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AASAP: a program to increase recruitment and retention in clinical trialsLawrence Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Patient Educ Couns 86:372-7. 2012..To evaluate a theory based, subject-centered, staff/subject communication program, AASAP (anticipate, acknowledge, standardize, accept, plan), to increase recruitment and retention in RCTs...- Use of RE-AIM to develop a multi-media facilitation tool for the patient-centered medical homeRussell E Glasgow
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, 6130 Executive Blvd, Room 6144, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Implement Sci 6:118. 2011..The complexity of primary care can overwhelm those concerned with quality improvement... - The value of episodic, intensive blood glucose monitoring in non-insulin treated persons with Type 2 Diabetes: design of the Structured Testing Program (STeP) study, a cluster-randomised, clinical trial [NCT00674986]William Polonsky
University of California, San Diego, and Behavioral Diabetes Institute, San Diego, California 92150, USA
BMC Fam Pract 11:37. 2010..We have designed an SMBG intervention study that attempts to address these issues... - When is diabetes distress clinically meaningful?: establishing cut points for the Diabetes Distress ScaleLawrence Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Diabetes Care 35:259-64. 2012..To identify the pattern of relationships between the 17-item Diabetes Distress Scale (DDS17) and diabetes variables to establish scale cut points for high distress among patients with type 2 diabetes... 
Clinical depression versus distress among patients with type 2 diabetes: not just a question of semanticsLawrence Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Box 0900, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Diabetes Care 30:542-8. 2007..We sought to determine differences between structured interviews, symptom questionnaires, and distress measures for assessment of depression in patients with diabetes...- Development of a brief diabetes distress screening instrumentLawrence Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
Ann Fam Med 6:246-52. 2008..We wanted to develop a brief diabetes distress screen instrument for use in clinical settings... - A longitudinal study of affective and anxiety disorders, depressive affect and diabetes distress in adults with Type 2 diabetesL Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Diabet Med 25:1096-101. 2008..To report the prevalence and correlates of affective and anxiety disorders, depressive affect and diabetes distress over time... - Predicting diabetes distress in patients with Type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal studyL Fisher
Departments of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF, PO Box 0900, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Diabet Med 26:622-7. 2009..Diabetes distress (DD) is a condition distinct from depression that is related to diabetes outcomes. In those without distress initially, little is known about what indicators place patients at risk for subsequent distress over time... - Diabetes distress but not clinical depression or depressive symptoms is associated with glycemic control in both cross-sectional and longitudinal analysesLawrence Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Diabetes Care 33:23-8. 2010..To determine the concurrent, prospective, and time-concordant relationships among major depressive disorder (MDD), depressive symptoms, and diabetes distress with glycemic control... - The relationship between diabetes distress and clinical depression with glycemic control among patients with type 2 diabetesLawrence Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Diabetes Care 33:1034-6. 2010..To clarify previous findings that diabetes distress is related to glycemic control and self-management whereas measures of depression are not, using both binary and continuous measures of depression... - The family and disease management in Hispanic and European-American patients with type 2 diabetesL Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 94143, USA
Diabetes Care 23:267-72. 2000..To determine the relationship between the characteristics of families involved in disease management and the self-care practices of Hispanic and European-American (EA) patients with type 2 diabetes... - The family and type 2 diabetes: a framework for interventionL Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
Diabetes Educ 24:599-607. 1998..Implications of this approach for practice and research are described... - Contributors to depression in Latino and European-American patients with type 2 diabetesL Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
Diabetes Care 24:1751-7. 2001..To determine the independent and cumulative contributions of diabetes and other life stresses on depression and anxiety in Latino and European-American (EA) patients with diabetes... - Assessing psychosocial distress in diabetes: development of the diabetes distress scaleWilliam H Polonsky
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA
Diabetes Care 28:626-31. 2005..The purpose of this study was to describe the development of the Diabetes Distress Scale (DDS), a new instrument for the assessment of diabetes-related emotional distress, based on four independent patient samples... - Disease management status: a typology of Latino and Euro-American patients with type 2 diabetesL Fisher
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Behav Med 26:53-66. 2000..The typology describes different presentations of disease management that can be linked with patient-tailored interventions for patients with type 2 diabetes... - Resolving disease management problems in European-American and Latino couples with type 2 diabetes: the effects of ethnicity and patient genderL Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Box 0900, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Fam Process 39:403-16. 2000..These findings were qualified by patient gender. The findings highlight important differences.. - A longitudinal study of predictors of nursing home placement for patients with dementia: the contribution of family characteristicsL Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
Gerontologist 39:677-86. 1999..The findings argue that a careful examination of the multigeneration family should increase the prediction of NHP and the relevance of services offered to these families... - National trends in condom use among at-risk heterosexuals in the united statesJ A Catania
Health Survey Research Unit Center for AIDS Prevention Studies Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 74 New Montgomery, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 27:176-82. 2001..National and local efforts need to be directed at sustaining behavioral change and conducting more rigorous studies on population trends in HIV/STD-related behaviors/pathogens... - Associations between salivary gland histopathologic diagnoses and phenotypic features of Sjögren's syndrome among 1,726 registry participantsTroy E Daniels
University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Arthritis Rheum 63:2021-30. 2011..To examine associations between labial salivary gland (LSG) histopathology and other phenotypic features of Sjögren's syndrome (SS)... - The effects of family conflict resolution and decision making on the provision of help for an elder with Alzheimer's diseaseM A Lieberman
Center for Health and Community, University of California San Francisco 94118, USA
Gerontologist 39:159-66. 1999..These data suggest the importance of the family system of care in disease management... - The effects of nursing home placement on family caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's diseaseM A Lieberman
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
Gerontologist 41:819-26. 2001..This study sought to determine the effects of nursing home placement (NHP) for patients with Alzheimer's disease, compared to maintaining community placement, on changes in family caregiver health and well-being over time... - Daily negative mood affects fasting glucose in type 2 diabetesMarilyn M Skaff
Department of Family and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Health Psychol 28:265-72. 2009..To examine the relationship between mood and blood glucose in a 21-day daily diary study... - Family predictors of disease management over one year in Latino and European American patients with type 2 diabetesCatherine A Chesla
Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0606, USA
Fam Process 42:375-90. 2003..Examining multiple domains of family life and multidimensional health outcomes strengthens our capacity to develop theory about family contexts and individual health... - Family and disease management in African-American patients with type 2 diabetesCatherine A Chesla
Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0606, USA
Diabetes Care 27:2850-5. 2004..The aim of this project is to specify features of family life that are associated with disease management in African Americans with type 2 diabetes... - Patient-appraised couple emotion management and disease management among Chinese American patients with type 2 diabetesLawrence Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, USA
J Fam Psychol 18:302-10. 2004..Acculturation did not qualify the findings. Similarities among ethnic groups in family and disease management relationships may be more common than differences... - Is self-efficacy associated with diabetes self-management across race/ethnicity and health literacy?Urmimala Sarkar
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Diabetes Care 29:823-9. 2006..We examined the relationship between diabetes self-efficacy and self-management behavior in an urban, diverse, low-income population with a high prevalence of limited health literacy... - Depression and anxiety among partners of European-American and Latino patients with type 2 diabetesLawrence Fisher
University of California, San Francisco, California Northern California Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Diabetes Care 25:1564-70. 2002..To assess the levels of and the independent contributors to depressive affect and anxiety among partners of patients with type 2 diabetes... - Disease management advice provided to African-American and Chinese-American patients with type 2 diabetesLawrence Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Box 0900, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Diabetes Care 27:2249-50. 2004 - Patients with type 2 diabetes at risk for major depressive disorder over timeDiana M Naranjo
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, USA
Ann Fam Med 9:115-20. 2011..We wanted to identify risk factors associated with the development of major depressive disorder (MDD) among patients with type 2 diabetes over time... 
The impact of blood glucose monitoring on depression and distress in insulin-naïve patients with type 2 diabetesL Fisher
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Curr Med Res Opin 27:39-46. 2011..To test whether a structured self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) protocol reduces depressive symptoms and diabetes distress...- Patient perspectives on once-weekly medications for diabetesW H Polonsky
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA 92014, USA
Diabetes Obes Metab 13:144-9. 2011..to examine patient beliefs, preferences and concerns regarding a once-weekly (QW) glucose-lowering medication option... - The continuing HIV epidemic among men who have sex with menJ A Catania
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, 74 New Montgomery, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Am J Public Health 91:907-14. 2001..This study characterized the AIDS epidemic among urban men who have sex with men (MSM)... - Patient perspectives on the role of weight management in type 2 diabetesWilliam H Polonsky
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 88:151-6. 2010..To examine issues of weight misperception, perceived importance of weight management, and patient reports of their HCP's weight-related recommendations among patients with type 2 diabetes... - Type 2 diabetes in adolescents. How to recognize and treat this growing problemM Grace Laurencin
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, CA 94143, USA
Postgrad Med 118:31-6, 43. 2005..They also offer interventional strategies for both lifestyle change and pharmacologic management... - Can addressing family relationships improve outcomes in chronic disease? Report of the National Working Group on Family-Based Interventions in Chronic DiseaseL Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, USA
J Fam Pract 49:561-6. 2000.... - Eight tips for managing diabetes distressLawrence Fisher
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Diabetes Self Manag 23:8-10. 2006 - Psychological insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes: the scope of the problemWilliam H Polonsky
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA
Diabetes Care 28:2543-5. 2005 - Problem solving and diabetes self-management: investigation in a large, multiracial sampleRussell E Glasgow
Clinical Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, P O Box 378066, Denver, CO 80237 8066, USA
Diabetes Care 30:33-7. 2007..Problem solving is a core aspect of effective diabetes and chronic illness self-management, yet there are relatively few objective evaluations of problem-solving skills, especially in large, multiracial samples... - A call for more effectively integrating behavioral and social science principles into comprehensive diabetes careLawrence Fisher
Diabetes Care 30:2746-9. 2007