SOCIETY <strong>of</strong> BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE Rapid Communications Posters Friday, March 23, <strong>2007</strong> • 6:30 PM-8:00 PM • Poster Session C a USA national probability sample. The NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study (NHEFS) is a longitudinal study <strong>of</strong> NHANES I. A population based cohort <strong>of</strong> 1847 normotensive, chronic disease free white & black women was tracked through four follow-ups (22 years maximum). Methods: The depression scale <strong>of</strong> the General Well-Being Schedule categorized symptomatology as depressed, not depressed (ref group). Education was low (
<strong>2007</strong> SBM Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions March 21-24, <strong>2007</strong> FINAL PROGRAM Rapid Communications Posters Friday, March 23, <strong>2007</strong> • 6:30 PM-8:00 PM • Poster Session C 3457 HEALTH LOCUS OF CONTROL AND HEALTHY LOW CD4 STATUS IN HIV Rachel Kuhn, BA, Gail Ironson, MD, PhD, Maria Llabre, PhD and Neil Schneiderman, PhD Psychology, University <strong>of</strong> Miami, Coral Gables, FL. Although the Multidimensional Health Locus <strong>of</strong> Control (MHLOC) has been widely used, research in HIV positive individuals is limited. The aim <strong>of</strong> this study was to determine if the MHLOC was related to better health in people with HIV by comparing a rare group <strong>of</strong> individuals with very low CD4 cell counts (< 50) who were asymptomatic and not taking HARRT (HLC group), to a group <strong>of</strong> HIV positive individuals with normal disease progression (NCC= normal course control group). Methods: Two hundred forty-seven diverse participants with HIV completed MHLOC scales as part <strong>of</strong> a psychosocial battery. The MHLOC has four subscales: Internal, Chance, Doctors, and Other People. Each subscale measures the belief that one’s health is controlled by one <strong>of</strong> these four constructs. A group <strong>of</strong> 70 participants from the larger NCC group (n = 177) were matched one-to-one with a participant from the HLC group on four demographic variables (gender, education, ethnicity, and income). Independent samples t-tests assessed whether the two groups differed significantly on each <strong>of</strong> the four MHLOC subscales. Results: The HLC group was significantly lower on the Internal subscale (t(138) = -1.978, p = .050; mean = 23.07, SD = 5.53 vs. the matched control group mean = 24.94, SD = 5.67), and significantly higher on the Doctors subscale (t(138) = 2.044, p = .043; mean = 15.11, SD = 3.02 vs. the matched control group mean = 14.03, SD = 3.26), but the groups did not differ on the Chance (t(138) = .35, p = .73) or Other People (t(138) = .42, p = .67) subscales. Conclusions: Asymptomatic HIV positive individuals with very low CD4 counts were less likely to believe that they control their own health, and more likely to believe that doctors control their health when compared to a group <strong>of</strong> HIV positive individuals with normal disease progression. These findings were not due to gender, education, ethnicity, income, or HAART medication. As this is one <strong>of</strong> the first studies to examine the interplay between the MHLOC scales and health status in HIV, additional research is needed to further understand the complex relationships amongst these variables. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Rachel Kuhn, BA, rkuhn@psy. miami.edu, Miami, FL, 33156; rkuhn@psy.miami.edu 3458 ASSOCIATIONS AMONG BMI, BODY IMAGE DISSATISFACTION AND HEALTH BEHAVIORS IN ASIAN AND HISPANIC ADOLESCENTS Bin Xie, MD, PhD, Qiaobing Wu, MA, Jennifer B. Unger, PhD, Donna Spruijt-Metz, PhD, Chih-Ping Chou, PhD and Carl Anderson Johnson, PhD University <strong>of</strong> Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. We investigated associations among BMI, body image dissatisfaction and health behaviors <strong>of</strong> fruits and vegetables consumption and physical activity in Asian and Hispanic adolescents. A total <strong>of</strong> 1156 Hispanic (67%) and Asian (33%) middle school students living in the Greater Los Angeles area filled in a questionnaire about ~ 117 ~ their health behaviors on physical activity and consumption <strong>of</strong> fruits and vegetables, and body figure scales <strong>of</strong> self and ideal body image perception. Weight and height were measured. According to the 2000 CDC growth chart, 21.3% Asian and 32.6% Hispanic adolescents were at the risk <strong>of</strong> overweight (BMI at or greater than 85th age- and gender-specific percentile cut<strong>of</strong>fs). Overweight adolescents reported significantly higher levels <strong>of</strong> body image dissatisfaction than normal or underweight adolescents. Path models implemented by Mplus were adopted to explore mediation effects <strong>of</strong> body image dissatisfaction on associations <strong>of</strong> BMI Z scores with health behaviors with adjustment for gender, socioeconomic status, puberty, and USA acculturation. Bootstrapped standard errors and confidence intervals were obtained for parameter estimates <strong>of</strong> mediation models. In Asian adolescents, higher BMI Z scores were significantly associated with higher levels <strong>of</strong> body image dissatisfaction (p
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