Posttraumatic growth in patients who survived cardiac surgery: the predictive and mediating roles of faith-based factorsAmy L Ai
Florida State University, FL 2313, University Center Building C, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
J Behav Med 36:186-98. 2013
..The elimination of demographic effects may help explain previously mixed findings concerning the association between these factors and personal growth...
Overall health and health care utilization among Latino American men in the United StatesAmy L Ai
Florida State University, Tallahassee Florida, FL 32306, USA
Am J Mens Health 7:6-17. 2013
..For health providers, the authors' findings encourage awareness of subgroup differences regarding overall health issues of Latino American men to provide culturally appropriate care...
Correlates of hepatitis B virus and HIV knowledge among gay and bisexual homeless young adults in HollywoodAdeline Nyamathi
Florida State University, Tallahassee Florida, FL 32306, USA
Am J Mens Health 7:18-26. 2013
..As higher levels of knowledge of hepatitis was associated with more moderate drug use, early access to testing and teaching harm reduction strategies remain critical to reduce exposure and infection of HBV and HIV in this population...
Fatigue of survivors following cardiac surgery: positive influences of preoperative prayer copingAmy L Ai
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Br J Health Psychol 17:724-42. 2012
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Overall health and healthcare utilization among Latino American women in the United StatesAmy L Ai
College of Social Work and Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 21:878-85. 2012
..The purpose of this study was to examine the chronic conditions, behavioral-mental health and service utilization of Latino American women in the first epidemiologic survey in the United States...
Secular reverence predicts shorter hospital length of stay among middle-aged and older patients following open-heart surgeryAmy L Ai
School of Social Work and Department of Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Behav Med 34:532-41. 2011
..Secular reverence exerts a protective impact on physical health...
Long-term Adjustment After Surviving Open Heart Surgery: The Effect of Using Prayer for Coping Replicated in a Prospective DesignA L Ai
University of Pittsburgh, 2028 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Gerontologist 50:798-809. 2010
..The present study examines multifaceted effects of religious factors on long-term postoperative adjustment, extending our previous findings concerning prayer and coping with cardiac disease...
Depression following open-heart surgery: a path model involving interleukin-6, spiritual struggle, and hope under preoperative distressAmy L Ai
University of Pittsburg, USA
J Clin Psychol 66:1057-75. 2010
..Further, hope played a protective mediating role to moderate the undesirable influences of the spiritual struggle-IL-6 link and maladaptive coping on postoperative mental health attributes...
Comorbid mental health symptoms and heart diseases: can health care and mental health care professionals collaboratively improve the assessment and management?Amy L Ai
School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Health Soc Work 35:27-38. 2010
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Pathways to postoperative hostility in cardiac patients: mediation of coping, spiritual struggle and interleukin-6Amy Lee Ai
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 15260 PA, USA
J Health Psychol 15:186-95. 2010
..Anger coping mediated the harmful influence of anxiety and counteracted the protection of positive religious coping on adjustment...
Prayer and reverence in naturalistic, aesthetic, and socio-moral contexts predicted fewer complications following coronary artery bypassAmy L Ai
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Behav Med 32:570-81. 2009
..No interaction between demographics and faith factors was evident. The role of faith in medicine is complex and context-dependent. Future studies are needed on mediating factors...