Spouses

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparative qualitative analysis of stories of spousal caregivers of people with dementia: negative, ambivalent, and positive experiences. 
  • A piece of my mind. Moments of love. 
  • A piece of my mind. What we are made of. 
  • A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of CouPLES: a spouse-assisted lifestyle change intervention to improve low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. 
  • A randomized pilot trial of a telephone-based couples intervention for physical intimacy and sexual concerns in colorectal cancer. 
  • A randomized pilot trial of a videoconference couples communication intervention for advanced GI cancer. 
  • Adapters, strugglers, and case managers: a typology of spouse caregivers. 
  • Advancements in treating intimate partner violence in veterans. 
  • Altered male physiologic function after surgery for prostate cancer: couple perspective. 
  • An experimental comparison of web-push vs. paper-only survey procedures for conducting an in-depth health survey of military spouses. 
  • Anger arousal and behavioral anger regulation in everyday life among patients with chronic low back pain: Relationships to patient pain and function. 
  • Anger arousal and behavioral anger regulation in everyday life among people with chronic low back pain: Relationships with spouse responses and negative affect. 
  • Attachment styles in patients with lung cancer and their spouses: associations with patient and spouse adjustment. 
  • Bargaining power within couples and use of prenatal and delivery care in Indonesia. 
  • Beyond couvade: pregnancy symptoms in couples with a history of infertility. 
  • Can group interventions facilitate forgiveness of an ex-spouse? A randomized clinical trial. 
  • Caregiver burden and psychological distress in partners of veterans with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Caregiver burden in partners of Vietnam War veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Caregiver-recipient closeness and symptom progression in Alzheimer disease. The Cache County Dementia Progression Study. 
  • Caregivers for people with end-stage lung disease: characteristics and unmet needs in the whole population. 
  • Chasing the care: soldiers experience following combat-related mild traumatic brain injury. 
  • Close relationships and self-regulation: How relationship satisfaction facilitates momentary goal pursuit. 
  • Cognitive-behavioral conjoint therapy for PTSD: pilot results from a community sample. 
  • Comparison of spouse and nonkin controls: the experience of the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD). 
  • Consumer perspectives on genetic testing for psychiatric disorders: the attitudes of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and their families. 
  • Coronary catherization patient and wife's perceptions of social support: effects due to characteristics of recipient, provider, and their interaction. 
  • Couple-based communication interventions for cancer: moving beyond a 'one size fits all' approach. 
  • Couples and breast cancer: women's mood and partners' marital satisfaction predicting support perception. 
  • Daily spousal influence on physical activity in knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Depression among military spouses: Demographic, military, and service member psychological health risk factors. 
  • Diabetes and Partners. 
  • Disclosure between patients with gastrointestinal cancer and their spouses. 
  • Do seniors understand their risk of moving to a nursing home? 
  • Does a helping hand mean a heavy heart? Helping behavior and well-being among spouse caregivers. 
  • Domestic violence among adolescents in HIV prevention research in Tanzania: participant experiences and measurement issues. 
  • Effects of physical and mental health on relationship satisfaction: a dyadic, longitudinal examination of couples facing prostate cancer. 
  • Family Spirituality and Family Health Among Korean-American Elderly Couples. 
  • Feasibility of a dyadic intervention for management of osteoarthritis: a pilot study with older patients and their spousal caregivers. 
  • Fertility status and symptoms in childbearing couples. 
  • Finding meaning in caring for a spouse with dementia. 
  • Genetic Heterogeneity in Depressive Symptoms Following the Death of a Spouse: Polygenic Score Analysis of the U.S. Health and Retirement Study. 
  • Greater risk of dementia when spouse has dementia? The Cache County study. 
  • Has the Chinese family planning policy been successful in changing fertility preferences? 
  • Health seeking behavior among pregnant women in rural Haiti. 
  • Healthcare utilization and cost trajectories post-stroke: role of caregiver and stroke factors. 
  • Hope and social support utilisation among different age groups of women with breast cancer and their spouses. 
  • Household gun ownership. 
  • Identifying trajectories of depressive symptoms for women caring for their husbands with dementia. 
  • Impact of breast cancer recurrence and cancer-specific stress on spouse health and immune function. 
  • Involving the male partner for interpreting the basal body temperature graph. 
  • Life transitions and health insurance coverage of the near elderly. 
  • Marital history and survival after a heart attack. 
  • Mechanisms of patient health behavior change in a randomized controlled trial of a spouse-assisted intervention. 
  • Multi-modal examination of psychological and interpersonal distinctions among MPI coping clusters: a preliminary study. 
  • Non-utilization of the Pap Test Among Women with Frequent Health System Contact. 
  • Older person behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPS) and functional limitations mediate the association between older person cognitive impairment and depressive symptoms in the caregiver. 
  • Older spouses' perceptions of partners' chronic arthritis pain: implications for spousal responses, support provision, and caregiving experiences. 
  • Pain communication in the context of osteoarthritis: patient and partner self-efficacy for pain communication and holding back from discussion of pain and arthritis-related concerns. 
  • Pain coping strategies that predict patients' and spouses' ratings of patients' self-efficacy. 
  • Partner-assisted emotional disclosure for patients with gastrointestinal cancer: results from a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Partner-guided cancer pain management at the end of life: a preliminary study. 
  • Partners empowered: a couple-based intervention for newly diagnosed cancer. 
  • Partners' ratings of combat veterans' anger. 
  • Patient self-efficacy and spouse perception of spousal support are associated with lower patient weight: baseline results from a spousal support behavioral intervention. 
  • Perceived acceptability of home-based couples voluntary HIV counseling and testing in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Personality as a predictor of dietary quality in spouses during midlife. 
  • Pesticide exposure and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 
  • Prenatal gene tranfer: scientific, medical, and ethical issues: a report of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. 
  • Prevalence of and reasons for women's, family members', and health professionals' preferences for cesarean section in China: A mixed-methods systematic review. 
  • Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in United States military spouses: The Millennium Cohort Family Study. 
  • Prostate cancer in African Americans: relationship of patient and partner self-efficacy to quality of life. 
  • Psychophysiological mediators of caregiver stress and differential cognitive decline. 
  • Quality of life effects of automatic external defibrillators in the home: results from the Home Automatic External Defibrillator Trial (HAT). 
  • Rated helpfulness and partner-reported smoking cessation support across the pregnancy-postpartum continuum. 
  • Relationships among spousal communication, self-efficacy, and motivation among expectant Latino fathers who smoke. 
  • Religious Involvement and Adaptation in Female Family Caregivers. 
  • Sex as contract: abortion and expanded choice. 
  • Social constraints and fear of recurrence in couples coping with early stage breast cancer. 
  • Socioeconomic and partner status in chronic heart failure: Relationship to exercise capacity, quality of life, and clinical outcomes. 
  • Spirituality and psychological well-being: testing a theory of family interdependence among family caregivers and their elders. 
  • Spousal depression, anxiety, and suicide after myocardial infarction. 
  • Spousal support in a behavior change intervention for cholesterol management. 
  • Spouse confidence in self-efficacy for arthritis management predicts improved patient health. 
  • Spouse criticism and hostility during marital interaction: effects on pain intensity and behaviors among individuals with chronic low back pain. 
  • Spouse health behavior outcomes from a randomized controlled trial of a spouse-assisted lifestyle change intervention to improve patient low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. 
  • Spouse-assisted coping skills training in the management of osteoarthritic knee pain. 
  • Spouse-assisted training in pain coping skills and the outcome of multidisciplinary pain management for chronic low back pain treatment: a 1-year randomized controlled trial. 
  • Study protocol: Couples Partnering for Lipid Enhancing Strategies (CouPLES) - a randomized, controlled trial. 
  • The Communal Coping Model of Pain Catastrophizing in Daily Life: A Within-Couples Daily Diary Study. 
  • The Effects of a Couples-Based Health Behavior Intervention During Pregnancy on Latino Couples' Dyadic Satisfaction Postpartum. 
  • The Survival of Spouses Marrying Into Longevity-Enriched Families. 
  • The course of psychological distress following threatened and actual conjugal bereavement. 
  • The experiences of unpartnered men with prostate cancer: a qualitative analysis. 
  • The impact of daily arthritis pain on spouse sleep. 
  • The impact of docetaxel, estramustine, and low dose hydrocortisone on the quality of life of men with hormone refractory prostate cancer and their partners: a feasibility study. 
  • The influence of maternal and child characteristics and paternal support on interactions of mothers and their medically fragile infants. 
  • The nature and scope of stressful spousal caregiving relationships. 
  • The role of relationship types on condom use among urban men with concurrent partners in Ghana and Tanzania. 
  • The trials and tribulations of enrolling couples in a randomized, controlled trial: a self-management program for hyperlipidemia as a model. 
  • Traditional Beliefs and Learning about Maternal Risk in Zambia. 
  • Trajectories of caregiving time provided by wives to their husbands with dementia. 
  • TrueNTH sexual recovery study protocol: a multi-institutional collaborative approach to developing and testing a web-based intervention for couples coping with the side-effects of prostate cancer treatment in a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Two personalities, one relationship: both partners' personality traits shape the quality of their relationship. 
  • Type 2 diabetes: evidence for linkage on chromosome 20 in 716 Finnish affected sib pairs. 
  • Understanding health behavior change among couples: an interdependence and communal coping approach. 
  • Variability in negative emotions among individuals with chronic low back pain: relationships with pain and function. 
  • Women's entrepreneurship and intimate partner violence: A cluster randomized trial of microenterprise assistance and partner participation in post-conflict Uganda (SSM-D-14-01580R1). 
  • Women's perceived and partners' reported support for smoking cessation during pregnancy. 
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  Keywords of People

  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine