Health Behavior Models

http://www.iejhe.siu.edu Health Behavior Models Colleen A. Redding, PhD; Joseph S. Rossi, PhD; Susan R. Rossi, PhD; Wayne F. Velicer, PhD; James O. Prochaska, PhD Dr. Redding is an Assistant Research Professor at the Cancer Prevention Research Center (CPRC) at the University of Rhode Island. She received her doctorate in 1993 at the University of Rhode Island in clinical psychology. Her clinical internship was in Health Psychology at UCLA Medical Center and her post-doctoral fellowship was at the CPRC. She has fifteen years of clinical and research experience in many medical and reproductive health care settings, and is an investigator on many federally funded research projects studying various health behavior changes. She has ten years of experience in the development and application of the Transtheoretical Model and stage-matched interventions to many problem behaviors. Dr. Joseph Rossi is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of Research at the Cancer Prevention Research Center at the University of Rhode Island. He received his PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Rhode Island in 1984. He has published in a wide range of areas including research methodology and measurement, skin cancer prevention, smoking cessation, exercise adoption, weight control, diabetes self-management, HIV risk reduction, and expert system development. A recent study conducted by the Institute for Scientific Information and the American Psychological Society listed him among the 10 most influential authors in psychology. Dr. Susan Rossi is Diabetes Research Coordinator for ProChange Behavior Systems, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the College of Nursing and Coordinator of Adherence & Education Programs for the Rhode Public Health Partnership in Emerging Infectious Disease at the University of Rhode Island. She received her BS in nursing at Duke University in 1974, and an MSN in 1982 and PhD in nursing in 1994 at the University of Rhode Island. She has 13 years of research experience as a behavioral scientist focusing on applying the Transtheoretical Model to the dietary area, work which has been nationally and internationally recognized. Dr. Velicer is a Principal in ProChange, Co-Director of the Cancer Prevention Research Center, and is Professor of Psychology, University of Rhode Island. He received his PhD in psychology from Purdue University in 1972. He has published more than 120 papers on a variety of topics, including behavior change for health promotion/disease prevention, factor and component analysis, time series analysis, and measurement development. He was identified as one of the highest impact authors in psychology by studies in 1992 and 1996. He is an original developer of the Transtheoretical Model and a pioneer in the development of expert systems. He has been PI or co-PI on more than $40 million dollars in federal funding. Dr. Prochaska is President of ProChange, Director of the Cancer Prevention Research Center, and Professor of Psychology, University of Rhode Island. He received his PhD in clinical psychology in 1969 from Wayne State University. He has published more than 100 papers and 3 books on the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change for health promotion and disease prevention. A recent study conducted by the Institute for Scientific Information and the American Psychological Society listed him among the 10 most influential authors in psychology. One of the originators of the Transtheoretical Model, he has been PI on over $40 million in research grants on prevention of cancer and other chronic diseases. Corresponding author: Colleen A. Redding, Assistant Professor, Cancer Prevention Research Center, University of Rhode Island, 2 Chafee Road, Kingston, RI 02881-0808; phone: 401.874.2830; email: [email protected]