Publications by authors named "V Beckham"
This exploratory quantitative study examined college students' social-psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample included 1,723 students (undergraduate and graduate) at a public research university. Paired samples t-test were utilized to compare students' social-psychological well-being pre-pandemic, at the start of the Fall 2020 semester, and toward the end of the Fall 2020 semester.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSelf-management is an essential but frequently neglected component of chronic illness management that is challenging to implement. Available effectiveness data regarding self-management interventions tend to be from stand-alone programs rather than from efforts to integrate self-management into routine medical care. This article describes efforts to integrate self-management support into broader health care systems change to improve the quality of patient care in the Chronic Illness Care Breakthrough Series.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study of 501 patients aged > or =70 years hospitalized with congestive heart failure, 34.1% had normal left ventricular systolic function. Reduced left ventricular ejection fraction was an independent predictor of an adverse prognosis at 3 months but not at 1 year.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The objectives of this investigation were to prospectively assess medication compliance rates in elderly patients with congestive heart failure, to identify factors associated with reduced compliance, and to evaluate the effect of a multidisciplinary treatment approach on medication adherence.
Patients And Methods: A total of 156 patients > or = 70 years of age (mean, 79.4 +/- 6.