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Assessing Social Motivations During Vaccination Decisions
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This dissertation utilized two separate studies to investigate the effects of social
motivation during vaccine decision-making. Some parents cite social motivations, like
contributing to herd immunity, as an influence ...
A Double-Blind Randomized Intervention to Reduce Distress from Perceived Cognitive Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
OBJECTIVE: Up to 65% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience cognitive impairment.
However, patients frequently overestimate the extent of their cognitive dysfunction, reducing their
overall quality of life. ...
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 ...
The Effect of Stress on Prosocial Sharing Behavior in Young Adults
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Prosocial behavior benefits both an individual and society. Sharing behavior is
considered the most altruistic, due to individuals sacrificing time and resources without the
expectation of reciprocation. A cost-benefit ...
Caregiver Level Predictors of Self-Regulation in Preschool-Aged Children
(2020)
Self-regulation is regarded as a key developmental skill that underlies children’s success throughout their life. When children enter kindergarten with under-developed self-regulation skills, they are at a greater risk for ...
Healthy Eating Information and Food Choices
(2020)
The obesity rate amongst American university students has become an item of concern for many colleges and universities across the country. College students are heavily exposed to many unhealthy dietary trends, being reliant ...
Beliefs about the Impact of Excess Body Weight on Biopsychosocial Functioning in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Background: Recent research indicates that obesity may exacerbate certain symptoms
of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Nevertheless, little research has examined patients’ perceptions
of how obesity may impact their MS symptoms. ...
The Effect of Peer Presence on Risk Taking Behavior Among Late Adolescents
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
The present study used an experimental method to examine risk-taking in a simulated
environment involving risky driving behaviors. The study examined the effects of peer
presence on risk-taking behavior among late ...
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 ...
The Relationship Between Positive and Negative Religious Coping, Depressive Symptoms, and Adherence to Health Behaviors in Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients: The Role of Pereceived Control
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Cardiovascular disease is a diagnosis that requires the use of effective coping strategies to manage the disease itself, as well as the challenges associated with it (e.g., lifestyle changes). Religious and spiritual coping ...
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. ...
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 ...
The Attentional Demands of Positive Reappraisal in a Dual Task Paradigm
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Emotion regulation refers to the ability to modulate experienced and expressed
emotions. A specific emotion regulation strategy, cognitive reappraisal, has received
extensive attention in the literature, as the strategy ...
The Cardiac Self-Blame Attributions Scale as a Predictor of Physical and Mental Health Outcomes in Underrepresented Patients with Cardiovascular Disease
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Following a cardiovascular event, most patients engage in a causal search to
understand why it occurred. One way of distinguishing attributions is through the construct
of self-blame. There is a difference between ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How Discrimination Experiences Impact Prolonged Grief Disorder Symptoms in Bereaved Black and African Americans
(2021)
Black and African American people experience bereavement more frequently and earlier in life than their White counterparts and thus may be more impacted by Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD). However, relatively little research ...
Preferences for Shared Decision-Making Between Physicians and Patients: Is Age a Factor?
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Shared decision-making (SDM) is a tool suggested for improving patient-doctor
relationships, health decision satisfaction, and health outcomes in all patient populations. The
assumption that older patients desire purely ...
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 ...