Byron Gajewski

Biographic Data

ID2420717
NAMEByron Gajewski
GIVEN NAMESByron
FAMILY NAMEGajewski
SIGNATUREGAJEWSKI B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kansas Medical Center
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Effects of Prenatal DHA Dose on Infant Visual Attention

    Open AccessJohn Colombo, D Jill Shaddy et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychobiology2025References: 35

    Prenatal supplementation with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) has been reported to improve cognitive outcomes in infancy and early childhood in some studies. Existent studies have examined the effects of some dose of DHA against a true placebo; this report is the first to describe the effects of different doses of prenatal DHA on infant visual attention at 4 and 6 months of age. In a follow‐up to a Phase III registered clinical trial (NCT02709239) des…

  • Quitting Smoking before and after Pregnancy

    Open AccessErica Cruvinel, Kimber P Richter et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Smoking during pregnancy and postpartum remains an important public health problem. No known prior study has prospectively examined mutual changes in risk factors and women's smoking trajectory across pregnancy and postpartum. The objective of this study was to report methods used to implement a prospective cohort (Msgs4Moms), present participant baseline characteristics, and compare our sample characteristics to pregnant women from national birt…

  • The need to study rural cancer outcome disparities at the local level

    Open AccessJeffrey Thompson, Lynn Chollet-Hinton et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Many cancers are affected by unique social and environmental factors that may vary between rural and urban residents, such as access to care, diet, and lifestyle. Our results show that rurality can increase or decrease risk, depending on cancer site, which suggests the need to consider the factors connected to rurality that influence this complex pattern. Thus, we argue that such disparities must be studied at the local level to identify and desi…

  • Reducing Iron Deficiency in 18–36-months-old US Children

    Open AccessElizabeth H Kerling, Laura M Souther et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2016

  • Change in self-efficacy, autonomous and controlled motivation predicting smoking

    Open AccessAna-Paula Cupertino, Carla J Berg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2012Cited by: 3References: 43

    Although motivational interviewing (MI) has been shown to be effective in changing health behaviors, its effects on smoking cessation have been mixed. The purpose of the present study is to assess factors of motivation and self-efficacy as they mediate the relationship between MI and smoking cessation. This is a secondary analysis of an MI based smoking cessation randomized trial. MI counseling was associated with change in smoking behaviors duri…

  • A longitudinal study of tobacco use among American Indian and Alaska Native tribal college students

    Open AccessBabalola Faseru, Christine Makosky Daley et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    First year students at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas will be recruited over four consecutive years and will be surveyed annually and repeatedly through year 5 of the study. We will use both longitudinal quantitative surveys and qualitative focus group methods to examine key measures and determinants of initiation and use among this high risk group