OBJECTIVE To identify the health beliefs, attitudes, practices, and social and family relations important in heart failure treatment among Pacific Islanders. METHODS Four focus groups were convened with 36 Native Hawaiians and Samoans with heart failure and their family caregivers. Thematic data analysis was used to categorize data into four domains: health beliefs and attitudes, preferred he...

PURPOSE To identify successful recruitment strategies, challenges and best practices for researchers to engage African American communities in clinical studies taken into consideration target participants' culture and context. METHODS We reviewed 50 studies conducted from 2001 to 2012 at an inner-city research center to determine the type, duration, anticipated enrollments and actual enrollme...

CONTEXT The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is a safe, effective cancer prevention method that is underutilized in the United States. Despite increased understanding of barriers to vaccination, rates remain low. Globally, developed and developing nations have achieved high rates of vaccination. OBJECTIVE Identification of effective strategies is necessary to optimize uptake of the HPV vacc...

BACKGROUND Selective estrogen receptor modulators, such as tamoxifen, reduce breast cancer risk by up to 50% in women at increased risk for breast cancer. Despite tamoxifen's well-established efficacy, many studies show that most women are not taking up tamoxifen. This systematic literature review aimed to identify the motivators and barriers to tamoxifen use 's amongst high-risk women. METHO...

Informational masking of a target female talker by female distracters was measured with target and distracters presented from directly in front of the listener as a baseline condition. Next, it was found that if the distracters were also presented from directly in back of the listener, advanced or delayed by a few milliseconds with respect to the distracters in front, release from informational...

Two general views on the role of memory in cognitive skills--an instance-based theory and an associative perspective--were compared with respect to their general assumptions about the information involved and the processes that operate on that information. Characteristics of memory information were examined in terms of predictions for transfer to various stimulus forms as a function of 2 types ...

This paper examines the interplay of informational and payoff externalities in a two-player strategic investment game. Each players learns about the quality of a new technology by observing a private signal and the action of his opponent, and has the option of irreversibly adopting it. I characterize the set of equilibrium payoffs in the timing game in which there is second-mover advantage and ...

This paper examines a nearly untested premise of the resource-based view of the Žrm: managers can exploit uncertainty about a factor’s true value to generate returns. Our results show that empirically validating this basic proposition is difŽcult and potentially impossible, despite our use of a rather simple empirical setting. While market imperfections appear to underlie the payment of basebal...

Introduction: The diagnosis of cancer involves the patients, their caregivers, and families. Caregivers should obtain guidance from health care professionals to promote care facilities. The current study aimed at investigating the economic, socio-individual, informational, and psycho-spiritual problems of caregivers in post-treatment phase of breast cancer. Methods: The present descriptive stu...