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Sherman A. James

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Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
sjames@duke.edu
Box 90245, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0245
203 Sanford Building, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications

Discrimination, chronic stress, and cardiovascular health among African American men and women in the Jackson Heart Study: A cross-sectional study.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · October 2025 Optimal cardiovascular health (CVH) reduces cardiovascular disease risk. However, further research should clarify the role of psychosocial factors on CVH among African Americans. The current cross-sectional study sought to examine the relationship between ... Full text Cite

Beyond growth mindset: Exploring John Henryism and academic task engagement in higher education

Journal Article Social Psychology of Education · June 1, 2024 This study examined how students from historically marginalized identity groups (i.e., Black and Latinx, females, and first-generation college students) engage momentarily in a school-based task. We explored how John Henryism, defined as effortful, active ... Full text Cite

Fatigue by the Chalder Questionnaire and post-hemodialysis recovery in a population of predominantly African descent: The PROHEMO.

Journal Article The International journal of artificial organs · June 2024 Background/objectiveA high prevalence of fatigue and a positive association between fatigue and post-hemodialysis recovery have been reported in predominantly white populations of maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. The present study evaluate ... Full text Cite

Emergence of college students’ John Henryism during schoolwork: an exploratory study

Journal Article Educational Psychology · January 1, 2023 John Henryism (JH), named after the American folk hero John Henry, is a construct characterised by a behavioural predisposition for high-effort coping with psychosocial stressors. While it has been rigorously studied in the health sciences, little empirica ... Full text Cite

Race and Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients in Brazil.

Journal Article Kidney medicine · December 2022 Rationale & objectiveStudies in the United States and United Kingdom generally report better survival for Black than White patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis, a finding not explained by differences in sociodemographics or comorbid condit ... Full text Cite

Socioeconomic Correlates of Obesity in African-American and Caribbean-Black Men and Women.

Journal Article Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · April 2021 The high prevalence of obesity among Black Americans warrants additional investigation into its relationship with socioeconomic position (SEP), sex, and ethnicity. This cross-sectional study utilizes 2001-2003 data from the National Survey of American Life ... Full text Cite

Melding Multiple Sources of Knowledge: Using Theory and Experiential Knowledge to Design a Community Health Intervention Study

Journal Article Journal of Participatory Research Methods · January 1, 2021 Although Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is grounded in socioecological theories of health, using and addressing theory in CBPR can be challenging. This paper explores how theory was used and melded with community expertise in one CBPR study ... Full text Cite

Education, perceived discrimination and risk for depression in a southern black cohort.

Journal Article Aging & mental health · November 2020 Objectives: Assess whether education moderates associations between discrimination and depression risk within a southern Black/African American cohort in a labor market shifting from manufacturing and farming to education-intensive industries, such ... Full text Cite

John Henryism, Gender and Self-reported Health Among Roma/Gypsies in Serbia.

Journal Article Culture, medicine and psychiatry · June 2018 We describe how self-reported health (SRH) varies with gender and John Henryism (a strong behavioral predisposition to engage in high-effort coping to overcome adversity) in a low income sample of Serbian Roma. Data were collected in 2016 in several Roma s ... Full text Open Access Cite

At the intersection of place, race, and health in Brazil: Residential segregation and cardio-metabolic risk factors in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil).

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · February 2018 Featured Publication Residential segregation is the spatial manifestation of entrenched socioeconomic and racial inequities and is considered a fundamental cause of racial inequalities in health. Despite the well-documented racialized spatial inequalities that exist in urban a ... Full text Open Access Cite

John Henryism and Perceived Health among Hemodialysis Patients in a Multiracial Brazilian Population: the PROHEMO.

Journal Article Ethnicity & disease · January 2018 PurposeJohn Henryism (JH) is a strong behavioral predisposition to engage in high-effort coping with difficult socioenvironmental stressors. We investigated associations between JH and perceived general health (GH) among maintenance hemodialysis ( ... Full text Cite

John Henryism, Gender and Self-Reported among Roma/Gypsies in Serbia

Journal Article Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry · November 15, 2017 Cite

The Legacy of Slavery and Contemporary Declines in Heart Disease Mortality in the US South

Journal Article Social Science and Medicine - Population Health · November 1, 2017 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Invited Commentary: Cassel's "The Contribution of the Social Environment to Host Resistance"-A Modern Classic.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · June 2017 Featured Publication John Cassel's 1976 paper "The Contribution of the Social Environment to Host Resistance" (Am J Epidemiol. 1976;104(2):107-123) is widely regarded as a classic in epidemiology. He makes the compelling argument that the quality of a person's social relations ... Full text Open Access Cite

Erratum to: Anticipated Negative Police-Youth Encounters and Depressive Symptoms among Pregnant African American Women: A Brief Report.

Journal Article Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · June 2017 Full text Cite

The strangest of all encounters: racial and ethnic discrimination in US health care.

Journal Article Cadernos de saude publica · May 2017 Featured Publication In 2003, a Committee of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences summarized hundreds of studies documenting that US racial minorities, especially African Americans, receive poorer quality health care for a wide variety of conditions th ... Full text Open Access Cite

Anticipated Negative Police-Youth Encounters and Depressive Symptoms among Pregnant African American Women: A Brief Report.

Journal Article Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · April 2017 The widely publicized violent encounters between police and African American youth have unknown consequences for the emotional and mental health of pregnant African American women. Since studies document the hypervigilance black mothers exert to protect ch ... Full text Open Access Cite

Receipt of public assistance during childhood and hypertension risk in adulthood.

Journal Article Annals of epidemiology · February 2017 PurposeWe examined if receipt of public assistance during childhood lowered risk for hypertension by mid-life in a cohort of African Americans in the Southeastern United States.MethodsWe used multiple logistic regression models to assess ... Full text Open Access Cite

Socioeconomic position, John Henryism, and incidence of acute myocardial infarction in Finnish men.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · January 2017 Featured Publication Previous cross-sectional studies examining whether John Henryism (JH), or high-effort coping with socioeconomic adversity, potentiates the inverse association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and cardiovascular health have focused mainly on hypertensio ... Full text Open Access Cite

Retaining Students of Color in HIgher Education

Chapter · December 20, 2016 Over the past several decades, scholars and universities have made efforts to increase the retention of students in higher education, but graduation rates remain low. Whereas two-thirds of high school graduates attend college, fewer than half graduate. The ... Full text Open Access Cite

Jedi public health: Co-creating an identity-safe culture to promote health equity

Journal Article Ssm Population Health · December 1, 2016 The extent to which socially-assigned and culturally mediated social identity affects health depends on contingencies of social identity that vary across and within populations in day-to-day life. These contingencies are structurally rooted and health dama ... Full text Open Access Cite

Jedi Public Health: Co-creating an Identity Safe Culture to Promote Health Equity

Journal Article Soci Science and Medicine - Population Health · July 20, 2016 Cite

Social inequalities in BMI trajectories: 8-year follow-up of the Pró-Saúde study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Journal Article Public health nutrition · December 2015 ObjectiveIn a cohort of government employees in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we investigated prospectively, sex-specific associations between education and BMI trajectories and their potential effect modification by race.DesignOf the 4030 part ... Full text Cite

Social inequalities in BMI trajectories: 8-year follow-up of the Pró-Saúde study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Journal Article Public Health Nutrition · December 2015 AbstractObjectiveIn a cohort of government employees in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we investigated prospectively, sex-specific associations betw ... Full text Cite

John Henryism Actrive coping, Acculturation and Psychological Health in Korean Immigrants

Journal Article Journal of Transcultural Nursing · September 16, 2015 Cite

The Impact of Lifecourse Socioeconomic Position on Cardiovacular Disease Events in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study

Journal Article Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease · August 18, 2015 Cite

Coping with fluid restriction and the quality of life in hemodialysis patients with very low or no daily urine output.

Journal Article The International journal of artificial organs · June 2014 PurposeFluid restriction is crucial to prevent circulatory overload in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients with very low urine volume, but fluid restriction may result in psychological distress. We studied MHD patients with urine volume ≤ 200 ... Full text Cite

An increasing socioeconomic gap in childhood overweight and obesity in China.

Journal Article Am J Public Health · January 2014 We used a new conceptual framework that integrates tenets from health economics, social epidemiology, and health behavior to analyze the impact of socioeconomic forces on the temporal changes in the socioeconomic status (SES) gap in childhood overweight an ... Full text Link to item Cite

An increasing socioeconomic gap in childhood overweight and obesity in China.

Journal Article American Journal of Public Health · 2014 Featured Publication The first author of this paper was a PhD candidate in the Sanford School when work on this paper was completed. Giovanna Merli and I co-chaired her dissertation committee. ... Cite

Life satisfaction and preterm birth among urban black women: findings from the Baltimore preterm birth study.

Journal Article Ann Epidemiol · November 2012 PURPOSE: Preterm birth (PTB) is a major problem in the United States, and black women have greater risk of PTB than white women. The etiology of PTB and the racial disparity in preterm outcomes are poorly understood. Diminished life satisfaction is associa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Maternal age, birth order, and race: differential effects on birthweight.

Journal Article J Epidemiol Community Health · February 2012 BACKGROUND: Studies examining the influence of maternal age and birth order on birthweight have not effectively disentangled the relative contributions of each factor to birthweight, especially as they may differ by race. METHODS: A population-based, cross ... Full text Link to item Cite

Perceived discrimination and hypertension among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study

Journal Article American Journal of Public Health · 2012 Featured Publication Objectives: Using Jackson Heart Study data, we examined whether perceived discrimination was associated with prevalent hypertension in African Americans. Methods. Everyday discrimination, lifetime discrimination, burden of discrimination, and stress from d ... Full text Cite

Maternal health prior to pregnancy and preterm birth among urban, low income black women in Baltimore: the Baltimore Preterm Birth Study.

Journal Article Ethnicity & disease · January 2012 ObjectivesBlack women have increased risk of preterm birth compared to white women, and overall black women are in poorer health than white women. Recent recommendations to reduce preterm birth have focused on preconception health care. We explore ... Cite

A Spatial Measure of Neighborhood Level Racial Isolation Applied to Low Birthweight, Preterm Birth, and Birthweight in North Carolina

Journal Article Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology · December 2011 Featured Publication Cite

Influence of life-course socioeconomic position on incident heart failure in blacks and whites: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · September 2010 The influence of early-life socioeconomic position (SEP) on incident heart failure in blacks and whites is unknown. The authors examined the relation between early-life SEP and incident, hospitalized heart failure among middle-aged US participants (2,503 b ... Full text Cite

Who, and what, causes health inequities? Reflections on emerging debates from an

Journal Article Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health · June 2010 Cite

Socioeconomic status moderates the association between John Henryism and NEO PI-R personality domains.

Journal Article Psychosom Med · February 2010 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: To investigate associations between John Henryism (JH) and NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (PI-R) personality domains. JH-a strong behavioral predisposition to engage in high-effort coping with difficult psychosocial and economic stressors-has ... Full text Link to item Cite

Disparities in maternal hypertension and pregnancy outcomes: evidence from North Carolina, 1994-2003.

Journal Article Public Health Rep · 2010 OBJECTIVES: To better understand disparities in pregnancy outcomes, we analyzed data from North Carolina to determine how the pattern of maternal hypertensive disorders differs among non-Hispanic white (NHW), non-Hispanic black (NHB), and Hispanic women ac ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression as a potential explanation for gender differences in health-related quality of life among patients on maintenance hemodialysis.

Journal Article Nephron. Clinical practice · January 2010 Background/aimsThe reasons for lower health-related quality of life (HRQOL) scores in women compared to men on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) are unknown. We investigated whether depression accounts for gender differences in HRQOL.Methods ... Full text Cite

Life-course socioeconomic position and incidence of diabetes mellitus among blacks and whites: the Alameda County Study, 1965-1999.

Journal Article American journal of public health · January 2010 ObjectivesWe examined associations between several life-course socioeconomic position (SEP) measures (childhood SEP, education, income, occupation) and diabetes incidence from 1965 to 1999 in a sample of 5422 diabetes-free Black and White particip ... Full text Cite

Psychosocial stress and 13-year BMI change among blacks: the Pitt County Study.

Journal Article Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · November 2009 Adverse psychosocial exposures may partially drive the high rates of obesity among blacks. The objective of this study was to prospectively examine the relationship between perceived psychosocial stress and percent change in BMI among adult black men and w ... Full text Cite

Exploring the "legacy" of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: a follow-up study from the Tuskegee Legacy Project.

Journal Article Journal of the National Medical Association · February 2009 The purpose of this follow-up 2003 3-City Tuskegee Legacy Project (TLP) Study was to validate or refute our prior findings from the 1999-2000 4 City TLP Study, which found no evidence to support the widely acknowledged "legacy" of the Tuskegee Syphilis Stu ... Full text Cite

Epidemiologic research on health disparities: some thoughts on history and current developments.

Journal Article Epidemiologic reviews · January 2009 Featured Publication In this introduction to volume 31 of Epidemiologic Reviews, the author traces the history of health disparities research in epidemiology and situates the 10 review articles comprising this edition within this history. With the aid of a conceptual model des ... Full text Cite

The legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: assessing its impact on willingness to participate in biomedical studies.

Journal Article Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · November 2008 The phrase, 'legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study', is sometimes used to denote the belief that Blacks are more reluctant than Whites to participate in biomedical research studies because of the infamous study of syphilis in men run by the U.S. Public Hea ... Full text Cite

Unintended pregnancy and prenatal behaviors among urban, black women in Baltimore, Maryland: the Baltimore preterm birth study.

Journal Article Annals of epidemiology · July 2008 PurposeWe explored associations between intendedness of pregnancy with maternal prenatal behaviors, including smoking, use of alcohol, use of illicit drugs, and late initiation of prenatal care.MethodsPregnant black women ages 18 years or ... Full text Cite

Awareness of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the US presidential apology and their influence on minority participation in biomedical research.

Journal Article American journal of public health · June 2008 ObjectivesWe compared the influence of awareness of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the presidential apology for that study on the willingness of Blacks, non-Hispanic Whites, and Hispanics to participate in biomedical research.MethodsThe ... Full text Cite

Cross-sectional association between perceived discrimination and hypertension in African-American men and women: the Pitt County Study.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · March 2008 Few studies have examined the impact of the frequency of discrimination on hypertension risk. The authors assessed the cross-sectional associations between frequency of perceived racial and nonracial discrimination and hypertension among 1,110 middle-aged ... Full text Cite

The Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Its impact on Willingness to Participate in Biomedical Studies

Journal Article Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved · 2008 Cite

RACIAL SEGREGATION AND OBESITY AMONG BLACKS

Journal Article ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE · December 1, 2007 Link to item Cite

Depressive symptoms and indicators of maternal health status during pregnancy.

Journal Article J Womens Health (Larchmt) · May 2007 OBJECTIVES: Depressive symptoms are common among women, especially those who are of childbearing age or are pregnant. Prior studies have suggested that an increased burden of depressive symptoms is associated with diminished health and functional status, b ... Full text Link to item Cite

The development, implementation, and process evaluation of the REACH Detroit Partnership's Diabetes Lifestyle Intervention.

Journal Article The Diabetes educator · May 2007 PurposeThe purpose of this article was to describe the development, implementation, and process evaluation findings of a culturally tailored diabetes lifestyle intervention for African Americans and Latinos.MethodsAfrican American and Lat ... Full text Cite

John Henryism, self-reported physical health indicators, and the mediating role of perceived stress among high socio-economic status Asian immigrants.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · March 2007 This study examined the relationship between John Henryism (a strong behavioral predisposition to engage in high effort coping with difficult barriers to success) and self-reported physical health among high socio-economic (SES) status Asian immigrants to ... Full text Cite

Association between adult and childhood socioeconomic status and prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in African Americans: the Pitt County Study.

Journal Article American journal of public health · February 2007 We evaluated the association between socioeconomic status (SES) during childhood and adulthood and prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in African Americans. Higher adult educational status and adult skilled occupation were protective against the metabolic ... Full text Cite

Lifecourse socioeconomic position and weight change among blacks: The Pitt County study.

Journal Article Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · January 2007 ObjectiveThe elevated prevalence of obesity among U.S. blacks has been attributed to low socioeconomic position (SEP), despite inconsistent empirical findings. It is unclear whether low SEP at various lifecourse stages differentially influences ad ... Full text Cite

Maternal prenatal pregnancy-related anxiety and spontaneous preterm birth in Baltimore, Maryland.

Journal Article Psychosom Med · 2007 OBJECTIVE: To focus on the relationship between pregnancy-related anxiety and spontaneous preterm birth. Psychosocial factors have been the subject of inquiries about the etiology of preterm birth; a factor of recent interest is maternal prenatal pregnancy ... Full text Link to item Cite

Faulty interpretation of observed racial disparity in recurrent preterm birth

Journal Article American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology · 2007 Full text Cite

The Tuskegee Legacy Project: willingness of minorities to participate in biomedical research.

Journal Article Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · November 2006 The broad goal of the Tuskegee Legacy Project (TLP) study was to address, and understand, a range of issues related to the recruitment and retention of Blacks and other minorities in biomedical research studies. The specific aim of this analysis was to com ... Full text Cite

Maternal upward socioeconomic mobility and black-white disparities in infant birthweight.

Journal Article American journal of public health · November 2006 ObjectivesWe estimate the extent to which upward socioeconomic mobility limits the probability that Black and White women who spent their childhoods in or near poverty will give birth to a low-birthweight baby.MethodsData from the Nationa ... Full text Cite

Urban-rural differences in excess mortality among high-poverty populations: evidence from the Harlem Household Survey and the Pitt County, North Carolina Study of African American Health.

Journal Article Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · August 2006 Black youth residing in high-poverty areas have dramatically lower probabilities of surviving to age 65 if they are urban than if they are rural. Chronic disease deaths contribute heavily. We begin to probe the reasons using the Harlem Household Survey (HH ... Full text Cite

Racial disparities in elevated prenatal depressive symptoms among black and white women in eastern north Carolina.

Journal Article Ann Epidemiol · June 2006 PURPOSE: Black women have an increased risk for preterm birth compared with white women, and prior research indicated that maternal prenatal depressive symptoms are associated with increased risk for preterm outcomes among black women. Race-related differe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Life-course socioeconomic position and hypertension in African American men: the Pitt County Study.

Journal Article American journal of public health · May 2006 Featured Publication ObjectivesWe investigated the odds of hypertension for Black men in relationship to their socioeconomic position (SEP) in both childhood and adulthood.MethodsOn the basis of their parents' occupation, we classified 379 men in the Pitt Cou ... Full text Cite

Diabetes-specific emotional distress among African Americans and Hispanics with type 2 diabetes.

Journal Article Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · May 2006 This study examines baseline levels and correlates of diabetes-related emotional distress among inner-city African Americans and Hispanics with type 2 diabetes. The Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID) scale, which measures diabetes-related emotional distress, ... Full text Cite

Life-course socioeconomic position and obesity in African American Women: the Pitt County Study.

Journal Article American journal of public health · March 2006 ObjectivesWe studied obesity in African American women in relationship to their socioeconomic position (SEP) in childhood and adulthood.MethodsOn the basis of parents' occupation, we classified 679 women in the Pitt County (North Carolina ... Full text Cite

Exercise participation before and during pregnancy among low-income, urban, Black women: the Baltimore Preterm Birth Study.

Journal Article Ethnicity & disease · January 2006 National data demonstrate that Black women have poorer health status, and greater risk of death from chronic diseases, than their White counterparts. Exercise can help prevent chronic disease, and adult Black women are less likely to engage in exercise tha ... Cite

Exercise and pregnancy outcome among urban, low-income, black women.

Journal Article Ethnicity & disease · January 2006 Few studies have focused on the association between maternal exercise and outcomes of pregnancy among low-income, Black women. The analysis reported here examines the associations between exercise before and during pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes of prete ... Cite

Fruit and vegetable access differs by community racial composition and socioeconomic position in Detroit, Michigan.

Journal Article Ethnicity & disease · January 2006 ObjectiveTo compare the availability, selection, quality, and price of fresh fruit and vegetables at food stores in four Detroit-area communities: 1) predominately African-American, low socioeconomic position (SEP); 2) racially heterogeneous, low ... Cite

Social and physical environments and disparities in risk for cardiovascular disease: the healthy environments partnership conceptual model.

Journal Article Environmental health perspectives · December 2005 The Healthy Environments Partnership (HEP) is a community-based participatory research effort investigating variations in cardiovascular disease risk, and the contributions of social and physical environments to those variations, among non-Hispanic black, ... Full text Open Access Cite

Neighborhood racial composition, neighborhood poverty, and the spatial accessibility of supermarkets in metropolitan Detroit.

Journal Article American journal of public health · April 2005 ObjectivesWe evaluated the spatial accessibility of large "chain" supermarkets in relation to neighborhood racial composition and poverty.MethodsWe used a geographic information system to measure Manhattan block distance to the nearest su ... Full text Cite

Social inequality and alcohol consumption-abuse in Bahia, Brazil-- interactions of gender, ethnicity and social class.

Journal Article Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · March 2005 BackgroundThis paper reports findings on Alcohol Consumption-Abuse (ACAb) in Bahia, Brazil, a research setting characterized by racial/ethnic and socioeconomic diversity.MethodsA household survey was conducted with a sample of 2,302 adult ... Full text Cite

Endometrial cancer: socioeconomic status and racial/ethnic differences in stage at diagnosis, treatment, and survival.

Journal Article American journal of public health · December 2004 ObjectiveWe evaluated the association between socioeconomic status and racial/ ethnic differences in endometrial cancer stage at diagnosis, treatment, and survival.MethodsWe conducted a population-based study among 3656 women.Results< ... Full text Cite

Social inequality and depressive disorders in Bahia, Brazil: interactions of gender, ethnicity, and social class.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · October 2004 We conducted a study of the association between gender, race/ethnicity, and social class and prevalence of depressive disorders in an urban sample (N = 2302) in Bahia, Brazil. Individual mental health status was assessed by the PSAD/QMPA scale. Family SES ... Full text Cite

Alcohol drinking patterns by gender, ethnicity, and social class in Bahia, Brazil.

Journal Article Revista de saude publica · February 2004 ObjectiveTo study patterns of alcohol consumption and prevalence of high-risk drinking.MethodsA household survey was carried out in a sample of 2,302 adults in Salvador, Brazil. Cases of High-Risk Drinking (HRD) were defined as those subj ... Full text Cite

Meeting the challenge to improve the treatment of hypertension in blacks.

Journal Article Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · November 2003 Hypertension is more prevalent and severe in African descendent populations living outside Africa than in any other population. Given this greater burden of hypertension in blacks, it is increasingly necessary to refine strategies to prevent the disorder a ... Full text Cite

Risk factors for lower urinary tract symptoms in a population-based sample of African-American men.

Journal Article Am J Epidemiol · May 15, 2003 Previous epidemiologic studies evaluating risk factors for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) have focused on White populations. Between September 1996 and January 1998, in a population-based sample of African-American men aged 40-79 years in Flint, Michi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Confronting the moral economy of US racial/ethnic health disparities.

Journal Article American journal of public health · February 2003 Full text Cite

The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits.

Journal Article Dental clinics of North America · January 2003 This article is intended to provide a relatively complete picture of how a pilot study--conceived and initiated within an NIDCR-funded RRCMOH--matured into a solid line of investigation within that center and "with legs" into a fully funded study within th ... Full text Cite

The Moral Economy of US Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities

Journal Article American Journal of Public Health · 2003 Cite

Race and glomerulonephritis in patients with and without hepatosplenic Schistosomiasis mansoni.

Journal Article Clinical nephrology · November 2002 Background/aimsUnited States investigators have shown evidence of higher susceptibility to focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) in blacks than in whites. This association between race and FSGS has not been assessed outside the US. The present ... Full text Cite

Maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and spontaneous preterm births among African-American women in Baltimore, Maryland.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · November 2002 The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between maternal depressive symptoms and spontaneous preterm birth. From 1991 to 1993, pregnant, African-American women were prospectively enrolled at four hospital-based clinics in Baltimore, Maryland, ... Full text Cite

The relationship between social support, stress, and health among women on Detroit's East Side.

Journal Article Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · June 2002 A conceptual model of the stress process has been useful in examining relationships between numerous social determinants (e.g., chronic stress), protective factors (e.g., social support), and health status. In this article, the authors examine multiple sou ... Full text Cite

Does access to health care impact survival time after diagnosis of AIDS?

Journal Article AIDS patient care and STDs · May 2002 Lack of access to health care is often blamed for poor health outcomes, but this effect is not supported by existing HIV/AIDS literature. The authors examined the association between access to care and survival time after progression to AIDS, using surviva ... Full text Cite

CAM providers' messages to conventional medicine: a qualitative study.

Journal Article American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality · January 2002 Between 30 and 50% of patients use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). There is little research on the interaction between CAM and conventional providers. We investigated what messages CAM practitioners would convey to conventional medicine (CM). ... Full text Cite

Disentangling measures of individual perceptions of community social dynamics: results of a community survey.

Journal Article Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · August 2001 This study examined how different measures of individual perceptions of community social dynamics relate to each other and how these measures relate to self-reported general health and depressive symptoms. Results of a principal components analysis conduct ... Full text Cite

Adverse events associated with hepatitis B vaccine in U.S. children less than six years of age, 1993 and 1994.

Journal Article Annals of epidemiology · January 2001 PurposeThis study evaluated infrequent adverse reactions to hepatitis B vaccine by investigating the association of this vaccine with adverse health outcomes for U.S. children less than six years of age. The evaluation of the association between h ... Full text Cite

Social inequalities, stressors and self reported health status among African American and white women in the Detroit metropolitan area.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · December 2000 This article examines the cumulative effects of multiple stressors on women's health, by race and area of residence. Specifically, we examine socioeconomic status, experiences of unfair treatment and acute life events by race and residential location, and ... Full text Cite

Safety and efficacy of succimer in toddlers with blood lead levels of 20-44 microg/dL. Treatment of Lead-Exposed Children (TLC) Trial Group.

Journal Article Pediatric research · November 2000 Although lead encephalopathy has virtually disappeared from the United States, thousands of children still have sufficient lead exposure to produce cognitive impairment. It is not known whether treating children with blood lead levels < 45 microg/dL (2.2 m ... Full text Cite

Unintended pregnancy and preterm birth.

Journal Article Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · October 2000 About one-third of all pregnancies that result in live births in the US are unintended. Despite the large number of these births, little is known about the outcomes of unintended pregnancies. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the association ... Full text Cite

Unfair treatment, neighborhood effects, and mental health in the Detroit metropolitan area.

Journal Article Journal of health and social behavior · September 2000 Why do racial differences in many indicators of mental and emotional well-being show inconsistent patterns? We propose that mental and emotional well-being are influenced by aspects of the social context, including experiences of unfair treatment and the c ... Full text Cite

Race, clinical factors and pre-term birth in a low-income urban setting.

Journal Article Ethnicity & disease · January 2000 UnlabelledWhile infant mortality rates have declined for both White and African-American populations, the perennial two-fold excess in risk for African Americans remains unchanged, and indeed, may have increased since 1985. One potential explanati ... Cite

John Henryism and Blood Pressure in Black Populations: A Review of the Evidence

Journal Article African American Research Prospectives · 2000 Cite

Primordial prevention of cardiovascular disease among African-Americans: a social epidemiological perspective.

Journal Article Preventive medicine · December 1999 BackgroundThe primordial prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among African-Americans represents a formidable challenge for public health. This paper discusses the nature of this challenge, highlighting the role that economic and cultural fa ... Full text Cite

Malaria infection during pregnancy: intrauterine growth retardation and preterm delivery in Malawi.

Journal Article The Journal of infectious diseases · June 1999 In sub-Saharan Africa, malaria infection in pregnancy contributes to low birth weight through intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) and preterm delivery (PTD). It was hypothesized that malaria-associated PTD and IUGR have differing etiologies due to timin ... Full text Cite

The contribution of baseline weight and weight gain to blood pressure change in African Americans: the Pitt County Study.

Journal Article Annals of epidemiology · November 1998 PurposeThe positive association between obesity and blood pressure has been less consistent in African Americans than whites. This is especially true for African American men. This study investigated the sex-specific associations between baseline ... Full text Cite

Physical activity and NIDDM in African-Americans. The Pitt County Study.

Journal Article Diabetes care · April 1998 ObjectiveStudies directly examining the association between physical activity and NIDDM in African-Americans are rare. Consequently, the strength of this association in this ethnic minority group remains unclear. The current study broadly characte ... Full text Cite

Alcohol consumption and changes in blood pressure among African Americans. The Pitt County Study.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · November 1997 The Pitt County Study is a longitudinal investigation of anthropometric, psychosocial, and behavioral predictors of hypertension in African Americans who were aged 25-50 years at baseline in 1988. At baseline, a strong dose-response gradient was observed f ... Full text Cite

Social support, stress, and blood pressure in black adults.

Journal Article Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · September 1997 Psychosocial factors arising from socioeconomic disadvantage and discrimination may contribute to the excess risk of elevated blood pressure in African-Americans. The purpose of this study was to assess the association of social support and stress with blo ... Full text Cite

Job strain and blood pressure in African Americans: the Pitt County Study.

Journal Article American journal of public health · August 1997 ObjectivesThis report examined whether job strain (or its components, decision latitude and job demands) was associated with elevated blood pressure levels in a community-based sample of 726 African-American adults.MethodsBlood-pressure, ... Full text Cite

Psychosocial stressors and low birthweight in an urban population.

Journal Article American journal of preventive medicine · November 1996 IntroductionLow birthweight is a major determinant of infant mortality, as well as a contributor to infant and childhood morbidity. A key issue is how to reduce the incidence of low birthweight in the United States. One emerging factor is exposure ... Full text Cite

Determinants of hypertension in West Africa: contribution of anthropometric and dietary factors to urban-rural and socioeconomic gradients.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · June 1996 The determinants of hypertension in West Africa have not been well defined. The authors sampled 598 participants aged 45 years or more from a recent population-based survey in southwest Nigeria (190 rural men and women, 205 urban poor men and women, and 20 ... Full text Cite

Depression in black and white women. The role of marriage and socioeconomic status.

Journal Article Annals of epidemiology · November 1995 The degree to which the relationship between race and depression in US black and white women is modified by socioeconomic and marital status was investigated. Data on 534 black and 836 white women, 25 to 64 years old, obtained from the 1986 Americans' Chan ... Full text Cite

Statement of principles: Epidemiology and minority populations

Journal Article Annals of Epidemiology · 1995 Cite

The joint effects of race and age on the risk of end-stage renal disease attributed to hypertension.

Journal Article American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · October 1994 To describe the joint effects of race and age on the risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) attributed to hypertension (ESRD-HT), we analyzed data for white and black adults, 20 to 84 years of age, reported by the United States Renal Data System during the ... Full text Cite

John Henryism and the health of African-Americans.

Journal Article Culture, medicine and psychiatry · June 1994 Full text Cite

Association between maternal education and infant diarrhea in different household and community environments of Cebu, Philippines.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · January 1994 Maternal education is one of the strongest determinants of infant survival in developing countries, however, questions remain regarding the extent to which its effects vary as a function of contextual variables. In this study, a multi-level interactive mod ... Full text Cite

The Narrative of John Henry Martin

Journal Article Southern Cultures, Inaugural Issue · November 1993 Cite

The independent effects of obesity and body fat distribution on blood pressure in black adults: the Pitt County study.

Journal Article International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · July 1993 The relationship of obesity measures to blood pressure and hypertension prevalence was assessed in a community probability sample of 25-50-year-old black adults (1101 women and 655 men) who were examined in 1988 in Pitt County, North Carolina. Among black ... Cite

The excess risk of treated end-stage renal disease in blacks in the United States.

Journal Article Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · June 1993 Analysis of national data from the United States Renal Data System for 1988 revealed an important joint effect of age and race in determining the higher risk of ESRD for blacks as compared with whites. For adults, both hypertension and diabetes made import ... Full text Cite

Racial and ethnic differences in infant mortality and low birth weight. A psychosocial critique.

Journal Article Annals of epidemiology · March 1993 Recent studies on differences in infant mortality and low birth weight (LBW) among non-Hispanic whites, African Americans, and Mexican Americans were reviewed. Despite similar socioeconomic profiles, infant mortality among Mexican Americans (8/1000 live bi ... Full text Cite

Foreward: Racial Differences in Preterm Delivery

Journal Article American Journal of Preventive Medicine · 1993 Cite

Psychosocial stressors and low birth weight: development of a questionnaire.

Journal Article Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP · October 1992 Low birth weight is a major public health problem because it is a major contributor to infant mortality as well as to various types of morbidity among young children. Of particular concern is that black women have an increased risk of low birth weight babi ... Full text Cite

Socioeconomic and behavioral correlates of body mass index in black adults: the Pitt County Study.

Journal Article American journal of public health · June 1992 BackgroundObesity is more prevalent among Black women than Black men, but there is little information on the correlates of obesity in Blacks. This study describes the relations of sociodemographic factors and health behaviors to body mass index in ... Full text Cite

Distribution and correlates of waist-to-hip ratio in black adults: the Pitt County Study.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · March 1992 A 1988 community-based survey of 1,784 black adults aged 25-50 years in Pitt County, North Carolina, found mean waist-to-hip ratios of 0.890 for men and 0.852 for women. Based on guidelines from the US Department of Agriculture, 20% of the men and 76% of t ... Full text Cite

Socioeconomic status, John Henryism, and blood pressure in black adults. The Pitt County Study.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · January 1992 The joint influence of socioeconomic status and John Henryism on blood pressure was examined in a probability sample of 1,784 black adults aged 25-50 years in Pitt County, North Carolina, in 1988. John Henryism was measured by means of the John Henryism Ac ... Full text Cite

Socioeconomic status and electrolyte intake in black adults: the Pitt County Study.

Journal Article American journal of public health · December 1991 BackgroundAlthough the inverse association between socioeconomic status (SES) and blood pressure has often been observed, little is known about the relationship between SES and dietary risk factors for elevated blood pressure. Therefore, this stud ... Full text Cite

Physical activity and hypertension in black adults: the Pitt County Study.

Journal Article American journal of public health · November 1991 The relation of physical activity to hypertension was examined in 1751 Black adults in Pitt County, NC. More women (65%) than men (44%) were classified as sedentary. Sedentary behavior was not associated with the prevalence of hypertension in men, but was ... Full text Cite

Alcohol consumption and blood pressure in black adults: the Pitt County Study.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · March 1991 While there is a clear consensus in the epidemiologic literature on the direct association between alcohol consumption and blood pressure, the shape of this relation and its strength in blacks are uncertain. Therefore, the association between alcohol and b ... Full text Cite

Hypertension in Brazil: a review of the epidemiological evidence.

Journal Article Ethnicity & disease · January 1991 Population-based studies of hypertension in Brazil were reviewed. Nineteen studies were identified, all employing cross-sectional study designs. The majority of these studies were conducted in the south and southeast regions of the country, although increa ... Cite

Predictors of relapse in sexual practices among homosexual men.

Journal Article AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education · January 1991 Selected sociodemographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables were used to predict maintenance or relapse in sexual practices over a 1-year interval in a cohort of homosexual men in Chicago. Univariate analyses and multivariate logistic regression were ... Cite

Work-related psychosocial stress and risk of preterm, low birthweight delivery.

Journal Article American journal of public health · February 1990 We investigated whether work-related psychologic stress--defined as work characterized by both high psychologic demands and limited control over the response to these demands--increases a woman's risk of delivering a preterm, low birthweight infant. We stu ... Full text Cite

Work-related physical exertion and risk of preterm, low birthweight delivery

Journal Article Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology · 1990 Although many women work during pregnancy, the effect of maternal job experience on pregnancy outcome is controversial. We investigated whether work-related physical exertion increases a woman's risk of delivering a preterm, low birthweight infant. We stud ... Cite

A Social Environment Inventory for the pediatric office.

Journal Article Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP · December 1989 Exposure to psychosocial stressors is associated with deleterious physical and mental health outcomes among children and adults, as well as with school-related and behavioral problems among children. However, research and intervention in this area have bee ... Full text Cite

Chronic stressors and maternal depression: implications for prevention.

Journal Article Am J Public Health · September 1989 We report on the use of an instrument to measure exposure to stressors among 149 women presenting with their children for pediatric care at an urban primary care center. Overall, 38.3 percent of the women had significant levels of depressive symptoms; 71.4 ... Full text Link to item Cite

The association between depressive symptoms and mortality among older participants in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area-Piedmont Health Survey.

Journal Article J Gerontol · July 1989 The association between depression and two-year mortality risk was assessed in 1,606 elderly community participants in the 1982-83 Epidemiologic Catchment Area-Piedmont Health Survey. Two depression measures were formed from the Diagnostic Interview Schedu ... Full text Link to item Cite

"John Henryism" and blood pressure in a Dutch population.

Journal Article Psychosomatic medicine · July 1988 In a stratified, random sample of 100 men and 100 women, aged 20-59 years, residing in Zutphen, the Netherlands, the hypothesis was tested that high scores on "John Henryism," a strong behavioral predisposition to cope actively with psychosocial environmen ... Full text Cite

Hypertension control in a rural southern community: medical care process and dropping out.

Journal Article American journal of preventive medicine · May 1988 As part of the Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program, we conducted a medical record review within a private group practice to assess the interrelationships between patient characteristics, the process of medical care, and dropping out of car ... Full text Cite

Teaching the Medical Interview

Journal Article Journal of General Internal Medicine · 1988 Cite

Teaching the medical interview: an intervention study.

Journal Article Journal of general internal medicine · January 1988 To study the effects of teaching specific interviewing techniques on verbal behaviors and on health outcomes, internal medicine residents working in a screening clinic were assigned to either an experimental or a control group. The entire clinic visit was ... Full text Cite

Effects of race and marginally elevated blood pressure on responses to stress.

Journal Article Hypertension · December 1987 A total of 228 men, aged 18 to 22 years (109 black and 119 white), underwent monitoring of heart rate (HR) and systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) responses during several stressor conditions and a 30-minute posttask rest period. Stressors in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Socioeconomic status, John Henryism, and hypertension in blacks and whites.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · October 1987 The joint influence of socioeconomic status and John Henryism on risk for elevated blood pressure was examined in a biracial, community sample of 820 adults, aged 21-50 years, who resided in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, and were interviewed in 1983. J ... Full text Cite

Psychosocial factors in hypertension.

Journal Article Circulation · July 1987 Cite

Psychosocial factors in hypertension

Journal Article Circulation · July 1, 1987 Cite

Psychosocial precursors of hypertension: a review of the epidemiologic evidence.

Journal Article Circulation · July 1987 This article provides a selective overview of epidemiologic studies on the relationship between psychosocial factors and blood pressure elevation. The review focuses on English-language reports published since 1975 and emphasizes two broad areas of researc ... Cite

Social support and hypertension among blacks and whites in a rural, southern community.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · December 1986 The association between social support and the prevalence of hypertension was examined in a randomly selected, biracial sample of 2,030 adult residents of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, who were surveyed in 1980. Two types of support, instrumental and e ... Full text Cite

The Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program: III. Social support, social stressors, and treatment dropout.

Journal Article American journal of public health · May 1985 In a hypertension prevalence survey of a stratified random sample of 1,000 households, 2,030 adults (aged 18 years and over) were interviewed and information on psychosocial variables collected. Among 359 hypertensives, there was a consistent relationship ... Full text Cite

Patient exposition and physician explanation in initial medical interviews and outcomes of clinic visits.

Journal Article Medical care · January 1985 To replicate an earlier study and explore associations between verbal behaviors in patient-physician interactions and outcomes of care, 102 visits to a medicine walk-in clinic were tape-recorded, transcribed, and coded according to the Verbal Response Mode ... Full text Cite

Community coverage in a rural, church-based, hypertension screening program in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

Journal Article American Journal of Public Health · January 1, 1985 In a rural, church-based hypertension program in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, screening of the congregations was complemented by a community outreach component targeted at 18-60 year old males, a group at higher risk for untreated hypertension. Compar ... Full text Cite

Coronary heart disease in black Americans: suggestions for research on psychosocial factors.

Journal Article American heart journal · September 1984 Despite the fact that coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death among U.S. blacks, virtually no information exists on the contribution of psychosocial factors to CHD risk in this population. Studies conducted on U.S. whites suggest that ty ... Full text Cite

Socioeconomic influences on coronary heart disease in black populations.

Journal Article American heart journal · September 1984 It is likely that socioeconomic factors exert important influences on coronary heart disease (CHD) morbidity and mortality for U.S. blacks. Careful and comprehensive studies are needed to clarify the pathways through which low socioeconomic status exerts i ... Full text Cite

Differences in use of health services by children according to race. Relative importance of cultural and system-related factors.

Journal Article Medical care · September 1984 Black children make substantially less use of health services than do their white counterparts, despite their demonstrably poorer health status. This relationship is true regardless of income. Various authors have suggested that such differences are due to ... Full text Cite

John Henryism and blood pressure differences among black men. II. The role of occupational stressors.

Journal Article Journal of behavioral medicine · September 1984 In this study, the effects of psychosocial job stressors on the resting blood pressure (BP) of 112 black male workers were examined. The subjects resided in a rural, poor, predominantly black community in eastern North Carolina. The job stressors included ... Full text Cite

The Edgecombe County (NC) High Blood Pressure Control Program: II. Barriers to the use of medical care among hypertensives.

Journal Article American journal of public health · May 1984 As the initial step in a five-year project to improve control of high blood pressure in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, a survey was conducted in 1980 to determine the prevalence of hypertension and to identify factors which might constitute barriers to ... Full text Cite

Maternal depression in an urban pediatric practice: implications for health care delivery.

Journal Article American journal of public health · April 1984 A scale to measure depressive symptomatology was administered to mothers attending an urban pediatric primary care center. Over 50 per cent of the female heads of households were Black or low income and depressed. This suggests that the provider of pediatr ... Full text Cite

The Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program: I. Correlates of uncontrolled hypertension at baseline.

Journal Article American journal of public health · March 1984 To guide the planning of a multifacetted hypertension control program in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, a baseline survey of a stratified (by township) random sample of 1,000 households was conducted. All adults (greater than or equal to 18 years) were ... Full text Cite

Maternal Depression in an Urban Pediatric Practice

Journal Article American Journal of Public Health · 1984 Cite

Coronary heart disease in black Americans: Suggestions for research on psychosocial factors

Journal Article American Heart Journal · 1984 Despite the fact that coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death among U.S. blacks, virtually no information exists on the contribution of psychosocial factors to CHD risk in this population. Studies conducted on U.S. whites suggest that ty ... Cite

Socioeconomic Influences on CHD in Black Populations

Journal Article American Heart Journal (Supplement) · 1984 Cite

Socioeconomic influences on coronary heart disease in black populations

Journal Article American Heart Journal · 1984 It is likely that socioeconomic factors exert important influences on coronary heart disease (CHD) morbidity and mortality for U.S. blacks. Careful and comprehensive studies are needed to clarify the pathways through which low socioeconomic status exerts i ... Cite

John Henryism and blood pressure differences among black men.

Journal Article Journal of behavioral medicine · September 1983 A community probability sample of southern working-class, black men (N = 132) between 17 and 60 years of age was administered a scale to measure the degree to which they felt they could control their environment through hard work and determination. Since t ... Full text Cite

The epidemiologic evidence for a relationship between social support and health.

Journal Article American journal of epidemiology · May 1983 Full text Cite

The family routines inventory: theoretical origins.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · January 1983 This paper describes the conceptual foundation underlying the development of the Family Routines Inventory, a new instrument designed to measure the extent of predictability or routinization in the daily life of a family. The primary impetus for the develo ... Full text Cite

The family routines inventory: development and validation.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · January 1983 This report builds upon pertinent theoretical considerations regarding the nature and importance of routinization within families and describes the development and validation of a standardized inventory to measure family routines. The Family Routines Inven ... Full text Cite

The Duke-UNC Health Profile: an adult health status instrument for primary care.

Journal Article Med Care · August 1981 The Duke--UNC Health Profile (DUHP) was developed as a brief 63-item instrument designed to measure adult health status in the primary care setting along four dimensions: symptom status, physical function, emotional function and social function. Reliabilit ... Full text Link to item Cite

ISRO: A scale to measure sex-role orientation

Journal Article Sex Roles · February 1, 1981 Sex-role research has been hampered by a lack of valid and reliable research tools to measure the construct being studied. This article describes the development of a research scale (ISRO) to measure women's sex-role orientation. This 16-item questionnaire ... Full text Cite

ISRO: A Valid Scale for Measuring Sex Role Orientation: Sex Roles

Journal Article A Journal for Research · 1981 Cite

Interaction exchange structure and patient satisfaction with medical interviews.

Journal Article Medical care · June 1979 The verbal interaction between patients and physicians in 52 initial interviews in a university hospital screening clinic was studied using a new discourse coding system. Factor analysis of category frequencies showed that each interview segment, medical h ... Full text Cite

Verbal response mode profiles of patients and physicians in medical screening interviews

Journal Article Journal of Medical Education · 1979 The medical importance of the patient-physician relationship is widely acknowledged, but research on its effects has been hampered by the lack of a method to quantify its clinically relevant features. In this study a new method of coding verbal interaction ... Cite

Dimensions of patient and physician roles in medical screening interviews

Journal Article Social Science and Medicine · 1979 Social theorists have agreed that physicians are usually presumptuous and controlling while patients are usually deferent and acquiescent in medical encounters, but have disagreed about patient reaction to these reciprocal roles. One view has been that the ... Cite

The Medical Interview Satisfaction Scale: development of a scale to measure patient perceptions of physician behavior.

Journal Article Journal of behavioral medicine · December 1978 Patient satisfaction is a variable of increasing interest to researchers, clinicians, and medical educators. Of several studies reviewed, only a few have shown evidence of careful methodology. Most surveys have focused on general evaluations of doctors and ... Full text Cite

Blood pressure and skin color.

Journal Article American journal of public health · December 1978 Full text Cite

Patient-Physician Verbal Interactions

Journal Article Clinical Research · 1978 Cite

Acquiescence-Control and Patient Satisfaction with Medical Interviews

Journal Article Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin · 1978 Cite

Soul City: Attitudes Toward a Developing New Town

Journal Article Journal of Community Psychology · 1978 Cite

The Psychologist in a Public Health Setting: Implications for Training

Journal Article Journal of Community Psychology · 1978 Cite

Editorial: Blood Pressure and Skin Color

Journal Article American Journal of Public Health · 1978 Cite

Frequency of Church Attendance and Blood Pressure Elevation

Journal Article Journal of Behavioral Medicine · 1978 Cite

Socioecologic stress and hypertension related mortality rates in North Carolina.

Journal Article American journal of public health · April 1976 Full text Cite

Note on "Strangers in Paradise," or telling it like it isn't.

Journal Article Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · October 1971 Full text Cite

Note on ’Strangers in Paradise’ or Telling It Like It Isn’t

Journal Article Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology · 1971 Cite

The Legacy of Slavery and Contemporary Declines in Heart Disease Mortality in the US South

Journal Article SSM - Population Health Featured Publication Background: This study aims to characterize the role of county-specific legacy of slavery in patterning temporal (i.e., 1968-2014), and geographic (i.e., Southern counties) declines in heart disease mortality. In this context, the U.S. has witnessed dramat ... Full text Open Access Cite