Volume 58, Issue 5, May 2024

Stress from mistreatment due to being a Black woman is associated with endorsing a need to be strong, which is associated with avoiding experiences that may lead to negative emotional states and being less accepting of distressing thoughts about food, which are each associated with more emotional eating among Black young adult women.

Combining telephone-based patient navigation with a mailed, tailored digital video disc increased CRC screening by four-fold among low income and minority patients who did not attend their screening colonoscopy appointments.

Psychological characteristics of patients with coronary heart disease are associated with health behavior adherence and patients with high levels of anxiety, pessimism, and low to middle resilience levels may disproportionately benefit from cardiac rehabilitation.

Insufficiently active adults who received small monetary incentives for meeting daily physical activity goals showed an increased preference for immediate rewards, yet this reported change did not mediate the sustained improvement in their objective physical activity levels. This result suggests that while monetary incentives may alter reward preferences, they do not compromise long-term physical activity gains.

We found prospective, reciprocal relationships between child and caregiver tooth brushing behaviors, but only among caregivers who received a child oral health text message intervention and had low depressive symptoms

Exercise intervention dropout appears to be genetically moderated through alterations in gene expression and metabolic pathways in skeletal muscle among sedentary adults with overweight or obesity and cardiometabolic disease.