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Note: Prior to July 1, 2007, the School of Public Health was named the College of Health & Human Performance.

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    AN EXAMINATION OF THE RE-INVENTION PROCESS OF A HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM: THE CHANGES AND EVOLUTION OF "FOCUS ON KIDS" HIV PREVENTION PROGRAM.
    (2004-04-27) Galbraith, Jennifer Scott; Boekeloo, Bradley; Public and Community Health
    Behavioral prevention programs remain one of our most powerful tools in slowing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic. However, questions persist on balancing fidelity of these programs and adapting them to a different target population or setting. The current study explored the extent to which "Focus on Kids," an HIV prevention program with efficacious results from a carefully conducted study, was re-invented when adopted by other agencies and implemented in new settings. This study investigated the quality of re-invention by using a proxy variable of adherence to the core components of the curriculum thought to be responsible for the positive behavior change. The use of a snowball sampling technique identified 34 service providers who had utilized the curriculum. After conducting a telephone survey with the participants, an ex post facto design was used to determine the relationship between reasons for re-invention and other variables thought to be associated with re-invention quality. Results indicated that considerable re-invention occurred. Organizations frequently changed and deleted activities and over half of respondents added new activities. The research allowed the construction of a model of re-invention with factors that were both positively and negatively associated with quality re-invention. Decreasing re-invention quality was associated with citing certain reasons for re-invention: time constraints or the host agency required change. Factors associated with quality implementation included an adopter organization being a national non-governmental organization, having a researcher on the team, or citing expanding to new topics as a reason for re-invention. The results of this study demonstrate the need for curriculum developers to understand the real world environment in which HIV prevention curricula are used. Developers must facilitate practitioners' understanding of the theory and core components of the curriculum thought to be responsible for behavior change.
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    A Qualitative Description of the Physical Education-Based Lived Experiences of Non-Aggressive Socially Isolated Students
    (2004-02-04) Bencal, Carl Robert; Ennis, Catherine D; Andrews, David; Chen, Ang; Kinesiology
    Teachers perceive non-aggressive socially isolated (NASI) students to be socially estranged from a majority of their peers. Unfortunately, these students are often actively or passively removed from the social aspects of school because they demonstrate self-isolating behaviors or face the exclusionary behaviors of peers. This qualitative research examined four, fifth grade NASI students' physical education-based lived experiences. Participants were the researcher, who was also the physical education teacher, two fifth grade teachers, and 51 fifth grade students with varying degrees of peer-related social acceptance. Data were collected over an 11 week period using interviews, journal entries, and observations and analyzed using open, axial, and selective coding. Results indicated that NASI students seemed to experience elements of social estrangement while participating in collaborative learning tasks. Although NASI students, at times, appeared to be socially estranged, they chose to connect with a select few close friends who helped them to feel included.