RESEARCH PROJECTS
Feasibility and effects of shifting the mix of tertiary care, primary care and prevention and promotion in dealing with cardiovascular disease in Lebanon and Turkey This project has as its home at the Department of Family Medicine
in the Faculty of Medicine. Health Behavior and Education faculty members
are heavily involved in multiple aspects of this project, including needs
assessment, community involvement, and the development, implementation
and evaluation of an intervention program. This is the first community-based
cardiovascular disease prevention program in the region and will serve
as a model program for community-level health promotion in the Arab world.
A similar project is also underway in a community in Turkey and scientists
from universities in Belgium and Germany are providing technical and coordination
expertise to the Lebanon and Turkey projects. R. Afifi-Soweid, M. Shediac-Rizkallah
(Supported by World Health Organization; European Commission.)
Surveillance and intervention for behavioral risk factors in adolescents (the SIBER Project) The SIBER project is a long-term program of research focused
on the health of youth. Initiated by faculty in the Department of Health
Behavior and Education, with representation on a working group by additional
faculty from the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Environmental
Health and Health Services Administration in the Faculty of Health Sciences
and from the Faculty of Medicine, the project focuses, as an initial stage,
on university students. The age range of university students corresponds
to the age of initiation of many risk and lifestyle factors. The research
questions currently addressed in the project are: (a) What are the behaviors
of university students that threaten their health? and, (b) How can interventions
in the university community improve students’ health and well-being? This
research is a beginning step in the development of an ongoing data collection
(and intervention) system for lifestyle and behavioral risk factors. M.
Shediac-Rizkallah, R. Afifi-Soweid, M. Kanj, F. El-Kak. (Supported
by URB; UNICEF; MEAwards, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development.)
Reproductive Health As members of the Faculty of Health Sciences' Reproduction
Health research team, Health Behavior and Education faculty have participated
in qualitative research to describe women’s childbearing experiences in
urban and rural areas of Lebanon. Additional studies and workshops to disseminate
research findings and to influence programs and policies are being planned.
M.
Shediac-Rizkallah and F. El-Kak. (Mellon Foundation and UNICEF.)
Mayer, J.P.*, Anderson, C.*, Gabriel, K.,* and Soweid, R.A., A randomized trial of an intervention to prevent lawnmower injuries in children. Patient Education and Counseling, 34, 239-246, 1998. Mayer, J.P.*, Soweid, R.A., Debrey, S.*, Brownson C.*, Goodman RM* and Brownson RC*, Practices of successful community coalitions. American Journal of Health Behavior, 22 (5), 368-377, 1998. Shediac-Rizkallah, M.C. and Bone, L.R.*, Planning for the sustainability of community-based health programs: Conceptual frameworks and future directions for research, practice and policy. Health Education Research: Theory and Practice, 13 (1), 87-108, 1998. Shediac-Rizkallah, M.C., Cassady, C.E.*, Scheirer, M.A.*,
Liang, W.*, Harlow, J.*, and Staff of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Program*.
Linking implementation to outcomes: Evaluation of a community-based breast
and cervical cancer-screening program. International Quarterly of Community
Health Education, 16 (1), 5-23, 1996-1997.
ABSTRACTS,
PRESENTATIONS, AND PROCEEDINGS
Afifi-Soweid, R., Evaluation of Ajyalouna program. Ajyalouna School Health Conference, First Arab School Health Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, February 1999. Cassady, C.E.*, Shediac-Rizkallah, M. et al., Sustainability of Maryland’s Coordinated Breast Cancer Screening Program (poster). American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Maryland, USA, 1997. El-Kak, F., Afifi, R., Kanj, M., Telgeh, C. and Shediac, M., A study of the behavior of Lebanese high-school students in relation to sexual and reproductive health issues. XIIth World Congress of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, Helsinki, Finland, June, 1998. Housemann, R.A.*, Mayer, J.P.*, Soweid, R.A., Wadud, E.*, and Rafii, R.*, Assessment of rural community health: a multi-level approach(poster). Annual Art and Science of Health Promotion Conference, March 1997. Liang, W.*, Shediac-Rizkallah, M. and Celentano, D.*, Factors
influencing patterns of screening and risk-taking behaviors (poster). American
Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November, 1998.
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