A5103025047- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Web and Library Services
- Social Media and Politics
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Social Media in Health Education
- Merger and Competition Analysis
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Risk and Safety Analysis
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- World Trade Organization Law
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Educational Assessment and Improvement
University of Edinburgh
2025
Clemson University
2024
American Society For Engineering Education
2024
University Hospital Galway
2004-2021
RTI International
2010-2019
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2012-2019
New York Historical Society
2019
Ottawa Hospital
2016-2018
Edwards Lifesciences (United Kingdom)
2016
Food Standards Agency
2016
Abstract Manhattan residents living near the World Trade Center may have been particularly vulnerable to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after September 11, 2001 (9/11) terrorist attacks. In 2003–2004, authors administered PTSD Checklist 11,037 adults who lived south of Canal Street in New York City on 9/11. The prevalence probable was 12.6% and associated with older age, female gender, Hispanic ethnicity, low education income, divorce. Injury, witnessing horror, dust cloud exposure...
Public opinion research is entering a new era, one in which traditional survey may play less dominant role. The proliferation of technologies, such as mobile devices and social-media platforms, changing the societal landscape across public researchers operate. As these technologies expand, so does access to users� thoughts, feelings, actions expressed instantaneously, organically, often publicly platforms they use. ways people both share information about opinions, attitudes, behaviors have...
Twitter is an online microblogging tool that disseminates more than 400 million messages per day, including vast amounts of health information. represents important data source for the cancer prevention and control community. This paper introduces investigators in research to logistics analysis. It explores methodological challenges extracting analyzing data, characteristics representativeness data; sources, access, cost; sampling approaches; management cleaning; standardizing metrics; We...
<h3>Objective.</h3> —To test the short-term feasibility and efficacy of seven nonpharmacologic interventions in persons with high normal diastolic blood pressure. <h3>Design.</h3> —Randomized control multicenter trials. <h3>Setting.</h3> —Volunteers recruited from community, treated followed up at special clinics. <h3>Participants.</h3> —Of 16821 screenees, 2182 men women, aged 30 through 54 years, pressure 80 89 mm Hg were selected. Of these, 50 did not return for follow-up measurements....
With the increased pressure on survey researchers to achieve high response rates, it is critical explore issues related nonresponse. In this study, authors examined effects of nonresponse bias in a mail physicians (N = 3,400). Because slightly more than one half sample did not respond survey, there was potential for if nonresponders differed significantly from responders with respect key demographic and practice variables. They analyzed status timing five variables: gender, region,...
Abstract The World Trade Center Health Registry (WTCHR) is a database for following people who were exposed to the disaster of 11 September 2001. Hundreds thousands immense cloud dust and debris, indoor dust, fumes from persistent fires, mental trauma terrorist attacks on WTC 9/11. purpose WTCHR evaluate potential short‐ long‐term physical health effects disaster. definitions groups are broad defined based an understanding which had highest exposures its aftermath. four exposure include...
E-cigarettes have rapidly increased in popularity recent years, driven, at least part, by marketing and word-of-mouth discussion on Twitter. Given the rapid proliferation of e-cigarettes, researchers need timely quantitative data from e-cigarette users smokers who may see e-cigarettes as a cessation tool. Twitter provides an ideal platform for recruiting use Online panels offer second method accessing this population, but they been criticized too few young adults, among whom rates are...
Cognitive interviewing is a common method used to evaluate survey questions. This study compares traditional cognitive methods with crowdsourcing, or “tapping into the collective intelligence of public complete task.” Crowdsourcing may provide researchers access diverse pool potential participants in very timely and cost-efficient way. Exploratory work found that crowdsourcing participants, self-administered data collection, be viable alternative, addition, pretesting methods. Using three...
SUMMARY Paneth cells are important contributors to the intestinal antimicrobial barrier through synthesis and release of peptides proteins. Animal studies indicate that cell numbers, location granule morphology altered by infection zinc status. We examined human tissue determine whether distribution or in infective, inflammatory nutritional disorders. Archival sections from infective disorders (giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, HIV, helminth infection) were compared with active conditions...
Over the last few decades, survey research has witnessed a number of developments that have affected quality data emerge using this methodology. Using total error (TSE) approach as point departure, article documents chronic challenges to quality. With aim facilitating assessments quality, then turns best practices in disclosure findings based on probability and nonprobability samples. Finally, (p)reviewing use technology social media, it provides an overview opportunities for today.
Part 1 Acknowledgements 2 Foreword Chapter 3 1: Setting the Stage 4 2: A Historical Note on Preparation 5 3: Preparing School Administrators, 1986 Change Forces 6 4: The Evolution to a Post-Industrial World 7 5: Changing Nature of Schooling 8 6: Consternation within Profession: Meltdown Core 9 7: An Agenda for Research and Action 10 8: Strengthening Scholarship Preparatory Function 11 9: Responses 12 References 13 Index
Understanding whether and to what degree changes in young men's attitudes explain increases condom use over time can be useful developing more effective disease prevention strategies.Data from the 1988 1995 National Survey of Adolescent Males are used determine toward condoms, pregnancy HIV AIDS. Two-limit tobit models employed investigate association between these condom-use behavior examine how this relationship may have changed time.Between 1995, partner appreciation use, embarrassment...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has observed consistently increasing obesity trends over the past 25 years. Recent research suggests that avatar behavior appearance may result in positive changes to real life individual behavior. Specifically, users adjust their identity match of avatars. 
 Preliminary results survey interviews Second Life support our hypotheses individuals whose avatars engaged healthy behaviors were more likely engage physical activities world...
How response rates are increased can determine the remaining nonresponse bias in estimates. Studies often target sample members that most likely to be interviewed maximize rates. Instead, we suggest targeting nonrespondents from onset of a study with different protocol minimize bias. To inform members, various sources information utilized: paradata collected by interviewers, demographic and substantive survey data prior waves, administrative data. Using these data, likelihood any member...
The current study reports on two sequential studies that developed and provided a pilot evaluation of Behavioral Activation (BA) training package based an online, modular, active learning model for community mental health providers. In the first study, outcomes were assessed with within-subjects design by measuring trainees' (N = 8) reported implementation learned BA skills in clinical practice their satisfaction at pretraining baseline throughout training. results showed trainees increased...