• “It’s Got to Be on This Page”: Age and Cognitive Style in a Study of Online Health Information Seeking 

  Agree, Emily M.; King, Abby C.; Castro, Cynthia M.; Wiley, Adrienne; Borzekowski, Dina L. G. (2015)

  Background: The extensive availability of online health information offers the public opportunities to become independently informed about their care, but what affects the successful retrieval and understanding of accurate ...

• Strategies Used by African American Fathers to Protect their Children from Community Violence 

  Letiecq, Bethany L. (1999)

  The purposes of this study were to identify the strategies used by African American fathers to protect their Head Start children from community violence and to examine individual, familial, and community-level predictors ...

• THE IMPACT OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS 

  Wilkerson, Thomas G. (2017)

  Cardiovascular disease (CVD) tends to be more prevalent in individuals older than 18 years of age with serious mental illness (SMI) and CVD is the leading cause of death of African Americans in the United States. Socioeconomic ...

• The Health Implications of Stress among Asian Americans in the US and Chinese In China: the Effects of Perceived Stress and Caregiving Stress on Cardiovascular Risk Factors 

  Lu, Xiaoxiao (2018)

  Prior research suggests that stress plays a role in the etiology and progression of cardiovascular disease (CVD). To lend a more accurate depiction of the associations between stress and CVD risk factors, this dissertation ...

• Religion, Sex, and Family: The Role of Family Religiosity and Sex Communication in Emerging Adults’ Sexual Behaviors 

  Quinn, Deirdre Ann (2017)

  Religion plays an important role in many people’s lives and can impact both physical and mental health. A growing body of research has examined potential links between religiosity and health behaviors and outcomes in ...

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