William P Sacco

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Affiliation: University of South Florida
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Educational attainment moderates the effect of a brief diabetes self-care intervention
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, United States
    Diabetes Res Clin Pract 95:62-7. 2012
  2. ncbi Depression in adults with type 2 diabetes: the role of adherence, body mass index, and self-efficacy
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    Health Psychol 24:630-4. 2005
  3. ncbi Adherence, body mass index, and depression in adults with type 2 diabetes: the mediational role of diabetes symptoms and self-efficacy
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    Health Psychol 26:693-700. 2007
  4. ncbi Effect of a brief, regular telephone intervention by paraprofessionals for type 2 diabetes
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Avenue, PCD 4118 G, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    J Behav Med 32:349-59. 2009
  5. ncbi Depression and hemoglobin A1c in type 1 and type 2 diabetes: the role of self-efficacy
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    Diabetes Res Clin Pract 90:141-6. 2010
  6. ncbi Diabetes and depression: the role of social support and medical symptoms
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, PCD 4118 G, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    J Behav Med 29:523-31. 2006
  7. ncbi Interpersonal factors predict increased desire for hastened death in late-stage cancer patients
    Sean Ransom
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
    Ann Behav Med 31:63-9. 2006
  8. ncbi A brief, regular, proactive telephone "coaching" intervention for diabetes: rationale, description, and preliminary results
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, PCD 4118G, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    J Diabetes Complications 18:113-8. 2004
  9. ncbi Reliability of diabetes-specific social support scales
    Tovah Yanover
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA
    Psychol Health Med 13:627-31. 2008
  10. ncbi Pain and functional impairment as mediators of the link between medical symptoms and depression in type 2 diabetes
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    Int J Behav Med 20:22-9. 2013

Detail Information

Publications11

  1. ncbi Educational attainment moderates the effect of a brief diabetes self-care intervention
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, United States
    Diabetes Res Clin Pract 95:62-7. 2012
    ..This study examined whether educational attainment moderates the effect of a brief, telephone delivered self-care intervention on glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes...
  2. ncbi Depression in adults with type 2 diabetes: the role of adherence, body mass index, and self-efficacy
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    Health Psychol 24:630-4. 2005
    ..These findings are consistent with the proposal that lower self-efficacy in reaction to adherence failure and higher BMI contributes to depression in adults with diabetes...
  3. ncbi Adherence, body mass index, and depression in adults with type 2 diabetes: the mediational role of diabetes symptoms and self-efficacy
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    Health Psychol 26:693-700. 2007
    ..P. Sacco, K. J. Wells, C. A. Vaughan, A. Friedman, S. Perez, & R. Morales, 2005). Also, the relative contributions of diabetes-related symptoms and self-efficacy to depression were evaluated...
  4. ncbi Effect of a brief, regular telephone intervention by paraprofessionals for type 2 diabetes
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Avenue, PCD 4118 G, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    J Behav Med 32:349-59. 2009
    ..A brief telephone intervention delivered by paraprofessionals had positive effects on type 2 diabetes patients...
  5. ncbi Depression and hemoglobin A1c in type 1 and type 2 diabetes: the role of self-efficacy
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    Diabetes Res Clin Pract 90:141-6. 2010
    ..To examine a self-efficacy explanation of the finding that depression is related to hemoglobin A1c (A1c) level in people with type 1 but not type 2 diabetes...
  6. ncbi Diabetes and depression: the role of social support and medical symptoms
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, PCD 4118 G, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    J Behav Med 29:523-31. 2006
    ..Findings underscore the potential importance of interpersonal factors in the physical health of individuals with diabetes...
  7. ncbi Interpersonal factors predict increased desire for hastened death in late-stage cancer patients
    Sean Ransom
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
    Ann Behav Med 31:63-9. 2006
    ..Cancer patients at the end of life sometimes express a wish that death would come quickly, but this desire for hastened death (DHD) remains little understood. Relationships with spousal caregivers may play a role in patients' DHD...
  8. ncbi A brief, regular, proactive telephone "coaching" intervention for diabetes: rationale, description, and preliminary results
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, PCD 4118G, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    J Diabetes Complications 18:113-8. 2004
    ..Results from a pilot study on type 1 diabetes patients are presented. This preliminary evidence suggests that the program is feasible, acceptable to a large majority of patients, and effective in reducing HbA1c levels...
  9. ncbi Reliability of diabetes-specific social support scales
    Tovah Yanover
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA
    Psychol Health Med 13:627-31. 2008
    ..At a mean retest interval of 6.5 months, the support scales showed reliabilities of 0.48 (Global and GET), and 0.38 (GET-WANT). The social support scales of the DCP show adequate long-term test-retest reliability...
  10. ncbi Pain and functional impairment as mediators of the link between medical symptoms and depression in type 2 diabetes
    William P Sacco
    Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    Int J Behav Med 20:22-9. 2013
    ..A better understanding of mechanisms underlying the link between poor health and depression is needed. Pain and functional impairment may account for the effect of poor health on depression in diabetes...
  11. ncbi Racial/ethnic differences in Body Mass Index: the roles of beliefs about thinness and dietary restriction
    Christine A Vaughan
    Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 8115, USA
    Body Image 5:291-8. 2008
    ..Current findings illustrate the potential for racial/ethnic differences in sociocultural standards of appearance to influence racial/ethnic disparities in physical health, of which BMI is a marker, via effects on weight control behavior...