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| Nikki A HawkinsSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Informational needs of patients and perceived adequacy of information available before and after treatment of cancerNikki A Hawkins
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
J Psychosoc Oncol 26:1-16. 2008..Significantly more information was desired regarding the long-term implications of treatment and disease...
Recency of Pap testing and future testing plans among women aged 18-64: analysis of the 2007 Health Information National Trends SurveyMahima Ashok
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 21:705-12. 2012..Current guidelines recommend increasing screening intervals for women of average risk. The objective of this study is to examine current screening intervals, factors associated with recency of Pap testing, and future testing plans...
Intention to seek care for symptoms associated with gynecologic cancers, HealthStyles survey, 2008Katrina F Trivers
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, MS K 55, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 8:A144. 2011..This study was undertaken, in part, to inform development of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's campaign, Inside Knowledge: Get the Facts About Gynecologic Cancer...
Measuring the degree of closeness to the cancer experience: development and initial validation of the CONNection to the Experience of Cancer Scale (CONNECS)Nikki A Hawkins
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Patient Educ Couns 89:292-9. 2012..To describe the development and psychometric testing of items measuring connection to the cancer experience through a close friend or relative...
Surveillance of demographic characteristics and health behaviors among adult cancer survivors--Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2009J Michael Underwood
CDC, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
MMWR Surveill Summ 61:1-23. 2012..Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), this report provides a descriptive state-level assessment of demographic characteristics and health behaviors among cancer survivors aged ≥18 years...
Physician characteristics and beliefs associated with use of pelvic examinations in asymptomatic womenAnalía Romina Stormo
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA
Prev Med 54:415-21. 2012..To examine physicians' beliefs about the pelvic examination and identify physician characteristics associated with routine use of this procedure in the United States...
Advance directives and cancer decision making near the end of lifePeter H Ditto
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 7085, USA
Health Psychol 24:S63-70. 2005..Discussion focuses on the need for policy and law guiding the use of advance directives to be informed by both basic and applied research on judgment and decision making...
Dissemination and translation: a frontier for cancer survivorship researchLori A Pollack
Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20:2093-8. 2011..Future survivorship research should contribute to harmonizing these assets to identify effective interventions, maximize their reach and adoption, and integrate promising practices into routine care...
Why the Pap test? Awareness and use of the Pap test among women in the United StatesNikki A Hawkins
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 20:511-5. 2011....
What does the public know about preventing cancer? Results from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)Nikki A Hawkins
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Health Educ Behav 37:490-503. 2010..Results indicate that efforts are needed to increase public familiarity with recommended strategies, especially among groups that are least familiar with recommendations for cancer prevention...
Health-related behavior change after cancer: results of the American cancer society's studies of cancer survivors (SCS)Nikki A Hawkins
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, 4770 Buford Hwy, NE, MS K 55, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA
J Cancer Surviv 4:20-32. 2010..The present study was undertaken to examine positive and negative behavior changes after cancer and to identify medical, demographic, and psychosocial correlates of changes...
Examining the association between socioeconomic status and potential human papillomavirus-associated cancersVicki B Benard
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Cancer 113:2910-8. 2008....
