Sampling Studies

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Monte Carlo investigation of homogeneity tests of the odds ratio under various sample size configurations. 
  • A comparison of respondent-driven and venue-based sampling of female sex workers in Liuzhou, China. 
  • A comparison of three health status measures in primary care outpatients. 
  • A developmental investigation of intellectual functioning in the community aged. 
  • A predictive index for length of stay in the intensive care unit following cardiac surgery. 
  • A prospective study of the relationship over time of behavior problems, intellectual functioning, and family functioning in children with sickle cell disease: a report from the Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • A semiparametric empirical likelihood method for biased sampling schemes with auxiliary covariates. 
  • Adolescent psychopathy and the big five: results from two samples. 
  • An automated "well-baby" questionnaire. 
  • An experience-sampling study of depressive symptoms and their social context. 
  • Application of Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling to item-response theory modeling of multi-symptom genetic data. 
  • Are children and adolescents with food allergies at increased risk for psychopathology? 
  • Areola-sparing mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction. 
  • Artful design: writing the proposal for research in the naturalist paradigm. 
  • Back to the future: building on the past. 
  • Barriers to influenza immunization in a low-income urban population. 
  • Battering victimization among a probability-based sample of men who have sex with men. 
  • Biplane correlation imaging: a feasibility study based on phantom and human data. 
  • Blood pressure differences between northern and southern Chinese: role of dietary factors: the International Study on Macronutrients and Blood Pressure. 
  • Brain drain or OE? Characteristics of young New Zealanders who leave. 
  • Breast conservation surgery using nipple-areolar resection for central breast cancers. 
  • Brief Report: Respondent-driven Sampling Estimators Under Real and Theoretical Recruitment Conditions of Female Sex Workers in China. 
  • Canadian study of health and aging: study methods and prevalence of dementia. 
  • Cancer screening practices among women in a community health center population. 
  • Case shifting and the Medicare Prospective Payment System. 
  • Challenges to recruiting population representative samples of female sex workers in China using Respondent Driven Sampling. 
  • Changes in cerebral and somatic oxygenation during stage 1 palliation of hypoplastic left heart syndrome using continuous regional cerebral perfusion. 
  • Children of battered women: worries about their mothers. 
  • Cholecystectomy concomitant with laparoscopic gastric bypass: a trend analysis of the nationwide inpatient sample from 2001 to 2008. 
  • City directories as sources for survey work in low- and middle-income black communities. 
  • Comorbidity of DSM-III-R major depressive disorder in the general population: results from the US National Comorbidity Survey. 
  • Comparison of housestaff's estimates of their workday activities with results of a random work-sampling study. 
  • Computerized prompts for cancer screening in a community health center. 
  • Confidence intervals for cost-effectiveness ratios: a comparison of four methods. 
  • Consumers who call the Anxiety Disorders Association of America: characteristics and satisfaction. 
  • Correlates of systolic and diastolic blood pressure in men 40 to 59 years of age sampled from United States of America and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Lipid Research Clinics populations. 
  • Covariate adjustment for two-sample treatment comparisons in randomized clinical trials: a principled yet flexible approach. 
  • Crawl spaces as reservoirs for transmission of mold to the livable part of the home environment. 
  • Culture and epidemiology special issue: towards an integrated study of culture and population health. 
  • Davidson Trauma Scale (DTS): normative scores in the general population and effect sizes in placebo-controlled SSRI trials. 
  • De novo congestive heart failure after kidney transplantation: a common condition with poor prognostic implications. 
  • Dementia and cancer: a comparison of spouse caregivers. 
  • Dental service utilization among urban and rural older adults in China -- a brief communication. 
  • Depression and major outcomes in older patients with heart failure. 
  • Design and conduct of occupational epidemiology studies: III. Design aspects of case-control studies. 
  • Design and conduct of occupational epidemiology studies: IV. The analysis of case-control data. 
  • Design and field procedures in the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A). 
  • Detecting differential copy number variation between groups of samples. 
  • Determinants of condom use by Australian secondary school students. 
  • Development of substance use and psychiatric comorbidity in an epidemiologic study of white and American Indian young adolescents the Great Smoky Mountains Study. 
  • Diagnosing attention deficit disorders with the Behavioral Assessment System for Children and the Child Behavior Checklist: test and construct validity analyses using optimal discriminant classification trees. 
  • Dividing the blood pressures from the Los Angeles heart study into two normal distributions. 
  • Domestic violence is associated with environmental suppression of IQ in young children. 
  • Emotion suppression in borderline personality disorder: an experience sampling study. 
  • Emotional complications of adolescent grand mal epilepsy. 
  • Epidemiology of persecutory ideation in an elderly population in the community. 
  • Estimating correlations from epidemiological data in the presence of measurement error. 
  • European Collaborative Project on Affective Disorders: interactions between genetic and psychosocial vulnerability factors. 
  • Explained and unexplained medical symptoms in generalized anxiety and panic disorder: relationship to the somatoform disorders. 
  • Family planning, race consciousness and the fear of race genocide. 
  • Galactosaemia--a controversial disorder. Screening & outcome. Ireland 1972-1992. 
  • Gastroschisis: the effect of labor and ruptured membranes on neonatal outcome. 
  • Gay identity, interpersonal violence, and HIV risk behaviors: an empirical test of theoretical relationships among a probability-based sample of urban men who have sex with men. 
  • Gender differences in partner violence in a birth cohort of 21-year-olds: bridging the gap between clinical and epidemiological approaches. 
  • General medical and specialty mental health service use for major depression. 
  • Giant parenchymal bronchogenic cyst mimicking hydropneumothorax. 
  • HIV risk behaviors among inner-city African American women. 
  • HIV seroprevalence among homeless and marginally housed adults in San Francisco. 
  • Hand transplantation in the United States: experience with 3 patients. 
  • Headaches and psychopathology in children and adolescents. 
  • Heart disease epidemic in Pakistan: women and men at equal risk. 
  • Hospital versus random digit dialing controls in the elderly. Observations from two case-control studies. 
  • Hospital visitors as controls. 
  • Hospital-based emergency department visits in children with motor vehicle traffic accidents: estimates from the nationwide emergency department sample. 
  • How do previous mental health, social support, and stressful life events contribute to postnatal depression in a representative sample of Australian women? 
  • Hydrocarbon emissions and health risks from cookstoves in developing countries. 
  • Impact of generalized social anxiety disorder in managed care. 
  • Impaired but undiagnosed. 
  • Importance of sampling frame in physician surveys. 
  • Inflammatory cytokines and cellular metabolites as synovial fluid biomarkers of posttraumatic ankle arthritis. 
  • Integrating ethics and science in the International HapMap Project. 
  • Interlocking trajectories of loss-related events and depressive symptoms among elders. 
  • Is medication use by community-dwelling elderly people influenced by cognitive function? 
  • Knowledge of diet and blood pressure among African Americans: use of focus groups for questionnaire development. 
  • Leukonychia related to vorinostat. 
  • Life events, mental health functioning and the use of health care services by the elderly. 
  • Likelihood ratios with confidence: sample size estimation for diagnostic test studies. 
  • Long-term psychosocial effects of childhood exposure to parental problem drinking. 
  • Measures of cardiac repolarization and body position in infants. 
  • Measures of shoulder protraction and thoracolumbar rotation. 
  • Mechanical pleurodesis aided by peritoneal drainage: procedure for hepatic hydrothorax. 
  • Mental and behavioral disturbances in dementia: findings from the Cache County Study on Memory in Aging. 
  • Missing data in the 2 x 2 table: patterns and likelihood-based analysis for cross-sectional studies with supplemental sampling. 
  • Mothers' stories about their experiences in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Multiple pudendal sensory pathways reflexly modulate bladder and urethral activity in patients with spinal cord injury. 
  • National estimates of the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease in the United States. 
  • Niacin-like reaction to infliximab infusion in systemic juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass with beating heart for management of renal cell carcinoma with atrial tumor thrombus. 
  • Occupational impairment and disability among applicants for Social Security disability benefits in Pennsylvania. 
  • On likelihood distance for outliers detection. 
  • One question, two answers: do the two most commonly used methods of sampling describe the length of the prospective wait for admission to hospital? 
  • Onset of dyskinesia and changes in postural task performance during the course of neuroleptic withdrawal. 
  • Opioid use for noncancer pain and risk of myocardial infarction amongst adults. 
  • Outcome of recruitment and report on participation rate in the New Mexico Elder Health Survey. 
  • People living with HIV infection who attend and do not attend support groups: a pilot study of needs, characteristics and experiences. 
  • Perceived Empowerment, Social Support, and Quality of Life Among Chinese Older Residents in Long-Term Care Facilities. 
  • Perceived parental burden and service use for child and adolescent psychiatric disorders. 
  • Perception of friends' use of alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana among urban schoolchildren: a longitudinal analysis. 
  • Pharmacomechanical thrombectomy for treatment of symptomatic lower extremity deep venous thrombosis: safety and feasibility study. 
  • Phenotypic and functional differences between human saphenous vein (HSVEC) and umbilical vein (HUVEC) endothelial cells. 
  • Physician office visits of adults for anxiety disorders in the United States, 1985-1998. 
  • Postpartum seizure prophylaxis: using maternal clinical parameters to guide therapy. 
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in a national sample of female and male Vietnam veterans: risk factors, war-zone stressors, and resilience-recovery variables. 
  • Posttraumatic symptomatology in children and adolescents after an industrial fire. 
  • Potential selection bias in a community-based study of PSA levels in African-American men. 
  • Predicting the cumulative risk of false-positive mammograms. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of heavy smoking in Vietnam veterans with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Prevalence, correlates, and course of minor depression and major depression in the National Comorbidity Survey. 
  • Prior interpersonal trauma: the contribution to current PTSD symptoms in female rape victims. 
  • Progression to AIDS, a clinical AIDS condition and mortality: psychosocial and physiological predictors. 
  • Provision of spiritual support to patients with advanced cancer by religious communities and associations with medical care at the end of life. 
  • Psychiatric disorder, impairment, and service use in rural African American and white youth. 
  • Psychological discomfort and mental illness in patients with AIDS: implications for home care. 
  • Psychologists' judgments of psychologically aggressive actions when perpetrated by a husband versus a wife. 
  • Quality of life and health-services utilization in a population-based sample of military personnel reporting multiple chemical sensitivities. 
  • Quality of life of adult long-term survivors of bone marrow transplantation: a qualitative analysis of narrative data. 
  • Racial differences in the prevalence of monoclonal gammopathy in a community-based sample of the elderly. 
  • Rationing HIV medications: what do patients and the public think about allocation policies? 
  • Readiness to change smoking behavior in a community health center population. 
  • Reducing family stress during and after coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Regression models for prognostic prediction: advantages, problems, and suggested solutions. 
  • Relationships among breast cancer perceived absolute risk, comparative risk, and worries. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and medicine: psychiatrists' and other physicians' differing observations, interpretations, and clinical approaches. 
  • Risk factors associated with thrombosis in patients with antiphospholipid antibodies. 
  • Safe to walk? Neighborhood safety and physical activity among public housing residents. 
  • Sample size calculation for rank tests comparing K survival distributions. 
  • Sample size calculations for clinical trials using the NIH Stroke Scale. 
  • Sampling in difficult to access refugee and immigrant communities. 
  • Satisfaction with social networks: an examination of socioemotional selectivity theory across cohorts. 
  • School-based weight management services: perceptions and practices of school nurses and administrators. 
  • Scientific writing of novice researchers: what difficulties and encouragements do they encounter? 
  • Scoring nonresponse on the Mini-Mental State Examination. 
  • Shigellosis in custodial institutions. 
  • Shortening increases spontaneous contractility in myometrium from pregnant women at term. 
  • Social Network Clustering and the Spread of HIV/AIDS Among Persons Who Inject Drugs in 2 Cities in the Philippines. 
  • Social inequality and alcohol consumption-abuse in Bahia, Brazil-- interactions of gender, ethnicity and social class. 
  • Sociodemographic correlates of health beliefs among black and white community dwelling elderly individuals. 
  • Sources of work-related acute fatigue in United States hospital nurses. 
  • Statistical impact of truncated sampling or alteration of administration: the case of the Geriatric Depression Scale. 
  • Study of Cardiovascular Health Outcomes in the Era of Claims Data: The Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Taurodontism: a biometric study. 
  • The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D) Scale: assessment of depression in the medically ill elderly. 
  • The Effect of altering ADL thresholds on active life expectancy estimates for older persons. 
  • The Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. Goals, design, methods, and the prevalence of DSM-III-R disorders. 
  • The Internet as a communication tool for academic orthopaedic surgery departments in the United States. 
  • The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales: supplementary norms for individuals with autism. 
  • The association of depression and mortality in elderly persons: a case for multiple, independent pathways. 
  • The diagnosis of depression in the elderly. 
  • The effects of environmental noise and infant position on cerebral oxygenation. 
  • The expression of adult ADHD symptoms in daily life: an application of experience sampling methodology. 
  • The failed total ankle. 
  • The identification of psychiatric illness by primary care physicians: the effect of patient gender. 
  • The impact of abnormal mammograms on psychosocial outcomes and subsequent screening. 
  • The impact of item order on ratings of cancer risk perception. 
  • The many methods of religious coping: development and initial validation of the RCOPE. 
  • The relationship of bipolar disorder lifetime duration and vascular burden to cognition in older adults. 
  • The use of ambulatory services by persons with and without phobia. 
  • The use of religion and other emotion-regulating coping strategies among older adults. 
  • The use of the Artelon CMC Spacer for osteoarthritis of the basal joint of the thumb. 
  • Thyroid ala cartilage graft laryngotracheoplasty for closure of large pediatric tracheocutaneous fistula. 
  • Time analysis of a general medicine service: results from a random work sampling study. 
  • Tobacco smoking and other suspected antecedents of nonmedical psychostimulant use in the United States, 1995. 
  • Toward a threshold for subthreshold depression: an analysis of correlates of depression by severity of symptoms using data from an elderly community sample. 
  • Trajectory classes of body mass index in a representative elderly community sample. 
  • Transcatheter interventions across an inferior vena cava filter. 
  • U.S.S.R. and U.S. nutrient intake, plasma lipids, and lipoproteins in men ages 40-59 sampled from Lipid Research Clinics populations. 
  • Uncertainty in allometric exponent estimation: a case study in scaling metabolic rate with body mass. 
  • Understanding of an aggregate probability statement by patients who are offered participation in Phase I clinical trials. 
  • Use of alcohol treatment and mental health services among adolescents with alcohol use disorders. 
  • Using physician claims to identify postoperative complications of carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Validation of the Total Cerebrovascular Disease Burden Scale in a Community Sample. 
  • Women's work and symptoms during midlife: Korean immigrant women. 
  • [An epidemiologic study of irritable bowel syndrome in Beijing - a stratified randomized study by clustering sampling]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Merli, M. Giovanna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Global Health Institute