Publications by authors named "Beth Stringfield"
The job-demand-control-support model indicates that clergy are at high risk for chronic stress and adverse health outcomes. A multi-group pre-test-post-test design was used to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and range of outcome effect sizes for four potentially stress-reducing interventions: stress inoculation training, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), the Daily Examen, and Centering Prayer. All United Methodist clergy in North Carolina were eligible and recruited via email to attend their preferred intervention.
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- - The study explored Latinx immigrants' views on US policies that restrict their access to public resources and how these policies affect their use of healthcare services.
- - Through 16 focus group discussions with 130 Latinx immigrants, four key themes emerged: perceptions of limited healthcare resources, fears about immigration consequences from seeking medical care, avoidance of entitled health services, and the impact of accurate vs. inaccurate information on healthcare access.
- - Participants were aware of the negative portrayal of immigrants as burdens on public resources, leading to misunderstandings about laws and regulations that hindered their healthcare utilization; thus, providing clear information is essential to combat misinformation and improve immigrant access to healthcare.
Accurate HCV knowledge is lacking among high-risk groups, including people with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Liver disease primarily due to HCV has emerged as a serious cause of mortality among PLWHA. We used an Interrupted Time Series design to evaluate a social-ecologically based intervention for PLWHA, where an infectious disease clinic serving a six-county intervention area was monitored before (7 months) and after (17 months) intervention onset.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Liver disease associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a serious cause of mortality among people living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) (PLWHA). Little is known about the HCV knowledge of PLWHA.
Methods: One hundred seventy-nine patients at an infectious disease clinic were interviewed on HCV knowledge and alcohol use.