C Michael Brooks

• Assessing Adherence to Asthma Medication and Inhaler Regimens

  C Michael Brooks, James M Richards et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1994

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  Poor adherence to recommended regimens is a substantial problem in the clinical management of adults with asthma and other chronic diseases. Research on adherence assessment is complicated by methodological difficulties including limitations associated with the use of self-report measures. In this study, psychometric techniques were used to analyze two self-report scales for assessing adherence to recommended medication and inhaler use regimens i…

• Subjective symptomatology of asthma in an outpatient population

  C Michael Brooks, James Richards et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•1989

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  Characteristics of subjective symptomatology of asthma were examined within a group of 132 adult asthma patients receiving medical care in a university-based, ambulatory clinic setting. Patients responded to 36 symptom descriptions or adjectives associated with asthma which were included in a modified version of the Asthma Symptoms Checklist (ASC). A principal components exploratory factor analysis was conducted and five factors were identified. …

• Validity of the Allied Health Aptitude Test in a Respiratory Therapy Education Program

  Open Access•James M Richards, James Richards et al.•ARTICLE•Educational and Psychological…•1986

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  Scores on the Allied Health Aptitude Test and previous GPAs for 102 students were correlated with a dichotomous measure of their persistence and their GPAs in the Respiratory Therapy program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The multiple correlation for predicting grades was .62, and for predicting persistence was .47. These results are comparable to those obtained in other academic prediction studies and support the validity of this te…

• Validity of the Allied Health Aptitude Test in a Respiratory Therapy Education Program

  Open Access•James M Richards, James Richards et al.•ARTICLE•Educational and Psychological…•1986

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  Scores on the Allied Health Aptitude Test and previous GPAs for 102 students were correlated with a dichotomous measure of their persistence and their GPAs in the Respiratory Therapy program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The multiple correlation for predicting grades was .62, and for predicting persistence was .47. These results are comparable to those obtained in other academic prediction studies and support the validity of this te…

• Subjective symptomatology of asthma in an outpatient population

  C Michael Brooks, James Richards et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•1989

  Añadir item

  Characteristics of subjective symptomatology of asthma were examined within a group of 132 adult asthma patients receiving medical care in a university-based, ambulatory clinic setting. Patients responded to 36 symptom descriptions or adjectives associated with asthma which were included in a modified version of the Asthma Symptoms Checklist (ASC). A principal components exploratory factor analysis was conducted and five factors were identified. …

• Assessing Adherence to Asthma Medication and Inhaler Regimens

  C Michael Brooks, James M Richards et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1994

  Añadir item

  Poor adherence to recommended regimens is a substantial problem in the clinical management of adults with asthma and other chronic diseases. Research on adherence assessment is complicated by methodological difficulties including limitations associated with the use of self-report measures. In this study, psychometric techniques were used to analyze two self-report scales for assessing adherence to recommended medication and inhaler use regimens i…

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