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Felicia Hill-Briggs
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Problem solving in diabetes self-management: A model of chronic illness self-management behavior
Management of chronic illnesses is a significant public health concern that is made more challenging by problems of regimen adherence. Effective self-management of chronic illnesses such as diabetes requires n...
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Association of Social Problem Solving With Glycemic Control in a Sample of Urban African Americans With Type 2 Diabetes
The Social Problem-Solving Inventory—Revised, Short Form, was administered to 65 urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes to examine association of generic problem-solving styles and orientation with hemog...
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Open AccessHow to improve medical education website design
The Internet provides a means of disseminating medical education curricula, allowing institutions to share educational resources. Much of what is published online is poorly planned, does not meet learners' nee...
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Open AccessProtocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Culturally Sensitive Interventions to Improve African Americans' and Non-African Americans' Early, Shared, and Informed Consideration of Live Kidney Transplantation: The talking about Live Kidney Donation (TALK) study
Live kidney transplantation (LKT) is underutilized, particularly among ethnic/racial minorities. The effectiveness of culturally sensitive educational and behavioral interventions to encourage patients' early,...
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Open AccessPrevalence of self-reported sleep duration and sleep habits in type 2 diabetes patients in South Trinidad
The present study aims to determine the prevalence of self-reported sleep duration and sleep habits and their associated factors in patients with type 2 diabetes in Trinidad. This was a cross-sectional multice...
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Application of Latent Class Analysis to Identify Behavioral Patterns of Response to Behavioral Lifestyle Interventions in Overweight and Obese Adults
Examining responders and non-responders to behavioral lifestyle interventions among overweight/obese adults with additional comorbidities may aid in refining and tailoring obesity treatment.
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Open AccessBarriers to optimal diabetes care in Trinidad and Tobago: a health care Professionals’ perspective
The republic of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) is a middle income country with a comparatively high prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) compared to others in the Caribbean. To date, there have been no studies on h...
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Measuring health-related problem solving among African Americans with multiple chronic conditions: application of Rasch analysis
Identification of patients with poor chronic disease self-management skills can facilitate treatment planning, determine effectiveness of interventions, and reduce disease complications. This paper describes t...
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Open AccessThe TALKS study to improve communication, logistical, and financial barriers to live donor kidney transplantation in African Americans: protocol of a randomized clinical trial
Live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), an optimal therapy for many patients with end-stage kidney disease, is underutilized, particularly by African Americans. Potential recipient difficulties initiating an...
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Open AccessProceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation
A1 Introduction to the 8th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Optimizing Personal and Population Health
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The Case for Diabetes Population Health Improvement: Evidence-Based Programming for Population Outcomes in Diabetes
The goal of this review is to describe diabetes within a population health improvement framework and to review the evidence for a diabetes population health continuum of intervention approaches, including diab...
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Open AccessEngaging patients and family members to design and implement patient-centered kidney disease research
We need more research projects that partner and engage with patients and family members as team members. Doing this requires that patients and family members set research priorities and fully participate in re...
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Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Diabetes mellitus is associated with high rates of cardiovascular disease (e.g., atherosclerosis, ischemic heart disease, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction) and cardiovascular mortality. Behavior...
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Open AccessSocial Determinants of Health, Race, and Diabetes Population Health Improvement: Black/African Americans as a Population Exemplar
To summarize evidence of impact of social determinants of health (SDOH) on diabetes risk, morbidity, and mortality and to illustrate this impact in a population context.
