James R Abernathy

Biographic Data

ID1592230
NAMEJames R Abernathy
GIVEN NAMESJames R
FAMILY NAMEAbernathy
SIGNATUREABERNATHY J R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1966
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
H-INDEX1

  • University of North Carolina Caries Risk Assessment Study. III. Multiple Factors in Caries Prevalence

    Open AccessRichard C Graves, James R Abernathy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry1991

    The baseline caries experienced of approximately 5,000 children in South Carolina and Maine was used as the dependent variable in caries risk assessment analyses. Clinical, microbiologic, and demographic factors served as independent variables in a multivariate relationship to caries through regression and discriminant function analyses. Four factors--number of dental visits by the child in the past year, presence of white spot lesions, and both …

  • The University of North Carolina Caries Risk Assessment Study. II. Baseline Caries Prevalence

    Open AccessJudith A Disney, Richard C Graves et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry1990

    Baseline clinical dental examinations were conducted on 5,233 children in grades 1 or 5 from the areas surrounding Aiken, SC, and Portland, ME, as part of a longitudinal study being conducted to predict children at high risk to dental caries. Mean caries levels in the Aiken area were nearly twice those of the Portland area. Black children experienced slightly more disease than whites. In addition to lower levels of caries experience, Portland chi…

  • The University of North Carolina Caries Risk Assessment Study I: Rationale and Content

    Open AccessJohn W Stamm, Judith A Disney et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry1988

    This article presents the rationale and content of a current study that seeks to improve methods to identify children at high risk to dental caries. It summarizes the results of the development of a 12-factor, preliminary caries prediction model based on data derived from the National Preventive Demonstration Program. Despite data limitations, the model produced a sensitivity of .5 and specificity of .8 for four-year caries increment prediction i…

  • Recent Dental Caries and Treatment Patterns in US Children

    Open AccessRichard C Graves, Harry M Bohannan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry1986

    This report presents dental caries and treatment patterns found in a longitudinal study of US children between 1978 and 1982 who were geographically dispersed across several fluoridated and nonfluoridated sites. The analyses include first- and fifth-grade children examined annually for four years in the National Preventive Dentistry Demonstration Program and who did not receive effective preventive procedures. The results indicate that in associa…

  • Purposive concealment of death in household surveys in Misamis Oriental Province

    Francis C Madigan, James R Abernathy et al.ARTICLEPopulation Studies1976Cited by: 1References: 3

    The randomized response technique was used in a household survey of approximately 2,000 rural and 2,000 urban households in Misamis Oriental Province in the southern Philippines in order to determine the extent of purposive concealment of death. The estimated number of deaths deliberately not revealed to the interviewers was 50 per cent or higher. Adjusted crude death rates of 11.5 and 13.4 per 1,000 population were computed for urban and rural a…

  • On A Method for Studying Family Size Preferences

    Open AccessGary G Koch, James R Abernathy et al.ARTICLEDemography1975Cited by: 1References: 10

    The concept of desired family size is widely accepted, and numerous studies have been undertaken to measure its level in certain population groups. The determination of desired family size has generally followed the direct question procedure through which the respondent states some whole number as representing her family size wishes at some specified period in her life. Limitations of this method have been recognized, and some research has been c…

  • Estimates of induced abortion in urban North Carolina

    Open AccessJames R Abernathy, Bernard Greenberg et al.ARTICLEDemography1970Cited by: 16References: 6

    In 1965, Warner developed an interviewing procedure designed to eliminate evasive answer bias when questions of a sensitive nature are asked. He called the procedure ‘randomized response.’ The authors have been studying the technique for several years and, in this paper, are reporting some of the estimates of induced abortion in urban North Carolina using randomized response. Estimates of the proportion of women having an abortion during the past…

  • Smoking as an independent variable in a multiple regression analysis upon birth weight and gestation

    James R Abernathy, Bernard Greenberg et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health…1966

    Smoking as an independent variable in a multiple regression analysis upon birth weight and gestation. J R Abernathy, B G Greenberg, H B Wells, and T M FrazierCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.56.4.626 Published Online: August 29, 2011

  • Birth weight, gestation, and crown-heel length as response variables in multivariate analysis

    James R Abernathy, Bernard Greenberg et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health…1966

    Birth weight, gestation, and crown-heel length as response variables in multivariate analysis. J R Abernathy, B G Greenberg, J E Grizzle, and J F DonnellyCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.56.8.1281 Published Online: August 29, 2011