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- Title
- A meta-analysis of the roles and resources model of support giving's health effects
- Author
- LaPorte, Thomas
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Social psychology, Psychology, Medical sciences
- Description
- Giving social support is lauded in society and regarded as contributing to the development and maintenance of social relationships, but research has typically focused on the benefits of receiving such support and the costs of giving. An emerging l...
- Title
- An Examination of Family and Health Risks and Services on Permanency Outcomes for Multisystem Youth
- Author
- Behrendt-Mihalski, Jaimelee
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Multisystem youth, or youth involved with the juvenile court and child welfare systems, are a high-need population about which research is still-emerging. These youth tend to experience considerable adversity and risk across domains (e.g., health ...
- Title
- Bicultural Context and Metabolic Health
- Author
- Rodriguez Diaz, Michelle
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Clinical psychology
- Description
- Cardiovascular disease and diabetes are among the leading causes of death in the United States (NCHS, 2016), making the metabolic syndrome (MetS) an important target for research and intervention. In addition, there seems to be a disproportionate ...
- Title
- Cognitive, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Predictors of College Sleep and Health
- Author
- Peach, Hannah
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Medical sciences
- Description
- College students are one of the top at-risk groups for chronic sleep loss and poor sleep quality, therefore research devoted to the identification of cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral predictors of sleep is essential. The present study examin...
- Title
- Do video games reduce or induce stress? The effect of challenge and threat appraisals on stress and aggression when playing violent and nonviolent video games
- Author
- Porter, Anne
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Medical sciences
- Description
- Video game players report using video games for stress reduction, but previous studies have found mixed results when examining stress and video games, and fail to comprehensively measure all relevant psychological, emotional, and physiological str...
- Title
- Examining Policy, Enabler And Access Factor Effects On U.S State Medicaid Pharmaceutical Utilization And Expenditures
- Author
- EGHAN, EMMANUEL
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Economics, Health services administration, Industrial management
- Description
- Prescription drug expenditures and utilization are the fastest growing and most widely varying expenditures within Medicaid programs across US states. The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 and the subsequent Medicaid state expansion...
- Title
- Examining Policy, Enabler And Access Factor Effects On U.S State Medicaid Pharmaceutical Utilization And Expenditures
- Author
- EGHAN, EMMANUEL
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management, Economics, Health services administration
- Description
- Prescription drug expenditures and utilization are the fastest growing and most widely varying expenditures within Medicaid programs across US states. The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 and the subsequent Medicaid state expansion...
- Title
- Institutional Factors in Health Disparities
- Author
- Hampton, Cicily
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- The purpose of this dissertation is to address institutional factors that may be the root cause of health disparities. Misdirected resources may help to explain why health disparities have actually increased as targeted interventions aimed at thei...
- Title
- POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH AND BIOMARKERS OF CHRONIC STRESS AMONG COMBAT VETERANS OF OPERATIONS ENDURING AND IRAQI FREEDOM
- Author
- Blevins, Cara
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are a significant public health problem, representing the leading cause of death in U.S. military combat Veterans. Following deployment, combat Veterans are at an increased risk for CVD due to chronic in-theater expos...
- Title
- Racial and Gender Concordance: Effects on Utilization of Health Services Among Individuals Enrolled in a Primary Care Case Management Delivery System
- Author
- Smith, III, Galen
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Social sciences--Research
- Description
- Very few studies to date have directly examined the impact of race or gender patient-provider concordance on the utilization of health services. This is particularly noteworthy given the role that the linkage between concordance and health service...
- Title
- Reappraisal and Health: An Investigation into Reappraisal Ability and Stressful Life Events as the Missing Links
- Author
- Roos, Lydia
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Inadequate emotion regulation may underlie the development of psychopathology as well as worsened physical health, particularly in the context of stress. Cognitive reappraisal is typically considered an adaptive strategy to manage negative emotion...
- Title
- SELECTION, OPTIMIZATION, AND COMPENSATION (SOC) STRATEGIES AND PERCEIVED WORK ABILITY: THE ROLES OF PERCEIVED HEALTH AND JOB CONTROL
- Author
- Flinchum, Jonathan
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Perceived work ability (PWA) represents an employee’s perceptions of their ability to continue working in their current job given their personal resources and the characteristics of their job, and relates to many positive organizational outcomes (...
- Title
- Sleep duration, sleepiness, obesity, and risk for hypertension in young adolescents: A mediation model
- Author
- Peach, Hannah
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Medical sciences
- Description
- Inadequate sleep has been identified as a risk factor for a variety of health consequences. Short sleep durations and daytime sleepiness, an indicator of insufficient sleep and/or poor sleep quality, have been identified as risk factors for hypert...
- Title
- THE EFFECT OF ANGER RUMINATION ON CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSES DURING SELF-ANGER AND OTHER-ANGER
- Author
- Myers, Charlsie
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- The high morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovascular (CV) disease have led to a profusion of research into its etiology. With only 50% of the variance in risk associated with traditional risk factors, research has begun to focus more on...
- Title
- The Greatest Enemy? Smallpox, Elimination, and Politics in Mexico, 1942-1970
- Author
- Nichols, Marissa
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Public health
- Description
- In the 1940s, the Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia (SSA- Secretariat of Health and Welfare) hoped to unify Mexico to eliminate smallpox from within its borders. In 1952, Mexico had achieved that goal, but the year marked a significant shift i...
- Title
- The influence of emotion regulation on psychological distress and physiological functioning following a romantic breakup
- Author
- Roos, Lydia
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Cognitive psychology, Psychophysiology
- Description
- Being in a romantic relationship confers better psychological wellbeing and physical health than being single; however, relationship dissolution can be psychologically stressful, and separation and divorce have been linked to an array of poor heal...
- Title
- “It Make Me Feel Like I’m Beneath Them”: Experiences of Stigma Among Individuals Living with Food Insecurity
- Author
- Uri, Rachel
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Sociology, Environmental health
- Description
- Food insecurity represents one of the most prevalent and severe problems facing modern United States (U.S.) society, with the proportion of households affected surging to approximately 23% during the COVID-19 pandemic. While several food safety ne...