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Kenneth R. McLeroy
Researcher at Texas A&M University
Publications - 118
Citations - 13685
Kenneth R. McLeroy is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health promotion & Public health. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 116 publications receiving 12446 citations. Previous affiliations of Kenneth R. McLeroy include Oregon Health & Science University & University of Oregon.
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Parental communication and youth sexual behaviour.
TL;DR: It is revealed that youth were much less likely to have initiated sexual intercourse if their parents taught them to say no, set clear rules, talked about what is right and wrong and about delaying sexual activity.
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Community-based interventions.
TL;DR: The article Reconsidering Community-Based Health Promotion: Promise, Performance, and Potential by Merzel and D’Afflitti makes a valuable contribution to the literature on community approaches to health promotion and provides significant recommendations for improving the potential of community-based strategies.
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The importance of external validity.
TL;DR: A new emphasis of the Journal on external validity for appropriate manuscripts is announced and selected aspects of research results translated to public health practice are addressed.
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Factors That Contribute to Effective Community Health Promotion Coalitions: A Study of 10 Project ASSIST Coalitions in North Carolina:
TL;DR: The results suggest that coalitions with good communication and skilled members had higher levels of member participation andcoalitions with skilled staff, skilled leadership, good communication, and more of a task focus had higher level of member satisfaction.
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Measuring the diffusion of innovative health promotion programs.
TL;DR: Development of six questionnaires to measure the extent to which health promotion programs are successfully disseminated and the instruments, which measure the four steps of the diffusion process, have construct validity since they were develóped within existing theories and are derived from the work of previous researchers.