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Judith D. DePue, EdD, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor,
Staff
Psychologist,
Judith
DePue, EdD, MPH, is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and
human behavior at Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital and a
counseling psychologist at the Centers for Behavioral and Preventive
Medicine. Her research interests focus on public health approaches to
deliver preventive care and behavioral/lifestyle interventions. She has
particular interest in developing interventions for primary care and
community settings and with under-served populations. She was principal
investigator on a recently completed NCI funded project using a
motivational intervention with parents who smoke and who accompany
children in the pediatric emergency department. She is a co-investigator
on several projects: a proactive and sustained telephone counseling
intervention for smoking cessation (NCI-funded TTURC Project 3, D
Abrams, PI); an AHRQ funded project which investigates use of an expert
system report to facilitate physician counseling on smoking in New York
City primary care offices (W Redd, PI); and a RWJF-funded family asthma
education project in Providence schools (R Klein, PI). Her current
teaching roles include clinical & research supervision for
pre-doctoral psychology interns, membership on the Brown Clinical
Psychology Consortium Diversity Committee, and coordinator of a
Diversity Special Interest Group for psychology trainees and faculty.
Draw A Breath/Providence School Partnership Helping Parents in the Pediatric ER to Quit Smoking (Power for Kids) This project tests the efficacy of brief physician advice plus a motivational counseling intervention and follow-up on parental smoking cessation rates over advice alone, among parents who smoke and who accompany children to the pediatric emergency department. The project goal is to translate smoking cessation interventions to the pediatric emergency room setting, which serves a large underserved population at risk, and where the intervention helps both smokers and their children. Intervention Study to Promote Physician Adherence to Smoking
Cessation Guidelines This project tests an innovative computer-assisted intervention designed to help primary care physicians provide smoking cessation services and motivate smokers to progress toward quitting. Physicians are randomly assigned to one of two groups 1) usual care, 2) computer-assisted physician and patient, where physicians receive training and physicians and patients receive a smoking profile report, tailored to the patient's stage of readiness to quit smoking.
Prochaska J, Velicer W, Redding C, Rossi J, Goldstein M, DePue J, Greene G, Rossi S, Sun X, Fava J, Laforge R, Rakowski W, Plummer B. (2005) Stage-based expert systems to guide a population of primary care patients to quit smoking, eat healthier, prevent skin cancer and receive regular mammograms. Preventive Med, 41:406-16.
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