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| Frances K BargSummaryAffiliation: University of Pennsylvania Country: USA Publications
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Perceptions of changes in weight among African American breast cancer survivorsBenita Weathers
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Psychooncology 15:174-9. 2006..Several themes emerged regarding physical activity and dietary behaviors; overall, participants described a holistic and practical approach to these behaviors...
Qualitative analysis of peer coaches' experiences with counseling African Americans about reducing heart disease riskFrances K Barg
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:167-72. 2012..Despite mounting evidence that peer coaches can make significant contributions to patient health, little is known about factors that must be addressed to engage and retain them in their role...- When late-life depression improves: what do older patients say about their treatment?Frances K Barg
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 18:596-605. 2010.... - A mixed-methods approach to understanding loneliness and depression in older adultsFrances K Barg
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, 2 Gates Building, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:S329-39. 2006.... - Unmet psychosocial needs of Pennsylvanians with cancer: 1986-2005Frances K Barg
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Cancer 110:631-9. 2007..The purpose of the current study was to identify unmet psychosocial needs of cancer survivors, understand the distribution of needs across subgroups, and compare unmet needs in 2005 with those identified by Houts et al. in 1986... - Understanding participation by African Americans in cancer genetics researchJasmine A McDonald
Center for Community Based Research and Health Disparities, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 104:324-30. 2012..Achieving this goal will be limited by low rates of African American participation in cancer genetics research... 
Patients' and caregivers' beliefs about depression screening and referral in the emergency departmentMegan E Pailler
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 25:721-7. 2009....- Using a mixed-methods approach to identify health concerns in an African American communityBenita Weathers
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Am J Public Health 101:2087-92. 2011.... - Cancer-related information seeking and scanning behavior of older Vietnamese immigrantsGiang T Nguyen
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Health Commun 15:754-68. 2010..Knowledge of SSB patterns among linguistically isolated communities is essential for efficient dissemination of cancer information to these at-risk communities... - Cancer survivors with unmet needs were more likely to use complementary and alternative medicineJun J Mao
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Cancer Surviv 2:116-24. 2008..This study aims to determine the relationship between patients' perceived UMN and their use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to help with cancer problems during and after treatment... - Using freelisting to understand shared decision making in ADHD: parents' and pediatricians' perspectivesAlexander G Fiks
The Pediatric Research Consortium, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Patient Educ Couns 84:236-44. 2011..To compare and contrast notions of ADHD among pediatricians and parents of affected children to understand the perspectives they bring to shared decision making (SDM)... - Donation intentions for cancer genetics research among African AmericansJasmine A McDonald
Center for Community Based Research and Health Disparities, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Genet Test Mol Biomarkers 16:252-8. 2012.... - Older patients' views on the relationship between depression and heart diseaseHillary R Bogner
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Fam Med 40:652-7. 2008.... - Cultural, economic, and psychological predictors of colonoscopy in a national sampleChanita Hughes Halbert
Department of Psychiatry, Center for Community Based Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:1311-6. 2011.... - Positive changes, increased spiritual importance, and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use among cancer survivorsJun J Mao
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Integr Cancer Ther 9:339-47. 2010.... - The terrible choice: re-evaluating hospice eligibility criteria for cancerDavid J Casarett
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Clin Oncol 27:953-9. 2009..Our goal was to determine whether willingness to make this choice identifies patients with greater need for hospice services... - How older adults combine medical and experiential notions of depressionMarsha N Wittink
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Qual Health Res 18:1174-83. 2008.... - Attitudes regarding the etiology and treatment of depression in Parkinson's disease: a qualitative studyKatherine Oehlberg
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 2676, USA
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 21:123-32. 2008..This preliminary study suggests that many PD patients with clinically significant depressive symptoms attribute their depression to psychosocial factors and endorse nonpharmacologic treatment approaches... - Adolescent depression: views of health care providers in a pediatric emergency departmentPeter F Cronholm
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 26:111-7. 2010..Our objectives were to describe health care providers' perspectives on adolescent depression and the role of depression screening in the PED... - Taste alteration in breast cancer patients treated with taxane chemotherapy: experience, effect, and coping strategiesRebecca M Speck
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1121A Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
Support Care Cancer 21:549-55. 2013..This study examined the experience and coping strategies for taste alteration in female breast cancer patients treated with docetaxel or paclitaxel... - Criticisms of chlorination: social determinants of drinking water beliefs and practices among the Tz'utujil MayaJason M Nagata
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Rev Panam Salud Publica 29:9-16. 2011.... - Coca-colonization and hybridization of diets among the Tz'utujil MayaJason M Nagata
Health and Societies Program, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Ecol Food Nutr 50:297-318. 2011.... - Student attitudes: potential barriers to implementing a community medicine field activityPeter F Cronholm
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Fam Med 41:22-7. 2009..Our objective was to assess medical students' attitudes following implementation of a community medicine experience in their clerkship year... - Losing faith and using faith: older African Americans discuss spirituality, religious activities, and depressionMarsha N Wittink
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, 2 Gates Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:402-7. 2009.... - Older patients' aversion to antidepressants. A qualitative studyJane L Givens
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:146-51. 2006..Depression is common among older patients yet is often inadequately treated. Patient beliefs about antidepressants are known to affect treatment initiation and adherence, but are often not expressed in clinical settings... - Willingness to pay for emergency referral transport in a developing setting: a geographically randomized studySourav K Bose
Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:793-800. 2012..The objective was to identify the correlates of willingness to pay for ambulance transports from a rural city to a regional hospital in Guatemala... - Seen through their eyes: residents' reflections on the cognitive and contextual components of diagnostic errors in medicineAlexis R Ogdie
Division of Rheumatology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Acad Med 87:1361-7. 2012..The authors explored the cognitive and contextual components of diagnostic errors described by internal medicine resident physicians through the use of an educational intervention... - Unwritten rules of talking to doctors about depression: integrating qualitative and quantitative methodsMarsha N Wittink
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:302-9. 2006..We wanted to understand concordance and discordance between physicians and patients about depression status by assessing older patient's views of interactions with their physicians... - Feasibility and effects of a Web-based adolescent psychiatric assessment administered by clinical staff in the pediatric emergency departmentJoel A Fein
Division of Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3501 Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:1112-7. 2010.... - More than just a communication medium: what older adults say about television and depressionGiang T Nguyen
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Gerontologist 48:300-10. 2008..Older adults watch more television than younger people do. Television's role in mental health has been described in the general population, but less is known about how older adults think of television in the context of depression... - "You don't want to burden them": older adults' views on family involvement in careEileen Cahill
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA
J Fam Nurs 15:295-317. 2009..The expression and meaning of burden differed according to ethnicity. This study has implications for practice and policies to meet the needs of families and promote the independence of older persons... - Differences in cultural beliefs and values among African American and European American men with prostate cancerChanita Hughes Halbert
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Cancer Control 14:277-84. 2007..This study evaluated differences in cultural values related to religiosity, temporal orientation, and collectivism among African American and European American men... - Assessing attitudes about emergency contraception among urban, minority adolescent girls: an in-depth interview studyCynthia J Mollen
Division of Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 122:e395-401. 2008..The purpose of this work was to explore the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of urban, minority adolescent girls about intention to use emergency contraception pills and to identify barriers to emergency contraception pill use... - Scope of symptoms and self-management strategies for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in breast cancer patientsRebecca M Speck
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Support Care Cancer 20:2433-9. 2012..We also examined the variety of taxane-related side effects in women with and without CIPN in order to discriminate the CIPN symptom experience... - How women conceptualize urinary incontinence: a cultural modelChristine Bradway
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 19:1533-41. 2010..Cultural models theory provided the overall framework for the study... - Cancer and communication in the health care setting: experiences of older Vietnamese immigrants, a qualitative studyGiang T Nguyen
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:45-50. 2008..As patients grow older, accurate communication with health care providers about cancer becomes increasingly important. However, little is known about the cancer communication experiences of older Asian immigrants... - Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about emergency contraception: a survey of female adolescents seeking care in the emergency departmentCynthia J Mollen
From the Division of Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia Department of Pediatrics, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Division of Emergency Medical Services, Children s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO and Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Pediatr Emerg Care 29:469-74. 2013..We hypothesized that knowledge about EC would be limited, but that adolescents would support using EC in certain situations... - Team composition and perceived roles of team members in the trauma bayRebecca M Speck
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Trauma Nurs 19:133-8. 2012..Inconsistencies in trauma team role definition and membership should be addressed, toward the goal of improving team communication and patient outcomes... - Barriers to evaluation for early intervention services: parent and early intervention employee perspectivesManuel E Jimenez
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Acad Pediatr 12:551-7. 2012..To explore barriers to early intervention (EI) evaluation among referred infants and toddlers... - Contrasting parents' and pediatricians' perspectives on shared decision-making in ADHDAlexander G Fiks
Pediatric Research Consortium, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3535 Market St, Room 1546, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 127:e188-96. 2011..The goal was to compare how parents and clinicians understand shared decision-making (SDM) in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a prototype for SDM in pediatrics... - A gain in cultural competence through an international acupuncture electiveJun J Mao
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Fam Med 39:16-8. 2007..This study describes an international acupuncture elective and its impact on medical students' development of cultural competence... - "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps": a response to depression in older adultsJulia F Switzer
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Qual Health Res 16:1207-16. 2006..This attitude might be rooted in the cultural experiences of this particular cohort of older adults and has implications for their use of physical and mental health services for depression... - Body mass index, socio-economic status and socio-behavioral practices among Tz'utujil Maya womenJason M Nagata
Health and Societies Program, Department of History and Sociology of Science, 249 South 36th Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
Econ Hum Biol 7:96-106. 2009..These themes help to explain how SES, socio-behavioral practices and BMI are positively associated and can inform future public health interventions related to obesity and undernutrition... - What Latino Puerto Ricans and non-Latinos say when they talk about Alzheimer's diseaseJason Karlawish
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Alzheimers Dement 7:161-70. 2011..To discover whether Latino Puerto Rican and non-Latino communities differ in the words they use to talk about Alzheimer's disease (AD)... - How should we design supportive cancer care? The patient's perspectiveDavid Casarett
University of Pennsylvania, 3615 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:1296-301. 2008..Although so-called open-access hospice programs and bridge programs are beginning to offer these services to patients who are still receiving treatment, it is not known whether they best meet patients' needs... - Patterns and determinants of inappropriate antibiotic use in injection drug usersJoanna L Starrels
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:263-9. 2009..Inappropriate antibiotic use contributes to the emergence and spread of drug resistant infections. Though injection drug users are at increased risk for drug resistant infections, few studies have examined antibiotic use in this population... - Social determinants of iron supplementation among women of reproductive age: a systematic review of qualitative dataJason M Nagata
School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94122, USA
Matern Child Nutr 8:1-18. 2012..Connecting review findings to a conceptual framework of social determinants of health highlights salient issues that policy makers must consider when adapting global iron supplementation recommendations to the local context... - Creating demand for prescription drugs: a content analysis of television direct-to-consumer advertisingDominick L Frosch
Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Ann Fam Med 5:6-13. 2007..This information is important, because ads may not meet their educational potential, possibly prompting consumers to request prescriptions that are clinically inappropriate or more expensive than equally effective alternatives... - Examining the dimensions of cancer-related information seeking and scanning behaviorJeff Niederdeppe
Department of Population Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53726, USA
Health Commun 22:153-67. 2007..These findings shed new light on how individuals navigate the media environment and suggest future research should examine predictors and effects of less purposeful efforts to obtain cancer-related information...