SBM 33rd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions

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Tuesday - Pre-Conference Workshop

Wednesday, Courses 101-301

Wednesday, Courses 401 - 501 and Seminars - Cannot choose these if you already chose Course 301

Wednesday - Course 601 and Seminars - Cannot choose these if you aleady chose 301, 501 or S1 - S3

Thursday - Featured Symposium F2 and Symposia 1 - 9

Thursday - Opening Keynote and Awards Ceremony

Thursday - Panel Discussions 01-05

Thursday - Master Lectures 01 and 02

Thursday - Featured Symposium F3 and Symposia 10 - 18

Thursday - Paper Sessions 01 - 09

Thursday - Presential Keynote Address

Friday - Featured Symposium 4 and Symposia 19 - 27

Friday - Keynote Address

Friday - Panel Discussions 06 - 10

Friday - Master Lectures 3 and 4

Friday - Paper Sessions 10 - 19

Friday - Featured Symposium 5 and Symposia 28-36

Friday - Presidential Keynote Panel 4

Saturday - Master Lectures 05-06

Saturday - Paper Sessions 20-28

Sat - Paper Sessions 29-37

Saturday - Closing Panels 05 and 06

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Conference Objective 2: Identify recent advances in behavioral medicine research.

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Conference Objective 3: Summarize the role of behavioral medicine in todayâ€™s changing health systems environment.

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Summarize the process through which basic behavioral science discoveries can be translated into effective behavioral interventions.

Identify the major concepts, study designs and methods used in the development and early testing of behavioral interventions, such as user-centered design, small-N proof of concept studies, and pilot studies.

Identify how adaptive designs can be used in dissemination and implementation science.

Measure the domains in the RE-AIM model and how to apply these concepts to their research.

Apply community engagement methodologies to research with healthcare practitioner and systems.

Describe examples of evidence-based weight management interventions in different populations.

Apply evidence for effective assessment and intervention with underserved groups.

Summarize the impact of policy on obesity and weight management within underserved populations.

Describe the peer review process for NIH and similar agencies.

Identify strategies for responding to reviewer concerns.

Describe complex interventions in terms of their component behavior change techniques.

Utilize a comprehensive taxonomy of behavior change techniques to design complex interventions.

Name the 5 practices of exemplary leadership and know one's own strengths and weaknesses in these areas.

List various communication styles and how that influences/is influenced by others in working relationships.

Identify the multiple causes of obesity and their relationship to intervention and policy for change.

Identify the mechanisms by which obesity causes cancer.

Summarize new strategies and methods that will stimulate innovative approaches and hypotheses for the behavioral study of chronic illnesses.

Describe background and techniques for qualitative research that can help generate new hypotheses and research questions for the study of human behavior.

Summarize the NIH grants application, review, and funding process among early career investigators.

List NIH research grant funding mechanisms among early career investigators.

Apply skills and insights for effective grant writing among early career investigators.

Employ networking among early career researchers, senior researchers, and NIH staff.

Discuss the literature supporting the importance of implementing effective health coaching strategies in healthcare settings.

Differentiate between provider behaviors that foster positive patient / provider collaboration and those that do not.

Demonstrate three effective techniques that can be utilized when partnering with patients regarding health behavior change.

Describe conceptual basis for using mindfulness meditation-based techniques with individuals with stress related eating and obesity.

Describe the empirical basis for the application of this approach, including both meditation research and research in the area of food intake regulation.

Summarize selected meditative techniques that can be used with individuals with compulsive eating problems in regulating cravings, experiences of hunger and satiation, and poor self-acceptance.

Compare and contrast the utility of environmental audits tools and their appropriateness for different settings and populations.

Perform an environmental audit of a neighborhood, playground, park, and/or food outlet.

Summarize how environmental audit tools can be used to enhance behavior change initiatives and inform policy.

Summarize the physiological basis of the RR.

Summarize the theoretical underpinnings and components of the R3P.

Practice the R3P treatment exercises.

Summarize how R3P intervenes upon: 1) eliciting the RR, 2) decreasing stress reactivity, and 3) increasing connectedness to self and to others.

Describe the dynamic relationship between community conditions, clinical practice, and individual health outcomes.

Outline concrete ways that health care providers can engage in community change and advocacy efforts.

Identify specific structural and system-wide changes that are necessary in order to promote effective integration of community and clinical practice.

Apply the Spectrum of Prevention framework to develop comprehensive, primary prevention strategies.

Summarize the concept of optimizing behavioral interventions.

Utilize an engineering-inspired approach to developing behavioral interventions.

Describe effective strategies for training peer supporters.

Demonstrate various methods for evaluating training outcomes.

Describe approaches to ensure intervention fidelity.

Describe basic principles of user centered design in the creation of technology based behavioral interventions.

Differentiate between types of technology and clearly communicate technology needs.

Discuss best practices in data security and trial implementation for technology based research.

Identify how changing environmental, social and economic factors is critical for improving health, safety, and inequities across communities.

Describe how THRIVE can serve as a comprehensive and strategic planning tool that can engage community members, change norms to improve health.

Use tools designed to improve collaboration and strengthen partnerships.

Identify theoretical rationale for interactive group-based orientation sessions prior to randomization.

Practice facilitator skills for leading interactive group-based orientation sessions prior to randomization via mock orientation sessions with role play.

Describe the prevalence of traumatic events, (including sexual assault, domestic violence, elder abuse, and child abuse) and the common physical, psychological, and social consequences associated with traumatic events.

Describe how interactions with the healthcare system personnel can be healing or harmful to trauma survivors.

Summarize how routine screening, trauma-informed care, and a “universal trauma precautions” approach can improve services and outcomes for survivors.

Generate 2-3 strategies that can be used for research or clinical purposes to implement trauma-informed care into their specific work settings.

Identify 13 behavioral and psychosocial domains that are key to improving and maintaining health and/or are the basis of health disparities.

Describe the five levels of functionality to make health information technology more patient-centered and promote collection and use of patient reported measures.

Identify specific brief and actionable measures for health behaviors that could be implemented into paper pencil, telephone, or other interactive technology delivery channels.

Describe the importance of evaluating innovations in diverse settings, and of studying adaptations that are made to a planned protocol during implementation.

Summarize findings on the impact of psychosocial interventions in pain, fatigue, and depression cancer survivors.

Summarize findings on the efficacy of psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic interventions for depression in cancer patients who met an entry threshold for depressive symptoms.

Discuss logistical challenges related to meta-analysis of psychosocial interventions.

Describe the effectiveness of exercise, psychological, exercise combined with psychological and pharmaceutical interventions for cancer-related fatigue.

Describe the risk conferred by obesity and physical inactivity for breast cancer recurrence.

Describe the rationale to support weight management studies in cancer survivors and their family members.

Summarize the delivery of a 6-month diet, exercise, and behavior modification weight control program in overweight breast cancer survivors.

Summarize the health behavior interests and needs of African-American breast cancer survivors.

Identify potential safety risks accompanying weight loss trials in breast cancer survivors.

Describe the primary aims of SSA (also known as 'evaluability assessment') for childhood obesoty prevention.

Describe how to build evidence based practice and promising practices for obesity prevention.

Describe the process to accelerate the discovery and application of replicable, evidence-based policies and practices for childhood obesity prevention.

Identify effective childhood obesity prevention interventions of all four of the intervention types included in the Community Guide.

Describe the three core concepts of communication studies and their application to preventive care.

Explain the novel approach to adaptation processes in implementation research in the area of substance abuse prevention.

Describe the idiographic approach to behavioral medicine research.

Examine the usefulness of using time series methodology to describe behavioral data, such as adherence data.

Describe why idiographic methods are useful for autism-related research.

Explain the necessity to apply idiographic patient-specific methods.

Describe different approaches to optimizing behavioral interventions.

Define 'optimize' in the context of experimental designs.

Describe how adaptive health interventions operationalize the tactics and strategies of treating chronic health disorders.

Describe the role of a methodology arising from engineering (control systems engineering) in advancing behavioral intervention development.

Identify critical ways in which HIV stigma undermines health outcomes among PLWHA, and blocks HIV prevention efforts among people at risk of contracting HIV.

Summarize current science on HIV stigma and ART adherence.

Identify how different types of perceived discrimination are associated with poor health outcomes among HIV+ Blacks and Latinos.

Describe how spiritual peace can buffer the effect of stigma on depression.

Identify HIV stigma mechanisms that relate to HIV risk factors among risk groups.

Describe the challenges to behavior change among older adults.

Describe Function Focused Care.

Describe the PRAISEDD intervention.

Describe effective approaches to encourage participants to set specific behavioral health goals in online trials.

Discuss the difference between specific and common process mechanisms of change.

Differentiate between treatment-specific and common factors as they relate to mechanisms of change.

Debate whether presumed therapeutic mechanisms are the actual engines of change in psychosocial treatments for chronic pain must be empirically studied.

Describe the advantages of diary data in the evaluation of mechanisms of change in behavioral treatments.

Differentiate between common factors and treatment specific mechanisms.

Discuss the transition from therapeutic to predictive medicine and its implication for better prevention.

Inspect some of the problems surrounding the estimation of predictive effects, biases in this evidence, and ways to move forward in predictive medicine

Analyze challenges that may occur in culturally adapting an evidence-based intervention, including the potential conflict between maintaining fidelity to original intervention and adapting the intervention to meet the needs of the cultural group.

Examine how these concepts have been applied across three diverse Latino medical groups within both prevention (primary and secondary) and treatment interventions.

Describe the current role of the FDA in food labeling oversight and regulation.

Discuss study findings, and why they point to the critical need for uniform, evidence-based standards that provide a consistent and accurate picture of a product’s nutritional value.

Identify key advocacy tools and approaches to build the case for regulation of front-of-package labeling.

Identify the ways in which intensive, purposeful mentoring can facilitate increased representation of underrepresented groups in heath disparities research and practice.

Discuss the impact of mentoring programs on students, mentors, and community partners.

Examine the reasons for non-psychiatric clinicians’ reluctance to screen for distress.

Discuss the pathways for incorporating distress screening into standard practice, such as the inclusion of suicidality training in medical school, residency or CME courses or the implementation of algorithmic management guidelines into the screening process itself.

List common issues faced in mid and later behavioral medicine career stages.

Define the critical role that institutional practices and policies can play in supporting career growth beyond the early career stages.

Summarize the benefits of exercise for cancer survivors.

Summarize the ACS and ACSM recommendations for exercise in cancer survivors.

Describe the common cancer treatment sequelae that may influence exercise performance.

Describe the ACS Prospective Surveillance Model for Rehabilitation for Women with Breast Cancer.

Describe models of collaboration between clinicians and public health and community organizations to help patients obtain intensive behavioral counseling to support healthy behaviors.

Describe the citizen-centered model of community-wide collaboration to foster healthy behaviors.

Summarize how genetics or genomics can be incorporated into health behavior and intervention research.

Describe the genetic basis of the ability to respond to regular exercise and indicate early molecular markers for cardiometabolic risk factors.

Illustrate ways to translate basic science findings into relevant and practical applications to improve health.

Summarize how to implement a nationwide program of research within a cancer service provider organization.

Describe process evaluation results of three inter-connected trials using web- and print-based interventions to facilitate cancer decision making and adjustment.

Describe three multi-media interventions on decision making and distress.

Summarize the complexities of a multi-institutional trial that includes 18 months of development of three different multiple software programs.

Describe the early efficacy data on yoga interventions for cancer patients and survivors.

Examine the role of clinical significance in the interpretation of Yoga and cancer research findings.

Develop a simple method of tracking outcomes from any clinical application of yoga.

Estimate the extent to which young adult survivors do yoga.

Summarize the feasibility and efficacy data on yoga interventions for underserved, ethnic minority cancer patients and survivors.

Identify partners and partnership models that facilitate the conduct of prevention research in schools and communities, and dissemination of preventive interventions.

Describe the process of research-community partnership in Healthy Places.

Describe how scan form information, food labels, and ads in large retail stores can be examined for relevance to obesity prevention.

Summarize Evidence-based prevention and interactive activities to a museum setting.

Identify culturally and contextually relevant issues to consider in translating an evidence-based prevention program.

Summarize how policies, practices and environmental change can improve physical activity in schools.

Identify physical activity-related provisions included in the congressionally-mandated school district wellness policies

Examine barriers that prevent youth active travel to school.

Describe trends in PE, varsity and intramural sports participation rates in US secondary schools.

Describe new findings regarding the neural mechanisms underlying food motivation in obese and healthy weight adults and children.

Identify specific brain regions and functions that may be involved in excessive intake of high energy-density foods in obesity.

Describe pediatric neuroimaging studies of food motivation.

Describe the brain's role in obesity.

Describe recent evidence examining neural mechanisms underlying food motivation associated with weight loss intervention.

Express scientific questions that can be addressed using latent class analysis.

Conduct basic latent class analysis using PROC LCA.

Interpret all parameters in a latent class model, including models with a grouping variable, a covariate, and a distal outcome.

Discuss the use of the principles from diffusion of innovation theory in developing a workplace sun protection education program.

Describe the effect of exercise on smoking cessation during pregnancy.

Describe the rationale for why exercise might be useful as an aid to smoking cessation during pregnancy and post-partum.

Describe the role of exercise in preventing postpartum depression.

Summarize components of effective lifestyle intervention to prevent excessive weight gain in pregnancy.

Identify ways in which peer support programs differ in different settings and with different populations.

Describe the implementation and evaluation of a community based group peer support program to achieve key outcomes of peer support as described in the symposium abstract.

Identify ways in which primary care can be organized to facilitate community outreach and peer support programs.

Summarize the environmental and social factors in rural Alabama that create a distinct context for diabetes self-management.

List the devices that exist for monitoring health behavior through movement.

Investigate and select the potential data sources measured from prostheses for the design of stumble detector.

Explain dynamical systems perspective to modeling and analyzing human motion kinematics.

Discover patterns of naturally occurring conversations such as average duration of a conversation and frequency of conversations.

Summarize basic ideas of the field of ubiquitous computing.

Summarize the impact of social media on health communication landscape and implications on health promotion interventions.

Review the application of social network techniques to studying online communities.

Summarize approaches to using social media for health promotion.

Review the current evidence on the quality of online peer social networks for weight control.

Describe pain and longitudinal patterns in pain among post-treatment breast cancer survivors.

Examine the relationship between exercise dose and psychosocial outcomes among women treated for breast cancer.

Summarize predictors of fatigue in cancer patients and survivors.

Identify types of individuals who are likely to benefit from cognitive-behavioral stress management interventions following a diagnosis of breast cancer.

Describe different trajectories of illness intrusiveness that emerge following a diagnosis of breast cancer.

Describe the associations between child eating behavior and: child BMI, restrictive feeding practices, and food-specific and general parenting styles.

Illustrate the genetic effects of MAOA uVNTR polymorphism on overweight risk and BMI in Chinese adolescents.

Describe the effect of sleep duration on children's eating behaviors.

Describe the latest evidence on effective behavioral treatment approaches for child obesity in primary care.

Summarize ways to meaningfully integrate multiple systems into obesity-related interventions for adolescents.

Summarize the conceptual foundation of the treatment elements of the MB-EAT program.

Summarize the conceptual foundation for adapting MB-EAT to application with diabetes.

Describe the findings from a tightly controlled efficacy trial of 2 WLM interventions.

Describe significance and interpretation of brain activity at N2 on this task.

Identify the psychological and physiological effects associated with sitting mindfulness meditation from this study.

Differentiate between two theoretically distinct behavioral interventions.

Evaluate the efficacy of a novel intervention to promote increased physical activity, intentions to change behavior, and awareness of behavior.

Support the use of an Internet-based intervention for persons with MS to promote physical activity.

Identify strategies for lower body functionality improvement for older adults.

Describe the comparable efficacy of GMCB and traditional exercise interventions upon change in self-reported physical activity.

Describe how psychosocial factors, specifically dysregulated emotional and physiological coping with stress, as well as behavioral factors, specifically adherence to HIV medications, may contribute to HIV progression.

Identify self-efficacy as a mediator of the association between fatalism and self-efficacy among Latinos living with HIV/AIDS.

Evaluate the role of psychological vulnerability factors within the context of HIV disease management.

Examine the prevalence of sub-optimal ART adherence.

List predictors of adherence to HIV/AIDS related medications in low income settings.

Describe glycemic and family management outcomes of a clinic-integrated behavioral intervention for families of youth with type 1 diabetes.

Identify the role of self-efficacy and knowledge on diabetes self-management responsibility in youth with Type 1 diabetes.

Summarize the progression among subtypes of patients with type1 diabetes regarding independence and success in self-management.

Describe how parental involvement in diabetes management changes across adolescence.

Explain relations between falling reactivity and adherence including mediators that are central to general and diabetes-specific self-regulation, and family functioning.

Examine the relationships among stress and health behaviors in lung cancer patient-family member dyads.

Describe how perceptions of health status change over time in a sample of patients with metastatic lung cancer.

Identify factors related to PB, R, and MB in lung cancer patients.

Identify Self-Regulation theory constructs in an adherence intervention developed for head and neck cancer patients on active treatment.

Summarize impact of fear of recurrence on lifestyle behaviors.

Investigate the bases for 'I don't know' responses in your surveys.

Evaluate study findings regarding the interaction between reward sensitivity and loss aversion in predicting sexual risk.

Summarize the effects of the use of a DA and additional individual decisional counseling on cardiac risk reduction behavior.

Describe the effectiveness of an intervention to increase informed decision making regarding prostate cancer screening in a community sample of Latino men.

Describe the role of formative research in community based intervention development.

Compare and contrast fast food restaurant responses, both locally and nationally, to a county ordinance prohibiting toy/incentive giveaways with meals, foods, and beverages not meeting minimal nutrition criteria.

Summarize evidence of the food environment's role in influencing adolescent dietary and weight outcomes.

Use the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey.

Describe the issue of limited enrollment in food assistance programs by those who are eligible.

Summarize how family sit-down meals and parental involvement in their children's physical activity (predictors) are associated with disordered weight control behaviors (outcome) in a diverse sample of middle school youth.

Summarize the potential contributions that the behavioral medicine field can make in promoting health and quality of life on the individual as well as societal levels.

Describe the challenges that the field faces in actualizing its potential for positively impacting society.

Outline the use of narrative in effectively communicating behavioral medicine research to the public and policy makers.

Evaluate different approaches to communicating about cancer screening.

Discuss information needs of individuals trying to make a decision about cancer screening.

Describe degree of awareness of changes to breast cancer screening guidelines.

Identify and discriminate four different stages of defensive information processing that can be applied to diverse health behaviors.

Communicate to others the main physical, emotional, and practical concerns of post-treatment cancer survivors.

Summarize the information management experiences of people with and without a personal history of cancer.

Describe Latino cancer survivors' physical, emotional and practical concerns.

Summarize post-treatment problems among individuals diagnosed with cancer as adolescents and young adults.

Identify 3 alternative initial treatment approaches to standard behavioral weight loss intervention trials.

Describe the difference between stepped care and standard approaches to obesity treatment.

Describe the 18-month results of a randomized trial that examined whether learning 'stability skills' before losing weight improved long-term weight management, i.e., after session/staff contact ended.

Describe the new small changes theory and treatment methodology.

Describe how mobile phone technologies can enhance eating and physical activity research by gathering real-time self-report and objective information about perceptions, mood, contexts, and behaviors.

Describe how EMA is being used to predict clinical and non-clinical disordered eating events.

Describe context-sensitive ecological momentary assessment.

Compare smart phone application and commercial available applications for testing mechanisms for behavior changes.

List the different challenges and issues related to the implementation of large scale lifestyle interventions in diverse health care settings.

Summarize the goals of the American College of Sports Medicine's Exercise is Medicine initiative and the role the Society of Behavioral Medicine is playing to enhance this initiative.

Summarize the policies and organizational strategies used to implement the largest weight management treatment program in the United States.

Describe some of the potential barriers to large scale implementation of internet mediated lifestyle change interventions.

Discuss strengths and challenges that different organizational settings offer to hosting and sustaining peer support programs.

Summarize the challenges facing the implementation of sustainable peer support programs in underserved and resource-poor rural communities that have not previously included such programs.

Describe an urban peer support program for low-income patients with diabetes.

Describe 3 strategies for integrating peer mentors into an existing health system.

Discuss contemporary and complementary perspectives on the state of the art in basic and translational behavioral medicine research.

Discuss the role that theoretical mechanisms have in the development of scientific explanations.

Describe the utility and deficits of treating cognition separate from behavioral/motor concepts.

Discuss the evidence that relates stress to cancer incidence, recurrence, and survival.

Describe the basic principles of branding and how they translate from the commercial sector to health behavior change.

Describe basic principles of health branding.

Identify the need and use of branding in smoking cessation campaigns.

Summarize commercial branding and the psychological and public health theories that guide it.

Summarize the basic principles of user-centered design as it relates to brands.

Name 3 motivational theories and perspectives used to promote health behavior.

Describe the basic tenets of self-determination theory in the context of health behavior change interventions.

Review relevant research findings in the domain of health.

Name two major approaches to health message framing.

Name CDC’s winnable battles.

Describe the most promising strategies that are being employed to address CDC’s winnable battle areas.

Summarize data resources from CDC that can be used to design and evaluate effective prevention programs.

Name two major approaches to health message framing.

List environmental and cultural factors associated with Obesity in the Mexican Diaspora.

Describe strategies for partnering with schools to promote healthier lifestyles.

Identify solutions for a struggling health care system in order to reverse the obesity epidemic in the Mexican Diaspora.

Discuss the value of clinical guidance in improving survivor QOL

Explain the role of the NCSRC as an intervention to change provider behavior.

List new NIH funding opportunities in the area of adherence.

Describe multiple Adherence Network initiatives to enhance the methodology of self-report.

Describe the scientific constructs identified in information products and explored among study participants.

List the factors that are influencing consumer beliefs and actions.

Name recommendations for future communications about scientific topics including pandemic influenza.

Discuss strategies for developing a research program as a graduate student or post-doctoral trainee.

Discuss guidelines for optimally balancing coursework, research and clinical demands.

Define integrative medicine and describe the growth of this interdisciplinary field in the last 13 years.

Summarize the latest research findings in area of falls, frailty, and dementia.

Describe the systematic review criteria applied in this study.

Summarize a promising behavioral intervention methodology for adolescents with chronic disease that enhances chronic disease management and patient self-advocacy.

Discover novel strategies to measure message appeal and effectiveness.

Discuss the applicability of socioemotional selectivity theory to health messaging.

Summarize the results of a meta-analysis of 182 data sets assessing SDT constructs and health outcomes.

Review factors that influence cancer screening in diverse populations.

Report average numbers of symptoms reported by breast, lung, and GI cancer patients.

Discuss the disconnect between the IOM recommendations and adoption and the delivery of survivorship care plans in current breast cancer care.

Summarize how the quality of individualized doctor-patient relationships relate to important patient outcomes.

Discuss predictors of psychological adjustment among Latinas diagnosed with breast cancer.

Summarize treatment-related infertility risk associated cancer therapy.

Examine the congruence of fertility risk communication among adolescent males newly diagnosed with cancer, their parents, and health care providers.

Review and behavioral medicine objectives and outcomes of BRCA1/2 cancer genetic testing.

Estimate the rate of seizure occurrence in children undergoing therapy for ALL and identify clinical factors associated with risk for seizures (e.g., prior history of seizures, intensity of therapy).

Describe how sexual communication may influence mothers' decisions to vaccinate their daughters in order to prevent HPV.

Identify areas of potential collaboration between behavioral and integrative medicine, including the study of mechanisms by which interventions impact health and well-being.

Summarize the latest techniques for measuring fall risk and dementia using in clinic techniques and free living measures.

Describe how mental health-related quality of life may identify those most likely to adhere to weight loss treatment recommendations.

Differentiate between self-efficacy for eating and self-efficacy for physical activity and will be able to describe the relationship between these behavior-specific types of self-efficacy, weight control behaviors, and weight loss.

Describe how having strong fitness-related motives to participate in a lifestyle change study influences preferences for healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Describe long-term changes in perceived barriers to healthy eating, dietary intake, and weight in a 24-month behavioral weight loss trial

Assess the impact of self-monitoring of body weight on behavioral changes.

Identify direct and indirect effects of a health promotion intervention for promoting physical activity.

Identify the specific barriers working mothers face and defend the need for interventions with this population.

Describe the role of breast cancer in promoting physical activity in women at increased risk for breast cancer.

Describe increases found in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in a sample of postpartum women.

Describe physical activity barriers experienced by African American women in the Deep South.

Examine synergistic effects of built environments and psychosocial characteristics on physical activity.

Describe how focus groups and key informant interviews can guide implementation strategies.

Summarize environmental changes that can be implemented during recess to increase PA in children.

Summarize how social and environmental factors potentially influence physical activity and blood pressure outcomes in underserved African American adults.

Summarize the value of mapping psychological characteristics.

Examine the impact of poverty on condom compliance and safe sex practices among sex workers in Sonagachi, India.

Describe barriers to PMTCT uptake in South Africa.

Describe AIDS-related stigma as a barrier to HIV testing and as an HIV risk factor among patrons of informal drinking venues in South Africa.

Describe strategies to facilitate implementation of an intervention.

Assess the impact of BCC in reducing vulnerability of vadolescent girls to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) problems and HIV/AIDS due to premarital sex behavior.

Summarize the relationship of epinephrine to trunk fat in normal individuals.

Describe the Healthy Living Partnerships to Prevent Diabetes Weight Loss intervention.

Distinguish between the impact of positive and negative psychological factors on diabetes self-care behaviors and glycemic control.

Compare factors associated with physical inactivity in men and women with type 2 diabetes.

Demonstrate evidence for a moderating role of depression in the relationship between social support and diabetes treatment adherence.

Examine a possible biological mechanism for depression to impact the body’s ability to handle glucose during a physiological challenge in Hispanics at risk for developing type2 diabetes.

Interpret the biological pathways that may be involved in the relationship between depression and the Metabolic Syndrome.

Evaluate the relationship between orthostatic blood pressure regulation and mood.

Describe the impact of depression on the anti-inflammatory properties of light-to-moderate alcohol consumption.

Categorize cardiovascular (CVD)risk factors associated with depressive symptoms.

Define cultural and linguistic adaptation of an intervention.

Compare and contrast several methods for measuring CRC screening usage outcomes.

Identify socio-demographic predictors of strong preference for genetic and environmental risk assessment (GERA)for colorectal cancer.

Describe the Rural Cancer Prevention Center's colorectal cancer screening formative research study which took place in Appalachian Kentucky.

Identify constructs that should be assessed when training community health advisors.

Describe the current state of health inequities across ethnic/racial and income groups

Summarize 3 intervention studies that work to reducing the inequitable burden of cancer to underserved populations.

Describe screening innovations in a comprehensive cancer center and adaptation of the technology to a community setting.

Demonstrate the validity and reliability of a problem-related distress screening tool for the community.

Describe an innovative touch-screen system used to meet new standards of care.

Describe how distress screening was implemented in a community-based organization and a small oncology practice.

Describe the results of several large studies of skin cancer early detection, risk-enhancing and protective behaviors, and sun protection policies.

Describe factors associated with the detection of thin vs. thick melanoma.

Outline some basic characteristics of indoor tanners. Identify sociocultural and demographic correlates of skin cancer prevention behaviors among Hispanic adults.

Identify sociocultural and demographic correlates of skin cancer prevention behaviors among Hispanic adults.

Describe school district and administrator characteristics that affect the adoption of sun protection policies during the active promotion of policies to school districts.

Identify barriers and facilitators to conducting lifestyle interventions for weight loss and weight management in diverse community settings.

Identify barriers and facilitators to implementing a weight loss intervention for individuals with severe mental illness into a community setting.

Describe the school nurse-delivered weight management intervention for overweight adolescents.

Summarize factors that influence implementation of worksite health promotion interventions.

Describe barriers and facilitators of implementation of weight loss interventions for low-income postpartum women.

Explain the mechanisms underlying physical activity initiation and maintenance by exploring novel approaches to the integration of factors influencing physical activity.

Summarize the methodological limitations in past attempts to demonstrate a causal relationship between affective response and exercise behavior

Incorporate evolutionary theory into some research paradigms.

Describe how understanding motivation of exercise behavior has implications for other health behaviors.

Report the effects of four multiple risk factor interventions on a sample of 6th grade students.

Describe the steps involved in recruiting schools into a school-based research/health intervention project.

Summarize population-based effectiveness trial results for this middle-school based multimedia TTM-tailored intervention to improve multiple energy balance behaviors over 36 months.

Compare multiple behavior outcomes.

Demonstrate a need for contextual sensitivity in the assessment of chronic pain and explain the benefits of a biopsychosocial conceptualization of the pain experience.

List and describe at least 3 potential gender-based differences in reporting of pain and coping strategies between female and male NMIBC survivors

Demonstrate a need for contextual sensitivity in the assessment of chronic pain and explain the benefits of a biopsychosocial conceptualization of the pain experience.

Describe disparities in pain care and perception in ethnically diverse groups.

Demonstrate knowledge of medication adherence, including missed doses and nonpersistence, as it relates to antiviral treatment outcomes.

Evaluate the relationship between depression and adherence in the treatment of Hepatitis C.

Demonstrate knowledge of the prevalence, patterns, and reasons for missed doses and nonpersistence during HCV antiviral treatment.

Describe the role of patient self-management with respect to HCV antiviral treatment.

Describe what informational goals are and how they can affect health communication.

Identify situational factors that lead to the decision to avoid important health information.

Describe the phenomenon of ambiguity aversion in the context of Fanconi Anemia.

Summarize approach and avoidance goal orientations.

Summarize the roles that exercise and physical inactivity play in both depression and heart disease.

Describe the most important randomized trials of exercise for depression in cardiac patients and other populations.

Summarize the risks associated with physical inactivity in patients with heart disease.

Evaluate whether exercise is a particularly effective treatment for high-risk forms of depression in patients with coronary heart disease.

Summarize new and innovative interventions currently used for prevention of obesity.

Describe the policy and global issues related to the obesity epidemic.

Summarize the risks associated with physical inactivity in patients with heart disease.

Evaluate whether exercise is a particularly effective treatment for high-risk forms of depression in patients with coronary heart disease.

Name at least two things other than money which influence the successful wide spread translation of a health behavior intervention.

Differentiate between designing to test theory and designing for translation.

Describe how smartphones and sensor technologies are being used to improve the monitoring and regional sharing of data about air quality important to health.

Describe how technologies such as GPS, wearable sensors, wireless home monitoring devices and social networks are being used to measure and improve health behaviors.

Illustrate genetic effects of MAOA uVNTR polymorphism on smoking risk.

Demonstrate novel statistical approach to understand social influence effects on adolescent smoking behavior.

Develop a better understanding of smoking escalation among adolescents.

Translate genetic research on smoking initiation into smoking prevention and treatment.

Describe changes in the lifetime and current prevalence of hookah tobacco smoking over the first year of college.

Summarize the new minimally-invasive brain stimulation technology and how it can be used to directly alter focal brain activity in awake humans.

Describe the VHA Stepped Care Model of Pain Management.

List patient reported outcomes in sickle cell patients that may improve with interventions such as hypnosis.

Describe self-care use among CMP patients.

Evaluate the therapeutic effects of mindfulness training on abdominal pain and quality of life impairments in IBS.

Analyze behavioral interventions that are effective in increasing intention to give blood among those who have never donated in the past.

Contrast rates of fainting in medical procedures using Applied Tension as compared to standard procedures.

Explain how cognitive appraisal moderates the vasovagal response.

Identify three factors that influence donation rates or reluctance to donate within the African American population.

Describe the methods used to educate ethnic minority adolescents about the decision they need to make about becoming a designated organ donor on their first driver’s license.

Describe how assumptions about partner HIV status differ between HIV-positive and HIV-negative men who have sex with men.

Assess the association between negative affect, unprotected anal and vaginal sex, and drug use.

Describe the prevalence and extent of comorbidity of alcohol abuse and generalized anxiety disorder in HIV-positive patients.

Describe the relationship between past physical and sexual abuse and subsequent HIV-related risk taking.

Describe different trajectories of unprotected sex among heterosexual men following a sexual risk reduction intervention.

Investigate the interrelationship between A1c, microvascular complications, and depression in a comprehensive model.

Describe how high levels of both diabetes-specific distress and symptoms of depression in minorities with Type 2 diabetes.

Describe components of behavioral activation as a treatment for depression, as well as the unique aspects of this intervention when applied to individuals with diabetes.

Investigate the ways in which adults with type 1 diabetes may introduce their illness without prompting during a structured clinical interview assessing depressive symptoms.

Describe the potential health benefits of high dose vitamin D supplementation for depressed women with type 2 diabetes.

Describe changes in fatigue between men undergoing androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer, men who underwent surgery for prostate cancer, and healthy controls.

Examine the role of genetic variation in IL1B as a predictor of fatigue in prostate cancer patients undergoing androgen deprivation therapy.

Describe the effects of androgen deprivation therapy in men with prostate cancer.

Compare change over time in testosterone, hot flashes, and sleep among prostate cancer patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy, surgery, and men without cancer.

Describe the quality of life domans affected by androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer.

Describe how individuals with comorbid obesity and depression respond to different approaches to weight loss.

List 5 types of social support.

Describe the findings from an effectiveness trial of a weight loss intervention in the primary care setting.

Describe the benefits of daily self-weighing as a self-monitoring strategy for weight loss.

Describe lifestyle interventions that increases the likelihood of achieving a 5% weight reduction long-term.

Summarize the potential efficacy and efficiency of novel technologies for promoting behavior change.

Identify the differential effects of exercise on cancer-related fatigue among patients during and following cancer treatment.

Summarize agreement between perceived and objectively measured features of the neighborhood environment, and their respective associations with physical activity.

Summarize the current state of knowledge on sedentary behavior and its antecedents.

Identify measurement tools of individual level correlates for all types of physical activity in adolescents (ages 13-18).

Discuss the clinical and behavioral outcomes of the intervention using community health worker patient navigators to promote effective chronic disease self management in vulnerable, health disparate populations.

Describe patient-identified barriers in a patient navigation program for patients with abnormal breast, cervical, or colroectal cancer screening tests or symptoms.

Summarize disparities in BCC and BCC screening affecting immigrant Latino women in the U.S.

Describe the long-term impact of cancer caregiving stress on the caregivers' health.

Describe predictors of anxiety in family caregivers of person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Evaluate the successes and shortcomings of calorie labeling policy.

Show information on the uptake of Canada's new evidence-based physical activity guidelines.

Illustrate the impact of copayment elimination on patient demand for a weight loss clinic.

Assess whether worksite neighborhood context has bearing on individual dietary or physical activity behaviors of employees.

Describe strategies for the effective dissemination of behavioral weight loss interventions.

Summarize the implications of internalized HIV-related stigma and internalized homophobia in HIV positive Latino men who have sex with men.

Identify components of an HIV self-management intervention

Identify correlates of HIV medication use in a high-risk population of substance users entering substance abuse treatment

Conduct focus groups in faith-based settings.

Explain how formative data may be used to plan faith-based HIV programming

Summarize the literature regarding placebo effects and treatment choice

Examine the association of basal morning and evening salivary cortisol with indices of cold pain sensitivity

Describe gender differences in emotional experience among pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients.

Examine health and psychological predictors of change in heart rate variability indices after psychological treatment of chronic pain

Summarize how pain can be impacted by spousal relations

Describe cervical cancer and HPV vaccine disparities in Appalachian Kentucky.

Describe levels of HPV awareness within a sample of 490 mothers with adolescent daughters.

Assess and appraise the feasibility of this computer tailored intervention to increase HPV vaccination among young women.

Describe parents' and sons' perceived benefits and concerns with alternative vaccination settings

Describe rates of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination uptake in the United States relative to the target goal for vaccine coverage.

Evaluate the relationships between sexual dysfunction and sexual bother on the one hand, and QOL on the other, while also considering the role of sexual desire.

Compare objective sleep disturbance between prostate cancer patients treated with androgen deprivation therapy and patients treated with surgery only.

Summarize important factors in tailoring psychosocial interventions for African American prostate cancer survivors.

Summarize information on the correlates of anxiety in men undergoing active surveillance for the treatment of prostate cancer.

Summarize and compare computer adaptive tests to widely used validated measures

Assess the effects of Qigong exercise and its dose-response relationship in reducing fatigue for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Summarize the benefits that Tai-chi exercise can bring to patients with schizophrenia

Review the preliminary results of a large-scale randomized controlled trial of clinical hypnosis for the treatment of post-menopausal hot flashes.

Describe components of Meditative Movement, how QG/TCE fits this definition and ways this practice is expected to help with weight management.

State the long-term effects of Qigong on chronic fatigue syndrome.

Discover the relationship between exercise intensity, affective responses and exercise behavior.

Compare changes in positive affect in response to varying durations of moderate-intensity physical activity

Summarize how affective expectations increase positive feelings about exercise

Examine the demographic and psychosocial characteristics of adults who characterize themselves as walking regularly for exercise.

Discuss current research and issues regarding the longitudinal association between emotional factors and cardiovascular disease.

Examine the effects of exercise maintenance on depression and QOL among cardiac patients.

Describe the effect of evidence-based depression treatment on incident cardiovascular events among patients with and without pre-existing cardiovascular disease.

Identity which demographic, biomedical, and psychological factors are shown to predict the mortality of patients with heart failure over 4 years.

Describe the effects of depression and anxiety, separately and combined, on incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease among older adults.

List sociodemographic and psychosocial factors impacting problem drinking behavior.

Evaluate the effects of IVR-delivered educational modules on alcohol consumption of recently resolved problem drinkers during a 24-month self-reporting period.

Determine the feasibility and acceptability of implementation

Compare the risk of substance use among community college students to other populations

Identify evidence-based strategies for advocating for change in alcohol related decisions and behaviors.

Describe at least two specific resources for addressing common behavioral medicine career challenges

Identify, find and make use of at least two career development strategies and tools.

Describe at least two strategies for pursuing Team Science research in a way that will enhance individual career advancement.

Describe at least two strategies to increase the likelihood of a successful outcome from Team Science research.

Conference Objective 4: Examine strategies to expand the application of evidence-based intervention strategies in clinical and public health practice settings.

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Conference Objective 5: Evaluate innovative strategies for translating behavioral science evidence to improve patient and population health outcomes.

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Please evaluate the following:

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Symposia - overall quality

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Exhibits

Hotel quality/Comfort of rooms

Networking opportunities

Service by the SBM staff

Please answer the following:

Do you believe this activity was appropriate for the scope of your professional activities?

Was the educational content scientifically sound?

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If you answered "No" to any of the above questions, please explain.

Did you perceive any product/service/company/commercial bias in any educational session you attended or materials you received?

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How much did you learn as a result of this education program?

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What specifically did you learn during this activity that you intend to integrate into your practice?

What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?

How can this training (the overall meeting) be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient outcomes?

Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?

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What questions do you have from your practice for which you need answers/strategies that you can implement?

What patient/client problems or challenges do you feel you are not able to address appropriately or to your satisfaction?

What problems are your patients/clients communicating to you that need attention or follow up?

What additional features would you recommend adding to the poster sessions, if any?

A main goal of the annual meeting is to provide opportunities for networking. Do you have suggestions for how we could improve this aspect of the meeting?

Please suggest companies or organizations we may want to invite to exhibit at future annual meetings. (Please separate each with a comma ",")

Please suggest organizations that you would like to see SBM join with for future annual meetings. (Please separate each with a comma ",")

What cities would you most like to see as future SBM sites? (Please separate each with a comma ",")

Do you plan to attend next year's annual meeting in San Francisco, CA?

Please provide any and all suggestions for improving the annual meeting. We welcome your input!

How many SBM annual meetings have you attended?

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