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14th AnnualRuralHealthConference

The Weight of Our Rural Communities:

Partnering to Reduce Obesity

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TheUniversityofAlabama|Tuscaloosa,Alabama

Hostedby:InstituteforRuralHealthResearchCollegeofCommunityHealthSciences

TheUniversityofAlabamaSchoolofMedicine,TuscaloosaCampus

THEUNIVERSITYOFALABAMA

Our Sponsors

A very special Thank You is extended to the following organizations for their generous support of the 14th Annual Rural Health Conference.

Our Exhibitors

A very special Thank You is extended to exhibitors at the 14th Annual Rural Health Conference.

Alabama Rural Health Association

Information Transport Solution Kid One Transport

West Alabama AIDS Outreach

The University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing

The University of Alabama Center for Mental Health and Aging The University of Alabama CCHS Health Sciences Library

The University of Alabama College of Human Environmental Sciences

14th Annual Rural Health Conference │ February 20, 2013 │ The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

GENERAL INFORMATION

Research Posters will be on display in Heritage Room throughout the conference. Poster authors will be available for discussion from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. UA Public Wireless Access Username: ferguson-guest Password:puvazad1 Agree to terms. Wait three minutes. Continuing Education (CEU table located in foyer) CHES/MCHES Sponsored by the Institute for Rural Health Research at The University of Alabama, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 5 total Category 1 continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 0. Nursing University Medical Center, The University of Alabama Amy Sherwood, RN, BSN, DON License number ABNP1358 Expires 4/2015 6.0 CE Pending Approval

Social Work Continuing Education credit for Social Workers is also offered. Reception

5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The University of Alabama Student Recreation Center

Student Activity Center Please join us for a special event that will follow our 14th Annual Rural Health Conference, “The Weight of Our Rural Communities: Partnering to Reduce Obesity.” The event is an Active Reception and it offers an evening of fresh local food, discussion, and active education (so wear comfortable shoes!). The reception begins at 5 p.m. at The University of Alabama Student Recreation Center’s Student Activity Center. The reception also provides us with an opportunity to present information about a grant recently awarded to The University of Alabama researchers to help reduce obesity in rural Alabama communities. Through the grant project, University researchers and communities in Alabama’s rural Black Belt region will partner to develop and support collaborative research focused on reducing obesity in these communities. The grant is a partnership of the College of Community Health Sciences’ Institute for Rural Health Research, the College of Communication and Information Sciences’ Institute for Communication and Information Research and the Black Belt Community Foundation.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

14TH ANNUAL RURAL HEALTH CONFERENCE “The Weight of Our Rural Communities: Partnering to Reduce Obesity”

February 20, 2013

7:00 – 7:30 Research Poster Set-Up – Heritage Room

7:00 – 8:00 Registration and Breakfast – Ballroom Foyer

8:00 – 8:15 Welcome – Ballroom

Richard Streiffer, MD Dean, College of Community Health Sciences The University of Alabama 8:15 – 8:45 Alabama Obesity Task Force: Obesity in Alabama – Ballroom

Sheena Quizon Gregg, MS, RD, LD Chair, Alabama Obesity Task Force Assistant Director, Nutrition Education and Health Promotion

The University of Alabama 8:45 – 9:00 Break & Research Poster Viewing – Heritage Room

Game Room Activities – 309

9:00 – 10:15 Morning Breakout Sessions

1. Community & Behavioral Track – 300 Mortar Board Room

Food Insecurity and Obesity: The Paradox Linda Knol, PhD, RD, LD Associate Professor, Department of Human Nutrition and Hospitality Management The University of Alabama

A Garden in Every School: How School Gardens Can Change Children’s Minds

Lindsay Turner Executive Director, Druid City Garden Project

2. Clinical Track – 312 Morris Mayer Room

Obesity in the Workplace: Science and Strategies

Rebecca Kelly, PhD, RD, CDE Assistant Professor and Director of Health Promotion and Wellness The University of Alabama

Obesity and the Mass Media: The Big Picture

Alan Blum, MD Gerald Leon Wallace Endowed Chair in Family Medicine The University of Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa Campus

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3. Alabama Diabetes Network/Alabama Cooperative Extension Track – 301

Tuskegee Area Diabetes Support Group Mrs. Lillie B. Hall

Greenwood Baptist Church, Tuskegee, Alabama

Sowing Seeds of Hope, a Community and School of Pharmacy Partnership Francis Ford, RN Executive Director and Healthcare Coordinator

Sowing Seeds of Hope/Perry County, Alabama & Pilar Murphy, PharmD Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice Samford University

Hunger & Nutrition Evelyn Crayton, EdD, RD, LD Professor, Nutrition, Dietetics and Hospitality Management Auburn University

4. Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation Track – 313 Anderson Society Room

Jefferson County’s “Roadmap to Health”

Tammie Sawyer, CRNP Assistant Director of Clinical Services, Jefferson County Health Department Birmingham, Alabama

10:15 – 10:30 Break and Research Poster Viewing – Heritage Room


10:30 – 10:45 William A. Curry, MD, Rural Health Lecture Award Presentation – Ballroom Presentation by John C. Higginbotham, PhD, MPH Director, Institute for Rural Health Research

College of Community Health Sciences The University of Alabama

10:45 – 11:45 Morning Keynote – Ballroom

Introduction by John C. Higginbotham, PhD, MPH

The Gospel of Healthy Living Michael O. Minor, EdD Pastor, Oak Hill Baptist Church, Hernando, MS

National Director, H.O.P.E. Health and Human Services Partnership of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.

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11:45 – 12:00 Activity – Ballroom

Nancy Rubin, PsyD Clinical Psychologist and Professor

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine College of Community Health Sciences The University of Alabama

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch – Foyer/Ballroom

Research Poster Viewing – Heritage Room


1:00 – 2:15 Afternoon Keynote – Ballroom

Introduction by John C. Higginbotham, PhD, MPH

From Classroom to Community: Community Engagement and Student Leadership Development Ravi Patel, BA, Medical Student IV

Founder, The Nashville Mobile Market 2:15 – 2:30 Break and Research Poster Viewing – Heritage Room


2:30 – 3:45 Afternoon Breakout Sessions

1. Community & Behavioral Track – 300 Mortar Board Room

Fighting Obesity: For the Health of It Debra Clark, BS, MSCE Founder and Director, Health and Wellness Education Center, Livingston, AL

Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans: What You Need to Know

Jonathan Wingo, PhD Assistant Professor of Exercise Science, Department of Kinesiology The University of Alabama

2. Clinical Track – 312 Morris Mayer Room

How to Solve a Problem Like Obesity

Karen Burgess, MD Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics The University of Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa Campus

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The Obesity Epidemic in Fayette County, Alabama Dan Partain, Medical Student III The University of Alabama School of Medicine

3. Alabama Diabetes Network/Alabama Cooperative Extension Track – 301

Obesity Initiative in Houston County: Aunt Katie’s Community Garden

Michael Jackson, BA Founder and Executive Director, Duboise Institute Dothan, Alabama

Alabama Healthy Vending Program

Teresa Fair, RD, LD Health Behavior Nutritionist, Alabama Department of Public Health

& Linda Jennings, MS, RD, LD

Nutrition Assistant Administrator, Alabama Department of Public Health

4. Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation Track – 313 Anderson Society Room

Jefferson County’s “Roadmap to Health” Tammie Sawyer, CRNP Assistant Director of Clinical Services, Jefferson County Health Department Birmingham, Alabama 3:45 – 4:00 Break and Research Poster Viewing – Heritage Room


4:00 – 4:15 Rural Health Heroes Awards Presentation – Ballroom

Presentation by John C. Higginbotham, PhD, MPH Faculty/Staff Rural Community Member Honorable Mention

4:15 – 4:30 Research Poster Awards Presentation – Ballroom

4:30 Adjourn

5:00 Conference Reception – Student Recreation Center

See Reception information on page 3 under General Information

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William A. Curry, MD, Rural Health Lecture Award William A. Curry, MD, is the former Dean of the College of Community Health Sciences and the founder of the Institute’s Rural Health Conference. He is currently the Associate Dean of Rural and Primary Care and Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The William A. Curry, MD, Rural Health Lecture Award honors one University of Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa Campus, MS III or MS IV who demonstrates an academic interest in rural medicine and is engaged in rural research or scholarly activity.

Dan Partain, MS III

The University of Alabama School of Medicine

The Obesity Epidemic in Fayette County, Alabama

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Rural Health Heroes Awards

The Second Annual Rural Health Heroes Awards honors those unsung heroes who use their health and healing gifts to assist individuals and communities in reducing or preventing obesity and promoting wellness.

Category

Recipient

Faculty/Staff

Monica Baskin, PhD Associate Professor, Preventative Medicine Associate Scientist, UAB Clinical Nutrition Research Center Associate Scientist, UAB Minority Health and Research Center The University of Alabama at Birmingham Margaret Garner, MS, RD, LD Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine Director, Department of Health Promotion & Wellness Assistant Dean, Health Education & Outreach College of Community Health Sciences The University of Alabama

Rural Community Member

Debra Clark Jump To It Fitness Program Livingston, AL (Sumter County) Michael James Jess Putam Melissa McCulloch Lori Riant Woodmeade Running Club Decatur, AL

Honorable Mention

Robert Ireland, MD Professor, Department of Family Medicine College of Community Health Sciences The University of Alabama

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Poster Presentations Heritage Room

Professional

1. Lifestyle Considerations from a Phenomenological Study of Obesity and its Impact on Physical Activity in Southern African American Older Women Pamela Bowen

2. Developing a Teaching Plan for Nurses Using Mobile Devices in a Rural Health Clinic

Heather Carter-Templeton and Lin Wu

3. Shape Up! Walker County: Piecing Together a Healthy Lifestyle Alyssa Dinberg and Rachel Puckett

4. Partnering for Continence Education, the UAB Life-Space Mobility, Bladder and Bowel Control

Project Brian Geiger, Marcia O’Neal, Kay Hogan Smith, and David W. Coombs

5. The Impact of a Minimum Interaction Weight Loss Program

Mary Annette Hess, David E. Vance, Peggy R. McKie, Laura S. Burton, and Jamy D. Ard

6. Evaluating Needs and Access to Care Among African American Breast Cancer Survivors in the Alabama Black Belt Angela Jukkala, Karen Meneses, Natasia Adams, and Silvia Gisiger-Camata

7. Work, Weight, and Wellness and the Scale Back Alabama Program: A Worksite Obesity Prevention

and Intervention Pilot at a Historically Black College and University. Cindy LaPorte and TJ Exford

8. Enabling Advance Directive Completion by Alabama Veterans: A Pilot Study

Ann Mahaney-Price and Tranace Coleman

9. Needs and Capability Analysis of Communication and Medical Technologies for Diabetes Care in Rural Alabama Philip Musa and Angela Jukkala

10. A National Agenda for Rural Minority Health Series: Revising the Need for Standardized Data and

Information Systems Philip Musa, Angela Jukkala, and Arshia Khan

11. Terminally Ill Black Elders’ Decision-Making to Receive Hospice Care Hyunjin Noh

12. Weakness: Simply Complicated!

Saurabh Patil, Vihang Soni, and Amit Sharma

13. Preliminary Survey Results of Qualitative Data Gathered from Faculty, Staff and Students about the Usefulness and Ease of Use of the NextGen System Kay Sackett, Melanie Tucker, Jared Ellis, and Amy Sherwood

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14. Volunteer Peer Support in Rural Alabama Monika Safford, Jewell Halanych, Michelle Martin, Susan J. Andrea, Debra S. Clark, Ethel Johnson, Joshua S. Richman, Christopher M. Gamboa, and Andrea L.Cherrington

15. Building a Community-Based Participatory Action Research Partnership: An Example from Western Alabama Beverly Thorn, Deborah Tucker, Toya Burton, and Joshua C. Eyer

16. Usefulness and Ease of Use of the NextGen System Melanie Tucker, Kay Sackett, Jared Ellis, Amy Sherwood, and Mark Christensen

17. Using Innovative Teaching Tools to Keep Rural Community-Based Students Cohesive and Connected Lea Yerby and Pamela Payne-Foster

Students

18. Recruitment and Development of Rural Physicians through Structured Learning Opportunities: Hale County Health Scholars Brittney Anderson, Melissa Cox, and John Wheat

19. Overweight in the Military: Challenges Among Military Residing in Rural Areas

Michael Arnold, Sarah Rush, and Lori Turner

20. Exergaming in Elementary Classrooms: Cognitive, Psychosocial, and Behavioral Effects Lisa Brady and Elizabeth Carter

21. Impact of a Faith-based Diabetes Education Support Group: A Focus on Rural Sumter County Ashley Burt, Gary Bumgarner, Eddie Davis, and Frances Ford

22. Prevalence of Beliefs about Generic Medications in Encourage Study Participants Reporting

Medication Non-Adherence Zsu Zsu Chen, Susan Andreae, Marquita Lewis, and Keri Sewell

23. Relationship of Unhealthy Food Access and County Health Rankings in Alabama and Mississippi

Timothy Day, Ron Williams, and Barry Hunt

24. Obesity to Osteoporosis in Rural Settings Dara Dewberry, Lori Turner, and Allison Montgomery

25. Rural African American Men, Functional Health Literacy, and Healthcare Decisions Morgan Eichorst, Lisa Mieskowski, Rebecca Allen, and JoAnn Oliver

26. An Estimate of Physical Activity Levels within the Amish Community using the IPAQ

Ryan C. Fowler and Mark T. Richardson

27. BMI/Waist Circumference and Steps Taken in Sedentary Occupations Colleen Geary, Mark T. Richardson, Jim Leeper, and Sharol Jacobson

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28. Impact of Faith-Based Diabetic Education/Support Group: A Focus on Perry County, Alabama Jessica Hamilton, Gary Bumgarner, Eddie Davis, and Frances Ford

29. Social Media use to Support Rural Diabetes Mellitus Care: The Development of Countryside Diabetes

Rebecca Lee and Heather Whitley

30. Obesity in the Workplace: A Review of Interventions Utilizing the Social Ecological Model Kayla Lindsay

31. Obesity and the Stages of Change Behavioral Model: The Effect of Body Mass Index on Behavior

Modification in Relation to Weight Loss Gregory Little, John Wheat, and Melanie Tucker

32. Perceptions of the Effects of Being a Peer Coach in a Diabetes Intervention Trial on Healthy Eating Habits of the Peer Coach’s Families Elizabeth Luke, Monika Safford, Susan Andreae, and Marquita Lewis

33. Strength Performance in High School Athletes Jermaine Mitchell and Qshequilla Mitchell

34. Helping Children Make Healthy Food Choices: Preliminary Results of Progressive Agriculture Safety

Day® Healthy Lifestyles/School Lunch Program Shannon Murphy, Gabriel Fosson, Debra McCallum, and Linda Knol

35. “SMART” Goals and Outcomes in a Peer-Delivered Community-Based Diabetes Intervention Trial in

the Rural South Soni Srivastav, Andrea Cherrington, Allyson Varley, Susan Andreae, Christopher Gamboa, and Monika Safford

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DISCLAIMER

The University of Alabama Rural Health Conference is intended to support the University's mission related to teaching, research, and service. Documents, exhibitors, speakers, or information in any other form (collectively referred to herein as "information") presented or made available at the Rural Health Conference are provided by a diverse range of sources. The University of Alabama makes no warranties or representations, either expressed or implied, about the speakers or exhibitors or their products, their opinions, their content or about the accuracy or currency of any information presented at the Rural Health Conference. The University of Alabama further disclaims any and all liability whatsoever in any information, material, or content of any external conference participants.

Conference attendees are hereby notified that by attending, the user assumes the risk that information and content presented at the conference may be inaccurate, out-of-date, incomplete, and/or may not meet the needs and requirements of the attendee. Any reference at the conference to any specific commercial product, service, manufacturer, or company does not constitute its endorsement or recommendation by the University or its employees or agents. All conference information is subject to change without prior notice. The University makes no warranties or representations concerning the availability or functionality of information presented at the conference. None of the material, information, or content at this conference shall serve as or create a contract between The University of Alabama and any person or entity attending the conference.

By attending The University of Alabama Rural Health Conference, each attendee agrees to abide by the laws of the United States, all other applicable federal and state laws, and applicable policies and guidelines of The University of Alabama. The University shall have the right to terminate an attendee’s privilege of attendance immediately by written notice upon user's breach of or non-compliance with the terms of this disclaimer. Attendees may incur personal liability for any violations resulting from the attendee’s failure or refusal to abide by the terms of this disclaimer.

Comments involving information perceived as inaccurate, misleading, or inappropriate should be directed to John C. Higginbotham, PhD, MPH, and the Institute for Rural Health Research.

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