Health Education calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing: Sexual and Reproductive Health

The issue of sexual and reproductive health is a major area of clinical practice. It encompasses a broad range of topics – sexuality, sexual behavior, altered body image, sexual and reproductive pathologies and infections, HIV/AIDS, abortion, sexual abuse as well as sexual health services, sex education and the impact of illness, social deprivation and age upon sexuality and sexual expression. Nurses are increasingly involved in work with patients, clients and communities that have sexual and reproductive needs – developing a holistic approach to care is essential, as well as increasing the evidence base for sexual and reproductive health interventions. This special issue aims to make a substantial contribution to this evidence base and also celebrate the wide ranging nature of sexual and reproductive health nursing practice.

Scope Researchers, practitioners and educators are invited to submit a manuscript based on a research study, literature review or discursive topic related to any area of Sexual and Reproductive health that has implications for nursing practice.

Manuscripts are especially welcome in the following areas (although other papers will be considered):

Child and adolescent sexual health issues, HIV/AIDS, Ageing and sexual health, Sexuality and chronic illnesses, Mental health and sexuality, Sex education, Sexual health in marginalized populations, Sexuality and clinical practice, Establishing/evaluating sexual health care or services, sexually transmitted infections, sexual health and pregnancy

All manuscripts will be expected to discuss the implications for clinical practice and adhere to the Journal of Clinical Nursing guidelines for authors available at www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jocn

Submission The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts is December 2012 with anticipated publication in late 2013. Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcnur

All papers for the special issue should have the prefix ‘SI – SRH’ before the title of the paper.

Further information
Please contact the editors for this edition; Professor Mark Hayter (m.hayter@hull.ac.uk) or Professor Alice Yuen Loke (hsaloke@inet.polyu.edu.hk).

Call for Manuscripts on Health Education and Promotion for the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health

The Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health is soliciting manuscripts for the 2013 continuing education theme issues on Health Education and Promotion. We invite submissions that address optimizing women’s health and reproductive health outcomes. Potential topics include:

· Health education: beyond patient handouts

· Use of social media in health education and promotion

· Promoting healthy habits

· Health promotion recommendations by age group

· Obesity

· Cardiovascular disease prevention

· Diabetes prevention

· Cancer screening

· Health disparities

· Types of psychotherapy/counseling

· Exercise

· Smoking cessation

· Substance abuse

· Sexual health

· Contraception, particularly long-acting reversible contraception (LARC)

· Health promotion for postmenopausal women

· Management of unintended pregnancy

· Preconception care

· Interconception care and/or birth spacing

· Genetics

· Prevention of birth defects

· Environmental health

· Preventing teratogenic exposures during pregnancy

Other relevant topics are welcome. All types of articles will be considered, and descriptions of the article types can be found on the next page. The deadline for initial manuscript submission is August 1, 2012.

Please send your proposed topic, type of article, and contact information to JMWH Editor-in-Chief Frances E. Likis, CNM, NP, DrPH, FACNM, at flikis@acnm.org.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Cognitive Technology Journal: Designing Educational Games

The use of computer games as common vehicles for impacting cognition, as opposed to pure entertainment, has recently gained immense popularity. Games may be developed to educate children about their health condition or to improve their understanding of math or history, examine economic policies, encourage the discussion of public health policy for individuals, or to encourage change in user's lifestyle. The proliferation of games has profound implications not only for the entertainment industry, but also for the research community interested in studying the impact of using such games on cognitive abilities of the users.

In this Special Issue, Cognitive Technology will bring together researchers from across the world to consider new research that illustrates the potential of computer games as a cognitive technology for teaching and learning. Guest editors, Dr. Nilufar Baghaei and Dr. Aaron Chen, are seeking original research papers that illustrate the capacity or potential of games for enhancing the users' learning experience and increasing their knowledge of any domain ranging from health-related issues to math and languages.

Topics of Interest

The international journal of Cognitive Technology is planning a special issue on designing educational games (expected publication Spring 2013). Authors are invited to submit papers describing original research (applied or theoretical), that deal with innovative approaches of using game technologies as cognitive tools for increasing the learning outcome of the users and/or enhancing their learning experience.

We invite papers that address one of the following topics, or a closely related one:

Educational games as a cognitive technology for learning

Designing educational games for people with disabilities and/or health conditions

Integrating games with health care applications

Intelligent Tutoring Systems and adaptive educational games

Designing, developing and evaluating educational games on mobile devices

Understanding the problems and limitations of using games as cognitive technologies

Best practices for designing educational games based on cognitive science

Empirical or case studies of increasing users' motivation for learning using educational games

Empirical studies of educational games and their effectiveness in increasing users' domain knowledge

Empirical or case studies of perceptual and cognitive advantages and disadvantages of educational games

Future directions of designing, developing and deploying educational games in instructional settings

Submission and Format

Research papers submitted for this journal should be original and must not exceed 15 double-spaced manuscript pages inclusive of title page, abstract page, references, figures, tables, and appendices. The papers should be submitted to Dr. Baghaei or Dr. Chen via email. They should be prepared in line with the formatting guidelines of Cognitive Technology Journal. Additional details about final manuscript format requirements will be sent upon notification of acceptance.

For queries regarding the special issue, the guest editors can be contacted at: nbaghaei@unitec.ac.nz or achen2@unitec.ac.nz
Important Dates

August 24, 2012: Paper submission deadline
September 28, 2012: Peer reviews completed
October 26, 2012: Re-submission of revised papers
November 23, 2012: Submission of camera ready versions
Spring 2013: Journal publication

Guest Editors

Dr. Nilufar Baghaei, Dept of Computing, UNITEC, New Zealand
Dr. Aaron Chen, Dept of Computing, UNITEC, New Zealand
Dr. Paul Pivec, CranberryBlue R&D (UK/NZ) Ltd, New Zealand

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Media Psychology: The Role of Media in Health Communication

Deadline for submissions is June 30, 2012.

Guest Editors:
Dagmar Unz (Communication in Social and Economic Contexts, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany)
Bettina Friedrich (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK)

The Journal of Media Psychology is calling for papers for a special issue about the role of media in health communication.

Media is a powerful tool to communicate knowledge and attitudes regarding diverse health issues, and can therefore impact on health behavior as well as understanding and appraisal of health issues. Media can be used to educate general and specific target audiences about health issues, link health workers to the public, connect people with similar health issues and persuade audiences to adopt new behaviors.

This special issue aims to enhance understanding of the role of media in health communication processes. A broad range of topics are welcome, although suggested topics should shed light on the role of media in health communication from a psychological perspective. A variety of media applications at a diversity of populations, technologies, content and contexts can and should be considered. Papers can explore how meanings about health issues are generated, investigate how health issues and coping with them are portrayed in different forms of media, explore how media use affects the physical, mental, or behavioral health, explore the ways in which diverse audiences engage with media and negotiate health issues. We invite papers in but not limited to the following areas:

media audiences and health communication
popular media and health images effects
using media campaigns for health promotion
using the Internet as a source of health information
using entertainment media / electronic games for health issues
using electronic games, as Wii or Kinect, for sports / physical well-being

Manuscript preparation and submission: Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the journal’s author guidelines (available on the journal’s website at http://www.hogrefe.com/periodicals/journal-of-media-psychology/). Papers should be clearly labelled as submissions intended for this special issue and must be submitted through the journal’s online manuscript management system (http://www.editorialmanager.com/jmp/).

All submissions will be anonymously reviewed, using the normal Journal of Media Psychology review criteria while also taking into account the contribution of the paper to understanding the role of media in health communication.

Deadline for submissions is June 30th, 2012

Informal enquiries on the special issue can be made to

Dagmar Unz (dagmar.unz(at)udk-berlin.de) or to the
Editorial Office (contact-jmp(at)uni-koeln.de).

Call for Submissions: Special Issue of the Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services: HIV Care and Prevention in Adolescents and Emerging Adults

Adolescence is a time often marked by experimentation, development of one’s racial and sexual identity, risk taking, and vulnerability. Consequently, emerging adulthood can be characterized as a period of continued change in terms of home, school, work, and relationship domains. Adolescents and young adults (ages 13 to 29) currently account for the largest percentage (39%) of new HIV infections in the United States compared to other age groups. HIV incidence in this group disproportionately affects young gay and bisexual men and young African Americans. Behavioral factors found to be associated with HIV infection in young persons include early age at sexual initiation, older sex partners, history of sexual abuse, sexually transmitted infections, and substance use. Providers may face challenges in delivering developmentally and culturally appropriate interventions for increasing numbers of young persons entering care systems, and providing treatment regimens that are compatible with diverse lifestyles.

The Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services is inviting the submission of papers for a special issue on HIV Care and Prevention in
Adolescents and Emerging Adults.

Papers to be considered for review for this special issue should be submitted beginning April 15, 2012, through August 15, 2012.

Topics of interest include:

. Emergent findings in psychosocial approaches to HIV care and prevention in adolescents and young adults.
. Identifying and addressing special needs of adolescents and emerging adults living with HIV/AIDS, including transitioning to adult HIV care.
. Innovative methods in engaging and retaining young persons in prevention and treatment programming.
. Correlates of adolescents and emerging adults’ sexual risk behavior amenable to service delivery or intervention.
. Developmental approaches to working with adolescents and emerging adults living with HIV/AIDS.
. Innovative programmatic approaches relating to issues of gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability.
. Peer-directed programming targeting adolescents and emerging adults living with HIV/AIDS.
. Emergent issues in the intersection of biomedical and psychosocial approaches to HIV/AIDS in adolescents and young adults, including treatment-as-prevention and preexposure prophylaxis.

Douglas Bruce, PhD, MSW
DePaul University
Dexter Voisin, PhD
University of Chicago
Special Edition Editors

The Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services receives all manuscript submissions electronically via their ScholarOne Manuscripts website located at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/whiv. ScholarOne Manuscripts allows for rapid submission of original and revised manuscripts, as well as facilitating the review process and internal communication between authors, editors, and reviewers via a web-based platform. ScholarOne Manuscripts technical support can be accessed via http://scholarone.com/services/support/. If you have any other requests, please contact the journal’s Managing Editor at mikebass@uic.edu.

When you enter your manuscript on ScholarOne, please click on the option that you intend it to be considered for the Special Edition: HIV Care and Prevention in Adolescents and Emerging Adults.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology: Innovative Treatment and Prevention Programs for Pediatric Overweight and Obesity

Guest Editors: David M. Janicke, Ph.D. and Ric G. Steele, Ph.D.

Despite significant clinical research directed at the problem, obesity remains a preeminent health problem in pediatric populations in the United States and abroad. The most current epidemiological data indicate that upwards of 17% of children and adolescents are obese, and that more than 30% of children and adolescents are overweight (Ogden et al., 2010). These aggregated data mask significant health disparities across medically underserved and racially or ethnically diverse groups. Recent reviews of the literature (e.g., Kitzmann et al., 2010; Luttikhuis et al., 2009) indicate that behaviorally-based individual and family-based interventions can be efficacious, yet the literature continues to be plagued with barriers to the successful translation of efficacious studies into clinical practice. Issues such as non- or incomplete treatment adherence, non-completion of therapy, poor maintenance of treatment effects, and unknown efficacy of interventions for medically underserved or culturally diverse populations limit the applicability of the current literature to cases most often seen in practice.

Details:

The aim of this special issue is to highlight innovative approaches to the treatment or prevention of pediatric overweight and obesity. We anticipate that studies will focus on a range of topics, including, but not limited to: interventions that employ eHealth, mHealth, or telehealth technologies; intervention or prevention programs specifically designed for medically underserved or ethnically or culturally diverse samples; studies examining ecological systems-based intervention/prevention efforts such as school, or community based programs; empirical studies of policies that are designed to address obesity/overweight at the community or population level; and research examining the translation and dissemination of interventions previously demonstrated to be efficacious in clinical trials. A broad range of research methodologies will be considered for the special issue, including single case or small-n designs, randomized clinical trials, qualitative methodologies, and demonstration studies. Regardless of topic or methodology, a premium will be placed on the manuscript’s demonstration of innovation. We expect manuscripts to highlight implications of the research for practitioners and/or policy makers.

Submissions for this special issue will be accepted until October 1, 2012.

Papers should be prepared in compliance with JPP’s Instructions to Authors (http://jpepsy.oxfordjournals.org/) and submitted through the ScholarOne Manuscript Central™ submission portal (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jpepsy). Manuscripts will be peer reviewed. Papers that are not appropriate for inclusion in this special issue may be rerouted (with the authors’ knowledge and consent) for consideration for publication in JPP as regular papers. Please indicate in the cover letter accompanying your manuscript that you would like to have the paper considered for the Special Issue on Innovative Treatment and Prevention Programs for Pediatric Overweight and Obesity.

Please direct all inquiries to David M. Janicke at djanicke@phhp.ufl.edu<mailto:djanicke@phhp.ufl.edu> or Ric G. Steele at rsteele@ku.edu<mailto:rsteele@ku.edu>.