Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Children (3)
- Pain (3)
- Pediatric (3)
- Psychology (3)
- Asthma (2)
-
- Covid-19 (2)
- Epidemiology (2)
- Opioids (2)
- Pediatric pain (2)
- Recovery (2)
- Smoking (2)
- Accelerometer (1)
- Adaptive goals (1)
- Adenoidectomy (1)
- Adolescents (1)
- Adult Health (1)
- Aging (1)
- Air pollution (1)
- Alcohol consumption (1)
- Amazon Alexa (1)
- Ambulatory surgery (1)
- Analgesia (1)
- Asthma symptoms (1)
- Attitudes (1)
- Autism (1)
- Automatic variable selectionlogistic regressionnonconcurrences of habits (1)
- Awair Device (1)
- Bayley (1)
- Behavior Change (1)
- Behaviors (1)
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 31 - 32 of 32
Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Identifying Behavioral Differences Between People With And Without Previous Cancer Diagnosis, Kyle Anderson, Lisa Sparks, Jianwei Zhang, Cyril Rakovski
Identifying Behavioral Differences Between People With And Without Previous Cancer Diagnosis, Kyle Anderson, Lisa Sparks, Jianwei Zhang, Cyril Rakovski
Communication Faculty Articles and Research
We undertake a study to determine and assess the effects of the statistically significant predictors of the behaviors and notions that are associated with a cancer diagnosis using the 2014 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) data. We implemented a new and extensive logistic regression modeling using stepwise variable selection and jackknife parameter estimation that identified the best explanatory model. Our results show that age, average time spent watching TV or playing games, usage of sunscreen, fruit intake intent, and the opinion-based variables for behaviors affecting high blood pressure, as well as the participant preference of not knowing the chance …
The Project Talent Twin And Sibling Study: Zygosity And New Data Collection, Carol A. Prescott, Ellen E. Walters, Thalida Em Arpawong, Catalina Zavala, Tara L. Gruenewald, Margaret Gatz
The Project Talent Twin And Sibling Study: Zygosity And New Data Collection, Carol A. Prescott, Ellen E. Walters, Thalida Em Arpawong, Catalina Zavala, Tara L. Gruenewald, Margaret Gatz
Psychology Faculty Articles and Research
The Project Talent Twin and Sibling (PTTS) study includes 4481 multiples and their 522 nontwin siblings from 2233 families. The sample was drawn from Project Talent, a U.S. national longitudinal study of 377,000 individuals born 1942–1946, first assessed in 1960 and representative of U.S. students in secondary school (Grades 9–12). In addition to the twins and triplets, the 1960 dataset includes 84,000 siblings from 40,000 other families. This design is both genetically informative and unique in facilitating separation of the ‘common’ environment into three sources of variation: shared by all siblings within a family, specific to twin-pairs, and associated with …