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Consistency, quality, and duration of sleep are important determinants of health. We describe sleep patterns among demographically defined subgroups from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System reported in 4 successive biennial representative samples of American high school students (2007 to 2013). Across the 4 waves of data collection, 6.2% to 7.7% of females and 8.0% to 9.4% of males reported obtaining 9 or more hours of sleep. Insufficient duration of sleep is pervasive among American high school students. Despite substantive public health implications, intervention research on this topic has received little attention.

Although colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is effective in preventing colon cancer, it remains underused by Asian Americans. Because Chinese Americans often use traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), we conducted a pilot study to explore the feasibility and acceptability of having TCM providers deliver education about CRC screening.

Antismoking television advertisements that depict the graphic health harms of smoking are increasingly considered best practices, as exemplified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s current national campaign. Evaluation of responses to these widely used advertisements is important to determine advertisements that are most effective and their mechanisms of action. Our study tested the hypothesis that advertisements rated highest in fear- and disgust-eliciting imagery would be rated as the most effective.

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On December 9, 2014, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr).

On December 9, 2014, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr).

Please note: An erratum has been published for this article. To view the erratum, please click here.

Jillian Murray, MSPH1,2, Mary Agócs, MD1, Fatima Serhan, PhD1, Simarjit Singh, MScIT1, Maria Deloria-Knoll, PhD2, Katherine O'Brien, MD2, Jason M. Mwenda, MD3, Richard Mihigo, MD3, Lucia Oliveira, DSc4, Nadia Teleb, MD, PhD5, Hinda Ahmed, PhD5, Annemarie Wasley, PhD6, Dovile Videbaek, MSc6, Pushpa Wijesinghe, MD7, Arun Bhadra Thapa, MSPH7, Kimberly Fox, MD8, Fem Julia Paladin, PhD8, Rana Hajjeh, MD9, Stephanie Schwartz, MSc9, Chris Van Beneden, MD9, Terri Hyde, MD10, Claire Broome, MD11, Thomas Cherian, MD1 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Jelili Ojodu, MPH1, Mary M. Hulihan, MPH2, Shammara N. Pope, MPH2, Althea M.

Carrie Reed, DSc1, Inkyu Kevin Kim, PhD1, James A. Singleton, PhD2, Sandra S Chaves, MD1, Brendan Flannery, PhD1, Lyn Finelli, DrPh1, Alicia Fry, MD1, Erin Burns1, Paul Gargiullo, PhD1, Daniel Jernigan, MD1, Nancy Cox, PhD1, Joseph Bresee, MD1 (Author affiliations at end of text).