Formative Research to Create a Farm-to-School Program for High School Students in a Lower Income, Diverse, Urban Community.

Background: Using Social Cognitive Theory as a framework, we examined opportunities for promoting local produce consumption among high school students in a lower-income, ethnically diverse, urban community.

Methods: Six focus groups (N = 53) were conducted with students. Using Atlas.

Agricultural Experiences Are Positively Associated With High School Students' Fruit and Vegetable Perceptions and Consumption.

Objective: To examine the relationship between high school students' agricultural experiences and their (1) attitudes about consuming local fruits and vegetables, (2) willingness to try new fruits and vegetables, and (3) fruit and vegetable consumption.

Design: Cross-sectional survey research.

Setting: Public high schools in a lower-income, diverse, urban, northeastern community.

Quality of life of persons with dementia.

Current research on Alzheimer's disease has been primarily focused on causes and treatment of the disease and on reduction of costs of the burden of care to society. However, considerable emphasis now is placed on person-centered care and the need to enhance the quality of life of people with chronic illnesses and conditions. Alzheimer's disease and related dementias have not been a central part of this discussion despite the lengthy course of the illness which has been described as the disappearance of the person.

Correlates of mental disorders in the Quebec general population of 6 to 14-year olds.

Previous epidemiological studies of correlates of child and adolescent mental disorders in the general population have focused more on child/adolescent and socioeconomic/sociodemographic characteristics than on family characteristics. Moreover, there are no generally accepted methods to analyze and interpret correlates. The purpose of the Quebec Child Mental Health Survey in this regard was twofold: (1) to identify correlates of DSM-III-R internalizing and externalizing disorders according to informant (youth, parent, teacher), for three age groups (6-8, 9-11, and 12-14 years), including relevant family characteristics not considered in previous studies; and (2) to interpret the relative importance of risk indicators by ranking correlates according to strength and consistency of association across age groups.

Quebec child mental health survey: prevalence of DSM-III-R mental health disorders.

The Quebec Child Mental Health Survey (QCMHS) was conducted in 1992 on a representative sample of 2400 children and adolescents aged 6 to 14 years from throughout Quebec. Prevalences of nine Axis-I DSM-III-R (American Psychiatric Association, 1987) mental health disorders were calculated based on each informant (for 6-11-year-olds: child, parent, and teacher; for 12-14-year-olds: child and parent). Informant parallelism allows the classification of results of the demographic variables associated with disorders in the logistic regression models.