Publications

Here are our publications in the last 5 years. Contact the Tri-Ethnic Center for full length articles and queries regarding the same.

2009

Henry, K.L., Stanley, L.R., Edwards, R.W., Harkabus, L., & Chapin, L. (2009). Individual and contextual effects of school adjustment on adolescent alcohol use. Prevention Science. http://www.springerlink.com/content/a7757118r314650m/fulltext.pdf

Tragesser, S.L., Beauvais, F., Burnside, M., Jumper-Thurman, P. (2009). Differences in illicit drug use rates among Oklahoma and non-Oklahoma Indian youth. Substance Use & Misuse.

2008

Beauvais, F., Jumper-Thurman, P., & Burnside, M. (2008). The changing patterns of drug use among American Indian students over the past thirty years. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 15(2), 15-24.

Miller, K.A., Beauvais, F., Burnside, M., & Jumper-Thurman, P., (2008). A comparison of American Indian and non-Indian fourth to sixth graders rates of drug use. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 7(3), 258-267.

Stanley, L.R., Comello, M.L.G., Edwards, R.W., & Marquart, B.S. (2008). School adjustment in rural and urban communities. Do students from “Timbuktu differ from their “City Slicker” peers? Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 37, 225-238.

Swaim, R.C., & Kelly, K. (2008). Efficacy of a randomized, controlled trial of an anti-violence media intervention among small-town middle school youth. Prevention Science, 9, 202-214.

2007

Beauvais , F., Jumper Thurman, P., Burnside, M., & Plested, B. (2007). Prevalence of American Indian adolescent tobacco use: 1993-2004. Substance Use & Misuse, 42(4) 591-601.

Edwards, R. W., Stanley, L. R., Plested, B. A., Marquart, B. S., Chen, J., & Jumper Thurman, P. (2007). Disparities in young adolescent inhalant use by rurality, gender and ethnicity. Substance Use & Misuse, 42(4), 643-670.

Henry, K. L., Edwards, R. W., & Oetting, E. R. (2007). Use of ephedra among rural-dwelling U.S. adolescents. Substance Use & Misuse, 42(6), 949-959.

Lawson, C. R., Borrayo, E. A., Edwards, R., & Belloso, C. (2007). Community readiness to promote Latinas’ participation in breast cancer prevention clinical trials. Health & Social Care in the Community, 15(4) 369-378.

Marquart, B. S., Nannini, D. K., Edwards, R. W., Stanley, L.R., & Wayman, J. C. (2007). Prevalence of dating violence and victimization: Regional and gender differences. Adolescence, 42(168), 645-657.

McCoy, H. V., Malow, R., Edwards, R. W., Thurland, A., & Rosenberg, R. (2007). A strategy for improving community effectiveness of HIV/AIDS intervention design: The Community Readiness Model in the Caribbean. Substance Use & Misuse, 42(10), 1579-1592.

Plested, B. A, Edwards, R. W., & Jumper Thurman, P., (2007). Disparities in community readiness for HIV/AIDS prevention. Substance Use & Misuse, 42(4), 729-739.

Swaim, R.C., Perrine, N.E., & Aloise-Young, P.A. (2007). Gender differences in a comparison of two tested etiological models of cigarette smoking among elementary school students. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37, 1681-1696.

Thurman, P., & Edwards, R. (Eds.). 2007. Proceedings “strength-based models to overcome disparities: bridging research to practice,” a conference held at the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, September 9 and 10, 2002. Cultures and health disparities. Substance Use & Misuse, 42(4), 687-692.

Tragesser, S.L., Beauvais, F., Swaim, R.C., Edwards, R.W., & Oetting, E.R. (2007). Parental monitoring, peer drug involvement, and marijuana use across three ethnicities, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38(6), 670-694.

2006

Deffenbacher, J.L. (2006). Evidence for effective treatment of anger-related disorders. In E.L. Feindler (Ed.), Anger related disorders: A practitioner’s guide to comparative treatments (pp. 43-69). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Co.

Edwards, R. W., & Alexander, K. (2006). Critical unresolved ethical issues in substance user treatment. In J. Kleinig & S. Einstein (Eds.), Ethical challenges for intervening in drug use: Policy, research and treatment issues (pp. 642-643). Huntsville, TX: The Office of International Criminal Justice (OICJ), Sam Houston State University, Criminal Justice Center.

Kelly, K. J., Stanley, L. R., Comello, M. L. G., & Gonzalez, G. R. (2006). Tobacco counteradvertisements aimed at bicultural Mexican-American youth: The impact of language and theme. Journal of Health Communication, 11, 455-476.

Kelly, K. J., Comello, M. L. G., & Slater, M. D. (2006). Development of an aspirational campaign to prevent youth substance use: “Be under your own influence”. Social Marketing Quarterly, 12(2), 14-27.

Slater, M. D., Kelly, K. J., & Thackeray, R. (2006). Segmentation on a shoestring: Health audience segmentation in limited-budget and local social marketing interventions. Health Promotion Practice, 7(2), 170-173.

Slater, M. D., Kelly, K. J., Edwards, R. W., Thurman, P. J., Plested, B. A., Keefe, T. J., Lawrence, F. R., & Henry, K. L. (2006). Combining in-school and community-based media efforts: Reducing marijuana and alcohol uptake among younger adolescents. Health Education Research, 21(1), 157-167.

Swaim, R. C., Henry, K. L., & Kelly, K. (2006). Predictors of aggressive behaviors among rural middle school youth. Journal of Primary Prevention, 27(3), 229-243.

Shears, J. L., Edwards, R., & Stanley, L. R. (2006). School bonding as a protective factor against drug use in rural youth. Social Work Research, 30(1), 6-18.

Tragesser, S. L., Aloise-Young, P., & Swaim, R. C. (2006). Peer influence, images of smokers, and beliefs about smoking among preadolescent nonsmokers. Social Development, 15(2), 311-325.

2005

Beauvais, F., Oetting, E. R., Edwards, R. W., Swaim, R., Jumper-Thurman, P., Plested, B. A., & Deffenbacher, J. L. (2005). Inhalant use in the United States. In E. Zvartau (Ed.), Inhalants [ИНГАЛЯНТЬІ] (pp. 224-246). Saint Petersburg: Pavlov Medical University Publishing House.

Deffenbacher, J. L., Richards, T. L., Filetti, L. B., & Lynch, R. S. (2005). Angry drivers: A test of State-Trait Theory. Violence and Victims, 20, 455-469.

Henry, K. L., Swaim, R. C., & Slater, M. D. (2005). Intraindividual variability of school bonding and adolescents’ beliefs about the effect of substance use on future aspirations. Prevention Science, 6(2), 101-112.

Plested, B. A., Edwards, R. W., & Jumper-Thurman, P. (2005, October). Community Readiness: A handbook for successful change. Fort Collins, CO: Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research.

Slater, M. D., Edwards, R. W., Plested, B. A., Thurman, P. J., Kelly, K. J., Comello, M. L. G., & Keefe, T. J. (2005). Using Community Readiness key informant assessments in a randomized group prevention trial: Impact of a participatory community-media intervention. Journal of Community Health, 30(1), 39-53.

Vernon , I., & Jumper Thurman, P. (2005). The changing face of HIV/AIDS among Native populations. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 27(3), 247-255.