Thomas F Garrity
Biographic Data
| ID | 113773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas F Garrity |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas F |
| FAMILY NAME | Garrity |
| SIGNATURE | GARRITY T F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 303 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Physical Health, Illicit Drug Use, and Demographic Characteristics in Rural Stimulant Users
Context: There is growing concern about illicit rural stimulant use, especially regarding methamphetamine use and its health consequences. Purpose: The present study describes associations between aspects of stimulant use and illness experience in rural areas, with additional focus on the role of demographic characteristics in these associations. Methods: The research participants were 710 stimulant drug users who were recruited from rural areas …
Client Outcomes from Rural Substance Abuse Treatment
Several national evaluations have been conducted since the late 1960s that have assessed the effectiveness of publicly-funded substance abuse treatment in the United States. These studies, however, have focused principally on urban-based treatment programs, and it is unclear whether findings from urban programs can be replicated in outcome studies of programs in rural areas. The current study, therefore, examined the treatment outcomes of clients…
Thucydides 1.22.1: Content and Form in the Speeches
American Journal of Philology - Volume 119, Number 3 (Whole Number 475), Fall 1998
Bereavement-Loss of a Pet And Loss of a Human
This study investigates the impact of the loss of a pet on the owner in comparison with the loss of a significant human, in a national probability sample of 1,232 noninstitutionalized U.S. residents 65 years and older. The difference was examined according to gender, race, and amount of available social support. Data were gathered through a telephone survey. The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) was used to measure emoti…
Psychometric Evaluation of the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (Laps)
This paper reports on the development and psychometric evaluation of a scale for assessing emotional attachment of individuals to their pets. Previous attachment scales have suffered variously from low internal consistency and reliance on small or nonrepresentative samples for their development. Telephone interviews of a random, representative sample of 412 pet owners in Fayette County, Kentucky, were completed in September 1990; a 69.5 percent r…
The Appointed Hour: Death, Worldview, and Social Change in Brittany
Quality of Attachment to Companion Animals among U.S. Adults 21 to 64 Years of Age
Previous reports of scales and indices used in studying attachment to companion animals have not included representative samples of the United States population or have failed to show good psychometric properties. This report includes psychometric analyses of a companionanimal attachment scale used among a national probability sample of United States adults aged 21 to 64 years. Internal structures of the scale were shown to be good with all eight…
Pet Ownership and Attachment in Relation to the Health of U.S. Adults, 21 to 64 Years of Age
Pet ownership and attachment to a pet have been reported to have a salutary influence on health in selected populations. General population surveys of the beneficial effects of pet ownership have not been conducted. The purpose of this national survey was to examine the relationship of pet ownership and attachment to self-reported illness behavior and emotional distress in three stages of life: early adulthood (21 to 34 years of age), early middl…
Pet Ownership and Attachment as Supportive Factors in the Health of the Elderly
In order to examine pet ownership and pet attachment as factors supporting the health of the elderly, a national probability sample of Americans 65 years of age and older was drawn. Participants answered telephone survey questions regarding pet ownership, life stress, social support, depression, and recent illness. In multiple regression analyses, pet ownership failed to predict depression and illness behavior, while pet attachment significantly …
Social Networks and Depression Among the Elderly: Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Comparisons
Contradictory findings have been reported about depression in the elderly living in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan regions of the United States. Additionally, the extent to which the same sets of variables are predictive of depression among the elderly living in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan environments is unknown. We examined these issues using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES‐D) and a national sample of elderly r…
American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine: A History
Demographics of Pet Ownership among U.S. Adults 21 to 64 Years of Age
A telephone survey of a national probability sample of U.S. adults 21 to 64 years old contrasts the demographic characteristics of 816 pet owners and 448 non-owners residing in 1,300 households from 47 states and the District of Columbia.Significant differences between owners and non-owners were found to relate to age groups, number of people and number of children in the household, race, marital status, income, rural/urban residence, and occupat…
Attachment to Companion Animals among Older Pet Owners
Psychometric properties are examined in a pet-attachment index used in a national probability survey of households including at least one resident aged 65 or older. Cronbach's alpha for the overall scale was 0.58, indicating low but acceptable internal reliability. Internal structure was evaluated using principal-components analysis. Two factors were identified. Responses to individual questions in the index were associated with a number of respo…
Interpreting Signs of Illness: A Case Study in Medical Semiotics
Demographics of Pet Ownership among U.S. Elderly
A telephone survey of a national probability sample of U.S. elderly aged 65 and over contrasts the demographic characteristics of 408 pet owners and 824 non-pet-owners residing in 1,232 households from 45 states and the District of Columbia.Significant differences between pet owners and non-pet-owners relate to marital status, education, socioeconomic status, resident region of the country, and age
Improved medical care for the elderly: Intervening in medical education
It is the premise of this paper that certain instructional interventions in the medical school behavioral science curriculum will eventually improve the health care received by elderly patients. Four content areas for such intervention are reviewed: patient adherence to medication regimens, risk and management of psychosocial stress, responses to chronic illness, and doctor-patient communication patterns. The final section describes research that…
Sociology
The Health Script: Its Relationship to Illness in a College Population
The authors developed the Health Script Questionnaire, a 13-item instrument, and administered it, in the fall of 1975, to 56 young adults. The 56 were part of a random sample of college students reporting multiple recent life change. Three TA therapists examined audio-tapes and transcriptions of the responses without further information about the respondents and made predictions concerning the health of each of the 56 during the upcoming ten mont…
Factors influencing self-assessment of health
Factors influencing self-assessment of health
The relationship of personality, life change, psychophysiological strain and health status in a college population
Death, Funeral and Bereavement Practices in Appalachian and Non-Appalachian Kentucky
The historical sketch and results of a survey of death practices in Kentucky are strikingly at variance with the death literature. Whereas the literature argues that death is a hidden phenomenon in western society, evidence was found in this study that openness in the presence of death is the rule rather than the exception. Although several statistically significant differences in death visibility were found when Appalachian and non-Appalachian r…
Psychic Death: Behavioral Types and Physiological Parallels
Reports of the psychic death phenomenon are reviewed and grouped into three distinct categories on the basis of the quality of behavior antecedent to the death. Deaths following markedly excited behavior, such as fear, grief, and exultation, were placed in the first category. Apathetic, withdrawn and depressed behavior were the death-precursors included in the second category. The third category was characterized by calm acceptance behavior prior…
Vocational adjustment after first myocardial infarction; Comparative assessment of several variables suggested in the literature
Social involvement and activeness as predictors of morale six months after first myocardial infarction
Psychometric Evaluation of the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (Laps)
This paper reports on the development and psychometric evaluation of a scale for assessing emotional attachment of individuals to their pets. Previous attachment scales have suffered variously from low internal consistency and reliance on small or nonrepresentative samples for their development. Telephone interviews of a random, representative sample of 412 pet owners in Fayette County, Kentucky, were completed in September 1990; a 69.5 percent r…
Pet Ownership and Attachment as Supportive Factors in the Health of the Elderly
In order to examine pet ownership and pet attachment as factors supporting the health of the elderly, a national probability sample of Americans 65 years of age and older was drawn. Participants answered telephone survey questions regarding pet ownership, life stress, social support, depression, and recent illness. In multiple regression analyses, pet ownership failed to predict depression and illness behavior, while pet attachment significantly …
Pet Ownership and Attachment in Relation to the Health of U.S. Adults, 21 to 64 Years of Age
Pet ownership and attachment to a pet have been reported to have a salutary influence on health in selected populations. General population surveys of the beneficial effects of pet ownership have not been conducted. The purpose of this national survey was to examine the relationship of pet ownership and attachment to self-reported illness behavior and emotional distress in three stages of life: early adulthood (21 to 34 years of age), early middl…
Quality of Attachment to Companion Animals among U.S. Adults 21 to 64 Years of Age
Previous reports of scales and indices used in studying attachment to companion animals have not included representative samples of the United States population or have failed to show good psychometric properties. This report includes psychometric analyses of a companionanimal attachment scale used among a national probability sample of United States adults aged 21 to 64 years. Internal structures of the scale were shown to be good with all eight…
Attachment to Companion Animals among Older Pet Owners
Psychometric properties are examined in a pet-attachment index used in a national probability survey of households including at least one resident aged 65 or older. Cronbach's alpha for the overall scale was 0.58, indicating low but acceptable internal reliability. Internal structure was evaluated using principal-components analysis. Two factors were identified. Responses to individual questions in the index were associated with a number of respo…
Demographics of Pet Ownership among U.S. Adults 21 to 64 Years of Age
A telephone survey of a national probability sample of U.S. adults 21 to 64 years old contrasts the demographic characteristics of 816 pet owners and 448 non-owners residing in 1,300 households from 47 states and the District of Columbia.Significant differences between owners and non-owners were found to relate to age groups, number of people and number of children in the household, race, marital status, income, rural/urban residence, and occupat…
Vocational adjustment after first myocardial infarction; Comparative assessment of several variables suggested in the literature
Bereavement-Loss of a Pet And Loss of a Human
This study investigates the impact of the loss of a pet on the owner in comparison with the loss of a significant human, in a national probability sample of 1,232 noninstitutionalized U.S. residents 65 years and older. The difference was examined according to gender, race, and amount of available social support. Data were gathered through a telephone survey. The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) was used to measure emoti…
Demographics of Pet Ownership among U.S. Elderly
A telephone survey of a national probability sample of U.S. elderly aged 65 and over contrasts the demographic characteristics of 408 pet owners and 824 non-pet-owners residing in 1,232 households from 45 states and the District of Columbia.Significant differences between pet owners and non-pet-owners relate to marital status, education, socioeconomic status, resident region of the country, and age
Social involvement and activeness as predictors of morale six months after first myocardial infarction
The relationship of personality, life change, psychophysiological strain and health status in a college population
Vocational adjustment after first myocardial infarction; Comparative assessment of several variables suggested in the literature
Social involvement and activeness as predictors of morale six months after first myocardial infarction
Psychic Death: Behavioral Types and Physiological Parallels
Reports of the psychic death phenomenon are reviewed and grouped into three distinct categories on the basis of the quality of behavior antecedent to the death. Deaths following markedly excited behavior, such as fear, grief, and exultation, were placed in the first category. Apathetic, withdrawn and depressed behavior were the death-precursors included in the second category. The third category was characterized by calm acceptance behavior prior…
Death, Funeral and Bereavement Practices in Appalachian and Non-Appalachian Kentucky
The historical sketch and results of a survey of death practices in Kentucky are strikingly at variance with the death literature. Whereas the literature argues that death is a hidden phenomenon in western society, evidence was found in this study that openness in the presence of death is the rule rather than the exception. Although several statistically significant differences in death visibility were found when Appalachian and non-Appalachian r…
The relationship of personality, life change, psychophysiological strain and health status in a college population
The Health Script: Its Relationship to Illness in a College Population
The authors developed the Health Script Questionnaire, a 13-item instrument, and administered it, in the fall of 1975, to 56 young adults. The 56 were part of a random sample of college students reporting multiple recent life change. Three TA therapists examined audio-tapes and transcriptions of the responses without further information about the respondents and made predictions concerning the health of each of the 56 during the upcoming ten mont…
Factors influencing self-assessment of health
Factors influencing self-assessment of health
Sociology
Improved medical care for the elderly: Intervening in medical education
It is the premise of this paper that certain instructional interventions in the medical school behavioral science curriculum will eventually improve the health care received by elderly patients. Four content areas for such intervention are reviewed: patient adherence to medication regimens, risk and management of psychosocial stress, responses to chronic illness, and doctor-patient communication patterns. The final section describes research that…
Interpreting Signs of Illness: A Case Study in Medical Semiotics
Demographics of Pet Ownership among U.S. Elderly
A telephone survey of a national probability sample of U.S. elderly aged 65 and over contrasts the demographic characteristics of 408 pet owners and 824 non-pet-owners residing in 1,232 households from 45 states and the District of Columbia.Significant differences between pet owners and non-pet-owners relate to marital status, education, socioeconomic status, resident region of the country, and age
Social Networks and Depression Among the Elderly: Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Comparisons
Contradictory findings have been reported about depression in the elderly living in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan regions of the United States. Additionally, the extent to which the same sets of variables are predictive of depression among the elderly living in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan environments is unknown. We examined these issues using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES‐D) and a national sample of elderly r…
American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine: A History
Demographics of Pet Ownership among U.S. Adults 21 to 64 Years of Age
A telephone survey of a national probability sample of U.S. adults 21 to 64 years old contrasts the demographic characteristics of 816 pet owners and 448 non-owners residing in 1,300 households from 47 states and the District of Columbia.Significant differences between owners and non-owners were found to relate to age groups, number of people and number of children in the household, race, marital status, income, rural/urban residence, and occupat…
Attachment to Companion Animals among Older Pet Owners
Psychometric properties are examined in a pet-attachment index used in a national probability survey of households including at least one resident aged 65 or older. Cronbach's alpha for the overall scale was 0.58, indicating low but acceptable internal reliability. Internal structure was evaluated using principal-components analysis. Two factors were identified. Responses to individual questions in the index were associated with a number of respo…
Pet Ownership and Attachment as Supportive Factors in the Health of the Elderly
In order to examine pet ownership and pet attachment as factors supporting the health of the elderly, a national probability sample of Americans 65 years of age and older was drawn. Participants answered telephone survey questions regarding pet ownership, life stress, social support, depression, and recent illness. In multiple regression analyses, pet ownership failed to predict depression and illness behavior, while pet attachment significantly …
The Appointed Hour: Death, Worldview, and Social Change in Brittany
Quality of Attachment to Companion Animals among U.S. Adults 21 to 64 Years of Age
Previous reports of scales and indices used in studying attachment to companion animals have not included representative samples of the United States population or have failed to show good psychometric properties. This report includes psychometric analyses of a companionanimal attachment scale used among a national probability sample of United States adults aged 21 to 64 years. Internal structures of the scale were shown to be good with all eight…
Pet Ownership and Attachment in Relation to the Health of U.S. Adults, 21 to 64 Years of Age
Pet ownership and attachment to a pet have been reported to have a salutary influence on health in selected populations. General population surveys of the beneficial effects of pet ownership have not been conducted. The purpose of this national survey was to examine the relationship of pet ownership and attachment to self-reported illness behavior and emotional distress in three stages of life: early adulthood (21 to 34 years of age), early middl…
Psychometric Evaluation of the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (Laps)
This paper reports on the development and psychometric evaluation of a scale for assessing emotional attachment of individuals to their pets. Previous attachment scales have suffered variously from low internal consistency and reliance on small or nonrepresentative samples for their development. Telephone interviews of a random, representative sample of 412 pet owners in Fayette County, Kentucky, were completed in September 1990; a 69.5 percent r…
Bereavement-Loss of a Pet And Loss of a Human
This study investigates the impact of the loss of a pet on the owner in comparison with the loss of a significant human, in a national probability sample of 1,232 noninstitutionalized U.S. residents 65 years and older. The difference was examined according to gender, race, and amount of available social support. Data were gathered through a telephone survey. The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) was used to measure emoti…
Thucydides 1.22.1: Content and Form in the Speeches
American Journal of Philology - Volume 119, Number 3 (Whole Number 475), Fall 1998
Physical Health, Illicit Drug Use, and Demographic Characteristics in Rural Stimulant Users
Context: There is growing concern about illicit rural stimulant use, especially regarding methamphetamine use and its health consequences. Purpose: The present study describes associations between aspects of stimulant use and illness experience in rural areas, with additional focus on the role of demographic characteristics in these associations. Methods: The research participants were 710 stimulant drug users who were recruited from rural areas …
Client Outcomes from Rural Substance Abuse Treatment
Several national evaluations have been conducted since the late 1960s that have assessed the effectiveness of publicly-funded substance abuse treatment in the United States. These studies, however, have focused principally on urban-based treatment programs, and it is unclear whether findings from urban programs can be replicated in outcome studies of programs in rural areas. The current study, therefore, examined the treatment outcomes of clients…
Medicine (21 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Gerontology (11 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (8 works) · Animal welfare (6 works) · Animal-assisted therapy (6 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (6 works)