Publications – Hopkins Housing & Health Collaborative
- BackgroundMessaging strategies hold promise to reduce breast cancer overscreening. However, it is not known whether they may have differential effects among medical maximizers who prefer to take action about their health versus medical minimizers who prefer to wait and see.MethodsIn a randomized controlled survey experiment that included 2 sequential surveys with 3,041 women aged 65+ […]
- CONCLUSIONS: Among recently hospitalized persons receiving skilled home health care, CAPABLE did not improve ADLs. However, it improved functional mobility and benefited those with ≥ 4 comorbidities. This study provides novel information on targeting CAPABLE in the post-hospitalization period.
- CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this retrospective cohort study of postpartum and interval sterilizations, surgeons who previously shared patients with other physicians with high rates of opportunistic salpingectomy use were more likely to adopt opportunistic salpingectomy in their own subsequent practice. These results suggest physician peer influence in salpingectomy uptake.
- CONCLUSIONS: High maternal prepregnancy BMI was associated with a stepwise increase in offspring BMI in childhood. Preterm children had a higher probability of elevated blood pressure/hypertension than term children. These findings highlight a possible window of opportunity to modify lifestyles and behavior of at-risk children prior to adolescence to positively impact adolescent cardiometabolic health.
- CONCLUSION: These categories were interdependent and spanned across life stages, illustrating the dynamic, cumulative and relational qualities of structural resilience. Furthermore, structural resources were identified as key to safeguarding, empowering and restorative responses to adversity.
- BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is a global public health issue, which has prompted governments to invest in prevention programmes. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of parent-focused early childhood obesity prevention interventions globally.
- CONCLUSIONS: While OS increased over time, a substantial proportion of physicians remained low adopters. Geographic and demographic differences in adoption suggest potential inequitable access.
- CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Even among cognitively intact older adults, subtle global cognitive decline predicted higher risk of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, insomnia, falls, and impaired daily functioning. Profiles with orientation deficits were vulnerable to depression, shopping, and banking difficulties, whereas global impairment with preserved orientation was linked to increased anxiety symptoms. Implementing early cognitive screening […]
- INTRODUCTION: Low-income adults with disabilities experience disproportionately high rates of food insecurity and preventable healthcare utilisation. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) can reduce food insecurity and improve health, but there are accessibility gaps in the SNAP enrolment process. Existing outreach and enrolment assistance programmes have been shown to boost SNAP enrolment, but their health […]
- No abstract
- ObjectivesSocial isolation has negative health implications for older adults and caregivers. We examine the interdependency of social isolation among community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries and their primary caregivers.MethodsUsing data from the National Study of Caregiving and the National Health and Aging Trends Study (2015-2017, N = 522 dyads), we conducted actor-partner interdependence models to examine the dyadic […]
- CONCLUSIONS: Sleep disturbance was an independent risk factor of future cognitive decline in older adults ≥65 years with SCD. Sleep treatment may mitigate this decline, offering a potential intervention strategy.
- Public housing in the United States is often depicted as areas of decay and using racialized tropes about low-income communities of color. Despite these negative portrayals, residents of public housing often characterize their place as meaningful homes where they engage in place-making and community-building to challenge their social marginalization. The presence of strong connections to […]
- Social isolation is a complex problem that harms mental and physical well-being. Older adults living in subsidized housing communities are at high risk for social isolation despite these being congregate settings. Few strategies exist to address this herculean challenge. Nevertheless, human-centered design (HCD) has the potential to yield innovative solutions amid complexity. This collaborative process […]
- CONCLUSIONS: Most older women perceived that it was ethically appropriate for doctors to share messages aimed at reducing breast cancer over-screening with patients.