Publications
Evaluating the Validity and Reliability of the Beliefs About Medicines Questionnaire in Low-Income, Spanish-Speaking Patients with Diabetes in the United States
Adherence to a medication regimen is central to the proper management of chronic health conditions in general, and is critical to improving glycemic control and preventing complications for individuals with diabetes, specifically.1–4 However, adherence to medications is not a simple task considering its multifactorial nature.5 Studies have reported a variety of factors that may lead a patient to be nonadherent, including increasing costs of medications6, shared or personal beliefs about the potential harms of medications7, and lack of social support.7–10 Such barriers to adherence are especially taxing on patients from low socioeconomic backgrounds7,11,12, most likely due to...
Costs and beliefs: understanding individual- and neighborhood-level correlates of medication nonadherence among Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes
Nonadherence to medication regimens is a major contributor to suboptimal health outcomes (Egede et al., 2013), especially for low-income patients (Fischer et al., 2011). Mexican Americans with diabetes represent a particularly vulnerable population, exhibiting higher rates of nonadherence than non-Hispanic Whites (Yang et al., 2009).
Although nonadherence in disadvantaged patient populations is largely attributed to an inability to pay for medications, expanding health coverage for low-income patients has had disappointing results (Baicker et al., 2013). In addition to a lack of resources to pay for medications, unfavorable beliefs about medications also may contribute to...
Food insecurity, processes of care, and self-reported medication underuse in patients with type 2 diabetes: results from the California Health Interview Survey
Barriers to accessing medical care, such as lack of insurance, low income, limited education, and lack of transportation, have been widely reported as important contributors to socioeconomic disparities in diabetes outcomes (Harris 2001; McBean et al. 2003; Brown et al. 2004; Heisler et al. 2007). Even among individuals who are able to access medical care, however, socioeconomically disadvantaged patients experience poorer health out- comes (Karter et al. 2002; Trinacty et al. 2007) likely due to lower rates of performance of recommended processes of care in the clinic setting, and poorer individual health behaviors in daily life (Brown et al. 2004; Tseng et al. 2008; Moskowitz and Bodenheimer 2011).
Medication underuse has been implicated among those behaviors that contribute to poor health outcomes (Ho et al. 2006; Karter et al. 2009; Asche, LaFleur, and Conner 2011), particularly in socioeconomically disadvantaged populations (Osterberg and Blaschke 2005; Fischer et al. 2011). Examples of medication underuse include...
Chronological Listing
2018
Validating the total illness burden index for prostate cancer (TIBI-CaP) in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer: data from TRUMPET. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Comparison of primary compliance in electronic versus paper prescriptions prescribed from the emergency department. VIEW ON PUBMED→
2017
Evaluating the Validity and Reliability of the Beliefs About Medicines Questionnaire in Low-Income, Spanish-Speaking Patients With Diabetes in the United States. VIEW ON PUBMED →
The changing landscape of diabetes prevalence among first-generation Asian immigrants in California from 2003 to 2013. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Home Urodynamic Pressures and Volume Measurement for the Neurogenic Bladder: Initial Validation Study. VIEW ON PUBMED →
The Affordable Care Act: Disparities in emergency department use for mental health diagnoses in young adults. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Cardioprotective Effects of HSP72 Administration on Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury. VIEW ON PUBMED →
2016
Contributors to Patients' Ratings of Quality of Care Among Ethnically Diverse Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. VIEW ON PUBMED →
A theoretical model of how neighborhood factors contribute to medication nonadherence among disadvantaged chronically ill adults. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Endoscopic correction of vesicoureteral reflux simulator curriculum as an effective teaching tool: Pilot study. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Measurement of Differential Renal Function by Scintigraphy in Hydronephrotic Kidneys: Importance of Conjugate Views for Accurate Evaluation. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Sex Differences in the Relationship between Fitness and Obesity on Risk for Asthma in Adolescents. VIEW ON PUBMED →
The effects of sequential treatments on hippocampal volumes in malignant glioma patients. VIEW ON PUBMED →
2015
Understanding disparities in lipid management among patients with type 2 diabetes: gender differences in medication nonadherence after treatment intensification. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Substantial variation in hospital rankings after adjusting for hospital-level predictors of publicly-reported hospital-associated Clostridium difficile infection rates. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Mental health symptoms and patient-reported diabetes symptom burden: implications for medication regimen changes. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Effectiveness and feasibility of a software tool to help patients communicate with doctors about problems they face with their medication regimen (EMPATHy): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Predicting the Risk of Breakthrough Urinary Tract Infections: Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Quantifying the Exposure to Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens Among Patients Discharged From a Single Hospital Across All California Healthcare Facilities. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Differences in Self-Reported Physical Activity and Body Mass Index Among Older Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Men and Women: Findings from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Computer-Assisted Diabetes Risk Assessment and Education (CADRAE) for Medically Vulnerable Populations in the Middle East: a Novel and Practical Method for Prevention. VIEW ON PUBMED →
2014
Costs and beliefs: understanding individual- and neighborhood-level correlates of medication nonadherence among Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Effect of genetic subtypes and growth hormone treatment on bone mineral density in Prader-Willi syndrome. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Substantial shifts in ranking of California hospitals by hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection following adjustment for hospital characteristics and case mix. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use among non-Hispanic white, Mexican American, and Vietnamese American patients with type 2 diabetes. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Pain reduction and financial incentives to improve glucose monitoring adherence in a community health center. VIEW ON PUBMED →
2013
Patient complexity and risk factor control among multimorbid patients with type 2 diabetes: results from the R2D2C2 study. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Consideration of comorbidity in risk stratification prior to prostate biopsy. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Reducing racial/ethnic disparities in diabetes: the Coached Care (R2D2C2) project. VIEW ON PUBMED →
2012
Self-reported neighborhood safety and nonadherence to treatment regimens among patients with type 2 diabetes. VIEW ON PUBMED →
The effects of financial pressures on adherence and glucose control among racial/ethnically diverse patients with diabetes. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Dietary behaviors of a racially and ethnically diverse sample of overweight and obese Californians. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Food insecurity, processes of care, and self-reported medication underuse in patients with type 2 diabetes: results from the California Health Interview Survey. VIEW ON PUBMED →
2011
Underdiagnosed and undertreated depression among racially/ethnically diverse patients with type 2 diabetes. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Prevalence and significance of fluoroquinolone resistant Escherichia coli in patients undergoing transrectal ultrasound guided prostate needle biopsy. VIEW ON PUBMED →
2010
Who can respond to treatment? Identifying patient characteristics related to heterogeneity of treatment effects. VIEW ON PUBMED →
2009
Comorbidity affects the relationship between glycemic control and cardiovascular outcomes in diabetes: a cohort study. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Predicting changes in older adults' interpersonal control strivings. VIEW ON PUBMED →
Improving combined diabetes outcomes by adding a simple patient intervention to physician feedback: a cluster randomized trial. VIEW ON PUBMED →
2007
Limiting youth access to tobacco: comparing the long-term health impacts of increasing cigarette excise taxes and raising the legal smoking age to 21 in the United States. VIEW ON PUBMED →
2005
Estimating the health impacts of tobacco harm reduction policies: a simulation modeling approach. VIEW ON PUBMED →