Search
Now showing items 1-8 of 8
Socioeconomic Status, Acculturation, Family Characteristics, and Health Behaviors: Testing the Reserve Capacity Model with Hispanic Adolescents
(2014-09-30)
Research shows that socioeconomic status (SES) can impact adolescent use of alcohol and
smoking. These relationships may be mediated by stress, psychosocial reserves, and
negative emotions. I explored these relationships ...
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 mediator of motivational...
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 ...
How Spirituality and Fatigue Interact to Affect Quality of Life in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer
(2023)
other associations did not reach statistical significance based on p-values. Implications, limitations, and further directions are discussed....
Fatalism, Religious Attendance, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Engagement in Health Behaviors Among Hispanic Americans low in Acculturation and Income: Testing the Reserve Capacity Model
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Although health disparities are widespread between ethnic and racial minority groups
and Whites in the United States, Hispanics seemingly have a relative advantage in one
particular health outcome: all-cause mortality. ...
Investigating the Predictive Validity of the Self-Blame Attributions for Cancer Scale in Patients with Head and Neck and Lung Cancer
(2020)
of attribution is self-blame. Researchers have categorized self-blame based on the tendency to blame one’s behaviors (behavioral self-blame; BSB) or dispositional character (characterological self-blame; CSB). In addition, these subtypes are predicted...
Improving Medication Adherence in Underrepresented Patients with Heart Disease: Piloting a Motivational Intervention
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
to these medications are high. Furthermore, racial and socioeconomic disparities in adherence are evident. Financial, informational, behavioral, and combined approach interventions to improve cardioprotective medication adherence utilize a variety of delivery methods...
Associations Between Benefit Finding, Disease Severity, Positive Affect, and Health Outcomes Among Patients in Cardiac Rehabilitation
(2020)
Following a stressful event, individuals may attempt to create meaning or find benefit from the stressor. Benefit finding (BF) may act as a buffer to minimize the effects of stress on health outcomes. The literature is ...