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| Ann Carroll KlassenSummaryAffiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Country: USA Publications
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Evaluation of the performance of tests for spatial randomness on prostate cancer dataVirginia L Hinrichsen
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Int J Health Geogr 8:41. 2009..We chose 3 spatial clustering tests that are commonly used to evaluate the geographic distribution of disease: Cuzick-Edwards' k-NN (k-Nearest Neighbors) test, Moran's I and Tango's MEET (Maximized Excess Events Test)...- Improving cervical cancer screening in hospital settingsA Klassen
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Prev Med 31:538-46. 2000..Maryland law mandates offering Pap tests during hospital admissions. We examined organizational and physician attitudes and practices regarding inpatient screening, to identify mechanisms for increasing the law's effectiveness... - A healthy mistrust: how worldview relates to attitudes about breast cancer screening in a cross-sectional survey of low-income womenAnn Carroll Klassen
Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Int J Equity Health 7:5. 2008.... - Missing stage and grade in Maryland prostate cancer surveillance data, 1992-1997Ann C Klassen
Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Prev Med 30:S77-87. 2006..Two clinical elements often missing in surveillance data are histologic grade and stage of disease. Missing data are either not clinically ascertained or not successfully abstracted... - What can geography tell us about prostate cancer?Ann C Klassen
Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Prev Med 30:S7-15. 2006..A model is presented for geographically integrated research in prostate cancer, with discussion of how spatially referenced data and methods could enhance approaches to answering remaining questions in prostate cancer... - How does social integration influence breast cancer control among urban African-American women? Results from a cross-sectional surveyAnn Carroll Klassen
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore MD, USA
BMC Womens Health 8:4. 2008.... - The role of area-level influences on prostate cancer grade and stage at diagnosisAnn C Klassen
Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Prev Med 39:441-8. 2004..This research explores area-level social influences on prostate cancer, to test whether area-level influences explain disparities in U.S. prostate cancer burden... - Mixed method approaches to understanding cancer-related dietary risk reduction among public housing residentsAnn C Klassen
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Urban Health 86:624-40. 2009..Qualitative analyses identified eight themes related to differences between dietary patterns. Findings reinforce the value of nonreductionist approaches to cancer-related nutrition intervention... - Opportunities for oral cancer screening among older African-American womenAnn C Klassen
Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Prev Med 37:499-506. 2003..Although older persons in low-income communities often lack regular dental care, little is known about the characteristics of groups at greatest risk for poor screening... - Relationship between patients' perceptions of disadvantage and discrimination and listing for kidney transplantationAnn C Klassen
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 92:811-7. 2002..This study explored wait-listing decisions among African American and White men and women eligible for kidney transplants, focusing on lifetime experiences of race and sex discrimination as a possible influence... - If we gave away mammograms, who would get them? A neighborhood evaluation of a no-cost breast cancer screening programAnn C Klassen
School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Prev Med 34:13-21. 2002..We conducted a case-control study of African American older women in East Baltimore, Maryland, comparing attendees at a no-cost program to friends and neighbors not using no-cost venues... - The relationship of body size to participation and success in a fruits and vegetables intervention among low-income womenAnn C Klassen
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Community Health 33:78-89. 2008..Given the prevalence of obesity in low resource communities, nutritional interventions should tailor strategies to participant body size and related psychosocial needs... - Evaluation of a nutrition education intervention for women residents of Washington, DC, public housing communitiesSharada Shankar
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 610 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Educ Res 22:425-37. 2007..2 and 324.5 fewer calories and 3.08 and 2.97% fewer calories from fat. Results suggest that, for some residents of low-resource communities, small group interventions are popular, effective vehicles for nutrition education... - Use of pictures to facilitate nutrition education for low-income African American womenPeter S Houts
Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 38:317-8. 2006 - Using imputation to provide location information for nongeocoded addressesFrank C Curriero
Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e8998. 2010..This raises concerns regarding bias since traditionally the practice has been to exclude nongeocoded data records from analysis... - Predictors of regular Pap smears among Korean-American womenHee Soon Juon
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Prev Med 37:585-92. 2003..Many Korean-American women (KAW) are unaware of the importance of regular cancer screening. This research estimates rates and examines predictors of regular cervical cancer screening among KAW... - Pain and discomfort associated with mammography among urban low-income African-American womenMia A Papas
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Community Health 30:253-67. 2005..02). Most women reported discomfort; for some, this influenced intended adherence. Offering women the opportunity to control the amount of compression may reduce the pain associated with mammography and subsequently increase compliance... - Cultural values and secondary prevention of breast cancer in african american womenEllen Burke Beckjord
Cancer Prevention Fellowship and Behavioral Research Programs, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Cancer Control 15:63-71. 2008..Improving mammography initiation and maintenance among African American women has been suggested as a strategy for reducing breast cancer mortality in this population... - The modifying effect of social class on the relationship between body mass index and breast cancer incidenceCeleste Marie Torio
Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Public Health 100:146-51. 2010..We sought to determine whether social class modifies the effect of BMI on breast cancer incidence... - "I come from a black-eyed pea background": the incorporation of history into women's discussions of diet and healthKatherine Clegg Smith
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Ecol Food Nutr 51:79-96. 2012..We conclude that in these groups, nostalgic presentations of life-course experiences and personal identity were meaningful anchors for explaining current behaviors... - Print news coverage of cancer: what prevention messages are conveyed when screening is newsworthy?Katherine Clegg Smith
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Cancer Epidemiol 34:434-41. 2010.... - Characteristics of prepared food sources in low-income neighborhoods of Baltimore CitySeung Hee Lee
Center for Human Nutrition, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2179, USA
Ecol Food Nutr 49:409-30. 2010..4%, 7.1%, and 33.9%, respectively). These findings suggest that carry-out-specific interventions are necessary to increase healthy food availability in low-income urban neighborhoods... - The healthy eating index and youth healthy eating index are unique, nonredundant measures of diet quality among low-income, African American adolescentsKristen M Hurley
Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Nutr 139:359-64. 2009.... - A problem solving approach to nutrition education and counselingHouts Peter
Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 38:254-8. 2006..Both research and clinical experience suggest that incorporating problem-solving techniques in nutrition education and counseling will increase long term change in nutrition behaviors... - A comparison of three comorbidity indexes in a head and neck cancer populationBritt C Reid
Department of Oral Health Care Delivery, School of Dentistry, Room 3E 04, University of Maryland, 666 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Oral Oncol 38:187-94. 2002..0001). Although the ATC index appears promising, the HNCA and Charlson indexes had similar adjusted RR's, dose-response patterns, P-values, and chi-square scores and appear particularly well-suited to the measurement of comorbidity...
Research Grants
- Validating Area-Level Behavioral Profiles for Cancer Disparities ResearchAnn Klassen; Fiscal Year: 2007....