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Religiosity and Engagement in HIV Care Among African American People Living with HIV
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
OBJECTIVE: This study explored the acceptability and feasibility of adopting and
implementing religious determinants, including prayer and referral to religious leaders, into
engagement in HIV care [EIHC] for African ...
Predictors of Receipt of Counseling Services from Religious Leaders in African American Church Populations
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
African Americans (AAs) are disproportionality affected by mental health issues.
They are more likely to experience chronic depression, greater impairment from
depression, and serious psychological distress than the ...
Polypharmacy in patients with Multiple Sclerosis: effects on fatigue, perceived cognition, and objective cognitive performance
(2013-06-24)
prospective memory performance than patients without polypharmacy, F(1, 77) = 12.67, p = .001. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to examine the association between fatigue, cognition, and polypharmacy in MS patients. Results suggest that researchers should...
The Relationship between Change Talk during Motivational Interviewing and HIV Medication Adherence
(2015-08-04)
Although studies have demonstrated that change talk (CT) and sustain talk (ST) are
related to behavior change in multiple addictive behaviors, few have investigated the
relationship between change talk and outcome in ...
HIV stigma reduction and testing in the Hispanic/Latino church setting
(2013)
The study explored barriers and facilitators to HIV testing and stigma reduction
interventions and developed and evaluated a culturally and religiously adapted measure of
predictors of individuals' intentions to obtain ...
Graph Format Effects in Processing Health Outcome Information
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Decision support tools that incorporate predictive risk estimates can be used to assist
patients and their families in making better-informed choices about treatment options. The
format utilized to present predictive ...
Cognition, Fatigue, and Health-related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis: Exploring the Role of Polypharmacy and Anticholinergic Medication Burden
(2022)
, education, MS disease duration, and comorbidities, ΔR2 = .12, F(5, 84) = 7.84, p < .001. Polypharmacy and anticholinergic burden indices did not predict fatigue or HRQoL when accounting for relevant covariates such as disability and mood symptoms...
The relationships of discrimination and microaggressions with sleep quality in black Americans: the role of perseverative cognition
(2022)
Disparities in health outcomes between Black and White Americans are well-documented, including sleep quality. Black Americans are more likely to report poor sleep quality sleep than their White counterparts. As sleep is a risk factor for many...
Grief severity and health behaviors following bereavement: Exploring the moderating role of emotion regulation processes
(2023)
). The present study aims to 1) examine the relationships between grief severity and the “Big 4” modifiable health behavior indicators, 2) examine the relationships between emotion regulation variables (i.e., experiential avoidance and rumination) and each...
Examining the Impact of Childhood Adverse Experiences on Adulthood Health Related Quality of Life
(2016)
The Purpose of this study was to investigate how traumatic experiences in childhood
impact adulthood Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) among women experiencing
homelessness. HRQoL was determined to be an important ...
Improving Medication Adherence in Underrepresented Patients with Heart Disease: Piloting a Motivational Intervention
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Essential to reducing the risk of recurrence in individuals with cardiovascular disease (CVD), adherence to cardioprotective medications has been shown to decrease risk of cardiac-related hospitalization and mortality. ...
Mechanisms of Action in Motivational Interviewing
(2020)
Despite the demonstrated efficacy of disease modifying therapies (DMT), many MS patients (~ 40%) stop using DMT within 3 years of starting. A cross-over randomized controlled trial demonstrated that a theoretically based ...
On ‘Clear and Present Danger’: The Influence of Firearm Legislation on College Student Perceptions of Mental Illness and Treatment-Seeking Intentions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Mental illness (MI) stigma is considered a primary barrier to seeking and remaining
in treatment. Mental health experts argue that directly targeting persons with MI in an
effort to reduce gun violence may increase ...
Associations Between Benefit Finding, Disease Severity, Positive Affect, and Health Outcomes Among Patients in Cardiac Rehabilitation
(2020)
would be moderated by disease severity (operationalized here as risk stratification for disease progression). It was also hypothesized that BF would increase over time, such that BF at the end of CR (i.e., Time 2), would be significantly higher than BF...
Examination of self-determination theory constructs as mediators of the effect of motivational interviewing on tobacco cessation outcomes
(2021)
Despite an abundance of evidence supporting the efficacy of motivational interviewing for health behavior change, little is known about how it works. This study conducted a secondary analysis of autonomous motivation as a ...
Modeling shared decision-making: from factor analysis to mimic models
(2022)
Shared decision-making (SDM) is a collaborative medical-decision making process that is presumed to be associated with numerous positive patient outcomes. This manuscript describes efforts to develop a brief assessment ...