery).

Study Design: This was a retrospective cohort study of women delivered of infants at >or=28 weeks of gestation at an urban hospital from 1992 through 1998, including each woman's first delivery during this period. Postpartum C trachomatis and N gonorrhoeae testing were routine.