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mHealth self-care interventions: managing symptoms following breast cancer treatment.

mHealth

Fu MR, Axelrod D, Guth AA, Rampertaap K, El-Shammaa N, Hiotis K, Scagliola J, Yu G, Wang Y.
PMID: 27493951
Mhealth. 2016 Jul;2. doi: 10.21037/mhealth.2016.07.03. Epub 2016 Jul 22.

BACKGROUND: Many women suffer from daily distressing symptoms related to lymphedema following breast cancer treatment. Lymphedema, an abnormal accumulation of lymph fluid in the ipsilateral body area or upper limb, remains an ongoing major health problem affecting more than...

Commentary: Persistence and Health-Related Consequences of the Model Minority Stereotype for Asian Americans.

Ethnicity & disease

Yi SS, Kwon SC, Sacks R, Trinh-Shevrin C.
PMID: 26843806
Ethn Dis. 2016 Jan 21;26(1):133-8. doi: 10.18865/ed.26.1.133.

Fifty years ago, the term model minority was coined to describe the extraordinary ability of Asian Americans to overcome hardship to succeed in American society. Less well-known is how the model minority stereotype was cultivated within the context of...

Does Gender Moderate Associations Between Social Capital and Smoking? An Asian American Study.

Journal of health behavior and public health

Li S, Delva J.
PMID: 22706023
J Health Behav Public Health. 2011;1(1):41-49.

Growing research finds that social capital is associated with smoking. However, most studies focus on white populations and do not take into account potential differences between genders. The present study examines the associations between social capital and self-report smoking...

Social capital and cigarette smoking among Latinos in the United States.

Substance abuse and rehabilitation

Li S, Horner P, Delva J.
PMID: 22706166
Subst Abuse Rehabil. 2012 May;2012(3):83-92. doi: 10.2147/SAR.S31164.

This paper presents the results of analyses conducted to examine if social capital indicators were associated with current cigarette smoking and with quitting smoking among a national representative sample of Latinos living in the United States. Data are from...

Machine learning for detection of lymphedema among breast cancer survivors.

mHealth

Fu MR, Wang Y, Li C, Qiu Z, Axelrod D, Guth AA, Scagliola J, Conley Y, Aouizerat BE, Qiu JM, Yu G, Van Cleave JH, Haber J, Cheung YK.
PMID: 29963562
Mhealth. 2018 May 29;4:17. doi: 10.21037/mhealth.2018.04.02. eCollection 2018.

BACKGROUND: In the digital era when mHealth has emerged as an important venue for health care, the application of computer science, such as machine learning, has proven to be a powerful tool for health care in detecting or predicting...

A community health worker intervention to improve blood pressure among Filipino Americans with hypertension: A randomized controlled trial.

Preventive medicine reports

Ursua RA, Aguilar DE, Wyatt LC, Trinh-Shevrin C, Gamboa L, Valdellon P, Perrella EG, Dimaporo MZ, Nur PQ, Tandon SD, Islam NS.
PMID: 29984137
Prev Med Rep. 2018 May 09;11:42-48. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.05.002. eCollection 2018 Sep.

Behavioral interventions utilizing community health workers (CHWs) have demonstrated effectiveness in improving hypertension disparities in ethnic minority populations in the United States, but few have focused on Asian Americans. We assessed the efficacy of a CHW intervention to improve...

Acculturation and activity behaviors in Chinese American immigrants in New York City.

Preventive medicine reports

Yi SS, Beasley JM, Kwon SC, Huang KY, Trinh-Shevrin C, Wylie-Rosett J.
PMID: 27570733
Prev Med Rep. 2016 Aug 09;4:404-9. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.08.007. eCollection 2016 Dec.

Asian Americans have lower levels of physical activity (PA) compared to other racial/ethnic groups; however, there is little understanding of the social and cultural determinants of PA in this population. Few analyses describe specific PA domains (occupation-, transportation-, recreation-related),...

Defining an integrative approach for health promotion and disease prevention: a population health equity framework.

Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

Trinh-Shevrin C, Islam NS, Nadkarni S, Park R, Kwon SC.
PMID: 25981095
J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2015 May;26(2):146-63. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2015.0067.

Eliminating health disparities in racial/ethnic minority and underserved populations requires a paradigm shift from biomedical approaches that are disease-focused to a health equity framework that aims to achieve optimal health for all by targeting social and structural determinants of...

A Web- and Mobile-Based Intervention for Women Treated for Breast Cancer to Manage Chronic Pain and Symptoms Related to Lymphedema: Randomized Clinical Trial Rationale and Protocol.

JMIR research protocols

Fu MR, Axelrod D, Guth A, Scagliola J, Rampertaap K, El-Shammaa N, Fletcher J, Zhang Y, Qiu JM, Schnabel F, Hiotis K, Wang Y, D'Eramo Melkus G.
PMID: 26795447
JMIR Res Protoc. 2016 Jan 21;5(1):e7. doi: 10.2196/resprot.5104.

BACKGROUND: Despite current advances in cancer treatment, many breast cancer survivors still face long-term post-operative challenges as a result of suffering from daily pain and other distressing symptoms related to lymphedema, ie, abnormal accumulation of lymph fluid in the...

Comorbidities and Quality of Life among Breast Cancer Survivors: A Prospective Study.

Journal of personalized medicine

Fu MR, Axelrod D, Guth AA, Cleland CM, Ryan CE, Weaver KR, Qiu JM, Kleinman R, Scagliola J, Palamar JJ, Melkus GD.
PMID: 26132751
J Pers Med. 2015 Jun 26;5(3):229-42. doi: 10.3390/jpm5030229.

Many breast cancer survivors have coexistent chronic diseases or comorbidities at the time of their cancer diagnosis. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the association of comorbidities on breast cancer survivors' quality of life. A prospective design...

Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening among Muslim Women in New York City: Perspectives from Key Informants.

SM journal of community medicine

Islam N, Patel S, Brooks-Griffin Q, Kemp P, Raveis V, Riley L, Gummi S, Nur PQ, Ravenell J, Cole H, Kwon S.
PMID: 29629435
SM J Community Med. 2017;3(1). Epub 2017 Feb 23.

BACKGROUND: Muslims are one of the fastest growing religious groups in the US. However, little is known about their health disparities, and how their unique cultural, religious, and social beliefs and practices affect health behaviors and outcomes. Studies demonstrate...

Developing and Conducting a Dissertation Study through the Community-Based Participatory Research Approach.

Pedagogy in health promotion

Nadimpalli SB, Van Devanter N, Kavathe R, Islam N.
PMID: 27489882
Pedagogy Health Promot. 2016 Jun;2(2):94-100. doi: 10.1177/2373379915616646. Epub 2015 Dec 08.

The community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach has been shown to be innovative and effective in conducting research with communities experiencing health disparities. Doctoral nursing students, and other doctoral students in the health sciences, who are interested in this approach...

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