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| Robert J VolkSummaryAffiliation: Baylor College of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Entertainment education for prostate cancer screening: a randomized trial among primary care patients with low health literacyRobert J Volk
Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Houston Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, Baylor College of Medicine, United States
Patient Educ Couns 73:482-9. 2008..To evaluate an entertainment-based patient decision aid for prostate cancer screening among patients with low or high health literacy...
Trials of decision aids for prostate cancer screening: a systematic reviewRobert J Volk
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 3701 Kirby Drive, Houston, TX 77098, USA
Am J Prev Med 33:428-434. 2007..Patient decision aids are used to promote informed decision making. This review examines the methods and findings of studies that have evaluated the impact of prostate cancer screening decision aids on patient outcomes...
Entertainment education for breast cancer surgery decisions: a randomized trial among patients with low health literacyMaria L Jibaja-Weiss
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77098, USA
Patient Educ Couns 84:41-8. 2011..To evaluate an entertainment-based patient decision aid for early stage breast cancer surgery in low health literacy patients...- Entertainment education for informed breast cancer treatment decisions in low-literate women: development and initial evaluation of a patient decision aidMaria L Jibaja-Weiss
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77098, USA
J Cancer Educ 21:133-9. 2006.... - Is a prostate cancer screening anxiety measure invariant across two different samples of age-appropriate men?Suzanne K Linder
Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 12:52. 2012.... - Primary care physicians' reported use of pre-screening discussions for prostate cancer screening: a cross-sectional surveySuzanne K Linder
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
BMC Fam Pract 10:19. 2009..The aim of this study is to explore physicians' use of pre-screening discussions and reasons why physicians would or would not try to persuade patients to be screened if they initially refuse testing... - Beyond shared decision making: an expanded typology of medical decisionsSimon N Whitney
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, Houston, TX 77098 3926, USA
Med Decis Making 28:699-705. 2008..Conflict resolution requires acknowledging the potential for conflict... - Utilizing computerized entertainment education in the development of decision aids for lower literate and naïve computer usersMaria L Jibaja-Weiss
Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Houston Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77098, USA
J Health Commun 12:681-97. 2007..Entertainment education may be a highly effective approach to promoting informed decision making for patients with low health literacy... - Validity of a low literacy version of the Decisional Conflict ScaleSuzanne K Linder
Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Patient Educ Couns 85:521-4. 2011..To evaluate the psychometric properties of the 4-factor low literacy Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS-LL) with men eligible for prostate cancer screening (PCS)... - Preliminary testing of a just-in-time, user-defined values clarification exercise to aid lower literate women in making informed breast cancer treatment decisionsMaria L Jibaja-Weiss
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77098, USA
Health Expect 9:218-31. 2006..To report on the initial testing of a values clarification exercise utilizing a jewellery box within a computerized patient decision aid (CPtDA) designed to assist women in making a surgical breast cancer treatment decision... - A community-based intervention to promote informed decision making for prostate cancer screening among Hispanic American men changed knowledge and role preferences: a cluster RCTEvelyn C Y Chan
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Patient Educ Couns 84:e44-51. 2011..We assessed the short-term effects of a community-based intervention for Hispanic men to encourage informed decision making (IDM) about prostate cancer screening with prostate specific antigen (PSA)... - Factors associated with herbal use among urban multiethnic primary care patients: a cross-sectional surveyGrace M Kuo
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
BMC Complement Altern Med 4:18. 2004..The secondary objective was to investigate perceptions about and patterns of herbal use... - Are pregnant adolescents stigmatized by pregnancy?Constance M Wiemann
Section of Adolescent Medicine and Sports Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
J Adolesc Health 36:352.e1-8. 2005..To identify prevalence and correlates, including substance use and exposure to violence, of feeling stigmatized by being pregnant as an adolescent... - Patient education for informed decision making about prostate cancer screening: a randomized controlled trial with 1-year follow-upRobert J Volk
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex 77098 3915, USA
Ann Fam Med 1:22-8. 2003..We evaluated the effect of a videotape decision aid on promoting informed decision making about prostate cancer screening among primary care patients... - Preferences of husbands and wives for outcomes of prostate cancer screening and treatmentRobert J Volk
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77098 3915, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:339-48. 2004..To explore the preferences of male primary care patients and their spouses for the outcomes of prostate cancer screening and treatment, and quality of life with metastatic prostate cancer... - Impact of educational and patient decision aids on decisional conflict associated with total knee arthroplastySofia de Achaval
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 64:229-37. 2012..To examine the impact of a videobooklet patient decision aid supplemented by an interactive values clarification exercise on decisional conflict in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) considering total knee arthroplasty... - Psychological benefits of prostate cancer screening: the role of reassuranceScott B Cantor
Section of Health Services Research, Department of Biostatistics, M D Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Health Expect 5:104-13. 2002..The role of reassurance in decision-making about screening for health problems is largely unknown. We examined the reassurance value of prostate cancer screening in primary care patients... - Beyond breaking bad news: the roles of hope and hopefulnessSimon N Whitney
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77098 3926, USA
Cancer 113:442-5. 2008..Hope is important to patients, yet physicians are sometimes unsure how to promote hope in the face of life-threatening illness... - Management of type 2 diabetes in the primary care setting: a practice-based research network studyStephen J Spann
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex 77098 3926, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:23-31. 2006..We wanted to describe how primary care clinicians care for patients with type 2 diabetes... - Principal investigator views of the IRB systemSimon N Whitney
Department of Family, Community Medicine, Houston Center for Education, Research on Therapeutics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77098 3926, USA
Int J Med Sci 5:68-72. 2008..Significant concern was expressed about the cost, inefficiency, and irrationality of IRB review. The IRB system works well for some researchers, but our results indicate that other investigators feel the costs outweigh the benefits... - Association of spirituality and sobriety during a behavioral spirituality intervention for Twelve Step (TS) recoveryAnthony E Brown
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77098, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 33:611-7. 2007..These findings encourage a controlled trial to determine if this work has efficacy for practitioners in substance abuse treatment... - Tailored messages for breast and cervical cancer screening of low-income and minority women using medical records dataMaria L Jibaja-Weiss
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 5615 Kirby Drive, Suite 610, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Patient Educ Couns 50:123-32. 2003.... - Multilevel predictors of inconsistent condom use among adolescent mothersBethanie S Van Horne
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Adolescent Medicine and Sports Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 6621 Fannin Street, Mail Station CC610 01, Houston, TX 77030 2399, USA
Am J Public Health 99:S417-24. 2009..We used Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory to identify factors that predicted never or sometimes using condoms in a multiethnic cohort of adolescent mothers... - Adherence to diabetes self-care behaviors in English- and Spanish-speaking Hispanic menLuis O Rustveld
Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Patient Prefer Adherence 3:123-30. 2009..Educational and counseling messages should stress that a diagnosis of diabetes is not a death sentence, and full functional capacity can be maintained with good control... - The accuracy of primary care patients' self-reports of prostate-specific antigen testingRobert J Volk
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Am J Prev Med 22:56-8. 2002..The accuracy of reports made by male primary care patients of previous screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) assay is important for clinical practice, surveillance, and research... - Design and validation of the Health Professionals' Attitudes Toward the Homeless Inventory (HPATHI)David S Buck
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
BMC Med Educ 5:2. 2005.... - Preferences for colorectal cancer screening among racially/ethnically diverse primary care patientsSarah T Hawley
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Med Care 46:S10-6. 2008..This study used conjoint analysis to describe variation in CRC screening preferences among racially/ethnically diverse primary care patients... - Differential effects of messages for breast and cervical cancer screeningMaria L Jibaja-Weiss
J Health Care Poor Underserved 16:42-52. 2005.... - Exploring beliefs about prostate cancer and early detection in men and women of three ethnic groupsStephanie L McFall
School of Public Health, San Antonio Regional Campus, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, 78229, USA
Patient Educ Couns 61:109-16. 2006..To compare beliefs across three racial/ethnic categories concerning prostate cancer etiology and risk, screening routines, and shared decision-making, we conducted 12 focus groups... - AUDIT-C as a brief screen for alcohol misuse in primary careKatharine A Bradley
Health Services Research and Development, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:1208-17. 2007..However, the AUDIT-C's validity and optimal screening threshold(s) in other clinical populations are unknown... - Effectiveness of the AUDIT-C as a screening test for alcohol misuse in three race/ethnic groupsDanielle Frank
VA Puget Sound Health Services Research and Development, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:781-7. 2008..However, the AUDIT-C was validated in predominantly White populations, and its performance in different racial/ethnic groups is unclear...