Melanie Jay

Summary

Affiliation: New York University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Do internists, pediatricians, and psychiatrists feel competent in obesity care?: using a needs assessment to drive curriculum design
    Melanie Jay
    Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 23:1066-70. 2008
  2. ncbi A randomized trial of a brief multimedia intervention to improve comprehension of food labels
    Melanie Jay
    Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, 10010, USA
    Prev Med 48:25-31. 2009
  3. ncbi Physicians' attitudes about obesity and their associations with competency and specialty: a cross-sectional study
    Melanie Jay
    Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    BMC Health Serv Res 9:106. 2009
  4. ncbi Physicians' use of the 5As in counseling obese patients: is the quality of counseling associated with patients' motivation and intention to lose weight?
    Melanie Jay
    New York University School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    BMC Health Serv Res 10:159. 2010
  5. ncbi From the patient's perspective: the impact of training on resident physician's obesity counseling
    Melanie Jay
    Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, VA New York Harbor, 423 E 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 25:415-22. 2010
  6. ncbi How medical students' behaviors and attitudes affect the impact of a brief curriculum on nutrition counseling
    Sheira Schlair
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
    J Nutr Educ Behav 44:653-7. 2012

Detail Information

Publications6

  1. ncbi Do internists, pediatricians, and psychiatrists feel competent in obesity care?: using a needs assessment to drive curriculum design
    Melanie Jay
    Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 23:1066-70. 2008
    ..Physicians must effectively evaluate and treat obesity. To design a needs-driven curriculum intended to improve patient outcomes, physicians were surveyed about their self-perceived knowledge and skills...
  2. ncbi A randomized trial of a brief multimedia intervention to improve comprehension of food labels
    Melanie Jay
    Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, 10010, USA
    Prev Med 48:25-31. 2009
    ..Previous studies suggest lack of comprehension of food labels. We studied a multimedia intervention to improve food label comprehension in a sample of low income patients in New York City...
  3. ncbi Physicians' attitudes about obesity and their associations with competency and specialty: a cross-sectional study
    Melanie Jay
    Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    BMC Health Serv Res 9:106. 2009
    ....
  4. ncbi Physicians' use of the 5As in counseling obese patients: is the quality of counseling associated with patients' motivation and intention to lose weight?
    Melanie Jay
    New York University School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    BMC Health Serv Res 10:159. 2010
    ..We sought to describe the quality of physicians' obesity counseling and to determine associations between the quality of counseling and obese patients' motivation and intentions to lose weight, key predictors of behavior change...
  5. ncbi From the patient's perspective: the impact of training on resident physician's obesity counseling
    Melanie Jay
    Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, VA New York Harbor, 423 E 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 25:415-22. 2010
    ..It is uncertain whether training improves physicians' obesity counseling...
  6. ncbi How medical students' behaviors and attitudes affect the impact of a brief curriculum on nutrition counseling
    Sheira Schlair
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
    J Nutr Educ Behav 44:653-7. 2012
    ..To evaluate a nutrition curriculum and explore the influence of medical students' own nutrition practices on its impact...