Usha Menon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 87647 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Usha Menon |
| NOMBRES | Usha |
| APELLIDO | Menon |
| FIRMA | MENON U |
| AFILIACIONES | Drexel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5217-8068 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Breast Cancer Screening Barriers Among Southeast Asian Women in a Culturally Tailored Navigation Intervention
Southeast Asian cancer screening rates are alarmingly the lowest across all racial and ethnic groups in the United States. This paper examines barriers to breast cancer screening among Southeast Asian women, an understudied and underserved subgroup within the broader Asian American population, participating in a culturally tailored navigation intervention. A total of 194 women were randomly assigned to either the intervention–Tailored Messaging S…
Cultural and social influences on women’s experiences of sex and intimacy after cancer
Little is known about the influence of culture or membership of a minoritised group, on the sexual health of women with cancer. The goal of this study was to explore sexual health and relationship experiences of diverse women cancer survivors. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eleven partnered women surviving cancer who self-identified as members of a minoritised group, including sexual minorities, immigrants, and women of colour, wi…
Subjective Experiences of Spanish-Speaking Patients Residing in the United States With Low English Proficiency Learning to Manage Their Diabetes
Introduction: Language discordance is a known barrier to diabetes care in patients with type 2 diabetes. This study aimed to better understand the subjective experiences of a group of Spanish-speaking study participants with low English proficiency who were learning to manage their diabetes using a language-concordant health coaching intervention. Methodology: This qualitative exploratory study used structured interview data to understand subject…
Community-engaged Research Disruption
Continuing to engage the communities in our study is critical to our long-term goal of eliminating cancer screening disparities in Southeast Asian immigrant communities
A Cultural‐Based approach to address substance use among urban Native American young adults
Native American young adults residing in urban communities are particularly vulnerable to substance use. After leaving high school, the pressures and stress of continuing education, finding employment, and the responsibilities related to family and tribal community obligations predispose these young adults to substance use. This study used a pre/post test design to evaluate a cultural‐based Talking Circle intervention for the prevention of substa…
Adapting a conceptual framework to engage diverse stakeholders in genomic/precision medicine research
INTRODUCTION: Genomic/precision medicine offers a remarkable opportunity to improve health and address health disparities. Genomic medicine is the study of genes and their interaction with health. Precision medicine is an approach to disease prevention and treatment that considers individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle. Conclusions from studies lacking diversity may hinder generalizability as genomic variation occurs within an…
Startup and implementation costs of a colorectal cancer screening tailored navigation research study
Communicating and Coaching in Spanish for Chronic Care
BACKGROUND: Language barriers affect millions of health care consumers each year in the United States. One in five U.S. residents over the age of 5 years speaks a language other than English. METHOD: A multidisciplinary team consisting of applied linguists and nurse educators developed a graduate elective for nursing students who demonstrated a minimum Spanish proficiency level. The course was organized around three core content components: manag…
Understanding traditional and modern eating
Across the world, there has been a movement from traditional to modern eating, including a movement of traditional eating patterns from their origin culture to new cultures, and the emergence of new foods and eating behaviors. This trend toward modern eating is of particular significance because traditional eating has been related to positive health outcomes and sustainability. Yet, there is no consensus on what constitutes traditional and modern…
Association between skirt size and chronic liver disease in post-menopausal women
UKCTOCS is registered as an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial, number ISRCTN22488978 . Registered 06/04/2000
Universalism without Uniformity
Culturally Relevant Human Subjects Protection Training
Risk of chronic liver disease in post-menopausal women due to body mass index, alcohol and their interaction
UKCTOCS is registered as an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial, number ISRCTN22488978 . Registered 06/04/2000
Dietary Profiles of First-Generation South Asian Indian Adolescents in the United States
Korean American Women and Mammogram Uptake
Socioeconomic indicators of health inequalities and female mortality
This study is registered as an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial, number ISRCTN22488978
Perceived Discrimination and Its Associations With Mental Health and Substance Use Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Undergraduate and Graduate Students
These findings suggested the negative effect of racial discrimination on API students' mental health. The buffering effect of ethnic identity may increase resilience in these students when they face racial discrimination
Old questions for the new anthropology of morality
The return of anthropological interest to the descriptive study of the moral foundations of social life is a very welcome development. Nevertheless, if there is going to be a new anthropology of morality, it must have something new to say about some very old questions. The first is the analytic question: what counts as a morality? The second and third are descriptive questions: is some idea of an objective moral charter a feature of human social …
Women, Wellbeing, and the Ethics of Domesticity in an Odia Hindu Temple Town
Women, Wellbeing, and the Ethics of Domesticity
The Hindu Concept of Self-refinement
The article suggests that self-refinement is a significant meta-concept in the Hindu world because it undergirds so much of Hindu thought and behaviour. Unlike purity/pollution or auspiciousness/inauspiciousness, self-refinement has not garnered the same degree of scholarly attention—perhaps because it has not been explicitly lexicalised in Sanskrit. However, this article contends that together with the concepts mentioned above, a focus on self-r…
Mixed methods evaluation of well-being benefits derived from a heritage-in-health intervention with hospital patients
Heritage-in-health sessions enhanced positive mood and social interaction, endorsing the need for provision of well-being-related museum and gallery activities for socially excluded or vulnerable healthcare audiences
Heritage, health and well-being
Do museums and other heritage organisations have something to offer the healthcare sector? Do they have a role in improving health and well-being? Increasingly both heritage and healthcare organisations think they do. A broader definition of health including well-being and an emphasis on preventative medicine and multi-agency approaches to care within the UK’s National Health Service has facilitated the work of museums and galleries in this area.…
Withdrawal or Second Childhood
Investigating the therapeutic potential of a heritage-object focused intervention
This study explores the therapeutic potential of heritage-object handling in nurse-patient encounters with women facing cancer. Ten women participated in an object-focused conversation with a nurse specialist. Sessions were audio-tape recorded and transcribed. Kleinian theory framed the analysis to reveal the individual ways women 'used' the object in the session. Professionally observed heritage-object handling provides an aid to discussion with…
Perceived Discrimination and Its Associations With Mental Health and Substance Use Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Undergraduate and Graduate Students
These findings suggested the negative effect of racial discrimination on API students' mental health. The buffering effect of ethnic identity may increase resilience in these students when they face racial discrimination
Heritage, health and well-being
Do museums and other heritage organisations have something to offer the healthcare sector? Do they have a role in improving health and well-being? Increasingly both heritage and healthcare organisations think they do. A broader definition of health including well-being and an emphasis on preventative medicine and multi-agency approaches to care within the UK’s National Health Service has facilitated the work of museums and galleries in this area.…
A Breast Cancer Fear Scale
Fear of breast cancer has been inversely associated with participation in screening. However, investigators have generally used only one item or global scales to measure fear. This report describes development of a fear scale specific to breast cancer. Data from a large study involving mammography adherence were used to test the breast cancer fear scale for validity and reliability. Construct validity was verified through factor analysis and regr…
Investigating the therapeutic potential of a heritage-object focused intervention
This study explores the therapeutic potential of heritage-object handling in nurse-patient encounters with women facing cancer. Ten women participated in an object-focused conversation with a nurse specialist. Sessions were audio-tape recorded and transcribed. Kleinian theory framed the analysis to reveal the individual ways women 'used' the object in the session. Professionally observed heritage-object handling provides an aid to discussion with…
Analyzing Emotions as Culturally Constructed Scripts
In this essay, I comment on some of the points Ratner makes in his paper, 'A Cultural-Psychological Analysis of Emotions' (Ratner, 2000). I suggest that, as Ratner implies, emotions are best understood as cognitive appraisals of situations or events that are made on the basis of cultural beliefs and norms, and that implicate the self, deeply and importantly. I also argue that while it is necessary to distinguish between emotions and bodily feelin…
Mixed methods evaluation of well-being benefits derived from a heritage-in-health intervention with hospital patients
Heritage-in-health sessions enhanced positive mood and social interaction, endorsing the need for provision of well-being-related museum and gallery activities for socially excluded or vulnerable healthcare audiences
Old questions for the new anthropology of morality
The return of anthropological interest to the descriptive study of the moral foundations of social life is a very welcome development. Nevertheless, if there is going to be a new anthropology of morality, it must have something new to say about some very old questions. The first is the analytic question: what counts as a morality? The second and third are descriptive questions: is some idea of an objective moral charter a feature of human social …
Women and Household Labour
Withdrawal or Second Childhood
Generic well-being outcomes
The concept of well-being is now widely used in policy, including in the museum sector. This article addresses the need for museums to understand and be able to measure their contribution to this increasingly important instrumental value, if they are to engage with the policy. However, due to the indefinite and inconsistent definition of the concept, it is difficult to know what to measure. There are also difficulties capturing this amorphous out…
Making Śakti
This article examines the meanings embedded in the Hindu concept of sakti, often glossed as 'female energy/ power. " Hindus believe that such sakti energizes the universe. Women, as females, share in the sakti of Devi, the Great Goddess of Hinduism, and are thought to embody it. However, such embodiment does not, in and of itself, result in the ability to exercise power and authority in socially and culturally meaningful ways. For Hindu women to …
Do women participate in riots? exploring the notion of ‘militancy’ among Hindu women
Over the last decade, leftists and feminists have written on the success that nationalist parties in India have enjoyed in mobilizing Hindu women to perpetrate violence on Muslims during religious riots. Based on fieldwork done in two Indian cities – Bombay and Meerut – I question the validity of this thesis. I argue that this particular representation of Hindu women's militancy is driven less by empirical data and more by the ideological agenda …
A Cultural‐Based approach to address substance use among urban Native American young adults
Native American young adults residing in urban communities are particularly vulnerable to substance use. After leaving high school, the pressures and stress of continuing education, finding employment, and the responsibilities related to family and tribal community obligations predispose these young adults to substance use. This study used a pre/post test design to evaluate a cultural‐based Talking Circle intervention for the prevention of substa…
The Need for Enemies
The Need for Enemies:. Bestiary of Political Forms. F. G. Bailey. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 223 pp
Women and Household Labour
The Need for Enemies
The Need for Enemies:. Bestiary of Political Forms. F. G. Bailey. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 223 pp
Analyzing Emotions as Culturally Constructed Scripts
In this essay, I comment on some of the points Ratner makes in his paper, 'A Cultural-Psychological Analysis of Emotions' (Ratner, 2000). I suggest that, as Ratner implies, emotions are best understood as cognitive appraisals of situations or events that are made on the basis of cultural beliefs and norms, and that implicate the self, deeply and importantly. I also argue that while it is necessary to distinguish between emotions and bodily feelin…
Indian Thought and Modern Psychology in the West
Making Śakti
This article examines the meanings embedded in the Hindu concept of sakti, often glossed as 'female energy/ power. " Hindus believe that such sakti energizes the universe. Women, as females, share in the sakti of Devi, the Great Goddess of Hinduism, and are thought to embody it. However, such embodiment does not, in and of itself, result in the ability to exercise power and authority in socially and culturally meaningful ways. For Hindu women to …
Do women participate in riots? exploring the notion of ‘militancy’ among Hindu women
Over the last decade, leftists and feminists have written on the success that nationalist parties in India have enjoyed in mobilizing Hindu women to perpetrate violence on Muslims during religious riots. Based on fieldwork done in two Indian cities – Bombay and Meerut – I question the validity of this thesis. I argue that this particular representation of Hindu women's militancy is driven less by empirical data and more by the ideological agenda …
A Breast Cancer Fear Scale
Fear of breast cancer has been inversely associated with participation in screening. However, investigators have generally used only one item or global scales to measure fear. This report describes development of a fear scale specific to breast cancer. Data from a large study involving mammography adherence were used to test the breast cancer fear scale for validity and reliability. Construct validity was verified through factor analysis and regr…
Interactive, Culturally Sensitive Education on Colorectal Cancer Screening
BACKGROUND: Increasing colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) can have a substantial positive impact on morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this report is to describe the development and feasibility testing of a computer-based, theory-guided educational program designed to increase CRCS. RESEARCH DESIGN: This mixed-methods study used focus groups and subsequent randomized controlled trial design. SUBJECTS: Participants (N = 199) were …
Assess the Effects of Culturally Relevant Intervention on Breast Cancer Knowledge, Beliefs, and Mammography Use Among Korean American Women
The Three Selves of Adulthood
Generic well-being outcomes
The concept of well-being is now widely used in policy, including in the museum sector. This article addresses the need for museums to understand and be able to measure their contribution to this increasingly important instrumental value, if they are to engage with the policy. However, due to the indefinite and inconsistent definition of the concept, it is difficult to know what to measure. There are also difficulties capturing this amorphous out…
Withdrawal or Second Childhood
Investigating the therapeutic potential of a heritage-object focused intervention
This study explores the therapeutic potential of heritage-object handling in nurse-patient encounters with women facing cancer. Ten women participated in an object-focused conversation with a nurse specialist. Sessions were audio-tape recorded and transcribed. Kleinian theory framed the analysis to reveal the individual ways women 'used' the object in the session. Professionally observed heritage-object handling provides an aid to discussion with…
Women, Wellbeing, and the Ethics of Domesticity in an Odia Hindu Temple Town
Women, Wellbeing, and the Ethics of Domesticity
The Hindu Concept of Self-refinement
The article suggests that self-refinement is a significant meta-concept in the Hindu world because it undergirds so much of Hindu thought and behaviour. Unlike purity/pollution or auspiciousness/inauspiciousness, self-refinement has not garnered the same degree of scholarly attention—perhaps because it has not been explicitly lexicalised in Sanskrit. However, this article contends that together with the concepts mentioned above, a focus on self-r…
Mixed methods evaluation of well-being benefits derived from a heritage-in-health intervention with hospital patients
Heritage-in-health sessions enhanced positive mood and social interaction, endorsing the need for provision of well-being-related museum and gallery activities for socially excluded or vulnerable healthcare audiences
Heritage, health and well-being
Do museums and other heritage organisations have something to offer the healthcare sector? Do they have a role in improving health and well-being? Increasingly both heritage and healthcare organisations think they do. A broader definition of health including well-being and an emphasis on preventative medicine and multi-agency approaches to care within the UK’s National Health Service has facilitated the work of museums and galleries in this area.…
Perceived Discrimination and Its Associations With Mental Health and Substance Use Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Undergraduate and Graduate Students
These findings suggested the negative effect of racial discrimination on API students' mental health. The buffering effect of ethnic identity may increase resilience in these students when they face racial discrimination
Old questions for the new anthropology of morality
The return of anthropological interest to the descriptive study of the moral foundations of social life is a very welcome development. Nevertheless, if there is going to be a new anthropology of morality, it must have something new to say about some very old questions. The first is the analytic question: what counts as a morality? The second and third are descriptive questions: is some idea of an objective moral charter a feature of human social …
Korean American Women and Mammogram Uptake
Socioeconomic indicators of health inequalities and female mortality
This study is registered as an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial, number ISRCTN22488978
Dietary Profiles of First-Generation South Asian Indian Adolescents in the United States
Universalism without Uniformity
Culturally Relevant Human Subjects Protection Training
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