Colleen M Mcbride
Biographic Data
| ID | 1559955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colleen M Mcbride |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colleen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcbride |
| SIGNATURE | MCBRIDE C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6061-9815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Adapting the deliberative democracy approach to LMIC settings: A case study in Nigeria
Background: Developing sustainable health promotion interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) faces challenges due to limited infrastructure and diverse cultural contexts. Community engagement is essential for effective health promotion, but higher intensity strategies may be infeasible in under-resourced settings. This study aimed to adapt the Mentor Mother (MM) HIV peer program to include HPV self-screening for Nigerian women li…
Exploring we-talk as a relational measure for transformation of motivation in family genetic risk communication
"Transformation of motivation" (TM) and communal coping are interrelated social psychological concepts. TM occurs when an individual's motivation to protect the self is expanded to include the well-being of important others. TM has largely been assessed by we-talk, that is, counts of the use of we pronouns during conversations about shared experiences. The extent to which we-talk adequately captures TM is underexplored. Family cancer genetic risk…
Testing a deliberative democracy method with citizens of African ancestry to weigh pros and cons of targeted screening for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk
Background: Democratic deliberation (DD), a strategy to foster co-learning among researchers and communities, could be applied to gain informed public input on health policies relating to genomic translation. Purpose: We evaluated the quality of DD for gaining informed community perspectives regarding targeting communities of African Ancestry (AAn) for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC) screening in Georgia. Methods: We audiotaped a 2.5 …
Attitudes and interest in incorporating BRCA1/2 cancer susceptibility testing into reproductive carrier screening for Ashkenazi Jewish men and women
Toward an Office of Evidence-Based Learning in Public Health: Formal Support, Pedagogical Scholarship, and Effective Teaching
Toward an Office of Evidence-Based Learning in Public Health: Formal Support, Pedagogical Scholarship, and Effective Teaching Elizabeth Reisinger WalkerPhD, MPH, MAT, Dawn L. ComeauPhD, Colleen M. McBridePhD, MA, Delia L. LangPhD, MPH Affiliation The authors are with the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Elizabeth Reisinger Walker and Delia L. Lang are …
Walking the talk on multi-level interventions: The power of parsimony
Blending Insights from Implementation Science and the Social Sciences to Mitigate Inequities in Screening for Hereditary Cancer Syndromes
Genomic screening to identify people at high risk for adult-onset hereditary conditions has potential to improve population health. However, if not equitably accessible, genomics-informed screening programs will exacerbate existing health inequities or give rise to new ones. To realize the disease prevention potential of these screening tools, we need strategies to broaden their reach. We propose a conceptual framework that merges insights from i…
Regarding the Yin and Yang of Precision Cancer- Screening and Treatment: Are We Creating a Neglected Majority
In this commentary, we submit that the current emphasis of precision cancer screening and treatment (PCST) has been to provide and interpret the implications of "positive" screening results for those deemed to be at greatest risk for cancer or most likely to benefit from targeted treatments. This is an important, but proportionately small target group, regardless of the cancer context. Overlooked by this focus is the larger majority of those scre…
A Public Health of Consequence: Shifting the Cultural Narrative From Churning Grants to a Scholarship of Consequence
A confluence of challenges is impeding faculty members’ ability to prioritize research with the goal of achieving a public health of consequence: research designed to improve conditions to produce a healthier society. Together, these challenges create a “churn” culture in which faculty focus on generating new business (i.e., grant funding and associated incentives) to replace lost revenue (i.e., expiring grants); this culture can relegate public …
Applying mental model methods to characterize understanding of gene-environment influences: The case of podoconiosis in Ethiopia
The rapid pace of genomic discovery has raised public expectation and concerns about the utility of new discoveries and their potential to exacerbate health disparities. Improving literacy concerning gene and environmental (GxE) contributors to disease is needed to avoid commonly observed deterministic misconceptions about genomics. Mental models approaches that incorporate community engagement processes could be used to inform GxE literacy-build…
Identifying eating behavior phenotypes and their correlates: A novel direction toward improving weight management interventions
Developing a scale to assess health regulatory focus
Population-Attributable Risk Percentages for Racialized Risk Environments
Research about relationships between place characteristics and racial/ethnic inequities in health has largely ignored conceptual advances about race and place within the discipline of geography. Research has also almost exclusively quantified these relationships using effect estimates (e.g., odds ratios), statistics that fail to adequately capture the full impact of place characteristics on inequities and thus undermine our ability to translate r…
Drivers of overweight mothers' food choice behaviors depend on child gender
Health psychology and translational genomic research: Bringing innovation to cancer-related behavioral interventions
The past decade has witnessed rapid advances in human genome sequencing technology and in the understanding of the role of genetic and epigenetic alterations in cancer development. These advances have raised hopes that such knowledge could lead to improvements in behavioral risk reduction interventions, tailored screening recommendations, and treatment matching that together could accelerate the war on cancer. Despite this optimism, translation o…
Mothers’ guilt responses to children’s obesity risk feedback
This study explored the influence of family health history-based obesity risk feedback for their child on 147 overweight mothers’ guilt related to children’s lifestyle behaviors and passing down a genetic propensity for overweight. Mothers were randomized to receive, or not, obesity risk feedback for their 4- to 5-year-old child and then made food choices for them using a virtual reality–based buffet. Receipt of risk information increased lifesty…
Motivations for genetic testing for lung cancer risk among young smokers
In addition to learning about health risks, young people may be motivated to seek genetic testing for reasons, such as gaining knowledge about new genetic technologies more broadly
Health Behavior Change: Can Genomics Improve Behavioral Adherence
The National Human Genome Research Institute recommends pursuing “genomic information to improve behavior change interventions” as part of its strategic vision for genomics. The limited effectiveness of current behavior change strategies may be explained, in part, by their insensitivity to individual variation in adherence responses. The first step in evaluating whether genomics can inform customization of behavioral recommendations is evidence r…
Young smokers’ views of genetic susceptibility testing for lung cancer risk: Minding unintended consequences
Understanding the role of cancer worry in creating a "teachable moment" for multiple risk factor reduction
Understanding health behavior change among couples: An interdependence and communal coping approach
Understanding the potential of teachable moments: The case of smoking cessation
The label 'teachable moment' (TM) has been used to describe naturally occurring health events thought to motivate individuals to spontaneously adopt risk-reducing health behaviors. This manuscript summarizes the evidence of TMs for smoking cessation, and makes recommendations for conceptual and methodological refinements to improve the next generation of related research. TM studies were identified for the following event categories: office visit…
Ineffective use of condoms among young women in managed care
Condoms must be used effectively in order to prevent pregnancy and the spread of HIV/STD. This study investigated two types of ineffective condom use, delayed condom use (initiated after penetration has occurred) and condom slippage and/or breakage. We estimated prevalence and identified predictors of ineffective condom use among young women at risk of STDs. The study used baseline survey data from a randomized trial of women 18-24 years old at t…
Smoking, Exercise and Dietary Behaviors Among Mothers of Elementary School‐aged Children in a Rural North Carolina County
Tobacco use, poor diet, and physical inactivity are risk behaviors established during childhood and influenced by parents. Improving health habits of rural families poses particular challenges because resources may be limited in number and reach. To characterize the kinds of prevention programs needed by rural families, 501 surveys were mailed to caregivers of elementary school children living in a rural North Carolina county. Health behaviors, r…
A Tailored Intervention to Aid Decisionmaking About Hormone Replacement Therapy
Decision aids related to hormone replacement therapy (HRT), whether delivered in written form,1,2 along with audiotapes,3 or as part of discussion groups,4 have outperformed generic brochures in increasing knowledge and accuracy of risk assessments. However, these decision aids have provided women with population-based estimates of average risk, not individual risk levels that may have bearing on their decisions about HRT. Decision aids individua…
Understanding health behavior change among couples: An interdependence and communal coping approach
Differences in preconceptional and prenatal behaviors in women with intended and unintended pregnancies
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether pregnancy intention was associated with cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, use of vitamins, and consumption of caffeinated drinks prior to pregnancy and in early pregnancy. METHODS: Data from a telephone survey of 7174 pregnant women were analyzed. RESULTS: In comparison with women whose pregnancies were intended, women with unintended pregnancies were more likely to report cigarette smoking and less like…
Understanding the role of cancer worry in creating a "teachable moment" for multiple risk factor reduction
Developing a scale to assess health regulatory focus
Smoking cessation in women concerned about weight
BACKGROUND. Weight gain after smoking cessation is often cited by women smokers as a primary reason for not attempting to quit smoking or for relapsing after a cessation attempt. METHODS. A randomized trial of 417 women smokers was conducted to test the addition of two weight control strategies to a smoking cessation program. Participants received the standard smoking cessation program, the program plus nicotine gum, the program plus behavioral w…
Prevention of relapse in women who quit smoking during pregnancy
OBJECTIVES: This study is an evaluation of relapse prevention interventions for smokers who quit during pregnancy. METHODS: Pregnant smokers at 2 managed care organizations were randomized to receive a self-help booklet only, prepartum relapse prevention, or prepartum and postpartum relapse prevention. Follow-up surveys were conducted at 28 weeks of pregnancy and at 8 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months postpartum. RESULTS: The pre/post intervention d…
Walking the talk on multi-level interventions: The power of parsimony
Drivers of overweight mothers' food choice behaviors depend on child gender
Health Behavior Change: Can Genomics Improve Behavioral Adherence
The National Human Genome Research Institute recommends pursuing “genomic information to improve behavior change interventions” as part of its strategic vision for genomics. The limited effectiveness of current behavior change strategies may be explained, in part, by their insensitivity to individual variation in adherence responses. The first step in evaluating whether genomics can inform customization of behavioral recommendations is evidence r…
The use of commercial tanning facilities by suburban Minnesota adolescents
In 1991, 1008 suburban St. Paul, Minn, high school students were surveyed via self-administered questionnaire regarding use of commercial tanning facilities, injuries experienced from tanning, use of protective measures while tanning indoors, and knowledge of the risks of tanning. Overall, 34% of the respondents had used commercial tanning facilities. Fifty percent said they had not been warned by tanning facility operators about the risks of tan…
Identifying eating behavior phenotypes and their correlates: A novel direction toward improving weight management interventions
Population-Attributable Risk Percentages for Racialized Risk Environments
Research about relationships between place characteristics and racial/ethnic inequities in health has largely ignored conceptual advances about race and place within the discipline of geography. Research has also almost exclusively quantified these relationships using effect estimates (e.g., odds ratios), statistics that fail to adequately capture the full impact of place characteristics on inequities and thus undermine our ability to translate r…
Mothers’ guilt responses to children’s obesity risk feedback
This study explored the influence of family health history-based obesity risk feedback for their child on 147 overweight mothers’ guilt related to children’s lifestyle behaviors and passing down a genetic propensity for overweight. Mothers were randomized to receive, or not, obesity risk feedback for their 4- to 5-year-old child and then made food choices for them using a virtual reality–based buffet. Receipt of risk information increased lifesty…
Health psychology and translational genomic research: Bringing innovation to cancer-related behavioral interventions
The past decade has witnessed rapid advances in human genome sequencing technology and in the understanding of the role of genetic and epigenetic alterations in cancer development. These advances have raised hopes that such knowledge could lead to improvements in behavioral risk reduction interventions, tailored screening recommendations, and treatment matching that together could accelerate the war on cancer. Despite this optimism, translation o…
Use of health services by children of smokers and nonsmokers in a health maintenance organization
OBJECTIVES: Use of health services by children of smokers and nonsmokers was compared to assess whether exposure to environmental tobacco smoke resulted in greater use of health services among children of smokers. METHODS: Primary care and emergency room visits, asthma-related prescriptions, and inpatient stays over the 42-month study period were compared for children of smokers (n = 498) and nonsmokers (n = 1062) who were enrolled in a health ma…
Smoking cessation in women concerned about weight
BACKGROUND. Weight gain after smoking cessation is often cited by women smokers as a primary reason for not attempting to quit smoking or for relapsing after a cessation attempt. METHODS. A randomized trial of 417 women smokers was conducted to test the addition of two weight control strategies to a smoking cessation program. Participants received the standard smoking cessation program, the program plus nicotine gum, the program plus behavioral w…
The use of commercial tanning facilities by suburban Minnesota adolescents
In 1991, 1008 suburban St. Paul, Minn, high school students were surveyed via self-administered questionnaire regarding use of commercial tanning facilities, injuries experienced from tanning, use of protective measures while tanning indoors, and knowledge of the risks of tanning. Overall, 34% of the respondents had used commercial tanning facilities. Fifty percent said they had not been warned by tanning facility operators about the risks of tan…
Use of health services by children of smokers and nonsmokers in a health maintenance organization
OBJECTIVES: Use of health services by children of smokers and nonsmokers was compared to assess whether exposure to environmental tobacco smoke resulted in greater use of health services among children of smokers. METHODS: Primary care and emergency room visits, asthma-related prescriptions, and inpatient stays over the 42-month study period were compared for children of smokers (n = 498) and nonsmokers (n = 1062) who were enrolled in a health ma…
Differences in preconceptional and prenatal behaviors in women with intended and unintended pregnancies
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether pregnancy intention was associated with cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, use of vitamins, and consumption of caffeinated drinks prior to pregnancy and in early pregnancy. METHODS: Data from a telephone survey of 7174 pregnant women were analyzed. RESULTS: In comparison with women whose pregnancies were intended, women with unintended pregnancies were more likely to report cigarette smoking and less like…
Prevention of relapse in women who quit smoking during pregnancy
OBJECTIVES: This study is an evaluation of relapse prevention interventions for smokers who quit during pregnancy. METHODS: Pregnant smokers at 2 managed care organizations were randomized to receive a self-help booklet only, prepartum relapse prevention, or prepartum and postpartum relapse prevention. Follow-up surveys were conducted at 28 weeks of pregnancy and at 8 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months postpartum. RESULTS: The pre/post intervention d…
Depressive Symptoms, Menopausal Status, and Climacteric Symptoms in Women at Midlife
OBJECTIVE: Previous studies have found increased rates of depression in women aged 45 to 54 years, but the factors that influence these rates are not understood. It was assessed whether higher rates of depressive symptoms were associated with menopausal status, climacteric symptoms, and use of hormone replacement therapy. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Community sample. METHODS: Data are from 581 women ages 45 to 54 years who were inter…
Ineffective use of condoms among young women in managed care
Condoms must be used effectively in order to prevent pregnancy and the spread of HIV/STD. This study investigated two types of ineffective condom use, delayed condom use (initiated after penetration has occurred) and condom slippage and/or breakage. We estimated prevalence and identified predictors of ineffective condom use among young women at risk of STDs. The study used baseline survey data from a randomized trial of women 18-24 years old at t…
Smoking, Exercise and Dietary Behaviors Among Mothers of Elementary School‐aged Children in a Rural North Carolina County
Tobacco use, poor diet, and physical inactivity are risk behaviors established during childhood and influenced by parents. Improving health habits of rural families poses particular challenges because resources may be limited in number and reach. To characterize the kinds of prevention programs needed by rural families, 501 surveys were mailed to caregivers of elementary school children living in a rural North Carolina county. Health behaviors, r…
A Tailored Intervention to Aid Decisionmaking About Hormone Replacement Therapy
Decision aids related to hormone replacement therapy (HRT), whether delivered in written form,1,2 along with audiotapes,3 or as part of discussion groups,4 have outperformed generic brochures in increasing knowledge and accuracy of risk assessments. However, these decision aids have provided women with population-based estimates of average risk, not individual risk levels that may have bearing on their decisions about HRT. Decision aids individua…
Understanding the potential of teachable moments: The case of smoking cessation
The label 'teachable moment' (TM) has been used to describe naturally occurring health events thought to motivate individuals to spontaneously adopt risk-reducing health behaviors. This manuscript summarizes the evidence of TMs for smoking cessation, and makes recommendations for conceptual and methodological refinements to improve the next generation of related research. TM studies were identified for the following event categories: office visit…
Understanding health behavior change among couples: An interdependence and communal coping approach
Understanding the role of cancer worry in creating a "teachable moment" for multiple risk factor reduction
Young smokers’ views of genetic susceptibility testing for lung cancer risk: Minding unintended consequences
Motivations for genetic testing for lung cancer risk among young smokers
In addition to learning about health risks, young people may be motivated to seek genetic testing for reasons, such as gaining knowledge about new genetic technologies more broadly
Health Behavior Change: Can Genomics Improve Behavioral Adherence
The National Human Genome Research Institute recommends pursuing “genomic information to improve behavior change interventions” as part of its strategic vision for genomics. The limited effectiveness of current behavior change strategies may be explained, in part, by their insensitivity to individual variation in adherence responses. The first step in evaluating whether genomics can inform customization of behavioral recommendations is evidence r…
Drivers of overweight mothers' food choice behaviors depend on child gender
Health psychology and translational genomic research: Bringing innovation to cancer-related behavioral interventions
The past decade has witnessed rapid advances in human genome sequencing technology and in the understanding of the role of genetic and epigenetic alterations in cancer development. These advances have raised hopes that such knowledge could lead to improvements in behavioral risk reduction interventions, tailored screening recommendations, and treatment matching that together could accelerate the war on cancer. Despite this optimism, translation o…
Mothers’ guilt responses to children’s obesity risk feedback
This study explored the influence of family health history-based obesity risk feedback for their child on 147 overweight mothers’ guilt related to children’s lifestyle behaviors and passing down a genetic propensity for overweight. Mothers were randomized to receive, or not, obesity risk feedback for their 4- to 5-year-old child and then made food choices for them using a virtual reality–based buffet. Receipt of risk information increased lifesty…
Population-Attributable Risk Percentages for Racialized Risk Environments
Research about relationships between place characteristics and racial/ethnic inequities in health has largely ignored conceptual advances about race and place within the discipline of geography. Research has also almost exclusively quantified these relationships using effect estimates (e.g., odds ratios), statistics that fail to adequately capture the full impact of place characteristics on inequities and thus undermine our ability to translate r…
Applying mental model methods to characterize understanding of gene-environment influences: The case of podoconiosis in Ethiopia
The rapid pace of genomic discovery has raised public expectation and concerns about the utility of new discoveries and their potential to exacerbate health disparities. Improving literacy concerning gene and environmental (GxE) contributors to disease is needed to avoid commonly observed deterministic misconceptions about genomics. Mental models approaches that incorporate community engagement processes could be used to inform GxE literacy-build…
Identifying eating behavior phenotypes and their correlates: A novel direction toward improving weight management interventions
Developing a scale to assess health regulatory focus
Blending Insights from Implementation Science and the Social Sciences to Mitigate Inequities in Screening for Hereditary Cancer Syndromes
Genomic screening to identify people at high risk for adult-onset hereditary conditions has potential to improve population health. However, if not equitably accessible, genomics-informed screening programs will exacerbate existing health inequities or give rise to new ones. To realize the disease prevention potential of these screening tools, we need strategies to broaden their reach. We propose a conceptual framework that merges insights from i…
Regarding the Yin and Yang of Precision Cancer- Screening and Treatment: Are We Creating a Neglected Majority
In this commentary, we submit that the current emphasis of precision cancer screening and treatment (PCST) has been to provide and interpret the implications of "positive" screening results for those deemed to be at greatest risk for cancer or most likely to benefit from targeted treatments. This is an important, but proportionately small target group, regardless of the cancer context. Overlooked by this focus is the larger majority of those scre…
A Public Health of Consequence: Shifting the Cultural Narrative From Churning Grants to a Scholarship of Consequence
A confluence of challenges is impeding faculty members’ ability to prioritize research with the goal of achieving a public health of consequence: research designed to improve conditions to produce a healthier society. Together, these challenges create a “churn” culture in which faculty focus on generating new business (i.e., grant funding and associated incentives) to replace lost revenue (i.e., expiring grants); this culture can relegate public …
Medicine (27 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · BRCA gene mutations in cancer (9 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Internal Medicine (9 works) · Psychological intervention (9 works) · Public health (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Population (8 works)