Cultural Characteristics

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • " I take the good with the bad, and I moisturize": defying middle age in the new millennium. 
  • "I felt like a slut": the cultural context and women's response to being raped. 
  • "It's medically proven!": Assessing the dissemination of religion and health research. 
  • "They have opened our mouths": increasing women's skills and motivation for sexual communication with young people in rural South Africa. 
  • 'A shot of his own': the acceptability of a male hormonal contraceptive in Indonesia. 
  • A Comparison of Practices During the Confinement Period among Chinese, Malay, and Indian Mothers in Singapore. 
  • A clinical experience in social medicine/cultural diversity. 
  • A literature review on end-of-life care among Korean Americans. 
  • A multinational review of recent trends and reports in dementia caregiver burden. 
  • A new model for developing and executing culturally appropriate behavior modification clinical trials for African Americans. 
  • A pilot study of PTSD symptoms among Kalahari Bushmen. 
  • A social cognitive model of health for HIV-positive adults receiving care in India. 
  • Accidental communities: race, emergency medicine, and the problem of polyheme. 
  • Adapting a multifaceted U.S. HIV prevention education program for girls in Ghana. 
  • Advance Directive Preferences Among Terminally Ill Older Patients and Its Facilitators and Barriers in China: A Scoping Review. 
  • Analyzing strategies for developing a prenatal health care outreach program to reduce social and cultural barriers. 
  • Assessment of visual status of the Aeta, a hunter-gatherer population of the Philippines (an AOS thesis). 
  • Attitudes justifying domestic violence predict endorsement of corporal punishment and physical and psychological aggression towards children: a study in 25 low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Barriers affecting access to and use of formal social supports among abused immigrant women 
  • Barriers to the participation of African-American patients with cancer in clinical trials: a pilot study. 
  • Behavioral Health in Prevention and Chronic Illness Management: Motivational Interviewing. 
  • Behavioral determinants of mental illness concerns: a comparison of community subcultures. 
  • Birthing and Parenting a Premature Infant in a Cultural Context. 
  • Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries. 
  • Clinical features of depression in Asia: results of a large prospective, cross-sectional study. 
  • Cognitions and behavior in asymmetric social dilemmas: a comparison of two cultures. 
  • Concepts of human differences: a comparison of American, Japanese, and Chinese children and adolescents. 
  • Consulting to children in crisis. 
  • Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Neck Disability Index and Neck Pain and Disability Scale. 
  • Cross-cultural considerations in administering the center for epidemiologic studies depression scale. 
  • Cultural aspects in the treatment of patients with skin disease. 
  • Cultural influences on neural basis of inhibitory control. 
  • Culture Embrained: Going Beyond the Nature-Nurture Dichotomy. 
  • Effects of the status of women on the first-birth interval in Indian urban society. 
  • FAMILY CAREGIVER'S PERCEPTION OF DEMENTIA AND CAREGIVING IN CHINESE CULTURE 
  • Factors Associated With Poor Child Motor Vehicle Restraint on the USA-Mexico Border. 
  • Factors That Influence Breastfeeding Initiation Among African American Women. 
  • Formative research methods for designing culturally appropriate, integrated child nutrition and development interventions: an overview. 
  • Gender and Child Behavior Problems in Rural Nepal: Differential Expectations and Responses. 
  • Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers. 
  • Getting the message out about cognitive health: a cross-cultural comparison of older adults' media awareness and communication needs on how to maintain a healthy brain. 
  • HIV Infection and AIDS in the Deep South. 
  • Health diplomacy and the adaptation of global health interventions to local needs in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand: evaluating findings from Project Accept (HPTN 043). 
  • Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context. 
  • Improving Mental Health Outcomes of Burmese Migrant and Displaced Children in Thailand: a Community-Based Randomized Controlled Trial of a Parenting and Family Skills Intervention. 
  • Influence of Dietary Salt Knowledge, Perceptions, and Beliefs on Consumption Choices after Stroke in Uganda. 
  • It takes two to mimic: behavioral consequences of self-construals. 
  • Jewish physicians' beliefs and practices regarding religion/spirituality in the clinical encounter. 
  • Judging the Past: The Case of the Human Radiation Experiments 
  • Lesbians, bisexual women, and body image: An investigation of gender roles and social group affiliation 
  • Living with HIV infection: perceptions of patients with access to care at a non-governmental organization in Chennai, India. 
  • Long-term care in North Carolina. 
  • Making primary care culturally competent. 
  • Marital rape: history, research, and practice. 
  • Maternal cultural practices for neonates' care in upper Egypt. 
  • Medical education in the community: a Nigerian experience. 
  • Miscarriage: a historical perspective. 
  • Mother and father socially desirable responding in nine countries: Two kinds of agreement and relations to parenting self-reports. 
  • Neuromarketing: the hope and hype of neuroimaging in business. 
  • Older Residents' Perspectives of Long-Term Care Facilities in China. 
  • On tools and toys: how children learn to act on and pretend with 'virgin objects'. 
  • Parent-adolescent communication about sex in rural India: U.S.-India collaboration to prevent adolescent HIV. 
  • Partnering for Professional Development in the Galápagos Islands. 
  • Perceptions of African-American culture and implications for clinical trial design. 
  • Place of birth and dietary intake in Ontario. I. Energy, fat, cholesterol, carbohydrate, fiber, and alcohol. 
  • Psychological morbidity of Thai families of a person with schizophrenia. 
  • Regional differences in awareness and attitudes regarding genetic testing for disease risk and ancestry. 
  • Religion and HIV in Tanzania: influence of religious beliefs on HIV stigma, disclosure, and treatment attitudes. 
  • Religion, spirituality and medicine in Australia: research and clinical practice. 
  • Retaining the meaning of the words religiousness and spirituality: a commentary on the WHOQOL SRPB group's "a cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion, and personal beliefs as components of quality of life" (62: 6, 2005, 1486-1497). 
  • Selection of treatment among Latina and non-Latina white women with ductal carcinoma in situ. 
  • Settlement has Many Faces: Physicians, Attorneys, and Medical Malpractice 
  • Sexual orientation and demographic, cultural, and psychological factors associated with the perpetration and victimization of intimate partner violence among Hispanic men. 
  • Sociocultural and socioeconomic influences on type 2 diabetes risk in overweight/obese African-American and Latino-American children and adolescents. 
  • Songbirds learn songs least degraded by environmental transmission. 
  • Spatial and social factors drive anemia in Congolese women. 
  • Stakeholder acceptability of adolescent participation in clinical trials for biomedical HIV prevention products: considerations from Tanzania and India. 
  • Student-Developed Simulations: Enhancing Cultural Awareness and Understanding Social Determinants of Health. 
  • Suicide in rural Haiti: clinical and community perceptions of prevalence, etiology, and prevention. 
  • Supporting and promoting personhood in long term care settings: contextual factors. 
  • Targeting risk factors for reducing the racially disparate burden in breast cancer. 
  • Teaching evidence-based medicine in the former Soviet Union: lessons learned. 
  • Technologies for global health. 
  • The Compliance of End-of-Life Care Preferences Among Older Adults and Its Facilitators and Barriers: A Scoping Review. 
  • The Latino Health Project: pilot testing a culturally adapted behavioral weight loss intervention in obese and overweight Latino adults. 
  • The Linear Nail Streak: A Lesson in Cultural Humility. 
  • The child's interests and the case for the permissibility of male infant circumcision. 
  • The clash of culture and cuisine: A qualitative exploration of cultural tensions and attitudes toward food and body in Chinese young adult women. 
  • The cultural dimensions of alcohol policy worldwide. 
  • The ecocultural context and child behavior problems: A qualitative analysis in rural Nepal. 
  • The effects of cultural background on patient-perceived impact of psoriatic arthritis - a qualitative study conducted in Brazil and France. 
  • The evolution of witchcraft and the meaning of healing in colonial Andean society. 
  • The role of geriatric palliative care in hospitalized older adults. 
  • Translating cultural assets research into action to mitigate adverse childhood experience-related health disparities among African American youth. 
  • Translation and adaptation of the life stressor checklist-revised with Colombian women 
  • Validation of the Simple Shoulder Test in a Portuguese-Brazilian population. Is the latent variable structure and validation of the Simple Shoulder Test Stable across cultures? 
  • Video methodologies in research: unlocking the complexities of occupation. 
  • Weight-related attitudes and behaviors in fourth grade American Indian children. 
  • [Re]considering Respect for Persons in a Globalizing World.