Anita Stewart, PhD

RECALL FACULTY

Institute for Health Aging

Email

[email protected]

Campus Phone

+1 415 502-5207

Fax

+1 415 502-5208

Address Postal

3333 California Street, Rm 350E
UCSF Box 0646
San Francisco, CA 94118
United States

Websites

Biography at UCSF School of Nursing

Publications

Understanding racial/ethnic differences in breast cancer-related physical well-being: the role of patient-provider interactions.

Commentary: Copyright Restrictions Versus Open Access to Survey Instruments.

Recruitment and baseline characteristics of the Community of Voices choir study to promote the health and well-being of diverse older adults.

Evaluating the Implementation of a Translational Peer-Delivered Stress Management Program for Spanish-Speaking Latina Breast Cancer Survivors.

Post-Treatment Survivorship Care Needs of Spanish-speaking Latinas with Breast Cancer.

Development of a survey instrument to measure patient experience of integrated care.

Development of the Stress of Immigration Survey: A Field Test Among Mexican Immigrant Women.

Study protocol for a cluster randomized trial of the Community of Voices choir intervention to promote the health and well-being of diverse older adults.

Nuevo Amanecer: results of a randomized controlled trial of a community-based, peer-delivered stress management intervention to improve quality of life in Latinas with breast cancer.

Physician counseling on colorectal cancer screening and receipt of screening among Latino patients.

Day-to-Day Impact of Vaginal Aging questionnaire: a multidimensional measure of the impact of vaginal symptoms on functioning and well-being in postmenopausal women.

Defining novel health-related quality of life domains in lung transplantation: a qualitative analysis.

Maternal acculturation and the prenatal care experience.

Randomized controlled trial of Nuevo Amanecer: a peer-delivered stress management intervention for Spanish-speaking Latinas with breast cancer.

Methods for translating evidence-based behavioral interventions for health-disparity communities.

Asian Indian views on diet and health in the United States: importance of understanding cultural and social factors to address disparities.

Development and validation of a questionnaire to detect behavior change in multiple advance care planning behaviors.

Patient-physician interaction and quality of life in recently diagnosed breast cancer patients.

Self-reported interoceptive awareness in primary care patients with past or current low back pain.

Quality of life (QOL) of older adult community choral singers in Finland.

A community cohort study about childhood social and economic circumstances: racial/ethnic differences and associations with educational attainment and health of older adults.

Introduction to patient-reported outcome item banks: issues in minority aging research.

Patient perceptions of integrated care: confused by the term, clear on the concept.

The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA).

Fifteen years of progress in measurement and methods at the resource centers for minority aging research.

Interpersonal processes of care and cesarean delivery in two health care settings.

The Live Well, Be Well study: a community-based, translational lifestyle program to lower diabetes risk factors in ethnic minority and lower-socioeconomic status adults.

A framework for understanding modifications to measures for diverse populations.

Theory-guided selection of discrimination measures for racial/ ethnic health disparities research among older adults.

A randomized trial to assess the effect of a research informational pamphlet on telephone survey completion rates among older Latinos.

Development of the breast milk expression experience measure.

Validation of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale in older black and white women.

Reliability and validity of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale in older men.

An innovative multiphased strategy to recruit underserved adults into a randomized trial of a community-based diabetes risk reduction program.

Body Awareness: a phenomenological inquiry into the common ground of mind-body therapies.

The patient-reported Clinicians' Cultural Sensitivity Survey: a field test among older Latino primary care patients.

A comparison of item response theory-based methods for examining differential item functioning in object naming test by language of assessment among older Latinos.

Description of an academic community partnership lifestyle program for lower income minority adults at risk for diabetes.

Development and initial psychometric evaluation of the Patient Perspective of Arrhythmia Questionnaire.

Patient perception of symptoms and quality of life following ablation in patients with supraventricular tachycardia.

"Below average" self-assessed school performance and Alzheimer's disease in the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study.

Gender and racial differences in psychosocial factors of low-income patients with heart failure.

Interpersonal processes of care and patient satisfaction: do associations differ by race, ethnicity, and language?

Sexual function among overweight and obese women with urinary incontinence in a randomized controlled trial of an intensive behavioral weight loss intervention.

Depressive symptoms and perceived doctor-patient communication in the Heart and Soul study.

The development and validation of the HIV/AIDS Stigma Instrument - Nurse (HASI-N).

Improving physical activity resource guides to bridge the divide between the clinic and the community.

Perceptions of coronary heart disease risk in Korean immigrants with type 2 diabetes.

Self-care behaviors in indigent patients with heart failure.

The influence of depressive symptoms on clinician-patient communication among patients with type 2 diabetes.

Effects of acculturation on smoking behavior in Asian Americans: a meta-analysis.

Older adults' perspectives on key domains of childhood social and economic experiences and opportunities: a first step to creating a multidimensional measure.

Validation of the HIV/AIDS Stigma Instrument - PLWA (HASI-P).

Interpersonal processes of care survey: patient-reported measures for diverse groups.

A conceptual model of HIV/AIDS stigma from five African countries.

Resident perceptions of the impact of work hour limitations.

Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status and the health of pregnant women.

Changes in flexed posture, musculoskeletal impairments, and physical performance after group exercise in community-dwelling older women.

Psychometric characteristics of the spiritual perspective scale in pregnant African-American women.

An empirical evaluation of social support and psychological well-being in older Chinese and Korean immigrants.

Older African Americans' perceptions of pharmacists.

Talk with your pharmacists--they are there to help.

Measurement in a multi-ethnic society. Overview to the special issue.

Overview of qualitative methods in research with diverse populations. Making research reflect the population.

Using cognitive interviews to develop surveys in diverse populations.

Cultural factors associated with antihypertensive medication adherence in Chinese immigrants.

Multilevel perspectives on diffusing a physical activity promotion program to reach diverse older adults.

Diffusing a research-based physical activity promotion program for seniors into diverse communities: CHAMPS III.

Psychometric characteristics of a patient satisfaction instrument tailored to the concerns of African Americans.

The changing meaning of family support among older Chinese and Korean immigrants.

Prevalence and correlates of perceived societal racism in older African-American adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Patients' perspectives on how idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis affects the quality of their lives.

Measurement issues in health disparities research.

Physical activity counseling in primary care and patient well-being: Do patients benefit?

Psychoeducation to increase psychotherapy entry for older African Americans.

Health promotion and psychosocial services and women's assessments of interpersonal prenatal care in Medicaid managed care.

The California active aging community grant program: translating science into practice to promote physical activity in older adults.

Recruiting ethnically diverse general internal medicine patients for a telephone survey on physician-patient communication.

Assessing environmentally determined mobility disability: self-report versus observed community mobility.

Patients' perceptions of cultural factors affecting the quality of their medical encounters.

Changes in the health status of women during and after pregnancy.

Cultural factors and medication compliance in Chinese immigrants who are taking antihypertensive medications: instrument development.

Examining the types of social support and the actual sources of support in older Chinese and Korean immigrants.

Prepregnancy health status and the risk of preterm delivery.

The effectiveness of an advance notice letter on the recruitment of African Americans and Whites for a mailed patient satisfaction survey.

Consumer assessment of the quality of interpersonal processes of prenatal care among ethnically diverse low-income women: development of a new measure.

What explains differences between dementia patients' and their caregivers' ratings of patients' quality of life?

Women's initiative for non-smoking (WINS) VI: reliability and validity of health and psychosocial measures in women smokers with cardiovascular disease.

Measurement adequacy of parenting and children's functional status in African American and Latino families.

Effect of hysterectomy vs medical treatment on health-related quality of life and sexual functioning: the medicine or surgery (Ms) randomized trial.

Functional health literacy and the quality of physician-patient communication among diabetes patients.

Physician language ability and cultural competence. An exploratory study of communication with Spanish-speaking patients.

Advancing health disparities research: can we afford to ignore measurement issues?

Conceptual challenges in linking physical activity and disability research.

Loss of independence in activities of daily living in older adults hospitalized with medical illnesses: increased vulnerability with age.

Environmental components of mobility disability in community-living older persons.

"You aren't going to get better by just sitting around": physical activity perceptions, motivations, and barriers in adults 75 years of age or older.

Environmental demands associated with community mobility in older adults with and without mobility disabilities.

The effects of acute illness on ADL decline over 1 year in frail older adults with and without cognitive impairment.

The mediating effect of pain and fatigue on level of functioning in older adults.

Social support and abstinence from opiates and cocaine during opioid maintenance treatment.

Chronic disease self-management program: 2-year health status and health care utilization outcomes.

Physical activity outcomes of CHAMPS II: a physical activity promotion program for older adults.

CHAMPS physical activity questionnaire for older adults: outcomes for interventions.

An evaluation of three self-report physical activity instruments for older adults.

Factor variability of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) among urban Latinos.

Health-related quality-of-life assessments in diverse population groups in the United States.

Does Acculturation Influence Physical Activity in Japanese American Older Adults?

Evaluating advanced practice nursing care through use of a heuristic framework.

The use of refusal postcards in recruiting older adults.

Prevalence and correlates of physician recommendations to exercise among older adults.

Urge incontinence: new health-related quality of life measures.

Mobility-related function in older adults: assessment with a 6-minute walk test.

Further validation and reliability testing of the Trust in Physician Scale. The Stanford Trust Study Physicians.

Physical functioning: definitions, measurement, and expectations.

Conceptualization and measurement of quality of life in dementia: the dementia quality of life instrument (DQoL).

The concept of quality of life of dying persons in the context of health care.

Evidence suggesting that a chronic disease self-management program can improve health status while reducing hospitalization: a randomized trial.

Interpersonal processes of care in diverse populations.

Issues in measuring physical functioning and disability in arthritis patients.

Primary care and patient perceptions of access to care.

Evaluation of CHAMPS, a physical activity promotion program for older adults.

Measuring the need for medical care in an ethnically diverse population.

Primary care and receipt of preventive services.

Factors associated with enrollment of older adults into a physical activity promotion program.

Sleep problems and their correlates in a working population.

Development of a physical performance and mobility examination.

Long-term functioning and well-being outcomes associated with physical activity and exercise in patients with chronic conditions in the Medical Outcomes Study.

Endurance exercise and health-related quality of life in 50-65 year-old adults.

Do depressed patients in different treatment settings have different levels of well-being and functioning?

The 'states versus weights' dilemma in quality of life measurement.

Functional status and well-being of patients with chronic conditions. Results from the Medical Outcomes Study.

The MOS short-form general health survey. Reliability and validity in a patient population.

Advances in the measurement of functional status: construction of aggregate indexes.

Interest

Cultural Diversity

Health Care Surveys

Minority Groups

Patient Satisfaction

Ethnic Groups