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| N E AvisSummaryAffiliation: Wake Forest University School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Change in health-related quality of life over the menopausal transition in a multiethnic cohort of middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the NationNancy E Avis
Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
Menopause 16:860-9. 2009..The aim of this study was to examine changes in health-related quality of life (HRQL) during the menopausal transition, controlling for chronological aging, symptoms, and other covariates...- Longitudinal changes in sexual functioning as women transition through menopause: results from the Study of Women's Health Across the NationNancy E Avis
Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
Menopause 16:442-52. 2009..This study seeks to determine if advancing through the menopausal transition is associated with changes in sexual functioning... - Cancer survivorship and agingNancy E Avis
Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1063, USA
Cancer 113:3519-29. 2008..In particular, prospective studies with measures of functioning before cancer diagnosis and treatment, comparisons with age-matched noncancer populations, and interventions to reduce the impact of cancer on functioning are needed... - A randomized, controlled pilot study of acupuncture treatment for menopausal hot flashesNancy E Avis
Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
Menopause 15:1070-8. 2008..To investigate the feasibility of conducting a randomized trial of the effect of acupuncture in decreasing hot flashes in peri- and postmenopausal women... - Disentangling cultural issues in quality of life dataNancy E Avis
Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
Menopause 14:708-16. 2007..To describe a process for understanding ethnic differences in health-related quality of life (HRQL)... - Evaluation of the Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors (QLACS) scale for long-term cancer survivors in a sample of breast cancer survivorsNancy E Avis
Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 4:92. 2006..This represents an important area of study, given the large number of breast cancer patients surviving many years post diagnosis... - Factors associated with participation in breast cancer treatment clinical trialsNancy E Avis
Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:1860-7. 2006..It is well established that recruitment to clinical trials (CTs) is difficult and time consuming. This article reports on factors related to CT participation among women who were invited to participate in a CT for breast cancer... - A universal menopausal syndrome?Nancy E Avis
Department of Public Health Sciences, Section on Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1063, USA
Am J Med 118:37-46. 2005..Future research should focus on how symptoms are interrelated, what factors are uniquely related to vasomotor symptoms, and identifying whether there is a subgroup of women who are more likely to report symptoms... - Assessing quality of life in adult cancer survivors (QLACS)Nancy E Avis
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
Qual Life Res 14:1007-23. 2005..The new multidimensional measure has good internal consistency and validity and is appropriate for comparisons between cancer and non-cancer populations, as well as long-term follow-up of cancer patients... - Correlates of sexual function among multi-ethnic middle-aged women: results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)Nancy E Avis
Department of Public Health Sciences, Section on Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
Menopause 12:385-98. 2005.... - Health-related quality of life in a multiethnic sample of middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)Nancy E Avis
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1063, USA
Med Care 41:1262-76. 2003..Relatively little is known about the association between menopause and health-related quality of life (HRQL) across ethnic groups... - Quality of life in diverse groups of midlife women: assessing the influence of menopause, health status and psychosocial and demographic factorsN E Avis
Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
Qual Life Res 13:933-46. 2004..While there were many consistencies across racial/ethnic groups, we also found that the nature of the associations between QOL and education, marital status, perceived stress and social support varied across racial/ethnic groups... - Increasing mammography screening among women over age 50 with a videotape interventionNancy E Avis
Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Prev Med 39:498-506. 2004..A randomized trial was conducted to test the effectiveness of a videotape for increasing mammography screening among a multiethnic sample of older women... - Quality of life among younger women with breast cancerNancy E Avis
Department of Public Health Sciences, Section on Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Piedmont Plaza II, 2nd Floor, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
J Clin Oncol 23:3322-30. 2005..To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after breast cancer diagnosis and to identify factors associated with impaired QOL... - Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancerNancy E Avis
Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Piedmont Plaza II 2nd floor, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
Psychooncology 13:295-308. 2004..Findings reinforce the need to develop interventions to help women deal with premature menopause and problems with sexual functioning following chemotherapy... - Younger women's perceptions of coping with breast cancerJaneen C Manuel
Department of Public Health Sciences, Section on Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
Cancer Nurs 30:85-94. 2007..These findings suggest that clinicians should identify patients' particular stressors and help with coping techniques targeting particular concerns... - A longitudinal investigation of coping strategies and quality of life among younger women with breast cancerSuzanne C Danhauer
Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Hematology and Oncology, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1082, USA
J Behav Med 32:371-9. 2009..Coping strategies were minimally related to subsequent QOL. Coping strategies and QOL are dynamic processes. QOL may predict coping strategies equally or more than vice versa... - Sexual functioning and practices in a multi-ethnic study of midlife women: baseline results from SWANVirginia S Cain
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Sex Res 40:266-76. 2003..005). Significant ethnic differences were found for frequency of all practices. Perimenopause status was associated only with higher frequencies of masturbation and pain during intercourse... - Breast cancer survivors and hot flashes: the search for nonhormonal treatmentsNancy E Avis
J Clin Oncol 26:5008-10. 2008 - The impact of hormone therapy on health-related quality of life: longitudinal results from the Study of Women's Health Across the NationRachel Hess
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Menopause 15:422-8. 2008..To determine the impact of hormone therapy (HT) on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) during the menopausal transition and to examine variation based on menopausal symptom status... - Menopause transition stage and endogenous estradiol and follicle-stimulating hormone levels are not related to cognitive performance: cross-sectional results from the study of women's health across the nation (SWAN)Crystal Luetters
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 16:331-44. 2007..We sought to describe the cross-sectional relation between menopause status, estradiol (E(2)), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), and measured cognitive function... - Depressive symptoms during the menopausal transition: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)Joyce T Bromberger
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
J Affect Disord 103:267-72. 2007..This study examined the longitudinal relationship between changes in menopausal status and the risk of clinically relevant depressive symptoms and whether the relationship differed according to initial depressive symptom level... - Sexual problems in younger women after breast cancer surgeryStephanie R Burwell
University of Georgia, Department of Child and Family Development, Athens, GA, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:2815-21. 2006..Increasing feelings of sexual attractiveness may also help sexual problems, especially among women for whom these feelings were altered by surgery or treatment... - Persistent mood symptoms in a multiethnic community cohort of pre- and perimenopausal womenJoyce T Bromberger
Departments of Epidemiology and Psychiatry, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:347-56. 2003..These findings suggest that persistent mood symptoms and overall dysphoric mood are associated with the early perimenopause, particularly among women with lower educational attainment... - Surgical menopause: effects on psychological well-being and sexualityJan L Shifren
Vincent OB GYN Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Menopause 14:586-91. 2007..Women anticipating surgical menopause often have significant concerns regarding the effects of surgery on psychological well-being and sexuality... - Functional status and quality of life after emergency revascularization for cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarctionLynn A Sleeper
New England Research Institutes, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 46:266-73. 2005....
Research Grants
- Acupuncture Treatment for Menopausal Hot FlashesNancy Avis; Fiscal Year: 2005..abstract_text> ..
- Non-specific Effects of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Hot FlashesNancy E Avis; Fiscal Year: 2010..The proposed research explores the various factors that contribute to the effectiveness of acupuncture in the context of treating menopausal hot flashes and has importance implications for research on acupuncture. ..