Health-related quality of life is an important outcome in cancer care. A few studies indicate that health literacy influences patients' health-related life, but additional investigation needed. The authors examined the relation between and among patients. cross-sectional survey was conducted with patients Wisconsin during 2006-2007. Data on sociodemographics, clinical characteristics, were obtained from state's registry a mailed questionnaire. Regression analyses used to characterize...

Background Home smoking bans significantly reduce the likelihood of secondhand smoke exposure among children and non-smoking adults. The purpose this study was to examine national trends in (1) adoption home bans, (2) discrepancies parental ban reports (3) household correlates households with underage from 1995 2007. Methods authors used data 1995–1996, 1998–1999, 2001–2002, 2003 2006–2007 Tobacco Use Supplement US Current Population Survey estimate prevalence rates logistic regression...

Timely diagnosis of HIV is essential to improve survival rates and reduce transmission the virus. Insufficient progress has been made in effecting earlier diagnoses. The Mexican border city Tijuana one highest AIDS incidence mortality all Mexico. This study examined prevalence potential correlates late testing Tijuana, Late testers were defined as participants who had at least of: (1) an AIDS-defining illness within 1 year first positive test; (2) a date or (3) initial CD4 cell count below...

Research suggests that the food environment influences individual eating practices. To date, little is known about effective interventions to improve of restaurants and stores promote healthy in rural communities. We tested "Waupaca Eating Smart " (WES), a pilot intervention supermarkets community. WES focused on labeling, promoting, increasing availability foods.We conducted randomized community trial, with two Midwestern U.S. communities randomly assigned serve as or control site....

U.S.-born citizens are victims of human trafficking typically exploited through sex trafficking. At least some them interact with healthcare providers during their experience; yet a majority goes unidentified. Although protocols and training guides exist, often do not have the necessary skills to identify assist Understanding where seek care barriers for disclosure critical components intervention. Thus, this study interviewed survivors ascertain: a) settings visited trafficking, b) reasons...

Migrant and refugee women adolescents are extremely vulnerable in humanitarian crisis armed conflict contexts. The Venezuelan has unleashed the largest exodus of migrants/refugees recent Latin American history, most whom have relocated to Colombia. There is a scarcity research addressing how adverse traumatic experiences related violence presents mental health amidst Venezuelan-Colombian context it affects communities relocation communities. This study sought explore pre-, during...

Purpose. To examine the extent to which theoretical fidelity, or precision in replicating theory-based recommendations, influenced effectiveness of two walking programs based on social cognitive theory (SCT). Design. Two-group randomized controlled trial. Setting. College town Virginia. Subjects. Sixty-one sedentary adult women. Intervention. Two 12-week e-mail–based were compared. The high fidelity program was designed more precisely follow SCT recommendations for operationalizing mastery...

Abstract Purpose Low health literacy is associated with inadequate care utilization and poor outcomes, particularly among elderly persons. There a dearth of research exploring the relationship between place residence (urbanicity). This study examined association urbanicity literacy, as well factors related to low cancer patients. Methods A cross‐sectional survey was conducted population‐based sample 1,841 patients in Wisconsin. Data on sociodemographics, urbanicity, clinical characteristics,...

In 2015, approximately 50,000 new HIV infections occurred in the United States, 2,400 of which were attributable to injection drug use. Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has potential curb acquisition; however, uptake remains low among persons who inject drugs (PWID). The purpose study is describe PrEP eligibility, willingness use PrEP, and ability access PWID recruited from a pilot program that paired screening treatment sexually transmitted with mobile syringe exchange (SEP) services.Between...

The Health Belief Model has been useful for studying uptake of HIV prevention behaviors and had limited application to understanding utilization pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a biomedical strategy reduce acquisition. We recruited 90 persons undergoing screening educated them about PrEP. followed up with 35 participants approximately 3 weeks later quantitatively assessed PrEP uptake. No participant initiated conducted in-depth interviews 15 explore situational factors impacting this...

We conducted a probability-based survey of migrant flows traveling across the Mexico-US border, and we estimated HIV infection rates, risk behaviors, contextual factors for migrants representing 5 distinct migration phases. Our results suggest that influence is not uniform genders or factors. By considering predeparture, transit, interception phases process, our findings complement previous studies on among Mexican at destination return Monitoring this vulnerable transnational population...

We examined the sexual behavior, identities, and HIV risk factors of a community sample Latino men to inform efforts reduce Latinos' risk.

We evaluated the effectiveness of Hombres Sanos [Healthy Men] a social marketing campaign to increase condom use and HIV testing among heterosexually identified Latino men, especially men who have sex with women (MSMW).

Objectives. To examine racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 outcomes between Hispanics and Whites across 27 US jurisdictions whose health departments are members of the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC). Methods. Using surveillance data from BCHC dashboard as mid-June 2021, we computed crude incidence, age-adjusted hospitalization mortality, full vaccination coverage rates for by city. We estimated relative absolute cumulatively 2020 2021 explored associations city-level social...

The Venezuelan crisis has unleashed multiple forms of sociopolitical violence against its population and created a context unmet needs, insecurity, human rights violations. Outward migration caused by this situation been linked to health emergencies in neighboring countries. migrant refugee women girls (VMRWG) are among the most affected. We conducted cross-sectional qualitative Participatory Action Research (PAR) project characterize risk environments for VMRWG across phases, analyzing...

Low adherence to cervical and breast cancer (CBC) screening recommendations contributes high CBC mortality among Latinas.