Department of Sociology Faculty

Jennifer Di Noia

Jennifer Di Noia (Assistant Professor) received her M.S. in Social Work from Columbia University School of Social Work in 1997. After completing her training, she held clinical and administrative positions in family services agencies during which time she became credentialed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). She earned her Ph. D. in Social Welfare from Columbia University School of Social Work in 2000, and has since been conducting research under the sponsorship of the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Mental Health.

Before coming to William Paterson University, she was an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University School of Social Work in New York City. Her research focuses on the development and testing of health interventions for minority and underserved adolescents.

Selected publications:

Di Noia, J., & Contento, I. R. (in press). Criterion validity and user acceptability of a CD-ROM-mediated food record for measuring fruit and vegetable consumption among economically disadvantaged African American adolescents. Public Health Nutrition.

Di Noia, J., & Contento, I. R. (in press). Behavioral predictors of low-fat intake among economically disadvantaged African American adolescents. American Journal of Health Promotion.

Di Noia, J., Contento, I. R., & Prochaska, J. O. (2008). Intervention tailored on Transtheoretical Model stages and processes of change increases fruit and vegetable consumption among economically disadvantaged African American adolescents. American Journal of Health Promotion, 22, 336-341.

Di Noia, J., Contento, I. R., & Schinke, S. P. (2008). Fat avoidance and replacement behaviors predict low-fat intake among urban African American adolescents. Nutrition Research, 28 (6), 358-363.

Di Noia, J., Contento, I. R., & Schinke, S. P. (2007). Criterion validity of the Healthy Eating Self-monitoring Tool (HEST) for Black adolescents. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 107(2), 321-324.

Di Noia, J., & Schinke, S. P. (2007). Gender-specific HIV prevention with urban early adolescent girls: Outcomes of the Keepin’ It Safe program. AIDS Education and Prevention, 19(6), 479-488.

Di Noia, J., & Schinke, S. P. (2008). HIV risk-related attitudes, interpersonal influences, and intentions among sexually experimenting and at-risk urban, early adolescent girls. American Journal of Health Behavior, 32, 497-507.

Di Noia, J., Schinke, S. P., & Contento, I. R. (2008). Dietary fat intake among urban, African American adolescents. Eating Behaviors, 9, 251-256.

Di Noia, J., Schinke, S. P., Prochaska, J. O., & Contento, I. R. (2006). Application of the Transtheoretical Model to fruit and vegetable consumption among economically disadvantaged Black adolescents: Preliminary findings. American Journal of Health Promotion, 20, 342-348.

Di Noia, J., Schinke, S. P., & Contento, I. R. (2005). Dietary patterns of reservation and non-reservation Native American youths. Ethnicity and Disease, 15, 705-712.

Di Noia, J., Schinke, S. P., Pena, J. B., & Schwinn, T. M. (2004). Evaluation of a brief computer-mediated intervention to reduce HIV risk among early adolescent females. Journal of Adolescent Health, 35, 62-64.

Di Noia, J., Schwinn, T. M., Dastur, Z., & Schinke, S. P. (2003). The relative efficacy of pamphlets, CD-ROM, and the Internet for disseminating adolescent drug abuse prevention programs: An exploratory study. Preventive Medicine, 37, 646-653.