Margaret Shandor Miles
Biographic Data
| ID | 113183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Shandor Miles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret Shandor |
| FAMILY NAME | Miles |
| SIGNATURE | MILES M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Across the Miles
CABs can make a critical difference in conducting culturally appropriate and successful research in rural communities
Acceptability of a Mobile Health Unit for Rural HIV Clinical Trial Enrollment and Participation
Community-Based HIV Clinical Trials
Background-Although racial and ethnic minorities have disproportionately high rates of HIV infection, these groups are underrepresented in HIV-related clinical trials. This illustrates the need for more innovation in attempts to engage underrepresented populations in calls for interdisciplinary and translational research
Community-Based HIV Clinical Trials
These findings support calls for more relevant, translational, and engaged research. An integrated approach may be an important innovation to transform the research enterprise to meet these goals and more directly improve the health of individuals
HIV Interventions to Reduce HIV/Aids Stigma
Silent Endurance and Profound Loneliness
We explored how community responses to HIV contribute to distress in African Americans living with HIV in the rural South of the United States. We listened to the voices of community members through focus groups and African Americans with HIV through interviews. Community avoidance of HIV, negative views of HIV, and discriminatory behavior powerfully affected the distress of people living with HIV (PLWH). Ongoing distress, coupled with limited su…
Spirituality in African Americans With Diabetes
The purpose of this study was to develop a theoretical model about how the spirituality of African Americans affects their self-management of diabetes. The sample consisted of 29 African American men and women, ages 40 to 75, with type 2 diabetes. The authors used a grounded theory design and collected data using minimally structured interviews. The method of analysis was constant comparison. The core concept identified was Self-Management Throug…
Patterns of Physical Symptoms and Relationships With Psychosocial Factors in Adolescents
OBJECTIVES: Physical symptoms are common in otherwise healthy adolescents. This study sought to identify meaningful patterns of multiple physical symptoms and to examine relationships between the patterns and psychosocial factors. One-year stability of symptom patterns and factors contributing to stability were also examined. METHODS: This secondary data analysis used longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of adolescents in gra…
Measurement of the Role of Families in Prevention and Adaptation to HIV/Aids
Early Interactions Between Mothers and Their Medically Fragile Infants
The purpose of this study was to examine the interactions of 56 medically fragile infants and their mothers and to determine the influence of infant age, neurological status, maternal education, ethnicity, and observation location on these interactions. The interactions were observed for about 1 hr every 2 months while in the hospital, 1 month after hospital discharge, and at 6 months corrected age. The age of the infants had the greatest effect …
A Comparison of Guilt in Bereaved Parents whose Children Died by Suicide, Accident, or Chronic Disease
Based on a model of bereavement guilt developed by the investigators, this study assessed the frequency of guilt feelings, explored their sources, and compared the guilt experiences of parents whose children died by different modes–suicide, accident, and chronic disease. Of the 132 parents who participated in the study: sixty-two experienced a child's death by suicide; thirty-two by an accident; and thirty-eight by a chronic disease. Data from op…
Suicide bereaved parents
The emotional distress and physical health problems of 59 parents whose children died by suicide and 61 parents whose children died by other modes were compared. The hypotheses that suicide bereaved parents would report greater emotional distress and more physical health problems than parents of children who died oj accidents and chronic disease were not supported. Both groups of parents had moderate levels of emotional distress and reported an i…
Parameters of normal grief
This study explored bereavement experts' perceptions of the parameters of normal grief. The purpose of the study was twofold: to identify the terms used by the experts to designate grief that falls outside normal parameters; and to identify the physical, emotional, and behavioral manifestations of grief that these experts used to differentiate between normal grief and grief that falls outside the normal response range (GONR). A modified Delphi te…
Toward the Development of a Theory of Bereavement Guilt
Guilt has been reported as a common manifestation of grief, yet bereavement guilt is poorly understood and has not been adequately incorporated into bereavement theory. As a first step in the development of a theory of bereavement guilt, this article presents a conceptual model of sources of guilt in bereaved parents. This model identifies five sources of guilt: Cultural Role Guilt, Death Causation Guilt, Moral Guilt, Survivor Guilt, and Recovery…
Half-Way There
Going Comprehensive
Spirituality in African Americans With Diabetes
The purpose of this study was to develop a theoretical model about how the spirituality of African Americans affects their self-management of diabetes. The sample consisted of 29 African American men and women, ages 40 to 75, with type 2 diabetes. The authors used a grounded theory design and collected data using minimally structured interviews. The method of analysis was constant comparison. The core concept identified was Self-Management Throug…
Silent Endurance and Profound Loneliness
We explored how community responses to HIV contribute to distress in African Americans living with HIV in the rural South of the United States. We listened to the voices of community members through focus groups and African Americans with HIV through interviews. Community avoidance of HIV, negative views of HIV, and discriminatory behavior powerfully affected the distress of people living with HIV (PLWH). Ongoing distress, coupled with limited su…
Parameters of normal grief
This study explored bereavement experts' perceptions of the parameters of normal grief. The purpose of the study was twofold: to identify the terms used by the experts to designate grief that falls outside normal parameters; and to identify the physical, emotional, and behavioral manifestations of grief that these experts used to differentiate between normal grief and grief that falls outside the normal response range (GONR). A modified Delphi te…
Across the Miles
CABs can make a critical difference in conducting culturally appropriate and successful research in rural communities
Suicide bereaved parents
The emotional distress and physical health problems of 59 parents whose children died by suicide and 61 parents whose children died by other modes were compared. The hypotheses that suicide bereaved parents would report greater emotional distress and more physical health problems than parents of children who died oj accidents and chronic disease were not supported. Both groups of parents had moderate levels of emotional distress and reported an i…
Community-Based HIV Clinical Trials
These findings support calls for more relevant, translational, and engaged research. An integrated approach may be an important innovation to transform the research enterprise to meet these goals and more directly improve the health of individuals
Going Comprehensive
Half-Way There
Toward the Development of a Theory of Bereavement Guilt
Guilt has been reported as a common manifestation of grief, yet bereavement guilt is poorly understood and has not been adequately incorporated into bereavement theory. As a first step in the development of a theory of bereavement guilt, this article presents a conceptual model of sources of guilt in bereaved parents. This model identifies five sources of guilt: Cultural Role Guilt, Death Causation Guilt, Moral Guilt, Survivor Guilt, and Recovery…
Parameters of normal grief
This study explored bereavement experts' perceptions of the parameters of normal grief. The purpose of the study was twofold: to identify the terms used by the experts to designate grief that falls outside normal parameters; and to identify the physical, emotional, and behavioral manifestations of grief that these experts used to differentiate between normal grief and grief that falls outside the normal response range (GONR). A modified Delphi te…
Suicide bereaved parents
The emotional distress and physical health problems of 59 parents whose children died by suicide and 61 parents whose children died by other modes were compared. The hypotheses that suicide bereaved parents would report greater emotional distress and more physical health problems than parents of children who died oj accidents and chronic disease were not supported. Both groups of parents had moderate levels of emotional distress and reported an i…
A Comparison of Guilt in Bereaved Parents whose Children Died by Suicide, Accident, or Chronic Disease
Based on a model of bereavement guilt developed by the investigators, this study assessed the frequency of guilt feelings, explored their sources, and compared the guilt experiences of parents whose children died by different modes–suicide, accident, and chronic disease. Of the 132 parents who participated in the study: sixty-two experienced a child's death by suicide; thirty-two by an accident; and thirty-eight by a chronic disease. Data from op…
Early Interactions Between Mothers and Their Medically Fragile Infants
The purpose of this study was to examine the interactions of 56 medically fragile infants and their mothers and to determine the influence of infant age, neurological status, maternal education, ethnicity, and observation location on these interactions. The interactions were observed for about 1 hr every 2 months while in the hospital, 1 month after hospital discharge, and at 6 months corrected age. The age of the infants had the greatest effect …
Measurement of the Role of Families in Prevention and Adaptation to HIV/Aids
Patterns of Physical Symptoms and Relationships With Psychosocial Factors in Adolescents
OBJECTIVES: Physical symptoms are common in otherwise healthy adolescents. This study sought to identify meaningful patterns of multiple physical symptoms and to examine relationships between the patterns and psychosocial factors. One-year stability of symptom patterns and factors contributing to stability were also examined. METHODS: This secondary data analysis used longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of adolescents in gra…
Spirituality in African Americans With Diabetes
The purpose of this study was to develop a theoretical model about how the spirituality of African Americans affects their self-management of diabetes. The sample consisted of 29 African American men and women, ages 40 to 75, with type 2 diabetes. The authors used a grounded theory design and collected data using minimally structured interviews. The method of analysis was constant comparison. The core concept identified was Self-Management Throug…
HIV Interventions to Reduce HIV/Aids Stigma
Silent Endurance and Profound Loneliness
We explored how community responses to HIV contribute to distress in African Americans living with HIV in the rural South of the United States. We listened to the voices of community members through focus groups and African Americans with HIV through interviews. Community avoidance of HIV, negative views of HIV, and discriminatory behavior powerfully affected the distress of people living with HIV (PLWH). Ongoing distress, coupled with limited su…
Acceptability of a Mobile Health Unit for Rural HIV Clinical Trial Enrollment and Participation
Community-Based HIV Clinical Trials
Background-Although racial and ethnic minorities have disproportionately high rates of HIV infection, these groups are underrepresented in HIV-related clinical trials. This illustrates the need for more innovation in attempts to engage underrepresented populations in calls for interdisciplinary and translational research
Community-Based HIV Clinical Trials
These findings support calls for more relevant, translational, and engaged research. An integrated approach may be an important innovation to transform the research enterprise to meet these goals and more directly improve the health of individuals
Across the Miles
CABs can make a critical difference in conducting culturally appropriate and successful research in rural communities
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Family medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV (4 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (4 works)