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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 Propel Program: A Exploratory Study of an Inclusive Higher Education Model
(2020)
variables were associated with first-semester GPA, also specifically examining the reliability of the Post-Secondary Readiness Rubric (PSRR) and whether it predicts first semester GPA. The results suggest some evidence for reliability for the PSRR, though...
How Discrimination Experiences Impact Prolonged Grief Disorder Symptoms in Bereaved Black and African Americans
(2021)
and African American grievers. We use the Stress Process Model to understand how discrimination as a stressor affects social support and positive coping strategies to influence PGD severity. Respondents were invited to participate in a Qualtrics panel-based...
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...
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 ...
Cognition, Fatigue, and Health-related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis: Exploring the Role of Polypharmacy and Anticholinergic Medication Burden
(2022)
OBJECTIVE: Recent evidence suggests that polypharmacy, or the daily use of multiple medications, is common among individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). Some medications have anticholinergic properties that increase risk of adverse effects...
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 motivational interviewing...
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 ...
Intolerance of Uncertainty and the Physiological Correlates of Anticipation and Appraisal of Affective Stimuli
(2021)
Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is an important transdiagnostic construct found across many psychiatric conditions. This construct is thought to reflect a general tendency to interpret uncertainty as overly aversive, and ...
Grief severity and health behaviors following bereavement: Exploring the moderating role of emotion regulation processes
(2023)
The extant literature investigating associations between grief symptom severity and engagement in health behaviors is limited. Furthermore, research examining health outcomes in bereaved populations has yielded mixed ...
Self-Controlled Food and Leisure Activity Decision-Making
(2021)
The experiment aimed to examine the effects of stress, coping, weight status, age, and attribute weightiness on health decision-making in females and males. Participants completed an online experiment consisting of ...
Caregiver Level Predictors of Self-Regulation in Preschool-Aged Children
(2020)
-minute unstructured play interaction between caregiver and child. Play-based caregiver behaviors were coded for caregiver use of labeled praise, questions, and commands using the Behavioral Coding System (BCS) from McMahon and Forehand (2005). We...
The nature and functional significance of intra-individual neurocognitive ability across serious mental illness diagnoses
(2022)
Intra-individual performance variability (IIV) is defined as lawful, transient, within-person changes in cognitive performance. IIV has been found to predict functional and other crucial real-world outcomes among clinical ...
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 ...
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....
The development and validation of the appearance satisfaction questionnaire - the first culturally appropriate measure for body image in black women
(2020)
Current theories in body image postulate that body dissatisfaction predicts eating disorder pathology. Previous research in body image with Black women claims that Black women do not experience body dissatisfaction and ...
Coping Methods of College Women of Color Facing Discrimination
(2023)
Scholars have documented that experiencing microaggressions can have a negative impact on the psychological and physical health of women of color. Female college students of color specifically have shown to experience ...