Bruce D Rapkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1731659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce D Rapkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce D |
| FAMILY NAME | Rapkin |
| SIGNATURE | RAPKIN B D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5901-5659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Cognitive appraisal processes and health: From bench to bedside
Background/objectives: After two decades of cognitive-appraisal research in spine surgery and other medically ill patients, the present work reviewed the published literature on cognitive-appraisal processes and health outcomes to determine key findings and considerations, and how they point to appraisal-assessment based interventions to improve clinical outcomes. Methods: The present work reviewed the published literature on cognitive-appraisal …
Evaluating a Community-partnered Approach to Address Locally Relevant Determinants of Cancer Screening in New York City
Community engagement is a dynamic process that requires adapting to community partners' goals and sharing decision-making power
Long-Covid symptom burden and the experience of adversity: The importance of response-shift effects over 3 years of the pandemic
System dynamics modeling to inform implementation of evidence-based prevention of opioid overdose and fatality: A state-level model from the New York Healing Communities Study
Emerging priorities and concerns in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: Qualitative and quantitative findings from a United States national survey
Purpose: The present study examines how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) experience affected values and priorities. Methods: This cross-sectional study collected data between January and April 2023, from 1,197 individuals who are chronically ill or part of a general population sample. Using open-ended prompts and closed-ended questions, we investigated individuals' perceptions about COVID-19-induced changes in what quality of life means to…
Research protocol for bridging research, accurate information and dialogue (BRAID)—clinical trials: A mixed-methods study of a community-based intervention to improve trust and diversify participation…
Cultural beliefs, personal experiences, and historic abuses within the healthcare system—rooted in structural racism—all contribute to community distrust in science and medicine. This lack of trust, particularly within underserved communities, contributes to decreased participation in clinical trials and a lack of representation in the data. Open dialogue about community concerns and experiences related to research participation and medical care …
Individual differences in the long-term impact of the pandemic: Moderators of Covid-related hardship, worry, and social support
When better is the enemy of good: Two cautionary tales of conceptual validity versus parsimony in clinical psychometric research
The faces of Long-Covid: Interplay of symptom burden with socioeconomic, behavioral and healthcare factors
Bridging Research, Accurate Information and Dialogue (BRAID): A Novel Strategy to Build Community Trust
BRAID is a manualized community engagement model that aims to build the trust needed to improve COVID-19 vaccine uptake in historically marginalized communities. Through BRAID, participants developed increased trust in health systems and research. By empowering community experts to share information through their established social networks, BRAID has the potential to amplify the reach and impact of communications regarding health topics that are…
Qualitative System Dynamics Modeling to Support Community Planning in Opioid Overdose Prevention
SD modeling is a novel approach to helping community stakeholders to see the inter-connectedness of actors, factors and sectors and the need for multiple mutually reinforcing strategies to avert opioid overdose and fatality. Social workers could play a key role in linking actions across sectors in such a complex system
Response-shift effects in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: Estimating response-shift-adjusted scores using equating
Our results reveal notable treatment group differences in MCS but not PCS response shifts, which can explain null results detected in previous work. The method introduced herein provides a way to provide further information about response-shift effects in clinical trial data
Understanding haemophilia caregiver burden: Does appraisal buffer the impact of haemophilia on caregivers over time
Objective: The present work investigated haemophilia caregiver and patient characteristics associated with change in negative and positive aspects of caregiving. Design: Web-based survey data were collected from haemophilia A or B caregivers at baseline and two years later. Main Outcome Measures: Outcomes included Burden Summary and Positive Emotions change scores from the Haemophilia Caregiver Impact measure. Results: The sample included 323 car…
Resolving the Rigor versus Respect Dilemma in Community-Based Research: Commentary on Bess and Colleagues
El consumo de alcohol y drogas se encuentra relacionado con diversos problemas y riesgos para la salud. Ambas problematicas se han sumado a los fenomenos de pobreza, desempleo y marginacion que impactan en la sociedad actual, logrando insertarse en los ultimos anos en algunos de los sectores mas vulnerables de la misma, como las mujeres, los ninos y los estudiantes. La poblacion de jovenes ha crecido en los ultimos anos, reduciendose para ellos, …
Leveraging Latent Dirichlet Allocation in processing free-text personal goals among patients undergoing bladder cancer surgery
Bronx Community Collaborative Opportunities for Research and Education: Implementation and Evaluation of a Community–Academic Partnership
Partnerships develop through commitment and trust. Routine assessments and course correction may enable productive research partnerships
Development of a practical outcome measure to account for individual differences in quality-of-life appraisal: The Brief Appraisal Inventory
Assessing reserve-building pursuits and person characteristics: Psychometric validation of the Reserve-Building Measure
Resilience to health challenges is related to different ways of thinking: Mediators of physical and emotional quality of life in a heterogeneous rare-disease cohort
Distinguishing appraisal and personality influences on quality of life in chronic illness: Introducing the quality-of-life Appraisal Profile version 2
Reducing Disparities in Cancer Screening and Prevention through Community‐Based Participatory Research Partnerships with Local Libraries: A Comprehensive Dynamic Trial
Highlights Community‐based participatory research project. Worked with the public library system to undertake programs to address cancer screening and risk behavior. Implemented in 20 large urban neighborhoods over 48 months. Event‐history regressions (n = 9374) showed adherence outcomes were linked with program implementation. Intervention impacted health behavior in diverse underserved and vulnerable neighborhoods
When global rating of change contradicts observed change: Examining appraisal processes underlying paradoxical responses over time
Refining a Web-based goal assessment interview: Item reduction based on reliability and predictive validity
Distilling the essence of appraisal: A mixed methods study of people with multiple sclerosis
Fluctuations in appraisal over time in the context of stable versus non-stable health
Cluster analysis in community research: Epistemology and practice
Cluster analysis refers to a family of methods for identifying cases with distinctive characteristics in heterogeneous samples and combining them into homogeneous groups. This approach provides a great deal of information about the types of cases and the distributions of variables in a sample. This paper considers cluster analysis as a quantitative complement to the traditional linear statistics that often characterize community psychology resear…
Advancing the Science of Community-Level Interventions
Community interventions are complex social processes that need to move beyond single interventions and outcomes at individual levels of short-term change. A scientific paradigm is emerging that supports collaborative, multilevel, culturally situated community interventions aimed at creating sustainable community-level impact. This paradigm is rooted in a deep history of ecological and collaborative thinking across public health, psychology, anthr…
Alternatives to the Randomized Controlled Trial
Public health researchers are addressing new research questions (e.g., effects of environmental tobacco smoke, Hurricane Katrina) for which the randomized controlled trial (RCT) may not be a feasible option. Drawing on the potential outcomes framework (Rubin Causal Model) and Campbellian perspectives, we consider alternative research designs that permit relatively strong causal inferences. In randomized encouragement designs, participants are ran…
Multiple roles, social networks, and women's well-being
In contrast to earlier approaches to the study of multiple roles, our research was concerned with the frequency and conditions under which both positive and negative outcomes occur. Using data from a random sample of 235 married female nurses, we focused on marital and job satisfaction as important criteria of success in managing multiple roles. In the first phase of the research, a cluster analysis identified five different profiles of marital a…
Social problem‐solving skills training: A competence‐building intervention with second‐ to fourth‐grade children
Keeping the Spirit of Community Partnerships Alive in the Scale Up of HIV/Aids Prevention: Critical Reflections on the Roll Out of Debi (Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions)
DEBI, or the Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions is the largest centralized effort to diffuse evidence‐based prevention science to fight HIV/AIDS in the United States. DEBI seeks to ensure that the most effective science‐based prevention interventions are widely implemented across the country in community‐based organizations. Thus, this is a particularly timely juncture in which to critically reflect on the extent to which known princ…
Social networks and adult social identities: Profiles and correlates of support and rejection
The growth of interest in social networks has underscored the need for integrative analyses of network dimensions. A three-pronged strategy to achieve this objective was pursued in a study of 261 married women nurses. First, network variables related to important adult social identities were differentiated. Factor analyses revealed four network interaction factors: work support, work rejection, general support, and general rejection. An additiona…
Training children in social problem‐solving competencies: A first and second look
Gender and Work History in the Placement and Perceptions of Elder Community Volunteers
This study explored factors that determine the types of volunteer jobs older adults are placed in, as well as factors that define the meaning of their roles. With a sample of 169 elder community volunteers (mean age, 73 years), we investigated the patterns of job perceptions of women and men in two types of volunteer positions: jobs that involved leadership and jobs that did not. A two-way MANOVA with gender and leadership as independent variable…
Using the Interactive Systems Framework to Support a Quality Improvement Approach to Dissemination of Evidence‐Based Strategies to Promote Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Planning a Comprehensive Dy…
Dissemination efforts must optimize interventions for new settings and populations. As such, dissemination research should incorporate principles of quality improvement. Comprehensive Dynamic Trial (CDT) designs examine how information gained during dissemination may be used to modify interventions and improve performance. Although CDT may offer distinct advantages over static designs, organizing the many necessary roles and activities is a signi…
Protecting the privacy of third-party information: Recommendations for social and behavioral health researchers
Defining personal networks: The effect of delineation instructions on network structure and stability
Reducing Disparities in Cancer Screening and Prevention through Community‐Based Participatory Research Partnerships with Local Libraries: A Comprehensive Dynamic Trial
Highlights Community‐based participatory research project. Worked with the public library system to undertake programs to address cancer screening and risk behavior. Implemented in 20 large urban neighborhoods over 48 months. Event‐history regressions (n = 9374) showed adherence outcomes were linked with program implementation. Intervention impacted health behavior in diverse underserved and vulnerable neighborhoods
A comparison of the problem‐solving ability and adjustment of suburban and urban third‐grade children
This study compared the interpersonal cognitive problem-solving (ICPS) skills and adjustment of suburban and urban third-grade children and examined ICPS-adjustment relationships within groups. Tests of alternative solution thinking, means-ends cognition, and social role-taking ability were given to 171 predominantly white, middle-income, and 72 predominantly black, inner-city low-income children. Adjustment was measured by teacher, peer, and sel…
The Relationship Between Health and Human Services and the Personal Goal‐Directed Activities of Persons Living with Aids
This study evaluates the relationship between the social climate from different services and the personal goal‐directed activities of 224 individuals with AIDS. The study's results supported the main hypothesis that “recipient” and “participatory” service involvement uniquely influence personal goal‐directed activities, even after considering individuals with AIDS' physical symptoms, psychological distress, income, and recruitment site. Income an…
Social environmental predictors of children's adjustment in elementary school classrooms
Relationships between qualities of the perceived social environment and children's adjustment were examined in 30 second- to fourth-grade classrooms. Based on Moos' conceptual framework, social environment was assessed from both teachers' and children's perspectives. There was little agreement between the two views. Nine teacher- and peer-rated adjustment variables were used as criterion measures in multiple regression analyses which controlled f…
Relationships between family background problems and social problem solving skills of young normal children
Social problem‐solving skills training: A competence‐building intervention with second‐ to fourth‐grade children
Training children in social problem‐solving competencies: A first and second look
A comparison of the problem‐solving ability and adjustment of suburban and urban third‐grade children
This study compared the interpersonal cognitive problem-solving (ICPS) skills and adjustment of suburban and urban third-grade children and examined ICPS-adjustment relationships within groups. Tests of alternative solution thinking, means-ends cognition, and social role-taking ability were given to 171 predominantly white, middle-income, and 72 predominantly black, inner-city low-income children. Adjustment was measured by teacher, peer, and sel…
Social environmental predictors of children's adjustment in elementary school classrooms
Relationships between qualities of the perceived social environment and children's adjustment were examined in 30 second- to fourth-grade classrooms. Based on Moos' conceptual framework, social environment was assessed from both teachers' and children's perspectives. There was little agreement between the two views. Nine teacher- and peer-rated adjustment variables were used as criterion measures in multiple regression analyses which controlled f…
Social networks and adult social identities: Profiles and correlates of support and rejection
The growth of interest in social networks has underscored the need for integrative analyses of network dimensions. A three-pronged strategy to achieve this objective was pursued in a study of 261 married women nurses. First, network variables related to important adult social identities were differentiated. Factor analyses revealed four network interaction factors: work support, work rejection, general support, and general rejection. An additiona…
Multiple roles, social networks, and women's well-being
In contrast to earlier approaches to the study of multiple roles, our research was concerned with the frequency and conditions under which both positive and negative outcomes occur. Using data from a random sample of 235 married female nurses, we focused on marital and job satisfaction as important criteria of success in managing multiple roles. In the first phase of the research, a cluster analysis identified five different profiles of marital a…
The Transition to Junior High School: A Longitudinal Study of Self-Esteem, Psychological Symptomatology, School Life, and Social Support
Barton J. Hirsch, Bruce D. Rapkin, The Transition to Junior High School: A Longitudinal Study of Self-Esteem, Psychological Symptomatology, School Life, and Social Support, Child Development, Vol. 58, No. 5, Special Issue on Schools and Development (Oct., 1987), pp. 1235-1243
Defining personal networks: The effect of delineation instructions on network structure and stability
Gender and Work History in the Placement and Perceptions of Elder Community Volunteers
This study explored factors that determine the types of volunteer jobs older adults are placed in, as well as factors that define the meaning of their roles. With a sample of 169 elder community volunteers (mean age, 73 years), we investigated the patterns of job perceptions of women and men in two types of volunteer positions: jobs that involved leadership and jobs that did not. A two-way MANOVA with gender and leadership as independent variable…
Cluster analysis in community research: Epistemology and practice
Cluster analysis refers to a family of methods for identifying cases with distinctive characteristics in heterogeneous samples and combining them into homogeneous groups. This approach provides a great deal of information about the types of cases and the distributions of variables in a sample. This paper considers cluster analysis as a quantitative complement to the traditional linear statistics that often characterize community psychology resear…
Unmet needs for help among persons with Aids
Current trends in AIDS care in the United States, including dehospitalization and improved outpatient treatment, may place many persons with AIDS (PWAs) at increased risk for having unmet need for help with daily living demands. Using interviews with 224 PWAs, we examined the prevalence and correlates of unmet need for assistance across six functional domains: personal care, instrumental activities of daily living (e.g. home chores, using transpo…
Symposium Synopsis: Response Shift Effects in Rehabilitation
Influences of Functional Impairment on Shifts in Personal Goals: A Prospective Study in a Sample With Late-Stage Aids
A comparison of two approaches for assessing patient importance weights to conduct an Extended Q-TWiST analysis
The Relationship Between Health and Human Services and the Personal Goal‐Directed Activities of Persons Living with Aids
This study evaluates the relationship between the social climate from different services and the personal goal‐directed activities of 224 individuals with AIDS. The study's results supported the main hypothesis that “recipient” and “participatory” service involvement uniquely influence personal goal‐directed activities, even after considering individuals with AIDS' physical symptoms, psychological distress, income, and recruitment site. Income an…
Psychosocial Factors Associated with Adaptation in HIV-Infected Mothers
Measurement of the Role of Families in Prevention and Adaptation to HIV/Aids
Barriers Encountered Conducting Informed Consent Research
The “Demon Plague” and Access to Care Among Asian Undocumented Immigrants Living with HIV Disease in New York City
The Utility of the PRECEDE Model in Predicting HIV Risk Behaviors Among Puerto Rican Injection Drug Users
Improving Informed Consent: The Medium Is Not the Message
Patricia Agre, Frances A. Campbell, Barbara D. Goldman, Maria L. Boccia, Nancy Kass, Laurence B. McCullough, Jon F. Merz, Suzanne M. Miller, Jim Mintz, Bruce Rapkin, Jeremy Sugarman, James Sorenson, Donna Wirshing, Improving Informed Consent: The Medium Is Not the Message, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 25, No. 5, Supplement (Sep. - Oct., 2003), pp. S11-S19
Improving Informed Consent: A Comparison of Four Consent Tools
Multiple Dimensions of HIV Stigma and Psychological Distress Among Asians and Pacific Islanders Living With HIV Illness
Developing a Partnership Model for Cancer Screening with Community‐Based Organizations: The Access Breast Cancer Education and Outreach Project
There is growing enthusiasm for community‐academic partnerships to promote health in underserved communities. Drawing upon resources available at a comprehensive cancer center, we developed the ACCESS program to guide community based organizations through a flexible program planning process. Over a three‐year period, ACCESS partnered with 67 agencies serving various medically underserved populations. Organizations included hospitals, parishes, se…
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