Evaluating Ten Top Tips (10TT): Brief Dietary and Physical Activity Counseling in Rural Overweight and Obese Adults.

Adults living in rural areas are at greater risk of becoming overweight and obese due to health care disparities. A pre-/postmatched cohort design was used to evaluate a brief weight-loss counseling intervention, Ten Top Tips (10TT), in a rural primary care setting. The rank sum scores for total weight-loss behaviors and the subscales for dietary changes, self-monitoring, physical activity, and psychological coping taken before and 12 weeks after the intervention differed significantly (P = .

The stressors of being young and Black: Cardiovascular health and Black young adults.

Objective: To examine the impact of stressors relevant to the lives of Black young adults including racial, financial, occupational, and general stress and psychological distress on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Specifically, this study examined the relationship between multiple psychosocial stressors and two CVD risk indicators (i.e.

Trait anxiety reduces affective fading for both positive and negative autobiographical memories.

The affect associated with negative events fades faster than the affect associated with positive events (the Fading Affect Bias; the FAB). The research that we report examined the relation between trait anxiety and the FAB. Study 1 assessed anxiety using the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale; Studies 2 and 3 used the Beck Anxiety Inventory.

Accepting transitions: African Americans discuss end of life.

Background: African Americans typically underuse hospice care; this study explores their end of life attitudes.

Methods: An iterative focus group strategy generated qualitative data using 4 baseline groups and 1 confirmatory focus group recruited from predominantly African American churches. Each group consisted of 8 to 14 adults.

Gender differences in affective suffering among racial/ethnically diverse, community-dwelling elders.

Objective. Copious research shows a female excess of unipolar depression. The generalizability of this finding is examined in a racial/ethnically diverse, community-residing, elder sample.

Barriers to hospice use and palliative care services use by African American adults.

Unlabelled: This study explored the reasons for low levels of hospice participation by African Americans.

Methods: Data about attitudes toward dying and death, advanced directives, and barriers to using hospice services were collected from 314 adults attending 11 diversely populated churches in North Carolina.

Results: Almost all participants indicated (91%) willingness to use hospice, particularly if the hospice team were diverse (77%).