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Enhancing treatment fidelity in health behavior change studies: best practices and recommendations from the NIH Behavior Change Consortium.
TLDR
A multisite effort by the Treatment Fidelity Workgroup of the National Institutes of Health Behavior Change Consortium to identify treatment fidelity concepts and strategies in health behavior intervention research is described.
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Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Religion and Spirituality for Health Research
TLDR
The conceptual and empirical development of an instrument to measure religiousness and spirituality, intended explicitly for studies of health, are reported on, which is multidimensional to allow investigation of multiple possible mechanisms of effect.
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Positive Aspects of Caregiving
TLDR
The Positive Aspects of Caregiving measure, developed and administered to 1,229 participants in a national collaborative Alzheimer’s disease caregiver study and evaluated for validity and reliability, shows promise as a valid and reliable instrument.
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Sexual functioning and practices in a multi‐ethnic study of midlife women: Baseline results from swan
TLDR
Compared with Caucasians, Japanese and Chinese women were less likely, and African Americans more likely, to report sex as very important, and perimenopause status was associated only with higher frequencies of masturbation and pain during intercourse.
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Prevalence and impact of caregiving: a detailed comparison between dementia and nondementia caregivers.
TLDR
This study documents the ways in which dementia care is different from other types of family caregiving and suggests the need to tailor programs and services to the unique challenges faced by dementia caregivers.
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RE-AIM Planning and Evaluation Framework: Adapting to New Science and Practice With a 20-Year Review
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The application and evolution of RE-AIM is described as well as lessons learned from its use, with increasing the emphasis on cost and adaptations to programs and expanding the use of qualitative methods to understand “how” and “why” results came about.
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Well-being, appraisal, and coping in African-American and Caucasian dementia caregivers: findings from the REACH study
TLDR
African-American dementia caregivers reported lower anxiety, better well-being, less use of psychotropic medications, more benign appraisals of stress and perceived benefits of caregiving, and greater religious coping and participation, than Caucasian caregivers.
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Dementia caregiver intervention research: in search of clinical significance.
TLDR
Assessment of clinical significance in addition to statistical significance is needed in caregiver intervention research in order to move the field toward a greater emphasis on achieving reliable and clinically meaningful outcomes.
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Outcomes of online support and resources for cancer survivors: a systematic literature review.
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Mexican Americans With Type 2 Diabetes: Perspectives on Definitions, Motivators, and Programs of Physical Activity
TLDR
Health promotion efforts to prevent or reduce the effects of chronic disease among Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes in the Texas–Mexico border region should focus on implementing neighborhood-based, family-oriented walking interventions.
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