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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: Development and Initial Validation of a Measure of Internalized Diet Culture
Author: Morris, Victoria
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Research
Description: Scholars argue that a unique diet culture exists in Westernized nations which conflates health outcomes and moral character, by attaching morality to food choices, eating and exercising behaviors, and physical appearance. Several seemingly separat...

Title: EXPLORING NURSES’ KNOWLEDGE AND COMFORT AS HEART FAILURE EDUCATORS IN A NON-CARDIAC ACUTE CARE ENVIRONMENT PRIOR TO PROVIDING AN ONLINE LEARNING MODULE
Author: Ware, Nicole
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Health education, Health services administration
Description: ABSTRACT NICOLE PHAY WARE. Exploring nurses’ knowledge and comfort as heart failure educators in a non-cardiac acute care environment prior to providing an online learning module (Under the direction of DR. CHARLENE WHITAKER-BROWN)Heart Failure (H...

Title: Function Matters: Examining Body Functionality as a Dimension of Body Image Among Women With and Without Disabilities
Author: Thomas, Erin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: Body image is defined as the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions a person has about their body. Body image disturbance is an increasingly important public health issue due to its documented associations with maladaptive health behaviors and dimini...

Title: PREDICTORS OF BINGE EATING BEHAVIOR AND PERCEIVED HEALTH: SIMILARITIES BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK COLLEGE MEN
Author: Minnick, Alyssa
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: Obesity is a significant public health concern that is associated with poorer mental and physical health outcomes and approximately 41% of college men are overweight or obese. Given the impact of obesity in this population, research should focus o...

Title: Perfect people, perfect environment: Applying Person-Environment Interaction theory to examine the impact of Instagram use on health-related psychological outcomes among perfectionists
Author: Papay, Kimberly
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Personality
Description: Perfectionism was once thought to be a detrimental personality trait that impacts health and psychological outcomes in negative ways. However, modern conceptualizations demonstrate that this trait is multidimensional and that impacts on outcomes ...

Title: Process and development of a culturally adapted healthy lifestyle manual for overweight and obese Latina women with binge eating disorder.
Author: Phimphasone, Phoutdavone
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Clinical psychology
Description: Obesity remains one of the greatest public health threats in the 21st century, increasing the risk for many chronic illnesses, including Type 2 diabetes and CVD, with economic costs associated with treatments for obesity reaching $147 billion/year...

Title: Understanding deliberate self-harm among college women: Applying feminist theory to the affect regulation model
Author: Hypes, Annada
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: This study examined potential contributors to self-harm behavior (DSH) among college women aged 18-25 years (N = 447). A model explaining DSH lifetime history among young women was tested, bridging feminist thought with the affect regulation model...