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Research Collaborations

In addition to leading research projects, the Klein Buendel (KB) research team collaborates with multiple research teams to create innovative interventions in the health education and health communication field.

Choose to Move - Exercise Program for New Moms

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R41HL091592) funded this joint feasibility study in collaboration with the University of Hawaii’s Cancer Research Center. This project created a prototype exercise program for new mothers who are looking to increase activity after giving birth. Using Internet-enabled television, the program allows mothers to create customized workouts to do with or without their babies. The workouts could be customized based on time, size of baby, and type of exercise a mother would like to do.

Sun Safe Colorado

Sun Safe Colorado is a program funded by the CDC and conducted in collaboration with the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment and the Colorado Department of Education. It was created to spread sun safety messages to schools, worksites, and at home. KB also visited schools and health fairs distributing sun safety materials to share with these groups to raise awareness about sun safety.

Deva Montgomery, David Buller, PhD, Mary Klein Buller, MA, Lori Crane, PhD, Barbara Walkosz, PhD, Dave Erikson, Robert Dellavalle, MD, Ilima Kane, MA. (2008). Promoting Sun Safety in Colorado: Initiatives of the Colorado Skin Cancer Task Force.

Poster Presentation at the Colorado Chronic Disease Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. See Poster

U Consider This - Binge Drinking Prevention

With the University of New Mexico as the lead research organization, the research and creative teams at Klein Buendel contributed to the creation of a comprehensive and interactive website that aimed to prevent and reduce binge drinking episodes in college freshmen. This project was funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01 AA014982). The site is now being used at Colorado State University as their required binge drinking prevention program. More

BReady4It - Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention

Working with the University of New Mexico, Klein Buendel staff will contribute to the creation of an interactive web site for students in grades 9 - 10 to help prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This grant is funded by National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA018575). The site will be based on a previously tested curriculum and will feature self-paced learning modules that will emphasize role-playing and decision making skills to teach students about the transmission and dangers of STIs. The web site will be tested for effectiveness in high schools in New Mexico and Colorado.

Path Project

The PATH Project (R01DK067615) is being conducted by investigators from the University of South Carolina. The purpose of the project is to combat minority and lower-income adults’ high obesity rates and low levels of regular physical activity by increasing environmental supports for safe and convenient places for physical activity in their communities. The study tests the efficacy of an intervention that includes both patrolled-walking and social marketing elements to increase physical activity in low-income African Americans. KB investigators helped develop the intervention’s social marketing program and materials based on theories of behavior change and social marketing principles.

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