Self-Help Groups

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Being conditioned, yet becoming strong": Asian American women in menopausal transition. 
  • A Preliminary Study Examining the Prevalence and Perceived Intensity of Morally Injurious Events in a Veterans Affairs Chaplaincy Spiritual Injury Support Group. 
  • A community-based smoking-cessation program: self-care behaviors and success. 
  • A culturally tailored Internet cancer support group for Asian American breast cancer survivors: A randomized controlled pilot intervention study. 
  • A randomized clinical trial of a coping improvement group intervention for HIV-infected older adults. 
  • A randomized trial comparing the effects of self-help materials and proactive telephone counseling on teen smoking cessation. 
  • Acceptability of a group intervention for initiates of antiretroviral therapy in Tanzania. 
  • Adaptation of an HIV prevention curriculum for use with older African American women. 
  • Adherence to antiretroviral therapy among patients with HIV: a critical link between behavioral and biomedical sciences. 
  • Advocacy skills training for young adult cancer survivors: the Young Adult Survivors Conference at Camp Māk-a-Dream. 
  • An evaluation of a positive youth development program for adolescents with chronic illness. 
  • An interrupted time series evaluation of a hepatitis C intervention for persons with HIV. 
  • Black women in menopausal transition. 
  • Cardiology Patient Page. Depression after heart attack: why should I be concerned about depression after a heart attack? 
  • Care for the caregivers. 
  • Characteristics of cancer patients in internet cancer support groups. 
  • Demographics, treatment seeking, and diagnoses of anxiety support group participants. 
  • Development of structured support groups for HIV-positive women in South Africa. 
  • Effects of a telephone-based psychosocial intervention for patients awaiting lung transplantation. 
  • Effects of postpartum psychiatric illnesses on family planning. 
  • Efficacy of a woman-focused intervention to reduce HIV risk and increase self-sufficiency among African American crack abusers. 
  • Enhancing the psychological health of medical students: the student well-being committee. 
  • Evaluation criteria for internet cancer support groups. 
  • Girls connect: effects of a support group for teenage girls with inflammatory bowel disease and their mothers. 
  • Group intervention to improve coping with AIDS-related bereavement: model development and an illustrative clinical example. 
  • Group treatment improves trunk strength and psychological status in older women with vertebral fractures: results of a randomized, clinical trial. 
  • Helping clinicians who care for trauma survivors. 
  • Implementation and outcomes of a community-based self-help smoking cessation program. 
  • Improvements in health-related quality of life following a group intervention for coping with AIDS-bereavement among HIV-infected men and women. 
  • Initiating community self-help: a model for public health workers. 
  • Internet cancer support groups: a feminist analysis. 
  • Internet communities for recruitment of cancer patients into an Internet survey: a discussion paper. 
  • Issues in Developing and Evaluating a Culturally Tailored Internet Cancer Support Group. 
  • Kaleidoscope model of diabetes care: time for a rethink? 
  • Low carbohydrate diets in family practice: what can we learn from an internet-based support group. 
  • Matching individuals to weight loss treatments: a survey of obesity experts. 
  • NURTURE: development and pilot testing of a novel parenting intervention for mothers with histories of an eating disorder. 
  • Optimism, social support, and adjustment in African American women with breast cancer. 
  • Participants and nonparticipants of a mass media self-help smoking cessation program. 
  • Patients' attitudes toward internet cancer support groups. 
  • People living with HIV infection who attend and do not attend support groups: a pilot study of needs, characteristics and experiences. 
  • Proportion of US congregations that have people living with HIV. 
  • Psychological adjustment among African American breast cancer patients: one-year follow-up results of a randomized psychoeducational group intervention. 
  • Psychosocial aspects of active surveillance. 
  • Public health approaches to obesity and its management. 
  • Self-help on-line: an outcome evaluation of breast cancer bulletin boards. 
  • Shepherds centers: helping elderly help themselves. 
  • Shielded from the real world: perspectives on Internet cancer support groups by Asian Americans. 
  • Social ties and health. 
  • Substance abuse treatment. Beyond the Minnesota model. 
  • Telehealth Applications to Enhance CKD Knowledge and Awareness Among Patients and Providers. 
  • The impact of structured support groups for pregnant South African women recently diagnosed HIV positive. 
  • The nicotine patch in smoking cessation. A randomized trial with telephone counseling. 
  • The pain experience of Hispanic patients with cancer in the United States. 
  • The questions on the use of internet cancer support groups: instrument development. 
  • The use of Internet cancer support groups by ethnic minorities. 
  • The use of internet cancer support groups by Asian Americans and White Americans living with cancer. 
  • Treatment use and barriers among adolescents with prescription opioid use disorders. 
  • Treatment utilization among persons with opioid use disorder in the United States. 
  • Wegener's granulomatosis: survey of 701 patients in North America. Changes in outcome in the 1990s. 
  • Weight reduction at the work site: a promise partially fulfilled. 
  • Worksite smoking cessation initiatives: review and recommendations. 
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  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine