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Alexander V. Prokhorov is a researcher affiliated with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in the United States. Their work primarily spans medicine, social sciences, and psychology, with notable contributions to the understanding of smoking behavior and cessation, behavioral health interventions, and media influence on health.

The researcher has authored publications focused on tobacco use prevention, health communication, and intervention implementation. The topics covered in their work include mobile health applications, child development with digital technology, health policy implementation science, and sociopolitical dynamics in Russia.

Alexander V. Prokhorov's recent papers include:

  • Friendship influence moderating the effect of a web-based smoking prevention program on intention to smoke and knowledge among adolescents, 2020, Addictive Behaviors Reports
  • Mobile Text Messaging for Tobacco Risk Communication Among Young Adult Community College Students: Randomized Trial of Project Debunk, 2021, JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • Implementing Brief Tobacco Cessation Interventions in Community Pharmacies: An Application of Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations Theory, 2022, Pharmacy
  • Internet discourse of modern socio-political movements as a way of self-representation (on the example of the yellow waistcoat movement), 2024, Vestnik of Student Scientific Society of Saint Petersburg University Social Sciences
  • A multilevel intervention in pediatric primary care for youth tobacco control: Outcomes of implementing an Ask, Advise, and Connect model, 2024, Translational Behavioral Medicine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexander V. Prokhorov include:

  • Georges E. Khalil
  • Karen S. Calabro
  • Ashish Arya
  • Sophia Russell
  • Katarzyna Czerniak

Publishers and venues where Prokhorov's work has appeared include:

  • Addictive Behaviors Reports
  • JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • Pharmacy
  • Vestnik of Student Scientific Society of Saint Petersburg University Social Sciences
  • Translational Behavioral Medicine

Alexander V. Prokhorov's research covers several subfields of study such as physiology, applied psychology, general health professions, literature and literary theory, and education, indicating a multidisciplinary approach.

Best Publications

  • Measuring nicotine dependence among high-risk adolescent smokers☆

    Alexander V. Prokhorov;Unto E. Pallonen;Joseph L. Fava;Lin Ding

  • Diabetes Self-Management: Self-reported recommendations and patterns in a large population

    Laurie Ruggiero;Russell E. Glasgow;Janet M. Dryfoos;Joseph S. Rossi

  • Stages of acquisition and cessation for adolescent smoking: an empirical integration

    Unto E. Pallonen;James O. Prochaska;Wayne F. Velicer;Alexander V. Prokhorov

  • Effects of nativity, age at migration, and acculturation on smoking among adult Houston residents of Mexican descent.

    Anna V. Wilkinson;Margaret R. Spitz;Sara S. Strom;Alexander V. Prokhorov

  • Validation of the modified Fagerström tolerance questionnaire with salivary cotinine among adolescents.

    Alexander V Prokhorov;Carl De Moor;Unto E Pallonen;Karen Suchanek Hudmon

  • Predictors of susceptibility to smoking and ever smoking: a longitudinal study in a triethnic sample of adolescents.

    Ellen R. Gritz;Alexander V. Prokhorov;Karen Suchanek Hudmon;Mary Mullin Jones

  • A Population-Based Survey of Physician Smoking Cessation Counseling Practices

    Michael G. Goldstein;Judith D. DePue;Alicia D. Monroe;Cynthia Willey Lessne

  • Methodological issues in measuring treatment outcome in adolescent smoking cessation studies.

    Robin Mermelstein;Suzanne M. Colby;Christi Patten;Alexandre V Prokhorov

  • Depression and Substance Use in Minority Middle-School Students

    Steven H. Kelder;Nancy G. Murray;Pamela Orpinas;Alexander Prokhorov

  • Youth Tobacco Use: A Global Perspective for Child Health Care Clinicians

    Alexander V. Prokhorov;Jonathan P. Winickoff;Jasjit S. Ahluwalia;Deborah Ossip-Klein

  • Transitions out of High School: Time of Increased Cancer Risk?☆☆☆

    Tom Baranowski;Karen Weber Cullen;Karen Basen-Engquist;David W. Wetter

  • Computer-based smoking cessation interventions in adolescents: Description, feasibility, and six-month follow-up findings

    Unto E. Pallonen;Wayne F. Velicer;James O. Prochaska;Joseph S. Rossi

  • Cigarette Smoking in a Multiethnic Population of Youth: Methods and Baseline Findings

    Ellen R. Gritz;Alexander V. Prokhorov;Karen Suchanek Hudmon;Robert M. Chamberlain

  • Effects of a statewide antismoking campaign on mass media messages and smoking beliefs.

    David M. Murray;Alexander V. Prokhorov;Kathleen C. Harty

  • Tobacco cessation counseling: pharmacists' opinions and practices.

    Karen Suchanek Hudmon;Alexander V. Prokhorov;Robin L. Corelli

  • Affecting Perceptions of Harm and Addiction among College Waterpipe Tobacco Smokers

    Isaac M. Lipkus;Thomas Eissenberg;Rochelle D. Schwartz-Bloom;Alexander V. Prokhorov

  • Development and implementation of a tobacco cessation training program for students in the health professions.

    Karen Suchanek Hudmon;Robin L. Corelli;Eunice Chung;Berit Gundersen

  • Calculation of the Effective Emissivities of Specular-Diffuse Cavities by the Monte Carlo Method

    V I Sapritsky;A V Prokhorov

  • Gender differences in the psychological determinants of cigarette smoking

    Jean François Etter;Alexander V. Prokhorov;Thomas V. Perneger

  • Self-reported health status, health vulnerability, and smoking behavior in college students: Implications for intervention

    Alexander V. Prokhorov;Carla Warneke;Carl de Moor;Karen M. Emmons

  • Smoking and diabetes: Readiness for change and provider advice

    Laurie Ruggiero;Joseph S Rossi;James O Prochaska;Russell E Glasgow

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl de Moor
Carl de Moor Boston Children's Hospital
Steven H. Kelder
Steven H. Kelder The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Ellen R. Gritz
Ellen R. Gritz The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Margaret R. Spitz
Margaret R. Spitz Baylor College of Medicine
James O. Prochaska
James O. Prochaska University of Rhode Island
Cheryl L. Perry
Cheryl L. Perry The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Joseph S. Rossi
Joseph S. Rossi University of Rhode Island
Wayne F. Velicer
Wayne F. Velicer University of Rhode Island
David W. Wetter
David W. Wetter University of Utah
Christine Markham
Christine Markham The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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