Reducing perinatal HIV transmission among HIV-infected pregnant women.

Background: In 1995, Help Understand and Guide-Me (HUG-Me) began planning the implementation of Protocol 076, a treatment that aids in the reduction of perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A program coordinator and a social worker worked with a 1572 bed-hospital system to successfully implement the protocol.

Methods: Program effectiveness was tracked through monitoring of client outcomes.

Comparison of stage at diagnosis of melanoma among Hispanic, black, and white patients in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Objective: To compare stage at diagnosis of melanoma between non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic patients.

Design: Retrospective analysis.

Setting: Melanoma cases reported to the Florida Cancer Data System, with known stage and race/ethnicity information, for residents of Miami-Dade County, Florida, from 1997 to 2002.

Accuracy of parental and youth reporting of secondhand smoke exposure: the Florida youth cohort study.

The accuracy of adolescent and parental reports of youth secondhand smoke exposure has received limited attention in the research literature. Florida Youth Cohort Study participants provided saliva samples during the fifth round of interviews for determination of cotinine levels. After exclusion of admitted or likely youth smokers with cotinine levels>14.

Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE) Programs in the State of Florida: correlates and predictors of teachers' perceptions of program effectiveness.

In Florida, data from telephone surveys were used to identify correlates and predictors of teachers' perceptions of the effectiveness of tobacco use prevention education (TUPE) prior to the implementation of the Tobacco Pilot Project (TPP). A 40% random sample of public middle and high schools yielded 296 middle school teachers (MST) and 282 high school teachers (HST). Higher perceived program effectiveness ratings were associated with: using peer leaders, frequent evaluations, parental involvement, few barriers, high student interest, and low tolerance norms for tobacco use.

Amenability and implementation in secondary school antitobacco programs.

Objectives: To describe relationships between teachers' amenability to implement antitobacco programs and features of implementation settings.

Methods: A telephone random survey was administered to middle school and high school teachers in Florida. Data were analyzed via cluster analysis and other multivariate techniques.