How Religion Frames Health Norms: A Structural Theory Approach (open access)

How Religion Frames Health Norms: A Structural Theory Approach

This review looks at the religious communities influence health-related behaviors of adherents in important ways for public health promotion. Questions remain about the processes involved and resultant health promotion actions of the religious adherents.
Date: April 9, 2018
Creator: Mpofu, Elias
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Integrated Structural Equation Model of eHealth Behavioral Intention (open access)

An Integrated Structural Equation Model of eHealth Behavioral Intention

Article presents an integrated model to explain the learning process and provide essential antecedents of eHealth behavioral intention.
Date: September 27, 2019
Creator: Prybutok, Gayle; Prybutok, Victor R.; Ta, Anh Viet & Lui, Xiaotong
System: The UNT Digital Library
Subjective Functional Difficulties and Subjective Cognitive Decline in Older-Age Adults: Moderation by Age Cohorts and Mediation by Mentally Unhealthy Days (open access)

Subjective Functional Difficulties and Subjective Cognitive Decline in Older-Age Adults: Moderation by Age Cohorts and Mediation by Mentally Unhealthy Days

Article discusses how, despite the expected positive association between subjective functional difficulties (SFD) and subjective cognitive decline (SCD), their mediation by mentally unhealthy days (MUDs) is under-studied. This study examined the mediation effect of MUDs on the association between SFD and SCD by age cohorts’ moderation among older adults.
Date: January 16, 2023
Creator: Komalasari, Renata; Mpofu, Elias; Prybutok, Gayle & Ingman, Stanley R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Running Head: Faithful Health Norms (open access)

Running Head: Faithful Health Norms

This article applies a structural theory analysis to understand the ways by which religious adherents adopt and enact health norms.
Date: January 18, 2018
Creator: Mpofu, Elias
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanisms of Social Interaction and Virtual Connections as Strong Predictors of Wellbeing of Older Adults (open access)

Mechanisms of Social Interaction and Virtual Connections as Strong Predictors of Wellbeing of Older Adults

Article examining the domains of social determinants of health, specifically the social and community context per Healthy People 2030 objectives. These mechanisms of social interaction, in the form of group activities, community engagement, and virtual interactions via email or text message, were assessed using hierarchical regression analysis to find out their association with wellbeing, depression symptoms, and cognition of older adults.
Date: February 27, 2022
Creator: Sen, Keya; Prybutok, Victor R.; Prybutok, Gayle & Senn, William
System: The UNT Digital Library
Framing of COVID-19 in Newspapers: A Perspective from the US-Mexico Border (open access)

Framing of COVID-19 in Newspapers: A Perspective from the US-Mexico Border

Article discusses the degree to which the media report a health emergency and how it affects the seriousness with which the people respond to combat the health crisis. After collecting relevant news articles, we used sentiment analysis, rapid automatic keyword extraction (RAKE), and co-occurrence network analysis to examine the main themes and sentiments of COVID-19 news articles.
Date: November 24, 2022
Creator: Afrin, Rifat; Harun, Ahasan; Prybutok, Gayle & Prybutok, Victor R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Migrant and refugee youth perspectives on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Australia: a systematic review (open access)

Migrant and refugee youth perspectives on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Australia: a systematic review

Article discusses how migrant and refugee youth (MRY) in Australia face specific experiences that inform their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This review examines the understandings and perspectives of MRY.
Date: December 2, 2022
Creator: Napier-Raman, Sharanya; Hossain, Syeda Zakia; Lee, Mi-Joung; Mpofu, Elias; Liamputtong, Pranee & Dune, Tinashe
System: The UNT Digital Library
The use of digital technology for social wellbeing reduces social isolation in older adults: A systematic review (open access)

The use of digital technology for social wellbeing reduces social isolation in older adults: A systematic review

Article is a systematic review emphasizes the need for technology use in older adults to reduce social isolation.
Date: December 31, 2021
Creator: Sen, Keya; Prybutok, Gayle & Prybutok, Victor R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mental Health Interventions for Parent Carers of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Practice Guidelines from a Critical Interpretive Synthesis (CIS) Systematic Review (open access)

Mental Health Interventions for Parent Carers of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Practice Guidelines from a Critical Interpretive Synthesis (CIS) Systematic Review

This article contains a systematic review that identifies key qualities of interventions supporting the mental health of parent carers and proposes practitioner-parent carer support guidelines.
Date: December 20, 2017
Creator: Catalano, Denise E.; Holloway, Linda & Mpofu, Elias
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trusting Sources of Information on Quality of Physician Care (open access)

Trusting Sources of Information on Quality of Physician Care

Article studying the contextual and personal characteristics that influence patient-consumers’ decisions to trust or ignore information sources about healthcare quality.
Date: August 24, 2020
Creator: Moore, Ami R.; Hudson, Cassie; Chumbler, Neale & Amey, Foster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mental Illness and Youth-Onset Homelessness: A Retrospective Study among Adults Experiencing Homelessness (open access)

Mental Illness and Youth-Onset Homelessness: A Retrospective Study among Adults Experiencing Homelessness

This article retrospectively evaluating the association between the timing of homelessness onset (youth versus adult) and mental illness as a reason for homelessness among homeless adults living in homeless shelters and/or receiving services from homeless-serving agencies in Texas and Oklahoma. A better understanding of these relationships could inform needs for early interventions and/or better prepare agencies that serve at-risk youth to address precursors to youth homelessness.
Date: September 28, 2020
Creator: Iwundu, Chisom N.; Chen, Tzu-An; Edereka-Great, Kirsteen; Businelle, Michael S.; Kendzor, Darla E. & Reitzel, Lorraine R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Behavioral Artistry: Examining the Relationship Between the Interpersonal Skills and Effective Practice Repertoires of Applied Behavior Analysis Practitioners (open access)

Behavioral Artistry: Examining the Relationship Between the Interpersonal Skills and Effective Practice Repertoires of Applied Behavior Analysis Practitioners

Article describes study which investigated interpersonal skills associated with the concept of behavioral artistry (BA), a repertoire of practitioner behaviors including care, attentiveness, and creativity, among others, associated with the effective delivery of applied behavior analysis (ABA) treatment.
Date: May 24, 2019
Creator: Callahan, Kevin; Foxx, Richard M.; Swierczynski, Adam; Aerts, Xing; Mehta, Smita S.; McComb, Mary-Ellen et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustainable Harm Reduction Needle and Syringe Programs for People Who Inject Drugs: A Scoping Review of Their Implementation Qualities (open access)

Sustainable Harm Reduction Needle and Syringe Programs for People Who Inject Drugs: A Scoping Review of Their Implementation Qualities

This article is a review mapping the evidence on implementation qualities of sustainable harm reduction needle and syringe programs (NSPs). The emerging evidence suggests that sustainable NSP programs for people who inject drugs (PWID) require provider, consumer, and community engagement, supported by enabling health policies.
Date: March 5, 2021
Creator: Resiak, Danielle; Mpofu, Elias & Rothwell, Rodd
System: The UNT Digital Library
Harm Minimisation Drug Policy Implementation Qualities: Their Efficacy with Australian Needle and Syringe Program Providers and People Who Inject Drugs (open access)

Harm Minimisation Drug Policy Implementation Qualities: Their Efficacy with Australian Needle and Syringe Program Providers and People Who Inject Drugs

Article examines the implementation quality priorities of Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) providers and PWID (people who inject drugs) in an Australian setting. This research presents novel findings guiding NSP harm reduction programmes for sustainability framed on provider and consumer implementation quality priorities and envisages future studies on boundary conditions of NSP harm reduction implementation in other jurisdictions.
Date: March 14, 2022
Creator: Resiak, Danielle; Mpofu, Elias & Rothwell, Roderick
System: The UNT Digital Library