Louis D Brown
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 248097 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Louis D Brown |
| PRENOMES | Louis D |
| SOBRENOME | Brown |
| ASSINATURA | BROWN L D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3911-3753 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A qualitative examination of human papillomavirus vaccine access, beliefs, and behaviors among adult males aged 18–35
Background Males, who disproportionately account for 83% of oropharyngeal cancer cases, are underrepresented in health promotion research, including human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination studies. The initial exclusion of males in HPV vaccine research, policies, and interventions has negatively affected male vaccine uptake. Furthermore, stigma, a well-documented barrier to healthcare engagement, has been overlooked in HPV vaccination behaviors. T…
Mental health outcomes among United States remote-eligible working adults post Covid-19
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the transition from traditional office-based work to remote work, but the national-level relationship between remote work and workers' mental health remains understudied. Objective: To assess the prevalence of six mental-related health outcomes among remote-eligible working adults in the United States and examine sociodemographic and health-related disparities. Methods: = 11,644). Participants' self-r…
Associations between inclusive community coalition leadership and use of evidence‐based practices
Community coalitions have the potential to elicit diverse participants' perspectives on complex issues and generate shared commitment to adaptive strategies. Ideally, these approaches have been found effective elsewhere. Despite evidence that leadership plays a generally important role in coalitions, there have been limited prior findings about how leadership may support the use of evidence‐based practices. The purpose of the current study was to…
Effects of advice‐seeking patterns on community coalitions' outcomes
Community coalitions are well‐positioned to address local conditions affecting health. Coalitions rely on interactions among members to address community issues and plan for sustainability. Individuals and agencies participate voluntarily, and substantive decisions are generally made as a group. Hence, coalitions operate largely through advice rather than top‐down directives. This study examined whether advice‐seeking patterns within coalitions i…
Identifying Factors That Influence Physical Activity and Healthy Aging Among Older Latino Adults
BACKGROUND: For older Latinos, some benefits of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) include enhanced cognitive functioning, decreased loneliness, and reduced premature mortality. Despite LTPA benefits, adults ≥50 years are one of the most inactive age groups in the United States. METHODS: This qualitative study aimed to add to the limited evidence of LTPA in older Latino adults by exploring the barriers and facilitators for fitness class uptake…
Development and refinement of a corner-based injury prevention programme for Latino day labourers
Objective: Latino day labourers (LDLs) in the USA are at increased risk for non-fatal and fatal occupational injuries, which are compounded by stressors that include wage theft, job insecurity and discrimination. This paper describes the development and refinement of Vales+Tú (You are Worthy of More), an injury prevention programme currently being evaluated as part of a cluster randomised trial in which health promotion is taken directly to the '…
Vales + Tú
Latino day laborers (LDL) are a vulnerable population of workers facing considerable risk for occupational injury. Under the guidance of our Community Advisory Board, we developed and tested the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effects of Vales+Tú (You Are Worth More), a workplace injury risk-reduction program implemented by promotores on street-corners where LDL seek employment. The program was informed by theoretical perspectives emph…
Predictors of e-cigarette initiation and use among middle school youth in a low-income predominantly Hispanic community
Introduction E-cigarette use among middle and high school youth increased from 2. 5 million in 2014 to 9.2 million in 2019, becoming the most common tobacco product used among youth. Hispanic youth, the largest ethnic minority in the United States, have higher rates of tobacco use, including e-cigarettes, than non-Hispanics. Identifying factors that put youth at risk for future e-cigarette use is vital to focusing prevention efforts. Informed by …
Exploring empowerment of participants and peer workers in a self- managed homeless shelter
Self-managed shelters claim that participants who have been homeless are better able to run a shelter than regular providers. Little research has investigated self-managed shelters. In this article, we have described the experiences of participants and peer workers with empowerment processes in Je Eigen Stek (Your own place, JES), a self-managed shelter, based on an eight-year qualitative responsive evaluation. Findings We distinguish three clust…
Initial conditions and functioning over time among community coalitions
Developing operationally strong community coalitions is critical to actualizing their potential for public health improvement. The purpose of this study was to measure how substance use prevention coalitions in Mexico functioned across their first 1.5 years, and to test associations between initial community contextual factors and subsequent coalition functioning and outcomes. Members of 19 coalitions participated in three waves of surveys about …
Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Resilience and Mental Health in a Hispanic Community
This study explores the relations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), mental health and resilience among Hispanic adults living in the United States - Mexico Border region. Numerous studies have investigated the negative impact of ACEs on adult mental health, but the concept of resilience as a protective factor for mental health in the Hispanic communities has limited consideration in ACE treatment interventions. The proposed study addr…
Body composition outcomes of Healthy Fit and the role of acculturation among low-income Hispanics on the US-Mexico border
Findings suggest Healthy Fit was most effective among less acculturated individuals. The influence of acculturation on the efficacy of nutrition and exercise interventions suggests that Hispanics should not be treated as a homogenous subgroup
Building capacity for community-based participatory research to address cancer disparities
Understanding how engagement in a self‐managed shelter contributes to empowerment
Participant empowerment is a foundational goal of self‐organised homeless care. We aim to understand how a self‐organised setting contributes to participants' empowerment. The data we analysed (56 interviews, both open and semi‐structured) were generated in a longitudinal participatory case study into Je Eigen Stek (Your own place, JES), a low‐cost shelter for people experiencing homelessness in the Netherlands. JES participants experienced the f…
Using a reasoned action approach to identify determinants of organized exercise among Hispanics
Research on Hispanics’ activity preferences suggest that they prefer engaging in group-oriented physical activities, such as organized exercise. Yet, little is known about pathways to participation in organized exercise among Hispanics. This study used a reasoned action approach (RAA) framework to explore beliefs and determinants of organized exercise among Hispanics. Specifically, we examined the impact of participants’ intentions on reported or…
Attitudes toward tobacco among low-income Hispanic adolescents
Background: Although US cigarette smoking rates have steadily declined, the changing nature of nicotine consumption and the popularity of non-combustible nicotine products urges us to revise tobacco prevention strategies. Research on smoking perspectives among Hispanic youth is limited yet crucial for prevention efforts with Hispanics being the largest minority in the U.S. Objective: This study sought to understand the experience and perceptions …
Financial Barriers to Health Care Among Mexican Americans With Chronic Disease and Depression or Anxiety in El Paso, Texas
Purpose: To determine the barriers to health care access by chronic disease and depression/anxiety diagnosis in Mexican Americans living in El Paso, TX. Design: A secondary analysis was conducted using data for 1,002 Hispanics from El Paso, TX (2009-2010). Logistic regression was conducted for financial barriers by number of chronic conditions and depression/anxiety diagnosis. Interaction models were conducted between number of chronic conditions…
Comparing the Functioning of Youth and Adult Partnerships for Health Promotion
Youth partnerships are a promising but understudied strategy for prevention and health promotion. Specifically, little is known about how the functioning of youth partnerships differs from that of adult partnerships. Accordingly, this study compared the functioning of youth partnerships with that of adult partnerships. Several aspects of partnership functioning, including leadership, task focus, cohesion, participation costs and benefits, and com…
Unintended Birth Among Hispanic Women in Texas
The Structure of Social Exchange in Self‐help Support Groups
Self‐help support groups are indigenous community resources designed to help people manage a variety of personal challenges, from alcohol abuse to xeroderma pigmentosum. The social exchanges that occur during group meetings are central to understanding how people benefit from participation. This paper examines the different types of social exchange behaviors that occur during meetings, using two studies to develop empirically distinct scales that…
Rural Embedded Assistants for Community Health (Reach) Network
Community research and action projects undertaken by community–university partnerships can lead to contextually appropriate and sustainable community improvements in rural and urban localities. However, effective implementation is challenging and prone to failure when poorly executed. The current paper seeks to inform rural community–university partnership practice through consideration of first‐person accounts from five stakeholders in the Rural…
A Multi-Domain Self-Report Measure of Coparenting
OBJECTIVE: This study reports the psychometric properties of a multi-domain measure of the coparenting relationship in dual-parent families. METHOD: 152 couples participating in a transition to parenthood study completed the Coparenting Relationship Scale and additional measures during home visits at child age 6 months, 1 year, and 3 years. RESULTS: Psychometric and construct validity assessments indicated the measure performed satisfactorily. Th…
Relating Engagement to Outcomes in Prevention
Analyses of program engagement can provide critical insight into how program involvement leads to outcomes. This study examines the relation between participant engagement and program outcomes in Family Foundations (FF), a universal preventive intervention designed to help couples manage the transition to parenthood by improving coparenting relationship quality. Previous intent‐to‐treat outcome analyses from a randomized trial indicate FF improve…
Making it Sane
My previous research led to the development of a theoretical model explaining the processes by which people can benefit from consumer-run organizations (CROs). This study builds on that work by exploring the ability of the conceptual framework to capture the complexity of seven diverse life history narratives from participants at one CRO. To construct life history narratives, I used data from participant observation and a series of in-depth, mini…
How People Can Benefit from Mental Health Consumer‐Run Organizations
The goal of this study is to develop a more comprehensive theoretical understanding of the processes by which people can benefit from mental health consumer‐run organizations (CROs). To accomplish this goal, the concept of roles is used to create a preliminary framework that draws connections between several established theoretical explanations. To ground theory development in empirical data, 194 CRO members from 20 CROs answered open‐ended quest…
A Multi-Domain Self-Report Measure of Coparenting
OBJECTIVE: This study reports the psychometric properties of a multi-domain measure of the coparenting relationship in dual-parent families. METHOD: 152 couples participating in a transition to parenthood study completed the Coparenting Relationship Scale and additional measures during home visits at child age 6 months, 1 year, and 3 years. RESULTS: Psychometric and construct validity assessments indicated the measure performed satisfactorily. Th…
How settings change people
Self‐help initiatives stand as a classic context for organizational studies in community psychology. Behavior setting theory stands as a classic conception of organizations and the environment. This study explores both, applying behavior setting theory to consumer‐run organizations (CROs). Analysis of multiple data sets from all CROs in Kansas provide insight into how organizational size influences member participation, how members benefit from p…
Understanding How Participation in a Consumer‐Run Organization Relates to Recovery
The goal of this study was to examine how different types of participation in a consumer‐run organization (CRO) are related to recovery. More specifically, this study uses structural equation modeling to examine the relative impact of empowering and socially supportive participation experiences on progress towards recovery among 250 CRO members from 20 CROs. An empowering participation experience refers to involvement in leadership roles and cont…
How People Can Benefit from Mental Health Consumer‐Run Organizations
The goal of this study is to develop a more comprehensive theoretical understanding of the processes by which people can benefit from mental health consumer‐run organizations (CROs). To accomplish this goal, the concept of roles is used to create a preliminary framework that draws connections between several established theoretical explanations. To ground theory development in empirical data, 194 CRO members from 20 CROs answered open‐ended quest…
Relating Engagement to Outcomes in Prevention
Analyses of program engagement can provide critical insight into how program involvement leads to outcomes. This study examines the relation between participant engagement and program outcomes in Family Foundations (FF), a universal preventive intervention designed to help couples manage the transition to parenthood by improving coparenting relationship quality. Previous intent‐to‐treat outcome analyses from a randomized trial indicate FF improve…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Mental Health Self‐Help
Since the 1950s, people with mental illness and their families have been organizing a wide range of self‐directed, mutual support oriented initiatives, including self‐help groups, nonprofit organizations, and businesses. These initiatives have become increasingly widespread over the years and today mental health self‐help initiatives outnumber traditional mental health organizations in the United States (Goldstrom et al., Admin Policy Mental Heal…
The Structure of Social Exchange in Self‐help Support Groups
Self‐help support groups are indigenous community resources designed to help people manage a variety of personal challenges, from alcohol abuse to xeroderma pigmentosum. The social exchanges that occur during group meetings are central to understanding how people benefit from participation. This paper examines the different types of social exchange behaviors that occur during meetings, using two studies to develop empirically distinct scales that…
Understanding how engagement in a self‐managed shelter contributes to empowerment
Participant empowerment is a foundational goal of self‐organised homeless care. We aim to understand how a self‐organised setting contributes to participants' empowerment. The data we analysed (56 interviews, both open and semi‐structured) were generated in a longitudinal participatory case study into Je Eigen Stek (Your own place, JES), a low‐cost shelter for people experiencing homelessness in the Netherlands. JES participants experienced the f…
Rural Embedded Assistants for Community Health (Reach) Network
Community research and action projects undertaken by community–university partnerships can lead to contextually appropriate and sustainable community improvements in rural and urban localities. However, effective implementation is challenging and prone to failure when poorly executed. The current paper seeks to inform rural community–university partnership practice through consideration of first‐person accounts from five stakeholders in the Rural…
How settings change people
Self‐help initiatives stand as a classic context for organizational studies in community psychology. Behavior setting theory stands as a classic conception of organizations and the environment. This study explores both, applying behavior setting theory to consumer‐run organizations (CROs). Analysis of multiple data sets from all CROs in Kansas provide insight into how organizational size influences member participation, how members benefit from p…
Understanding How Participation in a Consumer‐Run Organization Relates to Recovery
The goal of this study was to examine how different types of participation in a consumer‐run organization (CRO) are related to recovery. More specifically, this study uses structural equation modeling to examine the relative impact of empowering and socially supportive participation experiences on progress towards recovery among 250 CRO members from 20 CROs. An empowering participation experience refers to involvement in leadership roles and cont…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Mental Health Self‐Help
Since the 1950s, people with mental illness and their families have been organizing a wide range of self‐directed, mutual support oriented initiatives, including self‐help groups, nonprofit organizations, and businesses. These initiatives have become increasingly widespread over the years and today mental health self‐help initiatives outnumber traditional mental health organizations in the United States (Goldstrom et al., Admin Policy Mental Heal…
Making it Sane
My previous research led to the development of a theoretical model explaining the processes by which people can benefit from consumer-run organizations (CROs). This study builds on that work by exploring the ability of the conceptual framework to capture the complexity of seven diverse life history narratives from participants at one CRO. To construct life history narratives, I used data from participant observation and a series of in-depth, mini…
How People Can Benefit from Mental Health Consumer‐Run Organizations
The goal of this study is to develop a more comprehensive theoretical understanding of the processes by which people can benefit from mental health consumer‐run organizations (CROs). To accomplish this goal, the concept of roles is used to create a preliminary framework that draws connections between several established theoretical explanations. To ground theory development in empirical data, 194 CRO members from 20 CROs answered open‐ended quest…
A Multi-Domain Self-Report Measure of Coparenting
OBJECTIVE: This study reports the psychometric properties of a multi-domain measure of the coparenting relationship in dual-parent families. METHOD: 152 couples participating in a transition to parenthood study completed the Coparenting Relationship Scale and additional measures during home visits at child age 6 months, 1 year, and 3 years. RESULTS: Psychometric and construct validity assessments indicated the measure performed satisfactorily. Th…
Relating Engagement to Outcomes in Prevention
Analyses of program engagement can provide critical insight into how program involvement leads to outcomes. This study examines the relation between participant engagement and program outcomes in Family Foundations (FF), a universal preventive intervention designed to help couples manage the transition to parenthood by improving coparenting relationship quality. Previous intent‐to‐treat outcome analyses from a randomized trial indicate FF improve…
Rural Embedded Assistants for Community Health (Reach) Network
Community research and action projects undertaken by community–university partnerships can lead to contextually appropriate and sustainable community improvements in rural and urban localities. However, effective implementation is challenging and prone to failure when poorly executed. The current paper seeks to inform rural community–university partnership practice through consideration of first‐person accounts from five stakeholders in the Rural…
Unintended Birth Among Hispanic Women in Texas
The Structure of Social Exchange in Self‐help Support Groups
Self‐help support groups are indigenous community resources designed to help people manage a variety of personal challenges, from alcohol abuse to xeroderma pigmentosum. The social exchanges that occur during group meetings are central to understanding how people benefit from participation. This paper examines the different types of social exchange behaviors that occur during meetings, using two studies to develop empirically distinct scales that…
Comparing the Functioning of Youth and Adult Partnerships for Health Promotion
Youth partnerships are a promising but understudied strategy for prevention and health promotion. Specifically, little is known about how the functioning of youth partnerships differs from that of adult partnerships. Accordingly, this study compared the functioning of youth partnerships with that of adult partnerships. Several aspects of partnership functioning, including leadership, task focus, cohesion, participation costs and benefits, and com…
Financial Barriers to Health Care Among Mexican Americans With Chronic Disease and Depression or Anxiety in El Paso, Texas
Purpose: To determine the barriers to health care access by chronic disease and depression/anxiety diagnosis in Mexican Americans living in El Paso, TX. Design: A secondary analysis was conducted using data for 1,002 Hispanics from El Paso, TX (2009-2010). Logistic regression was conducted for financial barriers by number of chronic conditions and depression/anxiety diagnosis. Interaction models were conducted between number of chronic conditions…
Attitudes toward tobacco among low-income Hispanic adolescents
Background: Although US cigarette smoking rates have steadily declined, the changing nature of nicotine consumption and the popularity of non-combustible nicotine products urges us to revise tobacco prevention strategies. Research on smoking perspectives among Hispanic youth is limited yet crucial for prevention efforts with Hispanics being the largest minority in the U.S. Objective: This study sought to understand the experience and perceptions …
Using a reasoned action approach to identify determinants of organized exercise among Hispanics
Research on Hispanics’ activity preferences suggest that they prefer engaging in group-oriented physical activities, such as organized exercise. Yet, little is known about pathways to participation in organized exercise among Hispanics. This study used a reasoned action approach (RAA) framework to explore beliefs and determinants of organized exercise among Hispanics. Specifically, we examined the impact of participants’ intentions on reported or…
Building capacity for community-based participatory research to address cancer disparities
Understanding how engagement in a self‐managed shelter contributes to empowerment
Participant empowerment is a foundational goal of self‐organised homeless care. We aim to understand how a self‐organised setting contributes to participants' empowerment. The data we analysed (56 interviews, both open and semi‐structured) were generated in a longitudinal participatory case study into Je Eigen Stek (Your own place, JES), a low‐cost shelter for people experiencing homelessness in the Netherlands. JES participants experienced the f…
Body composition outcomes of Healthy Fit and the role of acculturation among low-income Hispanics on the US-Mexico border
Findings suggest Healthy Fit was most effective among less acculturated individuals. The influence of acculturation on the efficacy of nutrition and exercise interventions suggests that Hispanics should not be treated as a homogenous subgroup
Vales + Tú
Latino day laborers (LDL) are a vulnerable population of workers facing considerable risk for occupational injury. Under the guidance of our Community Advisory Board, we developed and tested the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effects of Vales+Tú (You Are Worth More), a workplace injury risk-reduction program implemented by promotores on street-corners where LDL seek employment. The program was informed by theoretical perspectives emph…
Predictors of e-cigarette initiation and use among middle school youth in a low-income predominantly Hispanic community
Introduction E-cigarette use among middle and high school youth increased from 2. 5 million in 2014 to 9.2 million in 2019, becoming the most common tobacco product used among youth. Hispanic youth, the largest ethnic minority in the United States, have higher rates of tobacco use, including e-cigarettes, than non-Hispanics. Identifying factors that put youth at risk for future e-cigarette use is vital to focusing prevention efforts. Informed by …
Exploring empowerment of participants and peer workers in a self- managed homeless shelter
Self-managed shelters claim that participants who have been homeless are better able to run a shelter than regular providers. Little research has investigated self-managed shelters. In this article, we have described the experiences of participants and peer workers with empowerment processes in Je Eigen Stek (Your own place, JES), a self-managed shelter, based on an eight-year qualitative responsive evaluation. Findings We distinguish three clust…
Initial conditions and functioning over time among community coalitions
Developing operationally strong community coalitions is critical to actualizing their potential for public health improvement. The purpose of this study was to measure how substance use prevention coalitions in Mexico functioned across their first 1.5 years, and to test associations between initial community contextual factors and subsequent coalition functioning and outcomes. Members of 19 coalitions participated in three waves of surveys about …
Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Resilience and Mental Health in a Hispanic Community
This study explores the relations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), mental health and resilience among Hispanic adults living in the United States - Mexico Border region. Numerous studies have investigated the negative impact of ACEs on adult mental health, but the concept of resilience as a protective factor for mental health in the Hispanic communities has limited consideration in ACE treatment interventions. The proposed study addr…
Development and refinement of a corner-based injury prevention programme for Latino day labourers
Objective: Latino day labourers (LDLs) in the USA are at increased risk for non-fatal and fatal occupational injuries, which are compounded by stressors that include wage theft, job insecurity and discrimination. This paper describes the development and refinement of Vales+Tú (You are Worthy of More), an injury prevention programme currently being evaluated as part of a cluster randomised trial in which health promotion is taken directly to the '…
Identifying Factors That Influence Physical Activity and Healthy Aging Among Older Latino Adults
BACKGROUND: For older Latinos, some benefits of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) include enhanced cognitive functioning, decreased loneliness, and reduced premature mortality. Despite LTPA benefits, adults ≥50 years are one of the most inactive age groups in the United States. METHODS: This qualitative study aimed to add to the limited evidence of LTPA in older Latino adults by exploring the barriers and facilitators for fitness class uptake…
Effects of advice‐seeking patterns on community coalitions' outcomes
Community coalitions are well‐positioned to address local conditions affecting health. Coalitions rely on interactions among members to address community issues and plan for sustainability. Individuals and agencies participate voluntarily, and substantive decisions are generally made as a group. Hence, coalitions operate largely through advice rather than top‐down directives. This study examined whether advice‐seeking patterns within coalitions i…
Psychology (20 obras) · Medicine (17 obras) · Public health (15 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (11 obras) · Community Health and Development (10 obras) · Nursing (10 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Public relations (8 obras)