Patient Acceptance of Health Care

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Is 28% good or bad?" Evaluability and preference reversals in health care decisions. 
  • "Set it and forget it": women's perceptions and opinions of long-acting topical vaginal gels. 
  • "Symptom-specific or holistic": menopausal symptom management. 
  • A Pilot Study of a Mobile Health Pain Coping Skills Training Protocol for Patients With Persistent Cancer Pain. 
  • A Pilot Trial of Mindfulness Meditation Training for ADHD in Adulthood: Impact on Core Symptoms, Executive Functioning, and Emotion Dysregulation. 
  • A clinical trial of a rehabilitation expert clinician versus usual care for providing manual wheelchairs. 
  • A framework for improving early detection of breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: A qualitative study of help-seeking behaviors among Malawian women. 
  • A prevalence study of faith-based healing in the rural southeastern United States. 
  • A protocol for a discrete choice experiment: understanding preferences of patients with cancer towards their cancer care across metropolitan and rural regions in Australia. 
  • A randomized pilot trial of a telephone-based couples intervention for physical intimacy and sexual concerns in colorectal cancer. 
  • A structural approach to examining prostate cancer risk for rural southern African American men. 
  • Absconders from a rural health centre in Papua New Guinea. 
  • Acceptability and Accuracy of Cervical Cancer Screening Using a Self-Collected Tampon for HPV Messenger-RNA Testing among HIV-Infected Women in South Africa. 
  • Acceptability of dementia screening in primary care patients. 
  • Acceptability of sodium-reduced research diets, including the Dietary Approaches To Stop Hypertension diet, among adults with prehypertension and stage 1 hypertension. 
  • Acceptance of HIV testing during prenatal care. Perinatal Guidelines Evaluation Project. 
  • Acceptance of repeat esophagogastroduodenoscopy to detect gastric cancer in a Chinese immigrant cohort. 
  • Acceptance, panic, and partial recovery the pattern of usage of drug-eluting stents after introduction in the U.S. (a report from the American College of Cardiology/National Cardiovascular Data Registry). 
  • Addiction and treatment experiences among active methamphetamine users recruited from a township community in Cape Town, South Africa: A mixed-methods study. 
  • Adjuvant hormonal therapy use among women with ductal carcinoma in situ. 
  • Alcohol dependence and use of treatment services among women in the community. 
  • Alcohol use disorders and the use of treatment services among college-age young adults. 
  • An Investigation of Treatment Engagement Among Returning Veterans With Problematic Anger. 
  • An ethical take on the "stress vaccine". 
  • An interactive web-based method of outreach to college students at risk for suicide. 
  • Another round in the mammography controversy. 
  • Antidepressant medication use in palliative care. 
  • Antidepressant use by race. 
  • Are Iraq and Afghanistan veterans using mental health services? New data from a national random-sample survey. 
  • Are adult patients more tolerant of treatment risks than parents of juvenile patients? 
  • Are gastroenterologists less tolerant of treatment risks than patients? Benefit-risk preferences in Crohn's disease management. 
  • Assessing Psychological Toxicity and Patient-Reported Distress as the Sixth Vital Sign in Cancer Care and Clinical Trials. 
  • Association Between Parental HPV Knowledge and Intentions to Have Their Daughters Vaccinated. 
  • Association between weight bias internalization and metabolic syndrome among treatment-seeking individuals with obesity. 
  • Association of MDMA/ecstasy and other substance use with self-reported sexually transmitted diseases among college-aged adults: a national study. 
  • Association of Multimorbidity with Mortality and Healthcare Utilization in Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Association of vaccine-related attitudes and beliefs between parents and health care providers. 
  • Associations between suicidal high school students' help-seeking and their attitudes and perceptions of social environment. 
  • Attitudes, Intentions, and Barriers Toward Influenza Vaccination Among Pregnant Korean Women. 
  • Aversion to ambiguity regarding medical tests and treatments: measurement, prevalence, and relationship to sociodemographic factors. 
  • Avoidable costs of comprehensive case management. 
  • Bargaining power within couples and use of prenatal and delivery care in Indonesia. 
  • Bariatric surgery barriers: a review using Andersen's Model of Health Services Use. 
  • Barriers and strategies for sustained participation of African-American men in cohort studies. 
  • Barriers to Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening in Singapore: a Mixed Methods Analysis. 
  • Barriers to accessing TB diagnosis for rural-to-urban migrants with chronic cough in Chongqing, China: a mixed methods study. 
  • Barriers to sexual and reproductive health care among widows in Nepal. 
  • Barriers to urinary incontinence care seeking in White, Black, and Latina women. 
  • Benefits, risk, and uncertainty: preferences of antiretroviral-naïve African Americans for HIV treatments. 
  • Breast conservation rates-barriers between tertiary care and community practice. 
  • Brief psychosocial education, not core stabilization, reduced incidence of low back pain: results from the Prevention of Low Back Pain in the Military (POLM) cluster randomized trial. 
  • Building capacity for cervical cancer screening in outpatient HIV clinics in the Nyanza province of western Kenya. 
  • Can tailored interventions increase mammography use among HMO women? 
  • Cannabis use history and characteristics of quit attempts: a comparison study of treatment-seeking and non-treatment-seeking cannabis users. 
  • Cardiopulmonary and mental health diagnoses surrounding the September 11 terrorist acts in a military population. 
  • Causes of the change in the rates of mortality and severe complications of diabetes mellitus: 1992-2012. 
  • Cervical Cancer Screening Knowledge and Behavior among Women Attending an Urban HIV Clinic in Western Kenya. 
  • Challenges and solutions for recruiting pregnant smokers into a nicotine replacement therapy trial. 
  • Changes in Young Adult Primary Care Under the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Changing knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding cervical cancer screening: The effects of an educational intervention in rural Kenya. 
  • Characteristics of cancer patients presenting to an integrative medicine practice-based research network. 
  • Chasing the care: soldiers experience following combat-related mild traumatic brain injury. 
  • Childhood abuse and initial presentation for HIV care: an opportunity for early intervention. 
  • Childhood cancer survivorship research in minority populations: A position paper from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Childhood immunization programs: an analysis of policy issues. 
  • Chronicity of Voice-Related Health Care Utilization in the General Medicine Community. 
  • Clinical risks and healthcare utilization of hematopoietic cell transplantation for sickle cell disease in the USA using merged databases. 
  • Cocooning infants: Tdap immunization for new parents in the pediatric office. 
  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (CBT-SP): treatment model, feasibility, and acceptability. 
  • Collecting data on quality is feasible in community-based palliative care. 
  • College Students' Perspectives on Campus Health Centers as a Sexual Assault Resource: A Qualitative Analysis. 
  • Colonoscopy: practice variation among 69 hospital-based endoscopists. 
  • Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of adolescents. 
  • Common sense, insight, and neuropsychological test performance in schizophrenia patients. 
  • Community pharmacists' experience with pharmacogenetic testing. 
  • Comparative Analysis of Inpatient and Outpatient Interspinous Process Device Placement for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. 
  • Complementary and alternative medicine use among US Navy and Marine Corps personnel. 
  • Computer Face Scale for measuring pediatric pain and mood. 
  • Consumers who call the Anxiety Disorders Association of America: characteristics and satisfaction. 
  • Continuation rates and reasons for removal among Implanon users accessing two family planning clinics in Queensland, Australia. 
  • Contraceptive service delivery in Kenya: A qualitative study to identify barriers and preferences among female sex workers and health care providers. 
  • Contrasting patterns of care for musculoskeletal disorders and injuries of the upper extremity and knee through workers' compensation and private health care insurance among union carpenters in Washington State, 1989 to 2008. 
  • Contribution of the Veterans Health Administration in understanding racial disparities in access and utilization of health care: a spirit of inquiry. 
  • Correlates of HIV testing among abused women in South Africa. 
  • Cost of Medical Care of Patients with Advanced Serious Illness in Singapore (COMPASS): prospective cohort study protocol. 
  • Cost-Effectiveness of Long-Acting Injectable Paliperidone Palmitate Versus Haloperidol Decanoate in Maintenance Treatment of Schizophrenia. 
  • Countering Vaccine Hesitancy. 
  • Declining rates of work-related overexertion back injuries among union drywall installers in Washington State, 1989-2008: Improved work safety or shifting of care? 
  • Delayed pursuit of health care among HIV-positive gay men enrolled in a longitudinal research study. 
  • Demographics, treatment seeking, and diagnoses of anxiety support group participants. 
  • Depression and Engagement in Care Among Newly Diagnosed HIV-Infected Adults in Johannesburg, South Africa. 
  • Depression in hospitalized older patients with congestive heart failure. 
  • Depressive symptoms, anatomical region, and clinical outcomes for patients seeking outpatient physical therapy for musculoskeletal pain. 
  • Detection and outcomes of substance use disorders in adolescents seeking mental health treatment. 
  • Determinants of care seeking for mental health problems in rural Haiti: culture, cost, or competency. 
  • Development and initial testing of a computer-based patient decision aid to promote colorectal cancer screening for primary care practice. 
  • Development and preliminary evaluation of a telephone-based mindfulness training intervention for survivors of critical illness. 
  • Did Massachusetts Health Reform Affect Veterans Affairs Primary Care Use? 
  • Differences in care-seeking behavior for acute chest pain in the United States and Japan. 
  • Differential service utilization associated with trauma-informed integrated treatment for women with co-occurring disorders. 
  • Direct questioning is more effective than patient-initiated report for the detection of sexually transmitted infections in a primary care HIV clinic in Western Kenya. 
  • Disaster preparedness and response practices among providers from the Veterans Health Administration and Veterans with spinal cord injuries and/or disorders. 
  • Distance as a barrier to using a fitness-program benefit for managed Medicare enrollees. 
  • Do women increase their use of reproductive health care when it becomes more available? Evidence from Indonesia. 
  • Does distance affect utilization of substance abuse and mental health services in the presence of transportation services? 
  • Does fear of coercion keep people away from mental health treatment? Evidence from a survey of persons with schizophrenia and mental health professionals. 
  • Duration of untreated psychosis and the pathway to care in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 
  • Effect of Clinical and Attitudinal Characteristics on Obtaining Comprehensive Medication Reviews. 
  • Effect of framing as gain versus loss on understanding and hypothetical treatment choices: survival and mortality curves. 
  • Effect of hawthorn standardized extract on flow mediated dilation in prehypertensive and mildly hypertensive adults: a randomized, controlled cross-over trial. 
  • Effect of massage therapy on stress levels and quality of life in brain tumor patients--observations from a pilot study. 
  • Effectiveness and Downstream Healthcare Utilization for Patients That Received Early Physical Therapy Versus Usual Care for Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effectiveness of telephone counseling for mammography: results from five randomized trials. 
  • Effects of sex, age, and visits on receipt of preventive healthcare services: a secondary analysis of national data. 
  • Electronic health (eHealth) interventions for weight management among racial/ethnic minority adults: a systematic review. 
  • Emotional distress in nonmetropolitan persons living with HIV disease enrolled in a telephone-delivered, coping improvement group intervention. 
  • Engagement and abstinence among users of a smoking cessation text message program for veterans. 
  • Engaging depressed African American adolescents in treatment: lessons from the AAKOMA PROJECT. 
  • Engaging expectant parents to receive Tdap vaccination. 
  • Enhancing linkage and retention in HIV care: a review of interventions for highly resourced and resource-poor settings. 
  • Epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus testing among patients with tuberculosis in North Carolina. 
  • Estimating Preferences for Complex Health Technologies: Lessons Learned and Implications for Personalized Medicine. 
  • Ethnic differences in mental illness and mental health service use among Black fathers. 
  • Evaluating a stage model in predicting monolingual spanish-speaking Latinas' cervical cancer screening practices: the role of psychosocial and cultural predictors. 
  • Evaluating the burden of amblyopia treatment from the parent and child's perspective. 
  • Examining racial variation in antiemetic use and post-chemotherapy health care utilization for nausea and vomiting among breast cancer patients. 
  • Explained and unexplained medical symptoms in generalized anxiety and panic disorder: relationship to the somatoform disorders. 
  • Explanatory models and mental health treatment: is vodou an obstacle to psychiatric treatment in rural Haiti? 
  • Explantation Rates and Healthcare Resource Utilization in Spinal Cord Stimulation. 
  • Exploring outcomes associated with acupuncture. 
  • Extent of, and factors associated with, delay to hospital presentation in patients with acute coronary disease (the GRACE registry). 
  • Factorial invariance of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms across three veteran samples. 
  • Factors Associated With Missed and Cancelled Colonoscopy Appointments at Veterans Health Administration Facilities. 
  • Factors affecting Medicare Part D beneficiaries' decision to receive comprehensive medication reviews. 
  • Factors affecting patient access in Thailand: understanding delay in care seeking for patients with cancer. 
  • Factors associated with patient, and diagnostic delays in Chinese TB patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Factors influencing enrollment in a cardiac rehabilitation exercise program. 
  • Factors influencing pursuit of hearing evaluation: Enhancing the health belief model with perceived burden from hearing loss on communication partners. 
  • Family risk as a predictor of initial engagement and follow-through in a universal nurse home visiting program to prevent child maltreatment. 
  • Feasibility and acceptability of the TALK social worker intervention to improve live kidney transplantation. 
  • Feasibility and willingness-to-pay for integrated community-based tuberculosis testing. 
  • Feasibility of using an iPod touch device and acceptability of a stigma reduction intervention with HIV-infected women in the Deep South. 
  • For the patient. Improving participation of African-American men in research studies. 
  • Foregone health care among adolescents. 
  • Gaps in receipt of regular eye examinations among medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with diabetes or chronic eye diseases. 
  • Gender differences in health care utilization among veterans with chronic pain. 
  • General medical and specialty mental health service use for major depression. 
  • HIV risk behavior in opioid dependent adults seeking detoxification treatment: an exploratory comparison of heroin and oxycodone users. 
  • HIV risk behavior in treatment-seeking opioid-dependent youth: results from a NIDA clinical trials network multisite study. 
  • HIV test-seeking before and after the restriction of anonymous testing in North Carolina. 
  • HIV testing and sero-prevalence among methamphetamine users seeking substance abuse treatment in Cape Town. 
  • HIV testing behaviors and attitudes among community recruited methamphetamine users in a South African township. 
  • HIV-related stigma among an urban sample of persons living with HIV at risk for dropping out of HIV-oriented primary medical care. 
  • HIV/AIDS-related stigma in South African alcohol-serving venues and its potential impact on HIV disclosure, testing and treatment-seeking behaviours. 
  • HPTN 062: a feasibility and acceptability pilot intervention to reduce HIV transmission risk behaviors among individuals with acute and early HIV infection in Lilongwe, Malawi. 
  • Health care and social service use among Chinese immigrant elders. 
  • Health care insurance, financial concerns in accessing care, and delays to hospital presentation in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Health care of young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Health care utilization and end-of-life care for older patients with acute myeloid leukemia. 
  • Health care utilization of carpenters with substance abuse-related diagnoses. 
  • Health care utilization of families of carpenters with alcohol or substance abuse-related diagnoses. 
  • Health insurance and mammography: would a Medicare buy-in take us to universal screening? 
  • Health needs and barriers to healthcare of women who have experienced intimate partner violence. 
  • Health seeking behavior among pregnant women in rural Haiti. 
  • Health-related quality of life and health service use among older adults with osteoarthritis. 
  • Healthcare utilization and costs associated with dabigatran compared to warfarin treatment in newly diagnosed patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. 
  • Hearing and vision screening program for school-aged children. 
  • Help-Seeking Behavior in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Toward an Integrated Behavioral Model of Individual Factors. 
  • Heterogeneity in health seeking behaviour for treatment, prevention and urgent care in four districts in western Kenya. 
  • Heterogeneous HIV testing preferences in an urban setting in Tanzania: results from a discrete choice experiment. 
  • How does cost matter in health-care discrete-choice experiments? 
  • Hypertensive patients' use of blood pressure monitors stationed in pharmacies and other locations: a cross-sectional mail survey. 
  • Hypothetical bias, cheap talk, and stated willingness to pay for health care. 
  • Hysterectomy and loss of fertility: implications for women's mental health. 
  • Impact of Disgust on Intentions to Undergo Colorectal Surgery. 
  • Impact of a provider job aid intervention on injectable contraceptive continuation in South Africa. 
  • Impact of medicaid managed care on utilization of obstetric care: evidence from TennCare's early years. 
  • Impact of race on cardiac care and outcomes in veterans with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Impact of remote monitoring on clinical events and associated health care utilization: A nationwide assessment. 
  • Impact of the Cancer Risk Intake System on patient-clinician discussions of tamoxifen, genetic counseling, and colonoscopy. 
  • Impact of travel distance on WISEWOMAN Intervention attendance for a rural population. 
  • Impacts of Workplace Health Promotion and Wellness Programs on Health Care Utilization and Costs: Results From an Academic Workplace. 
  • Impaired but undiagnosed. 
  • Implantable Neurostimulation for Headache Disorders: Effect on Healthcare Utilization and Expenditures. 
  • In reference to "Managing superutilizers--staying patient centered is the solution". 
  • Increasing the uptake of long-acting reversible contraception in general practice: the Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject (ACCORd) cluster randomised controlled trial protocol. 
  • Incremental Effects of Telephone Call Center and Healthcare Utilization Database Use to Improve Follow-up Rate in the Prevention of Low Back Pain in the Military Trial. 
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients' Willingness to Accept Medication Risk to Avoid Future Disease Relapse. 
  • Informing women about their breast cancer risks: truth and consequences. 
  • Insurance expansions: do they hurt those they are designed to help? 
  • Intentions to maintain adherence to mammography. 
  • Interpersonal and self-reported hostility among combat veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Interval to treatment in endometrial cancer. 
  • Knowledge about cervical cancer screening and perception of risk among women attending outpatient clinics in rural Kenya. 
  • Knowledge and beliefs associated with refractive errors and undercorrection: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs regarding tuberculosis preventive therapy for HIV-infected persons, Botswana, 1999. 
  • Korean women's attitudes toward breast cancer screening tests. 
  • Law & psychiatry: Gun laws and mental illness: how sensible are the current restrictions? 
  • Learning from the community about barriers to health care. 
  • Learning to suspect the unexpected: evaluating women with cardiac syndromes. 
  • Leveraging healthcare utilization to explore outcomes from musculoskeletal disorders: methodology for defining relevant variables from a health services data repository. 
  • Lifetime trauma exposure in veterans with military-related posttraumatic stress disorder: association with current symptomatology. 
  • Long-term Cost Utility of Spinal Cord Stimulation in Patients with Failed Back Surgery Syndrome. 
  • Long-term administration of controlled-release oxycodone tablets for the treatment of cancer pain. 
  • Maintaining normalcy: a grounded theory of engaging in HIV-oriented primary medical care. 
  • Manipulating perceptions of colorectal cancer threat: implications for screening intentions and behaviors. 
  • Masculinity, medical mistrust, and preventive health services delays among community-dwelling African-American men. 
  • Medical service utilization by veterans seeking help for posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Medicare claims indicators of healthcare utilization differences after hospitalization for ischemic stroke: Race, gender, and caregiving effects. 
  • Missed opportunities for timely diagnosis of pediatric lupus in South Africa: a qualitative study. 
  • Models for delivering survivorship care. 
  • Modifying attributions of colorectal cancer risk. 
  • Motivations for Reducing Other HIV Risk-Reduction Practices if Taking Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: Findings from a Qualitative Study Among Women in Kenya and South Africa. 
  • Multiple sclerosis patients' benefit-risk preferences: serious adverse event risks versus treatment efficacy. 
  • Musculoskeletal symptoms among commercial fishers in North Carolina. 
  • Narratives that address affective forecasting errors reduce perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening. 
  • Navigating parental vaccine hesitancy. 
  • Needle preference in patients receiving cosmetic botulinum toxin type A. 
  • Neurological symptoms and deficits in adults with scoliosis who present to a surgical clinic: incidence and association with the choice of operative versus nonoperative management. 
  • Neuropsychological characterization of dementia patients. 
  • New models of care in family medicine. 
  • New or Worsening Symptoms and Signs in Community-Dwelling Persons with Dementia: Incidence and Relation to Use of Acute Medical Services. 
  • New testosterone buccal system (Striant) delivers physiological testosterone levels: pharmacokinetics study in hypogonadal men. 
  • No sex for science? Formative research on the acceptability and feasibility of a true contraceptive efficacy clinical trial. 
  • Non-utilization of the Pap Test Among Women with Frequent Health System Contact. 
  • Obesity and sexual quality of life. 
  • Obsessions and compulsions in the community: prevalence, interference, help-seeking, developmental stability, and co-occurring psychiatric conditions. 
  • One size does not fit all: HIV testing preferences differ among high-risk groups in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Opt-Out HIV Testing of Inmates in North Carolina Prisons: Factors Associated with not Wanting a Test and not Knowing They Were Tested. 
  • Opt-out HIV testing in prison: informed and voluntary? 
  • Optimization of PSA screening policies: a comparison of the patient and societal perspectives. 
  • Outpatient care use among female veterans: differences between mental health and non-mental health users. 
  • Over-diagnosed and over-treated: a survey of Australian public attitudes towards the acceptability of drug treatment for depression and ADHD. 
  • Overutilization of endoscopic surveillance in nondysplastic Barrett's esophagus: a multicenter study. 
  • Overweight children report qualitatively distinct asthma symptoms: analysis of validated symptom measures. 
  • PTSD diagnoses, subsyndromal symptoms, and comorbidities contribute to impairments for breast cancer survivors. 
  • Pain predicts non-adherence to pap smear screening among middle-aged African American women. 
  • Parental knowledge of fecal incontinence in children. 
  • Parental vaccine concerns in Kentucky. 
  • Pastoral care use among post-9/11 veterans who screen positive for mental health problems. 
  • Patient Anxiety Before and Immediately After Imaging-Guided Breast Biopsy Procedures: Impact of Radiologist-Patient Communication. 
  • Patient Attitudes Toward Telemedicine for Diabetic Retinopathy. 
  • Patient acceptance of two health status measures: the Medical Outcomes Study Short-form General Health Survey and the Duke Health Profile. 
  • Patient and physician factors associated with participation in cervical and uterine cancer trials: an NRG/GOG247 study. 
  • Patient and primary care provider experience using a family health history collection, risk stratification, and clinical decision support tool: a type 2 hybrid controlled implementation-effectiveness trial. 
  • Patient and provider perspectives on implementation models of HIV counseling and testing for patients with TB. 
  • Patient complexity, prescriber continuity and acute care. 
  • Patient expectations regarding eye care: development and results of the Eye Care Expectations Survey (ECES). 
  • Patient expectations regarding eye care: focus group results. 
  • Patient preferences and quality of life associated with colorectal cancer screening. 
  • Patients welcome the Sickle Cell Disease Mobile Application to Record Symptoms via Technology (SMART). 
  • Patients' interest in discussing cancer risk and risk management with primary care physicians. 
  • Patients' perceptions of safety if interpersonal continuity of care were to be disrupted. 
  • Patterns of emergency medical services use and its association with timely stroke treatment: findings from Get With the Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • People living with HIV infection who attend and do not attend support groups: a pilot study of needs, characteristics and experiences. 
  • People who expect to enter psychotherapy are prone to believing that they have forgotten memories of childhood trauma and abuse. 
  • Perceived acceptability of home-based couples voluntary HIV counseling and testing in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Perceived barriers to mammography among underserved women in a Breast Health Center Outreach Program. 
  • Perceived breast cancer risk: heuristic reasoning and search for a dominance structure. 
  • Perceived coercion among jail diversion participants in a multisite study. 
  • Perceived helpfulness of messages on a community-based telephone support service for ex-smokers. 
  • Perceptibility and the "Choice Experience": User Sensory Perceptions and Experiences Inform Vaginal Prevention Product Design. 
  • Perceptions about female urinary incontinence: a systematic review. 
  • Perceptions of counsellors and youth-serving professionals about sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents in Soweto, South Africa. 
  • Perceptions of participation in an observational epidemiologic study of cancer among African Americans. 
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Utilization and Appropriateness across the United States. 
  • Permethrin-impregnated bed nets for malaria control in northern Guatemala: epidemiologic impact and community acceptance. 
  • Perspectives from the Kidney Health Initiative on Advancing Technologies to Facilitate Remote Monitoring of Patient Self-Care in RRT. 
  • Phase 2 pilot study of Pathfinders: a psychosocial intervention for cancer patients. 
  • Positive choices: outcomes of a brief risk reduction intervention for newly HIV-diagnosed men who have sex with men. 
  • Post-operative opioid pain management patterns for patients who receive hip surgery. 
  • Posttraumatic growth in treatment-seeking female assault victims. 
  • Preclinical episodes of orofacial pain symptoms and their association with health care behaviors in the OPPERA prospective cohort study. 
  • Prediction of healthcare utilization following an episode of physical therapy for musculoskeletal pain. 
  • Predictors of H1N1 vaccination in pregnancy. 
  • Predictors of adoption of mammography in women under age 50. 
  • Predictors of condom use and human immunodeficiency virus test seeking among women living in inner-city public housing developments. 
  • Predictors of latent tuberculosis treatment initiation and completion at a U.S. public health clinic: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Predictors of mental health care use among male and female veterans deployed in support of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 
  • Prenatal immunization education the pediatric prenatal visit and routine obstetric care. 
  • Prevalence and Cost Analysis of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): A Role for Neuromodulation. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of depression in treatment-seeking women with vulvodynia. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of treatment utilization among adults with cannabis use disorder in the United States. 
  • Prevalence of Surgically Untreated Face, Head, and Neck Conditions in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Nationwide Household Survey. 
  • Prevalence, practice patterns, and evidence for chronic neck pain. 
  • Prevention of wrong site surgery during upper tract endoscopy. 
  • Primary care physician assistant and advance practice nurses roles: Patient healthcare utilization, unmet need, and satisfaction. 
  • Primary care physician decision making regarding severe obesity treatment and bariatric surgery: a qualitative study. 
  • Priorities for family building among patients and partners seeking treatment for infertility. 
  • Prisoners on death row should be accepted as organ donors. 
  • Proactive community case-finding to facilitate treatment seeking for mental disorders, Nepal. 
  • Problem alcohol use and healthcare utilization among persons with cannabis use disorder in the United States. 
  • Professional versus personal resource utilization in survivors of intimate partner violence. 
  • Promoting Vaccine Confidence. 
  • Prostate cancer: demographic and behavioral correlates of stage at diagnosis among blacks and whites in North Carolina. 
  • Psychiatric disorders in primary care patients receiving complementary medical treatments. 
  • Psychological aspects of persistent pain: current state of the science. 
  • Psychological correlates of obese patients seeking surgical or residential behavioral weight loss treatment. 
  • Public health clinical demonstration project for smoking cessation in american veterans who served since september 11, 2001. 
  • Quantifying the recruitment challenges with couple-based interventions for cancer: applications to early-stage breast cancer. 
  • Race and gender differences in the treatment of psychiatric disorders in young adolescents. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of pregnancy-related health care among Medicaid pregnant women. 
  • Racial differences in hospice revocation to pursue aggressive care. 
  • Racial differences in influenza vaccination among older Americans 1996-2000: longitudinal analysis of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) survey. 
  • Racial variation in wanting and obtaining mental health services among women veterans in a primary care clinic. 
  • Racial/Ethnic and Sex Differences in Emergency Medical Services Transport Among Hospitalized US Stroke Patients: Analysis of the National Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Registry. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in influenza vaccination in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. 
  • Randomized trial showed requesting medical records with a survey produced a more representative sample than requesting separately. 
  • Rationale and design of the long-Term rIsk, clinical manaGement, and healthcare Resource utilization of stable coronary artery dISease in post-myocardial infarction patients (TIGRIS) study. 
  • Reducing barriers to completing psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Regularity of preventive foot care in persons with diabetes: results from the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study. 
  • Relationship between trauma and high-risk behavior among HIV-positive men who do not have sex with men (MDSM). 
  • Religion and HIV in Tanzania: influence of religious beliefs on HIV stigma, disclosure, and treatment attitudes. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and depression in adolescent psychiatric outpatients. 
  • Religious cognitions and use of prayer in health and illness. 
  • Risk classification of adult primary care patients by self-reported quality of life. 
  • Risk factors for physical injury among help-seeking battered women: an exploration of multiple abuse dimensions. 
  • Screening for diabetes in an outpatient clinic population. 
  • Screening mammography and Pap tests among older American women 1996-2000: results from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD). 
  • Self-disclosure of HIV status, disclosure counseling, and retention in HIV care in Cameroon. 
  • Self-reported delay in seeking care has poor validity for predicting adverse outcomes. 
  • Serious physical illness as a stressor: effects on family use of medical services. 
  • Service delivery characteristics associated with contraceptive use among youth clients in integrated voluntary counseling and HIV testing clinics in Kenya. 
  • Service usage typologies in a clinical sample of trauma-exposed adolescents: A latent class analysis. 
  • Sex differences in patients seeking medical attention for prodromal symptoms before an acute coronary event. 
  • Shielded from the real world: perspectives on Internet cancer support groups by Asian Americans. 
  • Smoking in help-seeking veterans with PTSD returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. 
  • Specialist palliative care needs of whole populations: a feasibility study using a novel approach. 
  • Staff interaction strategies that optimize delivery of transitional care in a skilled nursing facility: a multiple case study. 
  • Stigma and treatment delay in first-episode psychosis: a grounded theory study. 
  • Subethnic differences in the menopausal symptom experience of Asian American midlife women. 
  • Suicidal ideation and behaviour among community and health care seeking populations in five low- and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Survivor profiles predict health behavior intent: the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Survivor typologies predict medical surveillance participation: the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Symptom complaints and health care seeking behavior in subjects with bowel dysfunction. 
  • Systematic review of educational interventions to improve glaucoma medication adherence. 
  • Systematic review of women veterans' mental health. 
  • Task Force III: Assessment of psychological status in patients with ischemic heart disease. 
  • Ten years and 100,000 participants later: occupational and other factors influencing participation in US Gulf War health registries. 
  • The "PHS Increased Risk" Label Is Associated With Nonutilization of Hundreds of Organs per Year. 
  • The Acceptability and Potential Utility of Cognitive Training to Improve Working Memory in Persons Living With HIV: A Preliminary Randomized Trial. 
  • The Association between Educational Attainment and Patterns of Emergency Department Utilization among Adults with Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • The Association of Gasoline Prices With Hospital Utilization and Costs for Motorcycle and Nonmotorcycle Motor Vehicle Injuries in the United States. 
  • The Impact of Couple HIV Testing and Counseling on Consistent Condom Use Among Pregnant Women and Their Male Partners: An Observational Study. 
  • The Texas Breast Screening Project: Part I. Mammographic and clinical results. 
  • The Texas Breast Screening Project: Part II. Demographics, risk profiles, and health practices of participants. 
  • The accumulative effect of trauma exposure on short-term and delayed verbal memory in a treatment-seeking sample of female rape victims. 
  • The association of HIV counseling and testing with HIV risk behaviors in a random population-based survey in Kisumu, Kenya. 
  • The cardiovascular patient's perceptions of complementary and alternative medicine. 
  • The current acceptance, accessibility and recognition of Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine in the United States in the public, governmental, and industrial sectors. 
  • The easiest children to reach are most likely to be infected with ocular Chlamydia trachomatis in trachoma endemic areas of Niger. 
  • The effect of comorbid illness on receipt of cancer screening by older people. 
  • The effect of race on the referral process for invasive cardiac procedures. 
  • The efficacy of a multimedia educational campaign to increase the use of eye care services. 
  • The epidemiology of social phobia: findings from the Duke Epidemiological Catchment Area Study. 
  • The ethics of aggregation and hormone replacement therapy. 
  • The gender specificity of emotional, situational, and behavioral indicators of binge eating in a diet-seeking obese population. 
  • The healthy diver: A cross-sectional survey to evaluate the health status of recreational scuba diver members of Divers Alert Network (DAN). 
  • The highest utilizers of care: individualized care plans to coordinate care, improve healthcare service utilization, and reduce costs at an academic tertiary care center. 
  • The impact of abnormal mammograms on psychosocial outcomes and subsequent screening. 
  • The impact of borderline personality disorder on post-traumatic stress in the community: a study of health status, health utilization, and functioning. 
  • The impact of childhood abuse among women with assault-related PTSD receiving short-term cognitive-behavioral therapy. 
  • The impact of community rehabilitation for acquired brain injury on carer burden: an exploratory study. 
  • The impact of health insurance on health outcomes and spending of the elderly: evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme. 
  • The impact of severe stalking experienced by acutely battered women: an examination of violence, psychological symptoms and strategic responding. 
  • The increasing impact of human immunodeficiency virus infections, sexually transmitted diseases, and viral hepatitis in Durham County, North Carolina: a call for coordinated and integrated services. 
  • The influence of prior obstetrical history on current 17-hydroxyprogesterone caproate use. 
  • The influence of relationships on children's and adolescents' participation in research. 
  • The intersection of patient complexity, prescriber continuity and acute care utilization. 
  • The new OPTN kidney allocation policy: potential for inequitable access among highly sensitized patients. 
  • The period of untreated psychosis before treatment initiation: a qualitative study of family members' perspectives. 
  • The postwar hospitalization experience of Gulf War veterans participating in U.S. health registries. 
  • The prevalence of binge drinking and receipt of provider drinking advice among US veterans with military service in Iraq or Afghanistan. 
  • The receipt of prevention services by veterans using VA versus non-VA facilities. 
  • The role of haemophilia treatment centres in providing services to women with bleeding disorders. 
  • The use of mind-body medicine and prayer among adult patients with chronic hepatitis C. 
  • Theories explaining racial differences in the utilization of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for cerebrovascular disease. 
  • Traceback: A Proposed Framework to Increase Identification and Genetic Counseling of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers Through Family-Based Outreach. 
  • Trauma and posttraumatic stress in users of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America Web site. 
  • Trauma-related sleep disturbance and self-reported physical health symptoms in treatment-seeking female rape victims. 
  • Treatment of depression by mental health specialists and primary care physicians. 
  • Treatment retention and care transitions during and after the scale-up of HIV care and treatment in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Treatment seeking for symptoms suggestive of TB: comparison between migrants and permanent urban residents in Chongqing, China. 
  • Treatment utilization among persons with opioid use disorder in the United States. 
  • Trends in up-to-date status in colorectal cancer screening, North Carolina, 1998-2002. 
  • Twelve-year follow-up of American women's awareness of cardiovascular disease risk and barriers to heart health. 
  • Understanding Frequent Emergency Department Use Among Primary Care Patients. 
  • Underusers of mammogram screening: stage of adoption in five U.S. subpopulations. The NCI Breast Cancer Screening Consortium. 
  • Universal Cholesterol Screening in Childhood: A Systematic Review. 
  • Urgency and fecal soiling in people with bowel dysfunction. 
  • Urinary Incontinence and Health-Seeking Behavior Among White, Black, and Latina Women. 
  • Usability and Feasibility of an mHealth Intervention for Monitoring and Managing Pain Symptoms in Sickle Cell Disease: The Sickle Cell Disease Mobile Application to Record Symptoms via Technology (SMART). 
  • Usability testing and acceptance of an electronic medication inquiry system for CKD patients. 
  • Use of complementary and alternative medicine in men with family history of prostate cancer: a pilot study. 
  • Use of health services by medically ill depressed elderly patients after hospital discharge. 
  • Use of home blood pressure monitoring by hypertensive patients in primary care: survey of a practice-based research network cohort. 
  • Use of mobile phones for improving vaccination coverage among children living in rural hard-to-reach areas and urban streets of Bangladesh. 
  • Use of outpatient commitment or related civil court treatment orders in five U.S. communities. 
  • Use of substance abuse treatment services by persons with mental health and substance use problems. 
  • Usefulness of standard BMI cut-offs for quality of life and psychological well-being in women. 
  • User-identified gel characteristics: a qualitative exploration of perceived product efficacy of topical vaginal microbicides. 
  • Using conjoint analysis to estimate healthy-year equivalents for acute conditions: an application to vasomotor symptoms. 
  • Using prospect theory to understand end-of-life decisions. 
  • Using technology to promote postpartum weight loss in urban, low-income mothers: a pilot randomized controlled trial. 
  • Utilization of Healthcare in the Typhoid Fever Surveillance in Africa Program. 
  • VISION: a regional performance improvement initiative for HIV health care providers. 
  • Vaccinations for pregnant women. 
  • Value of high-cost cancer care: a behavioral science perspective. 
  • Veterans' Preferences for Receiving Information About VA Services: Is Getting the Information You Want Related to Increased Health Care Utilization? 
  • Virtual reality as a distraction intervention for women receiving chemotherapy. 
  • Weight-related SMS texts promoting appropriate pregnancy weight gain: a pilot study. 
  • What is the impact of comorbid depression on adolescent substance abuse treatment? 
  • When "need plus supply" does not equal demand: challenges in uptake of depression treatment in HIV clinical care. 
  • When do patients and their physicians agree on diabetes treatment goals and strategies, and what difference does it make? 
  • Who doesn't receive carotid endarterectomy when appropriate? 
  • Who will enroll? Predicting participation in a phase II AIDS vaccine trial. 
  • Willingness to pay for improved respiratory and cardiovascular health: a multiple-format, stated-preference approach. 
  • Women seeking treatment for advanced pelvic organ prolapse have decreased body image and quality of life. 
  • Women's resources and use of strategies as risk and protective factors for reabuse over time. 
  • Women's willingness to accept perceived risks for vasomotor symptom relief. 
  • Work related injuries in small scale commercial fishing. 
  • Work-site treatment for obesity. 
  • Zidovudine in asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus infection. A controlled trial in persons with fewer than 500 CD4-positive cells per cubic millimeter. The AIDS Clinical Trials Group of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Olsen, Maren Karine, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine