Key Documents
Abby C. King
- Professor, Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology
- Professor, Medicine
- Member, Cancer Center
Contact Information
- Clinical Offices
Administrative Appointments
- Acting Director, Division Chief, Stanford Prevention Research Center/Medicine , (2009– 2010 )
- Member, faculty steering committee-Mobility initiative, Stanford Center on Longevity , (2007– 2008 )
- Advisory Committee member, Sustainable Built Environment initiative, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment , (2007– 2010 )
- Member, Appointments & Promotions committee, Stanford Medical School , (2006– 2008 )
Honors and Awards
- Member, US Secretary of DHHS Sci Advis Committee, National Health Promot-Dis Prev 2020 Objectives (2007 - 2011)
- Recipient, Distinguished Research Mentor Award, Society of Behavioral Medicine (2003)
- Recipient, Teaching Award for Outstanding Contributions to Divisional Teaching Activities, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Dept. of Medicine (2001)
- Elected Member, Academy of Behavioral Science Research (1999)
- Contributing Author, US Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health (1995-1996)
- Award for Outstanding Scientific Contributions in Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (1994)
- Shannon Award for meritorious research on health and aging, National Institutes of Health (1994)
- Citation Research Honors, Society of Behavioral Medicine ('85,'86,'93,'98,'00,'04-'06)
- Co-Author, Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, Choice publication (1989)
Professional Education
- PhD, VA Poly Inst & State Univers Clinical Psychology (1983)
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Community & International Work
- The online health literacy of older adults, SF peninsula region and Baltimore, MD More »
- Computer-based physical activity advice for ethnic minority aging adults, San Jose More »
- Creating more sustainable decisions and behaviors through new processes and focused interventions More »
- Multi-scale modeling of health behaviors: Water, sanitation, and child survival in Africa More »
- Preventing obesity among socioeconomically disadvantaged women and children, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia More »
- Get Mobile, New South Wales and Queensland, Australia More »
- Environmental Approaches to Increased Walking in Rural Communities, Bootheel region of Missouri More »
- Active For Life, Chicago, Memphis, S.F. Bay area, S. California More »
- National Black Women's Health Project More »
Web Site Links
Research Interests
My interests include the applications of social cognitive theory and similar behavioral and ecological approaches to achieve large scale change in disease prevention and health promotion areas of relevance to adults, especially women, and mid-life and older adults; moving interventions that have proven effective in the laboratory to field settings; influences of the built and social environments on health behaviors and outcomes, including person-environment interactions; and long term maintenance to hygienic regimens, including physical activity, dietary change, and stress reduction.
In mid-life and older populations, I am interested in the study of physical activity as a link to other health-promoting behaviors; and the relationship of physical activity and other health-related behaviors to day-to-day functioning, stress and coping, sleep quality,and psychological well being, particularly in chronically stressed populations (e.g., family caregivers).
In pursuing the development of behavioral interventions for chronic disease prevention with broad applicability to the population at large, I have investigated channels of delivery (e.g., mediated approaches and interactive technologies) that do not require ongoing face-to-face contact. We have found that mediated interventions can provide a useful alternative to more intensive face-to-face approaches to health behavior change and, in some cases, such as in the physical activity field, may actually produce better long term (i.e., up to two years) adherence than class- or group-based approaches.
Clinical Trials
- Fresh Start Weight Loss Study No longer recruiting
Publications
- Behav Sleep Med. 2009; (3): 164-79
- Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2009; (2): 314-21
- Prev Med. 2009; (4): 286-8
- Am J Prev Med. 2008; (2): 138-42
- J Aging Phys Act. 2008; (4): 416-34
- J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2008; (9): 997-1004
- Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2008; (7 Suppl): S584-93
- Ann Behav Med. 2008; (3): 251-60
- Ann Behav Med. 2008; (1): 123-4
- Int J Obes (Lond). 2008; (6): 985-91
- Metabolism. 2008; (1): 49-56
- Health Psychol. 2007; (6): 718-27
- Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2007; (11): 1997-2004
- Annu Rev Public Health. 2007; 145-70
- J Aging Health. 2007; (1): 87-105
- JAMA. 2007; (9): 969-77
- Hypertension. 2007; (4): 609-16
- Am J Health Promot. 2006 Sep-Oct; (1): 24-35
- Health Psychol. 2006; (3): 336-47
- Ann Behav Med. 2005; (3): 191-200
- Women Health. 2005; (4): 63-82
- Res Q Exerc Sport. 2005; (3): 358-62
- Psychosom Med. 2004 May-Jun; (3): 316-22
- Am J Epidemiol. 2004; (2): 192-203
- Health Educ Res. 2003; (2): 135-44
- Psychosom Med. 2002 May-Jun; (3): 458-68
- Am J Prev Med. 2002; (2 Suppl): 15-25
- Epidemiol Rev. 2002; (1): 72-9
- Exerc Sport Sci Rev. 2002; (2): 64-8
- J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2002; (1): M26-36
- Int J Behav Med. 2002; (3): 176-94
- Health Educ Res. 2002; (5): 627-36
- Am J Prev Med. 2002; (2 Suppl): 80-6
- Obes Res. 2001; (12): 770-7
- J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2001; 36-46
- Psychol Methods. 2001; (1): 35-48
- J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2001; (3): S129-39
- Gerontologist. 2001; (4): 490-8
- Health Psychol. 2001; (6): 438-44
- J Am Geriatr Soc. 2000; (10): 1234-40
- Health Psychol. 2000; (4): 354-64
- West J Med. 2000; (1): 5-6
- J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2000; (2): M74-83
- Br J Sports Med. 2000; (2): 80-1
- Ann Behav Med. 2000; (1): 89-93
- J Occup Environ Med. 1999; (4): 216-23
- J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 1999; (3): P189-98
- Am J Health Promot. 1998 Jan-Feb; (3): 166-9
- Am J Prev Med. 1998; (4): 316-33
- Patient Educ Couns. 1998; (1 Suppl): S3-12
- Ann Behav Med. 1998; (1): 1-6
- Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1998; (7): 1086-96
- Ann Behav Med. 1998; (2): 64-9
- JAMA. 1997; (1): 32-7
- Ann Behav Med. 1997; (2): 91-100
- World Rev Nutr Diet. 1997; 148-58
- Health Psychol. 1997; (4): 380-9
- Sports Med. 1996; (1): 1-7
- Neuroepidemiology. 1996; (3): 161-5
- Health Educ Q. 1995; (4): 499-511
- Circulation. 1995; (10): 2596-604
- Womens Health. 1995; (2): 161-75
- Ann Epidemiol. 1994; (4): 312-20
- Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1994; (11): 1405-12
- J Gerontol. 1994; (6): M239-45
- Am J Public Health. 1994; (2): 294-6
- J Clin Epidemiol. 1994; (1): 35-41
- J Am Geriatr Soc. 1993; (12): 1289-94
- Health Psychol. 1993; (4): 292-300
- Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1992; (6 Suppl): S221-36
- Soc Sci Med. 1992; (1): 49-55
- J Psychosom Res. 1992; (1): 25-36
- Arterioscler Thromb. 1991 Nov-Dec; (6): 1636-42
- JAMA. 1991; (11): 1535-42
- Sports Med. 1991; (5): 331-49
- Am J Public Health. 1990; (10): 1266-8
- Health Educ Q. 1990; (3): 269-85
- J Psychosom Res. 1990; (4): 461-71
- Arch Intern Med. 1990; (9): 1841-6
- Arch Intern Med. 1989; (12): 2741-6
- Health Psychol. 1989; (3): 305-24
- Am J Prev Med. 1988 Mar-Apr; (2): 68-74
- Prev Med. 1988; (3): 357-65
- Am J Cardiol. 1988; (8): 628-32