Please rate how well the following objective was met:
Describe the cancer special interest group of SBM.
Please rate how well the objective was met:
Describe the complementary and alternative medicine interest group.
Identify various analytic issues involved with utilizing data that employs complex sampling designs.
Discuss the process of applying behavioral medicine principles in program development.
Discuss the theory and application of treatment for chronic insomnia, circadian rhythm disorders, and pediatric sleep disorders.
Identify fundamental objectives of NIH peer review.
Formulate models that allow the analyst to explore the effect of departures from standard assumptions that cannot be verified by data.
Discuss the field of community based research.
Describe the integrated primary care special interest group.
Describe how mediators and moderators can be used together to enhance the design, delivery and evaluation of a health behavior intervention.
Identify brief behavioral medicine counseling and self-manageement support skills that may be taught to clinicians in health care settings.
Discuss the essential principles of behavior acquisition and change within each wave of behavior therapy.
Discuss the new national initiative to normalize smoking cessation treatment in the mental health community.
Compare the advantages and disadvantages of mixed models, generalized linear models, and generalized estimating equations.
Discuss and evaluate shared neuroendocrine-immune mechanisms associated with cancer related co-morbidities.
Apply behavior change theory to multiple health behaviors.
Cite barriers associated with patient preference for e-Health interventions.
Discuss why an 'ecological model' differentiates among individual, community, and population-based interventions.
List challenges regarding conveying cancer risk information between individuals diagnosed with colorectal cancer or melanoma.
Describe the benefits of health behavior change for cancer survivors
Discuss how social factors may contribute to Hispanic risk and protective factors, and resilience.
Describe an ecological model for measuring secondhand smoke.
Discuss the field of translational behavioral science and how it can be used to develop more effective behavioral interventions.
Identify methods parents and teens use when sharing responsiblity.
Determine the degree to which states with indoor tanning laws enforce them.
Identify rates of cognitive impairment in men receiving androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer as compared to healthy controls.
Evaluate feasibility and community support of health and nutrition classes based on the Salus Para Su Corazon curriculum taught by Comm Hlth Workers.
List three potential challenges associated with designing and implementing web-based surveys.
Identify supportive care needs in those living with lung cancer.
Describe the importance of testing complementary and spiritually-based interventions for veterans with war-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
assess the prevalence of adherence to health-promoting behaviors among a representative sample of older US ad
Describe how to search for internship sites offering training in behavioral medicine.
Discuss how to build evidence for use in reversing the childhood obesity epidemic.
Discuss the emotional arousal, sleep disturbance and activation of the sympathoadrenal medullary of a caregiver triad.
Discuss the integration of behavioral medicine into the practice for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in women.
Evaluate changes in children's lifestyle behaviors afer participating in a 12-week negotiated weight management program.
Describe how the assessment of coping actions is linked to evaluation of mechanisms of treatment.
Assess the availability of healthful foods in grocery and convenience stores.
Describe how the activation of different brain structures may impact cravings and ability to resist eating.
Compare weight loss options for depressed women with comorbid obesity
Review treatment strategies utilized as part of group CBT intervention
Describe how a brief relaxation intervention can influence DHEAS, cortisol, and the DHEAS:cortisol ratio.
Identify the late effects of exercise training during breast cancer chemotherapy
identify subgroups of caregiving adult daughters who may need help to cope better with their mothers' psychological distress.
Identify the challenges that corporate medical departments face as they attempt to keep its workers safe.
Discuss the current state of research on psychosocial interventions in patients with HIV, cancer and coronary heart disease.
Identify what treatment-related symptoms are common in prostate cancer patients.
Define of health literacy.
Discuss the role anxiety disorders play in medical populations.
Discuss the foundation and terminology of implementation science.
Identify the importance of examining potential mediators in intervention research.
Discuss innovative, theory-driven health interventions being distributed through distinct, communication channels.
Delineate the major research directions for behavioral oncology into the near future.
Describe the differences between initiating and maintaining behavior changes in health promotion.
List the ways in which early life and adult conditions combine to affect chronic health problems.
Recognize the difficulties randomized controlled trials have faced when addressing smoking cessation during pregnancy.
Describe the relationship between type 2 diabetes and depression in a low income clinic sample.
Identify psychological and physiological predictors of cigarette smoking.
Examine the potential psychosocial impact of participation in a complementary intervention (restorative yoga) for women with breast cancer.
Discuss the benefits and limitations of Internet interventions targeting behavior change..
Assess the role of patient's perception of provider communication style on medication adherence..
Demonstrate the clustering of psychosocial and biological risk factors in first-degree relatives of diabetic subjects.
Discuss the design and characteristics of the study population of the Weight Loss Maintenance Trial.
Discuss how people with different types of behavioral medicine careers develop and maintain balance between their professional and personal lives.
Discuss issues relative to conceptual definitions and the differentiation between proximal and distal physical activity outcomes.
Discuss specific research directions behaviral scientists can take to learn more about how to use genomic discovery to reduce prevalent behavioral risk factors.
Examine the effect of area-level poverty rate on colorectal cancer screening use
Present the importance of contextual factors in a behavioral change program.
Review empirical work on the relationship between mood and weight.
Describe the relationships among various psychosocial and physiological variables in a sample of women with coronary heart disease.
Identify participant characteristics associated with sustained website use.
Examine the role of alternative hypotheses generated by casual modeling for advancing behavioral theories.
Describe the impact of adjusting for psychosocial variables on observed race and socioeconomic status disparities in physical activity.
Identify how patient concerns about treatment side effects are related to patient perceptions of spouse supportive coping for prostate cancer patients.
Provide a forum for discussion of student research ideas.
Discuss how the Society can have a greater role in developing effective solutions to meet the world wide health care challenges of tomorrow.
Discuss the importance of carefully selecting variables for tailoring communications to diverse populations.
Desdribe two theories that have been shown to be effective in changing behavior in older adults.
Cite factors which contribute to the development and/or maintenance of both chronic pain and obesity.
Discuss the state of cancer disparities in general.
Identify existing and future barriers to more wide spread use of CTIs in practice.
Review advances in research on positive psychology and the impact of releveant constructs on health, adjustment, and quality-of-life.
Dicuss the links between close relationships and physiological process in humans.
List 3 strategies for improving the policy impact of health behavior research.
Assess the potential clinical implications of poor engagement/retention of patients in HIV/AIDS medical care.
Describe the principled three-phase approach in which the RCT is the final phase.
What professional conferences or conventions will you attend in calendar year 2008 other than SBM? (Please separate each with a comma ",")
Please provide ratings for the following:
Online abstract submissions
Pre-registration brochure
Conference information- online
Meeting registration - online
Meeting registration - onsite
Hotel quality/comfort
Poster sessions - overall quality
Poster sessions - length
Paper sessions - overall quality
Paper sessions - length
Individual papers - length
Symposia - overall quality
Symposia - length
Exhibits
Networking opportunities
Service by the SBM staff
Overall meeting experience
The program was relevant to my work
Content matched stated objectives
Usefulness of handouts/AV
How well did the educational sessions give a balanced view of therapeutic options, including the use
of generic names?
Do you believe this activity:
increased your professional knowledge?
will increase your professional competence?
will result in performance changes in your professional practice?
was appropriate for the scope of your professional activities?
will result in your ability to improve your practice?
Was the educational content scientifically sound?
If faculty spoke about off-label or investigational uss of a product, was that information disclosed to you?
Was the mode of education effective to learning?
Were you solicited by sales pesonnel in an educatonal room while you attended this educational activity?
List any perceived practice "gaps" which you would like to see the focus of future trainings.
Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?
What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?
How can this training be improved to impact your competence or practice?
Please list any educational needs/topics you would like to see addressed in future meetings.
What cities would you most like to see as future SBM meeting sites? (Please separate each with a comma ",")
What persons would you like to see give major talks at future SBM meetings? (Please separate each with a comma ",")
