• Characterizing Burden, Role Strains and Psychological Distress of Husbands of Breast Cancer Patients During Treatment and Beyond 

  Wagner, Christina D.; Das, Lala Tanmoy; Bigatti, Silvia M.; Storniolo, Anna Maria (Wolters Kluwer, 2011)

  Background: Husbands, as the primary providers of support for women with breast cancer, can experience significant burden and role strain, but also perceive positive aspects to the caregiving. Little is known about the ...
• Rates of Depression and Anxiety in Cancer Patients: A Review of Cross-National Findings 

  Bigatti, Silvia M.; Steiner, Jennifer L.; Cronan, Terry A. (Pabst Publishers, 2012)

  Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide. In this paper, we examine the similarities and differences between the United States (US) and the European Union (EU-27) in the incidences, deaths, types of screening, and ...
• Depression in Husbands of Breast Cancer Patients: Relationships to Coping and Social Support 

  Bigatti, Silvia M.; Wagner, Christina D.; Lydon, Jennifer R.; Steiner, Jennifer L.; Miller, Kathy D. (Springer, 2011)

  PURPOSE: The purpose of the present study was to examine depression in husbands of women with breast cancer, as depression is typically as high in husbands as in patients, and impacts functioning in both. METHODS: We ...
• Trajectory of Change in Pain, Depression, and Physical Functioning after Physical Activity Adoption in Fibromyalgia 

  Steiner, Jennifer L.; Bigatti, Silvia M.; Ang, Dennis (Sage, 2015)

  Fibromyalgia (FM) is associated with widespread pain, depression, and declines in physical functioning. The study purpose was to examine the trajectory of these symptoms over time related to physical activity adoption and ...
• Cancer Screening in the United States and Europe 

  Cronan, Terry A.; Santoro, Maya; Van Liew, Charles; Bigatti, Silvia M. (2012)
• Matched and Mismatched Cognitive Appraisals in Patients with Breast Cancer and their Partners: Implications for Psychological Distress 

  Bigatti, Silvia M.; Steiner, Jennifer L.; Makinabakan, Nermin; Hernandez, Ann Marie; Johnston, Erica; Storniolo, Anna Maria (Wiley, 2011)

  The present study sought to identify couples’ cognitive appraisals of breast cancer and the extent to which matched or mismatched appraisals within a couple contribute to distress. Women with breast cancer (n = 57) and ...
• Effectiveness of the Pasos Adelante Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Program in a US-Mexico Border Community, 2005-2008 

  Staten, Lisa K.; Cutshaw, Christina A.; Davidson, Christopher; Reinschmidt, Kerstin; Stewart, Rosie; Roe, Denise J. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012)

  Introduction Pasos Adelante is a lifestyle intervention program facilitated by community health workers (promotores) targeting chronic disease prevention and control in Mexican Americans. Initial studies of Pasos Adelante ...
• Depressive Symptoms and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Participants in the Pasos Adelante Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Program, Arizona, 2005-2008 

  Cutshaw, Christina A.; Staten, Lisa K.; Reinschmidt, Kerstin M.; Davidson, Christopher; Roe, Denise J. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012)

  Introduction Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death in the United States and have been associated with depressive symptoms and poor health-related quality of life (HRQOL). This study examined whether depressive ...
• Eficacia del programa de control y prevención deenfermedades crónicas "Pasos Adelante" en una comunidad enla frontera de EE. UU. y México, 2005-2008 

  Staten, Lisa K.; Cutshaw, Christina A.; Davidson, Christopher; Reinschmidt, Kerstin; Stewart, Rosie; Roe, Denise J. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012)

  Introducción "Pasos Adelante" es un programa de intervención sobre hábitos saludables facilitado por trabajadores de salud comunitaria o"promotores de salud" destinado a prevenir y controlar enfermedades crónicas en ...
• From Program to Policy: Expanding the Role of Community Coalitions 

  Hill, Anne; De Zapien, Jill Guernsey; Staten, Lisa K.; McClelland, Deborah Jean; Garza, Rebecca; Moore-Monroy, Martha; Elenes, JoJean; Steinfelt, Victoria; Tittelbaugh, Ila; Whitmer, Evelyn; Meister, Joel S. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007)

  Background Diabetes mortality at the United States–Mexico border is twice the national average. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is increasingly diagnosed among children and adolescents. Fragmented services and scarce resources ...
• Racial differences in cumulative disadvantage among women and its relation to health: Development and preliminary validation of the CSI-WE 

  Latham-Mintus, K.; Weathers, T. D.; Bigatti, Silvia M.; Irby-Shasanmi, A; Herbert, B. S.; Takana, H. Robison; Storniolo, A. M. (Mary Ann Liebert, 2022)

  Background: Cumulative disadvantage (CD) is a measure of accumulated social, economic, and person-related stressors due to unequal access to resources and opportunities, which increases a person's biological risk for ...
• Perfectionism, impostor phenomenon, and mental health in medicine: a literature review 

  Thomas, Mary; Bigatti, Silvia (IJME, 2020-09-28)

  Objectives: The aims of this review, focused on medical students, residents, and physicians, were a) to determine the levels of perfectionism and prevalence of impostor phenomenon, b) to assess the relationship between ...
• Reporting Certainty of Evidence on E-Cigarette Use for Adult Smoking Cessation 

  Grant, Sean (American Public Health Association, 2021-02)
• Obesity Health Education Integrated Into Current Work Roles of Health Education Specialists 

  Yazel-Smith, Lisa G.; Bishop, Charity A.; Ayars, Candace L. (AJHS, 2020-12)

  Health education specialists (HES) can reduce obesity burden within the public and healthcare systems. This study examined HES’ obesity knowledge and attitudes toward obesity with their willingness to integrate obesity ...
• Initiatives addressing precarious employment and its effects on workers’ health and well-being: a protocol for a systematic review 

  Gunn, Virginia; Håkansta, Carin; Vignola, Emilia; Matilla-Santander, Nuria; Kreshpaj, Bertina; Wegman, David H.; Hogstedt, Christer; Ahonen, Emily Q.; Muntaner, Carles; Baron, Sherry; Bodin, Theo; The Precarious Work Research (PWR) Group (Springer, 2021-01-30)

  Precarious employment is a significant determinant of population health and health inequities and has complex public health consequences both for a given nation and internationally. Precarious employment is conceptualized ...
• Burning embers: towards more transparent and robust climate-change risk assessments 

  Zommers, Zinta; Marbaix, Philippe; Fischlin, Andreas; Ibrahim, Zelina Z.; Magnan, Alexandre K.; Pörtner, Hans-Otto; Howden, Mark; Calvin, Katherine; Warner, Koko; Thiery, Wim; Sebesvari, Zita; Davin, Edouard L.; Evans, Jason P.; Rosenzweig, Cynthia; O'Neill, Brian C.; Patwardhan, Anand; Warren, Rachel; van Aalst, Maarten; Hulbert, Margot (Nature, 2020)

  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports provide policy-relevant insights about climate impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation through a process of peer-reviewed literature assessments underpinned by ...
• Gendered exposures: exploring the role of paid and unpaid work throughout life in U.S. women’s cardiovascular health 

  Ahonen, Emily Q.; Fujishiro, K.; Brown, S.; Wang, Y.; Palumbo, A. J.; Michael, Y. L. (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  The paper explores how paid and unpaid labor history over the life course influence women’s cardiovascular disease. U.S. women comprise about 50% of the paid workforce and perform the majority of unpaid labor. However, the ...
• Cultural stressors experienced by young Latinas with depressive symptoms living in a tumultuous sociopolitical climate in the United States 

  Stafford, Allison McCord; Bigatti, Silvia M.; Draucker, Claire Burke (Elsevier, 2019-08-19)

  The purpose of this study is to describe the cultural stressors experienced by Latina young women with depressive symptoms from 2016-2018 in the United States. Twenty-four Latina young women (mean age=16.7 years) participated ...
• Sociopolitical values and social institutions: Studying work and health equity through the lens of political economy 

  Fujishiro, Kaori; Ahonen, Emily Q.; Gimeno Ruiz de Porras, David; Chen, I-Chen; Benavides, Fernando G. (Elsevier, 2021-06)

  Work contributes to health and health inequity in complex ways. The traditional exposure-disease framework used in occupational health research is not equipped to address societal contexts in which work is embedded. The ...
• Prioritizing Needs and Outcomes for Adolescent Substance Use Treatment Planning: An Online Modified-Delphi Process 

  Grant, Sean; Pedersen, Eric R.; Hunter, Sarah B.; Khodyakov, Dmitry; Griffin, Beth Ann (Wolters Kluwer, 2020-07-01)

  Key stakeholders can have differing views about which information is essential to inform placement decisions for all patients. This study examined consensus across stakeholder groups on the most important individual needs ...

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