Ronald J Lorimor
Biographic Data
| ID | 377126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald J Lorimor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorimor |
| SIGNATURE | LORIMOR R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Caring for Terminally ILL Persons
To investigate why some caregivers desire to avoid patients with terminal illnesses, a thanatophobia scale assessing caregivers' uncomfortable feelings and sense of helplessness was developed and evaluated among practicing physicians and student nurses and medical students. As a group, student nurses scored lower on the thanatophobia scale than practicing physicians and medical students. Higher scores on intolerance to clinical uncertainty were a…
Self-Esteem and Caregivers' Attitudes toward Elderly Persons
A scale identifying 141 medical students who responded positively to geriatric patients was based on Rosenberg's Self-esteem Scale modified by adding a phrase about geriatric care. Personal and professional role traits that predicted a positive therapeutic attitude were high scores on social desirability or self-monitoring and low scores on thanatophobia and depression. Senior medical students who expressed the highest self-esteem toward caring f…
Measuring Social Desirability among Senior Medical Students
The purpose of the study was to assess the role of medical students' social desirability scores on influencing their attitudes toward either a geriatric or hypochondriac patient. To carry out this investigation, we developed a social desirability scale that was domain-specific for medicine. Students' medical social desirability scores predicted negative attitudes and beliefs toward the geriatric but not the hypochondriac patient. This difference …
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Social survey data are often collected using complex sample designs that include unequal selection probabilities, stratification, and clustering; and this departure from simple random sampling assumptions requires special methods for variance estimation and inferential analysis. This article reviews the issues and techniques for analysis of complex survey data; and the application of special techniques is illustrated, based on various complex sur…
Variability in food consumption patterns of adults in the U.S. population
This study used the 24‐hour dietary recall data of white adult respondents in the NHANES I to demonstrate variability in food consumption patterns among subgroups of this population. Both a quantitative dimension, mean intake levels and the qualitative dimensions of nutrient density and diet diversity were used. Generally males consumed more food energy and nutrients than did females, as did younger, as compared to older subjects. This pattern wa…
Estimates of the demand for health
Effects of WIC on cognitive development
the October issue of the American Journal of Public Health, reported significant differences in behavioral and intelligence test measures between children with different time periods of participation in the National Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program.' The sample was restricted to 21 pairs of siblings; the oldest was enrolled in the program after the first year of life and participated for 30.8 months…
Job-related activities, academic preparation, and continuing education needs of graduates of schools of public health
This survey determined the job-related activities being carried out by graduates of the University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH), whether the graduates received preparation for each activity in their academic program, and what continuing education was needed in each job-related activity. It was found that there was a difference between job activities of UTSPH graduates and their perceptions of their preparation at UTSPH for these activ…
Weighting Events in Life-Events Research
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Social survey data are often collected using complex sample designs that include unequal selection probabilities, stratification, and clustering; and this departure from simple random sampling assumptions requires special methods for variance estimation and inferential analysis. This article reviews the issues and techniques for analysis of complex survey data; and the application of special techniques is illustrated, based on various complex sur…
Job-related activities, academic preparation, and continuing education needs of graduates of schools of public health
This survey determined the job-related activities being carried out by graduates of the University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH), whether the graduates received preparation for each activity in their academic program, and what continuing education was needed in each job-related activity. It was found that there was a difference between job activities of UTSPH graduates and their perceptions of their preparation at UTSPH for these activ…
Estimates of the demand for health
Effects of WIC on cognitive development
the October issue of the American Journal of Public Health, reported significant differences in behavioral and intelligence test measures between children with different time periods of participation in the National Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program.' The sample was restricted to 21 pairs of siblings; the oldest was enrolled in the program after the first year of life and participated for 30.8 months…
Weighting Events in Life-Events Research
Weighting Events in Life-Events Research
Job-related activities, academic preparation, and continuing education needs of graduates of schools of public health
This survey determined the job-related activities being carried out by graduates of the University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH), whether the graduates received preparation for each activity in their academic program, and what continuing education was needed in each job-related activity. It was found that there was a difference between job activities of UTSPH graduates and their perceptions of their preparation at UTSPH for these activ…
Effects of WIC on cognitive development
the October issue of the American Journal of Public Health, reported significant differences in behavioral and intelligence test measures between children with different time periods of participation in the National Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program.' The sample was restricted to 21 pairs of siblings; the oldest was enrolled in the program after the first year of life and participated for 30.8 months…
Variability in food consumption patterns of adults in the U.S. population
This study used the 24‐hour dietary recall data of white adult respondents in the NHANES I to demonstrate variability in food consumption patterns among subgroups of this population. Both a quantitative dimension, mean intake levels and the qualitative dimensions of nutrient density and diet diversity were used. Generally males consumed more food energy and nutrients than did females, as did younger, as compared to older subjects. This pattern wa…
Estimates of the demand for health
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Social survey data are often collected using complex sample designs that include unequal selection probabilities, stratification, and clustering; and this departure from simple random sampling assumptions requires special methods for variance estimation and inferential analysis. This article reviews the issues and techniques for analysis of complex survey data; and the application of special techniques is illustrated, based on various complex sur…
Measuring Social Desirability among Senior Medical Students
The purpose of the study was to assess the role of medical students' social desirability scores on influencing their attitudes toward either a geriatric or hypochondriac patient. To carry out this investigation, we developed a social desirability scale that was domain-specific for medicine. Students' medical social desirability scores predicted negative attitudes and beliefs toward the geriatric but not the hypochondriac patient. This difference …
Self-Esteem and Caregivers' Attitudes toward Elderly Persons
A scale identifying 141 medical students who responded positively to geriatric patients was based on Rosenberg's Self-esteem Scale modified by adding a phrase about geriatric care. Personal and professional role traits that predicted a positive therapeutic attitude were high scores on social desirability or self-monitoring and low scores on thanatophobia and depression. Senior medical students who expressed the highest self-esteem toward caring f…
Caring for Terminally ILL Persons
To investigate why some caregivers desire to avoid patients with terminal illnesses, a thanatophobia scale assessing caregivers' uncomfortable feelings and sense of helplessness was developed and evaluated among practicing physicians and student nurses and medical students. As a group, student nurses scored lower on the thanatophobia scale than practicing physicians and medical students. Higher scores on intolerance to clinical uncertainty were a…
Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Econometrics (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)