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| Giselle Corbie-SmithSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Influence of usual source of care on differences by race/ethnicity in receipt of preventive servicesGiselle Corbie-Smith
Departments of Social Medicine and Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7240, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:458-64. 2002..We examined the relation between race/ethnicity and receipt of preventive services and the effect of having a usual source of care (USOC) on receipt of preventive services in different racial and ethnic groups...- Relationships and communication in minority participation in research: multidimensional and multidirectionalGiselle Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7240, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 99:489-98. 2007..These relationships can both facilitate the recruitment process as well as aid in the interpretation of research findings... - Studying genetic research participants: lessons from the "Learning About Research in North Carolina" studyGiselle Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, 725 Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2019-24. 2008..In this article, we give an overview of the LeARN study, summarizing the methods we used, challenges we encountered, and lessons learned about recruiting participants who have previously participated in genetic research... 
Investigators' assessment of NIH mandated inclusion of women and minorities in researchGiselle M Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wing D, CB 7240, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 27:571-9. 2006..We describe investigators' assessment of the impact of the mandate on inclusion of women and minorities in research...
Development of an interinstitutional collaboration to support community-partnered research addressing the health of emerging Latino populationsGiselle Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Acad Med 85:728-35. 2010....- Project GRACE: a staged approach to development of a community-academic partnership to address HIV in rural African American communitiesGiselle Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Health Promot Pract 12:293-302. 2011..Careful attention to partnership development has resulted in a collaborative approach that has mutually benefited both the academic and community partners... - Closing the circle between minority inclusion in research and health disparitiesGiselle Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:1362-4. 2004 - Partnerships in health disparities research and the roles of pastors of black churches: potential conflict, synergy, and expectationsGiselle Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, Program on Health Disparities, Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North 725 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 102:823-31. 2010..The black church is a promising site to engage in health disparities research; however, little is understood about the pastors' perspectives. We used role theory to explore their expectations, potential conflicts, and synergy with research... - Interpretations of 'appropriate' minority inclusion in clinical researchGiselle Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
Am J Med 116:249-52. 2004..To expand scientific knowledge about the health of minority populations, investigators should be expected to state which goal they have selected and why that goal is appropriate as compared with other possible goals... - Minority recruitment and participation in health researchGiselle M Corbie-Smith
University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill, 27599-7240, USA
N C Med J 65:385-7. 2004 - Trust, benefit, satisfaction, and burden: a randomized controlled trial to reduce cancer risk through African-American churchesGiselle Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wing D CB 7240, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
J Gen Intern Med 18:531-41. 2003..Community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches that actively engage communities in a study are assumed to lead to relevant findings, trusting relationships, and greater satisfaction with the research process... - Adequacy of reporting race/ethnicity in clinical trials in areas of health disparitiesGiselle Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7240, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 56:416-20. 2003..Although federal initiatives mandate inclusion of minority groups in research, that inclusion has not translated to reporting of results that might guide therapeutic decisions... - Influence of race, clinical, and other socio-demographic features on trial participationGiselle Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wing D, Medical School, CB 7240, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 56:304-9. 2003..94-0.97), hysterectomy (OR 1.78, 95% CI 1.27-2.50), no cognitive impairment (OR 1.70, 95% CI 1.10-2.63), history of volunteerism (OR 1.62, 95% CI 1.02-2.63), and previous estrogen use (RR 1.58, 95% CI 1.08-2.30)... - Distrust, race, and researchGiselle Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7240, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:2458-63. 2002..Investigators have voiced concerns that distrust of research and the medical community impedes successful recruitment of African Americans into clinical research... - Conceptualizing race in researchGiselle Corbie-Smith
Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 100:1235-43. 2008..Given this continued controversy, we examined how investigators interpret the concept of "race" and whether their views of race are reflected in their published work... - Research expectations among African American church leaders in the PRAISE! project: a randomized trial guided by community-based participatory researchAlice Ammerman
Department of Nutrition, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1720-7. 2003..This study sought to examine the expectations and satisfaction of pastors and lay leaders regarding a research partnership in a randomized trial guided by community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods... - The role of public schools in HIV prevention: perspectives from African Americans in the rural SouthStacey W Lloyd
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 24:41-53. 2012..Policymakers, school administrators, and other stakeholders should consider the public school setting as a place to provide HIV prevention education for youth in rural areas... - Silent endurance and profound loneliness: socioemotional suffering in African Americans living with HIV in the rural southMargaret Shandor Miles
School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7460, USA
Qual Health Res 21:489-501. 2011..To improve the quality of life and health of PLWH, we cannot focus solely on the individual, but must also focus on the local community and society as a whole... - Community-based HIV clinical trials: an integrated approach in underserved, rural, minority communitiesGiselle Corbie-Smith
The Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Prog Community Health Partnersh 6:121-9. 2012..This illustrates the need for more innovation in attempts to engage underrepresented populations in calls for interdisciplinary and translational research... - Differences in access to outpatient medical care for black and white adults in the rural SouthDonald E Pathman
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7590, USA
Med Care 44:429-38. 2006.... - A conceptual model exploring the relationship between HIV stigma and implementing HIV clinical trials in rural communities of North CarolinaSohini Sengupta
Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Center for Faculty Excellence, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
N C Med J 71:113-22. 2010..This is the first study to develop a conceptual model exploring the relationship between HIV stigma and the implementation of HIV clinical trials in rural contexts to help improve participation in those trials... - Understanding social capital and HIV risk in rural African American communitiesCrystal W Cene
Department of Medicine, UNC Division of General Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 5034 Old Clinic Building, CB 7110, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7110, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:737-44. 2011..Theory-guided research examining how individual- and community-level factors influence health behaviors and contribute to disparities is needed... - Communication, decision making, and cancer: what African Americans want physicians to knowSharon W Williams
Department of Allied Health Sciences, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
J Palliat Med 11:1221-6. 2008..To explore and identify communication and decision making with health care providers for African Americans living with cancer and for their families... - The role of race and trust in tissue/blood donation for genetic researchJada Bussey-Jones
School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30331, USA
Genet Med 12:116-21. 2010.... - Developing a family-based diabetes program for Latino immigrants: do men and women face the same barriers?Andrea Cherrington
Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1717 11th Ave S, MT624, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA
Fam Community Health 34:280-90. 2011..Interventions aimed at improving diabetes self-management among US Latino immigrants should consider tailored approaches to help men and women overcome distinct barriers... - Masculinity, medical mistrust, and preventive health services delays among community-dwelling African-American menWizdom Powell Hammond
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7440, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:1300-8. 2010.... - "If I could in a small way help": motivations for and beliefs about sample donation for genetic researchMarsha Michie
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 8040, USA
J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics 6:57-70. 2011..Differences between African American and White perspectives were distinct from educational and other possible explanatory factors... - Great expectations: views of genetic research participants regarding current and future genetic studiesGail Henderson
Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7240, USA
Genet Med 10:193-200. 2008..We explored attitudes toward genetic research participation among people in a case-control genetic epidemiology study of colon cancer, the North Carolina Colorectal Cancer Study (NCCCS)... - Assessing the readiness of black churches to engage in health disparities researchMolly De Marco
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1700 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7426, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 103:960-7. 2011..Having a tool to evaluate church readiness to engage in research will inform targeted technical assistance and research projects that will strengthen church-academic partnerships and improve capacity to address health disparities... - Psychosocial factors associated with routine health examination scheduling and receipt among African American menWizdom Powell Hammond
Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7440 USA
J Natl Med Assoc 102:276-89. 2010..African American men often fail to obtain routine health examinations, which increases the probability of disease detection, yet little is known about psychosocial factors that motivate scheduling and receipt among this group... - Factors associated with decisions to undergo surgery among patients with newly diagnosed early-stage lung cancerSamuel Cykert
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
JAMA 303:2368-76. 2010..Patients who do not undergo surgery have a median survival of less than 1 year. Despite the survival disadvantage, many patients with early-stage disease do not receive surgical care and rates are even lower for black patients... - African American elders' perceptions of the influenza vaccine in Durham, North CarolinaSohini Sengupta
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Social Medicine, NC 27599 7240, USA
N C Med J 65:194-9. 2004..To qualitatively explore community perceptions among elderly African Americans about what makes it easy or difficult to get vaccinated for influenza... - Public willingness to participate in and public opinions about genetic variation research: a review of the literatureRene Sterling
School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7240, USA
Am J Public Health 96:1971-8. 2006..We review empirical studies of public willingness to participate in and opinions about genetic research with particular attention to differences in consent and opinion by racial/ethnic group membership... - Intervention mapping as a participatory approach to developing an HIV prevention intervention in rural African American communitiesGiselle Corbie-Smith
Project GRACE, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 22:184-202. 2010..Through the IM process, all collaborators agreed that we needed a family-based intervention involving youth and their caregivers. We found that the structured approach of IM can be adapted to incorporate the principles of CBPR... - Social isolation, vital exhaustion, and incident heart failure: findings from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities StudyCrystal W Cene
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Eur J Heart Fail 14:748-53. 2012..g. retirement or bereavement). We prospectively examined whether individuals with higher vs. low social isolation have a higher incidence of HF and determined whether this association is mediated by vital exhaustion... - Acceptability of a mobile health unit for rural HIV clinical trial enrollment and participationMalika Roman Isler
NC TraCS Institute Community Engagement Core, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 160 N Medical Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
AIDS Behav 16:1895-901. 2012..Under these conditions, MHUs can service rural locations and overcome geographic barriers to reaching major medical centers for clinical trials... - A conceptual framework for Hispanic oral health careGloria C Mejia
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
J Public Health Dent 68:1-6. 2008..A thorough consideration of the factors that drive Hispanics' oral health care usage will aid US researchers and practitioners in improving this population's health and access to care... - Examining knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about depression among Latino adults with type 2 diabetesAndrea Cherrington
MPH, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, CB 7590, 725 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7590, USA
Diabetes Educ 32:603-13. 2006..The purpose of this study was to explore knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about depression among Latinos with type 2 diabetes... - Practical steps to community engaged research: from inputs to outcomesMalika Roman Isler
UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, NC, USA
J Law Med Ethics 40:904-14. 2012..Using a relationship paradigm, CEnR reframes the context, considerations, practical steps, and outcomes of research... 
Risk of cardiovascular events and death--does insurance matter?Angela Fowler-Brown
Division of General Medicine and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:502-7. 2007..Many Americans lack health insurance. Despite good evidence that lack of insurance compromises access to care, few prospective studies examine its relationship to health outcomes...- African American patients' perspectives on medical decision makingAlexia M Torke
Division of General Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:525-30. 2004..We sought to describe the perspectives of older African American patients in a primary care clinic as they consider a medical decision... - Participation in research studies: factors associated with failing to meet minority recruitment goalsRaegan W Durant
University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Ann Epidemiol 17:634-42. 2007..To determine the recruitment goals that investigators set for racial/ethnic minorities and the factors associated with failure to meet those goals...
Research Grants
- Learning About Research in North Carolina (LeARN)Giselle Corbie Smith; Fiscal Year: 2006..Such information should enable development of more effective strategies for increasing the potential benefits of genetic variation research, while at the same time reducing the potential risks. ..
- Increasing Access to HIV Trials for Rural MinoritiesGiselle Corbie Smith; Fiscal Year: 2007..In Phase 3 we will conduct a single site, 12 month assessment of the individual enrollment session and mobile unit alone and in combination using a 3 arm experimental design. ..
- BARRIERS TO AFRICAN AMERICAN PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCHGiselle Corbie Smith; Fiscal Year: 2003..Dr. Claire Sterk will guide the candidate in advanced quantitative methods. Dr. Sherman James will co-chair the advisory council and provide overall guidance on progress of the research and career development plan. (End of Abstract) ..
- Increasing Access to HIV Trials for Rural MinoritiesGiselle Corbie Smith; Fiscal Year: 2009..In Phase 3 we will conduct a single site, 12 month assessment of the individual enrollment session and mobile unit alone and in combination using a 3 arm experimental design. ..