Unmarried Black Women's Sexual Socialization: The Role of Dating, Motherhood, and Intimate Partner Violence Across Media Types.

The terms single and singlehood conflate marital (e.g. divorced, widowed, and never married) and relationship (e.

Beyond Access and Exposure: Implications of Sneaky Media Use for Preschoolers' Sleep Behavior.

Greater consumption of and access to screen media are known correlates of unhealthy sleep behavior in preschoolers. What remains unknown, however, is the role a child's media use plays in this association. Parents and guardians of U.

Food brand recognition and BMI in preschoolers.

Children's food brand recognition predicts health-related outcomes such as preference for obesogenic foods and increased risk for overweight. However, it is uncertain to what degree food brand recognition acts as a proxy for other factors such as parental education and income, child vocabulary, child age, child race/ethnicity, parent healthy eating guidance, child commercial TV viewing, and child dietary intake, all of which may influence or be influenced by food brand recognition. U.

Gender, Race, and Risk: Intersectional Risk Management in the Sale of Sex Online.

Sex worker experience of risk (e.g., physical violence or rape) is shaped by race, gender, and context.

Challenges in making therapeutic lifestyle changes among hypercholesterolemic African-American patients and their physicians.

Objective: We explored challenges faced by hypercholesterolemic African-American primary care patients and their physicians regarding therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) and provide patient-influenced recommendations to physicians.

Methods: In this qualitative study, 23 urban family medicine patients and their physicians (N=12) participated in separate focus groups, where they were asked semistructured, open-ended questions about knowledge and barriers to lifestyle treatment of high cholesterol.

Results: During the focus groups, barriers mentioned by physicians were: lack of time for TLC counseling, inadequate knowledge about counseling patients, and patient readiness and responsibility to change.