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| LEIGH FLEMING CALLAHANSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Associations of educational attainment, occupation and community poverty with knee osteoarthritis in the Johnston County (North Carolina) osteoarthritis projectLeigh F Callahan
Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Department of Medicine, 3300 Thurston Building, CB 7280, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7330, USA
Arthritis Res Ther 13:R169. 2011..The purpose of this study was to examine data from the Johnston County Osteoarthritis (OA) Project for independent associations of educational attainment, occupation and community poverty with tibiofemoral knee OA...- Psychometric properties of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health-Related Quality of Life (CDC HRQOL) items in adults with arthritisThelma Mielenz
Thurston Arthritis Research Center, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 4:66. 2006..This study's purpose is to assess the psychometric properties of the 9-item CDC HRQOL (4-item Healthy Days Core Module and 5-item Healthy Days Symptoms Module) in an arthritis sample using the SF-36v2 as a comparison... - Association of IL4R single-nucleotide polymorphisms with rheumatoid nodules in African Americans with rheumatoid arthritisPaula I Burgos
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
Arthritis Res Ther 12:R75. 2010.... 
Medical skepticism and the use of complementary and alternative health care providers by patients followed by rheumatologistsLeigh F Callahan
Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7280, USA
J Clin Rheumatol 14:143-7. 2008..Our understanding of the determinants of use of complementary and alternative (CAM) providers is limited, especially in regard to medical skepticism (ie, doubt in the ability of conventional medical care to appreciably alter health status)...- Arthritis in the family practice setting: associations with education and community povertyLeigh F Callahan
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Thurston Arthritis Rsearch Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7280, USA
Arthritis Rheum 59:1002-8. 2008..To examine associations of self-reported arthritis in 25 urban and rural family practice clinics with education (individual socioeconomic status) and community poverty (community socioeconomic status)... - Health-related quality of life in adults from 17 family practice clinics in North CarolinaLeigh F Callahan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, 3300 Thurston Bldg, CB 7280, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7280, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 6:A05. 2009..We examined health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in white and African American patients based on their own and their community's socioeconomic status... - Use of complementary and alternative medicine among patients with arthritisLeigh F Callahan
Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7280, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 6:A44. 2009..This study was designed to provide detailed information about use of CAM for symptoms associated with arthritis in patients followed in primary care and specialty clinics in North Carolina... - Physical activity programs for chronic arthritisLeigh F Callahan
Departments of Medicine, Social Medicine and Orthopaedics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Curr Opin Rheumatol 21:177-82. 2009.... - Limited educational attainment and radiographic and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional analysis using data from the Johnston County (North Carolina) Osteoarthritis ProjectLeigh F Callahan
Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Department of Medicine, 3300 Thurston Building, CB 7280, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7330, USA
Arthritis Res Ther 12:R46. 2010.... - Independent and combined influence of homeownership, occupation, education, income, and community poverty on physical health in persons with arthritisLeigh F Callahan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 63:643-53. 2011..To examine the independent and combined influence of individual- and community-level socioeconomic status (SES) measures on physical health status outcomes in people with self-reported arthritis... 
Independent and combined influence of homeownership, occupation, education, income, and community poverty on physical health in persons with arthritisLeigh F Callahan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 63:643-53. 2011..To examine the independent and combined influence of individual- and community-level socioeconomic status (SES) measures on physical health status outcomes in people with self-reported arthritis...- Evaluation of group and self-directed formats of the Arthritis Foundation's Walk With Ease ProgramLeigh F Callahan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, 3300 Thurston Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 63:1098-107. 2011..To evaluate the effects of a revised 6-week walking program for adults with arthritis, Walk With Ease (WWE), delivered in 2 formats, instructor-led group or self-directed... - Arthritis and its impact: challenges and opportunities for treatment, public health, and public policyLeigh F Callahan
Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599, USA
N C Med J 68:415-21. 2007 - A randomized controlled trial of the people with arthritis can exercise program: symptoms, function, physical activity, and psychosocial outcomesLeigh F Callahan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Thurston Arthritis Research Center 27599 7280, USA
Arthritis Rheum 59:92-101. 2008..To evaluate the basic 8-week People with Arthritis Can Exercise (PACE) program for improvements in primary (symptoms, functioning, level of physical activity) and secondary (psychosocial) outcomes... - Social epidemiology and rheumatic diseaseLeigh F Callahan
Orthopaedics, Medicine and Social Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599, USA
Curr Opin Rheumatol 15:110-5. 2003..Development of effective prevention strategies will require (1) precise recognition of individual and community variables that are associated with health outcomes and (2) evaluation of the putative mediating mechanisms... - Modifications to the Active Living Every Day (ALED) course for adults with arthritisLeigh F Callahan
3300 Thurston Building CB7280, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 E mail
Prev Chronic Dis 4:A58. 2007.... - Performance of a generic health-related quality of life measure in a clinic population with rheumatic diseaseShannon S Currey
Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Arthritis Rheum 49:658-64. 2003..CONCLUSION: The BRFSS HRQOL measure is a brief, easily administered, generic health indicator that shows differences among rheumatic disease diagnoses... - Use of the Trust in Physician Scale in patients with rheumatic disease: psychometric properties and correlates of trust in the rheumatologistJanet K Freburger
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7590, USA
Arthritis Rheum 49:51-8. 2003..To assess the psychometric properties of the Trust in Physician Scale and to identify variables associated with patients' trust in their rheumatologist... - First item response theory analysis on Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (fear of movement) in arthritisThelma J Mielenz
Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7280, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 63:315-20. 2010..To conduct the initial modern measurement theory analyses because of its many advantages on the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia and emerging evidence suggesting that fear of movement influences functional disability in people with arthritis... - Identifying supports and barriers to physical activity in patients at risk for diabetesKatrina E Donahue
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Family Medicine, Campus Box 7595 Manning Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 3:A119. 2006.... - Prevalence of hip symptoms and radiographic and symptomatic hip osteoarthritis in African Americans and Caucasians: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis ProjectJoanne M Jordan
Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7280, 3300 Thurston Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7280, USA
J Rheumatol 36:809-15. 2009..To report contemporary estimates of the prevalence of hip-related osteoarthritis (OA) outcomes in African Americans and Caucasians aged>or=45 years... - Survey of osteoporosis preventive care in community family medicine settingsMargaret L Gourlay
Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7595, USA
Fam Med 38:724-30. 2006..This study's objective was to document and describe osteoporosis preventive care for women age 45 years and older in community family medicine practices... - Prevalence of knee symptoms and radiographic and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis in African Americans and Caucasians: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis ProjectJoanne M Jordan
Thurston Arthritis Research Center and Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7280, USA
J Rheumatol 34:172-80. 2007..To report contemporary estimates of the prevalence of knee-related osteoarthritis (OA) outcomes in African Americans and Caucasians aged > or = 45 years... - Racial disparities in health between white and African American family practice patients: clinical implicationsRemy R Coeytaux
Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7595, USA
N C Med J 65:330-4. 2004..To identify differences in self-reported health status and prevalence of chronic disease between African American and white patients... - Osteoporosis preventive care in white and black women in community family medicine settingsMargaret L Gourlay
Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7595, USA
South Med J 100:677-82. 2007..Osteoporosis has been studied predominantly in white postmenopausal women... - Community and environmental factors and arthritis outcomesJoanne M Jordan
Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil 27599, USA
N C Med J 68:439-43. 2007 - Arthritis patients' perceptions of rheumatologists' participatory decision-making style and communication about complementary and alternative medicineBetsy Sleath
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7590, USA
Arthritis Rheum 59:416-21. 2008.... - Use of conventional and nonconventional treatments for osteoarthritis in the family medicine settingBetsy Sleath
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7590, USA
South Med J 101:252-9. 2008.... - Associations of perceived neighborhood environment on health status outcomes in persons with arthritisKathryn Remmes Martin
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 62:1602-11. 2010.... - Clues on the MDHAQ to identify patients with fibromyalgia and similar chronic pain conditionsTheodore Pincus
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10003, USA
Rheum Dis Clin North Am 35:865-9, xii. 2009..Data from the MDHAQ provide clues to the presence of fibromyalgia/chronic pain conditions, including patients with inflammatory diseases who also have concomitant fibromyalgia/chronic pain conditions... - The People with Arthritis Can Exercise (PACE) program: a qualitative evaluation of participant satisfactionBritta Schoster
Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7280, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 2:A11. 2005..CONCLUSION: This study suggests that a group exercise program for older adults with arthritis promotes a sense of social support and increases self-efficacy for exercise by allowing participants to work at their own pace... - Early-onset arthritis in retired National Football League playersYvonne M Golightly
Dept of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
J Phys Act Health 6:638-43. 2009..The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence and determinants of arthritis and osteoarthritis in retired professional football players... - Patient questionnaires and formal education level as prospective predictors of mortality over 10 years in 97% of 1416 patients with rheumatoid arthritis from 15 United States private practicesTheodore Pincus
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-4500, USA
J Rheumatol 31:229-34. 2004..This study shows that it is possible to account for more than 95% of patients over 10 years using mailed questionnaires to monitor patient status... - Perceived barriers to physical activity among North Carolinians with arthritis: findings from a mixed-methodology approachKathryn Remmes Martin
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599, USA
N C Med J 68:404-12. 2007..A goal of the North Carolina Arthritis Plan is to reduce arthritis burden through regular physical activity. We identified community and personal factors that influence physical activity in individuals with arthritis... - A Standard Protocol to Evaluate Rheumatoid Arthritis (SPERA) for efficient capture of essential data from a patient and a health professional in a uniform "scientific" formatTheodore Pincus
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York University School of Medicine, 301 East 17th Street, Room 1608, New York, NY 10003, USA
Rheum Dis Clin North Am 35:843-50, xi. 2009..The SPERA is presented as an example of a possible approach to develop a uniform common format for collecting core data in usual clinical care... - Factors associated with potential medication-herb/natural product interactions in a rural communitySusan J Blalock
Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Altern Ther Health Med 15:26-34. 2009..Use of both conventional medicines and herbs/natural products are increasing in the United States. Consequently, individuals are more likely to be exposed to potentially harmful interactions between these products... - Criterion contamination of depression scales in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the need for interpretation of patient questionnaires (as all clinical measures) in the context of all information about the patientTheodore Pincus
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York University School of Medicine, 301 East 17th Street, Room 1608, New York, NY 10003, USA
Rheum Dis Clin North Am 35:861-4, xi-xii. 2009..The BDI was revised in 1996, as the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), to eliminate the items reflecting somatic disease... - A randomized, controlled trial of acupuncture for chronic daily headacheRemy R Coeytaux
UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC27599-7595, USA
Headache 45:1113-23. 2005..Supplementing medical management with acupuncture, however, resulted in improvements in health-related QoL and the perception by patients that they suffered less from headaches...
Research Grants
- Individual & Community Social Determinants of Osteoarthritis OutcomesLeigh Callahan; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Individual & Community Social Determinants of Osteoarthritis OutcomesLEIGH FLEMING CALLAHAN; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Social Determinants of Outcomes in African Americans with Rheumatoid ArthritisLEIGH FLEMING CALLAHAN; Fiscal Year: 2010..A better understanding of these issues will provide an invaluable foundation for designing clinical interventions and creating policies to reduce these gaps. ..