Vaccination intention and uptake within the Black community in Appalachia.

Objective: Black communities have disproportionately experienced adverse health effects from the COVID-19 pandemic while simultaneously having less vaccination access and decreased vaccine utilization. As such, predictors of vaccination uptake within Black communities are a public health imperative. Black Americans from socio-geographic regions associated with health inequities (e.

Descriptive Analysis of Current Burn Care for Plain Communities in Ohio and Pennsylvania: A Qualitative Study of Strengths and Needs in a Hospital-Community Partnership.

Plain communities present with a higher risk of sustaining burn injuries. Yet, little is known about the hospital-community partnerships with Plain caretakers to facilitate culturally competent burn care. The current study provides a qualitative analysis of Plain caretakers' perspectives on an existing hospital-community partnership for facilitating culturally sensitive burn care and their perspectives on the ongoing physical, structural, and behavioral health needs of this population.

Predictors of use of dental care by children in north-central Appalachia in the USA.

Use of dental services in childhood, especially preventive care, is associated with many important oral health outcomes throughout life. The Andersen behavioral model of healthcare utilization posits that predisposing characteristics, enabling resources, and need factors predict utilization in oral and other healthcare domains. Inequities that produce lower utilization of dental services in north-central Appalachia have been documented in comparison to the USA generally.

The Role of Distress Tolerance as a Potential Mechanism Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Gut-Specific Anxiety.

Background: The link between anxiety/fear and gut dysfunction has been robustly documented in both physical and mental health literatures. The current study explored distress tolerance as a potential mechanism in the relation between anxiety sensitivity and gut-specific anxiety.

Method: A cross-sectional sample of 828 adults completed measures of distress tolerance, gut-specific anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity.

Using Bacterial Transcriptomics to Investigate Targets of Host-Bacterial Interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans.

The interactions between a host and its resident microbes form complicated networks that can affect host physiology. Disentangling these host-microbe interactions can help us better understand mechanisms by which bacteria affect hosts, while also defining the integral commensal protection that host-associated microbiota offer to promote health. Here we utilize a tractable genetic model organism, Caenorhabditis elegans, to study the effects of host environments on bacterial gene expression and metabolic pathways.