Patricia A Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia A Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia A |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology and Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4528-9891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 252 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Using Kern’s 6-Step Approach to Integrate Health Systems Science Curricula Into Medical Education
The term “health systems science” (HSS) has recently emerged as a unifying label for competencies in health care delivery and in population and community health. Despite strong evidence that HSS competencies are needed in the current and future health care workforce, heretofore the integration of HSS into medical education has been slow or fragmented—due, in part, to a lack of evidence that these curricula improve education or population outcomes…
Tibetan Buddhist Pilgrims and the covid-19 pandemic
Vajrayana Buddhism, like all of the world's major religions, places high importance on the ancient practice of pilgrimage for spiritual development and maintenance of spiritual health. The negative mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the need for exploring efficacious methods of religious coping, especially those closely associated with culture and tradition. This qualitative hermeneutical study was aimed at examining the impact…
Sibling Deaths, Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage, and Dementia in Later Life
The death of a sibling in mid-to-late life is a stressor that is associated with increased dementia risk. Black adults are disadvantaged in that they are more likely than Whites to experience the death of siblings, and such losses contribute to the already substantial racial/ethnic disadvantage in dementia
Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression
Using the life course perspective, we assess the 'resources' and 'risks' to mental health associated with transitions in religious attendance between early life and midlife and how this process may be influenced by education. Drawing on over 35 years of prospective panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, baseline models suggest that stable, frequent attendance accumulated between adolescence to midlife and increases to frequent …
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Including the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Medical Education Program Highlights Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine (SOM) has 2 collaborative MD degree programs: the University Program, established in 1843 as the Western Reserve School of Medicine, and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (College) program, launched in 2002. The University program’s 4-year curriculum, Western Reserve2, merges the disciplines of public health and medicine into a single inte…
Lost Touch? Implications of Physical Touch for Physical Health
These findings highlight the importance of finding safe ways to incorporate physical touch, even in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic
Exacerbating Inequalities: Social Networks, Racial/Ethnic Disparities, and the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
Importantly, racial/ethnic disparities in social networks both prior to and as a result of the pandemic intensify existing inequalities and demonstrate the necessity of better understanding social network inequalities for marginalized older adults, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 health crisis
Direct and Indirect Pathways From Social Support to Health
The growing number of older adults with an aging population urgently calls for a greater understanding of factors influencing their physical and mental health. The results of this study demonstrate the importance of social support in older adults' health, while specifically focusing on understudied indirect pathways from social support to health
Do Older Parents’ Relationships With Their Adult Children Affect Cognitive Limitations, and Does This Differ for Mothers and Fathers
The gender gap in cognitive limitations may be exacerbated among aging parents experiencing high levels of strain with their adult children. These findings point to the importance of taking gender into account and studying whether positive and negative aspects of close social relationships affect older adults
Marital Quality and Cognitive Limitations in Late Life
The discussion highlights possible explanations for the apparent protective effect of negative marital experiences for older adults' cognitive health over time, regardless of gender
Childhood Adversity and Men’s Relationships in Adulthood: Life Course Processes and Racial Disadvantage
A life course perspective directs attention to the early life origins of cumulative patterns of social disadvantage, patterns that extend to later life. Our findings suggest psychosocial and behavioral pathways through which early life adversity may constrain and strain men's relationships, possibly contributing to racial inequality in family relationships across the life span
Race, Gender, and Chains of Disadvantage: Childhood Adversity, Social Relationships, and Health
We use a life course approach to guide an investigation of relationships and health at the nexus of race and gender. We consider childhood as a sensitive period in the life course, during which significant adversity may launch chains of disadvantage in relationships throughout the life course that then have cumulative effects on health over time. Data from a nationally representative panel study (Americans' Changing Lives, N = 3,477) reveal subst…
Marital Status, Self-Rated Health, and Mortality: Overestimation of Health or Diminishing Protection of Marriage
This study challenges two well-established associations in medical sociology: the beneficial effect of marriage on health and the predictive power of self-rated health on mortality. Using The National Health Interview Survey 1986-2004 with 1986-2006 mortality follow-up (789,096 respondents with 24,095 deaths) and Cox Proportional Hazards Models, we find the protective effect of marriage against mortality decreases with deteriorating health so tha…
Trajectories of Social Engagement and Mortality in Late Life
Findings suggest the importance of maintaining high levels of social engagement over time for the health of older adults
Socioeconomic Status and the Black–White Mortality Crossover
Objectives. We investigated associations among age, race, socioeconomic status (SES), and mortality in older persons and whether low SES contributes to the Black–White mortality crossover (when elevated age–specific mortality rates invert). Methods. We used panel data from the North Carolina Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly to test the main and interactive effects of SES on mortality. Results. Discrete-time hazard …
Gender, social engagement, and limitations in late life
Trajectories of Social Engagement and Limitations in Late Life
Although studies have established important links between social relations and health, much of this research does not take into account the dynamic nature of both social relations and health over time. The present study combines person-centered and variable-centered approaches and uses social integration theory within the life course framework to examine patterns of change in social engagement and how those patterns relate to trajectories of phys…
Father Presence, Family Structure, and Feelings of Closeness to the Father Among Adult African American Children
Previous literature primarily defines father presence and absence in terms of the father's residence in the home. This definition may purport an exceedingly negative image of African American families. The present study, however, seeks to redefine father presence in the context of feelings of closeness to the father as well as frequency of father visitation. Results suggest that a considerable portion of African American nonresident fathers visit…
Middle Paleolithic Behavioral Organization: 1993 Excavation of Tor Faraj, Southern Jordan
Excavation of a Levantine Mousterian rockshelter exposed two living floors in the upper part of a deposit more than 3.5 m thick. An intrasite study, focusing on the spatial patterns of data recovered from the two floors, complements an earlier intersite study of settlement and procurement patterns. The arrangement of hearths and the spatial distributions of artifacts and manuports indicate redundant behavioral organization for the two components.…
Race, Gender, and Chains of Disadvantage: Childhood Adversity, Social Relationships, and Health
We use a life course approach to guide an investigation of relationships and health at the nexus of race and gender. We consider childhood as a sensitive period in the life course, during which significant adversity may launch chains of disadvantage in relationships throughout the life course that then have cumulative effects on health over time. Data from a nationally representative panel study (Americans' Changing Lives, N = 3,477) reveal subst…
Exacerbating Inequalities: Social Networks, Racial/Ethnic Disparities, and the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
Importantly, racial/ethnic disparities in social networks both prior to and as a result of the pandemic intensify existing inequalities and demonstrate the necessity of better understanding social network inequalities for marginalized older adults, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 health crisis
Middle Paleolithic Behavioral Organization: 1993 Excavation of Tor Faraj, Southern Jordan
Excavation of a Levantine Mousterian rockshelter exposed two living floors in the upper part of a deposit more than 3.5 m thick. An intrasite study, focusing on the spatial patterns of data recovered from the two floors, complements an earlier intersite study of settlement and procurement patterns. The arrangement of hearths and the spatial distributions of artifacts and manuports indicate redundant behavioral organization for the two components.…
Gender, social engagement, and limitations in late life
Trajectories of Social Engagement and Limitations in Late Life
Although studies have established important links between social relations and health, much of this research does not take into account the dynamic nature of both social relations and health over time. The present study combines person-centered and variable-centered approaches and uses social integration theory within the life course framework to examine patterns of change in social engagement and how those patterns relate to trajectories of phys…
Trajectories of Social Engagement and Mortality in Late Life
Findings suggest the importance of maintaining high levels of social engagement over time for the health of older adults
Marital Status, Self-Rated Health, and Mortality: Overestimation of Health or Diminishing Protection of Marriage
This study challenges two well-established associations in medical sociology: the beneficial effect of marriage on health and the predictive power of self-rated health on mortality. Using The National Health Interview Survey 1986-2004 with 1986-2006 mortality follow-up (789,096 respondents with 24,095 deaths) and Cox Proportional Hazards Models, we find the protective effect of marriage against mortality decreases with deteriorating health so tha…
Marital Quality and Cognitive Limitations in Late Life
The discussion highlights possible explanations for the apparent protective effect of negative marital experiences for older adults' cognitive health over time, regardless of gender
Childhood Adversity and Men’s Relationships in Adulthood: Life Course Processes and Racial Disadvantage
A life course perspective directs attention to the early life origins of cumulative patterns of social disadvantage, patterns that extend to later life. Our findings suggest psychosocial and behavioral pathways through which early life adversity may constrain and strain men's relationships, possibly contributing to racial inequality in family relationships across the life span
Do Older Parents’ Relationships With Their Adult Children Affect Cognitive Limitations, and Does This Differ for Mothers and Fathers
The gender gap in cognitive limitations may be exacerbated among aging parents experiencing high levels of strain with their adult children. These findings point to the importance of taking gender into account and studying whether positive and negative aspects of close social relationships affect older adults
Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression
Using the life course perspective, we assess the 'resources' and 'risks' to mental health associated with transitions in religious attendance between early life and midlife and how this process may be influenced by education. Drawing on over 35 years of prospective panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, baseline models suggest that stable, frequent attendance accumulated between adolescence to midlife and increases to frequent …
Lost Touch? Implications of Physical Touch for Physical Health
These findings highlight the importance of finding safe ways to incorporate physical touch, even in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic
Sibling Deaths, Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage, and Dementia in Later Life
The death of a sibling in mid-to-late life is a stressor that is associated with increased dementia risk. Black adults are disadvantaged in that they are more likely than Whites to experience the death of siblings, and such losses contribute to the already substantial racial/ethnic disadvantage in dementia
Direct and Indirect Pathways From Social Support to Health
The growing number of older adults with an aging population urgently calls for a greater understanding of factors influencing their physical and mental health. The results of this study demonstrate the importance of social support in older adults' health, while specifically focusing on understudied indirect pathways from social support to health
Socioeconomic Status and the Black–White Mortality Crossover
Objectives. We investigated associations among age, race, socioeconomic status (SES), and mortality in older persons and whether low SES contributes to the Black–White mortality crossover (when elevated age–specific mortality rates invert). Methods. We used panel data from the North Carolina Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly to test the main and interactive effects of SES on mortality. Results. Discrete-time hazard …
Middle Paleolithic Behavioral Organization: 1993 Excavation of Tor Faraj, Southern Jordan
Excavation of a Levantine Mousterian rockshelter exposed two living floors in the upper part of a deposit more than 3.5 m thick. An intrasite study, focusing on the spatial patterns of data recovered from the two floors, complements an earlier intersite study of settlement and procurement patterns. The arrangement of hearths and the spatial distributions of artifacts and manuports indicate redundant behavioral organization for the two components.…
Father Presence, Family Structure, and Feelings of Closeness to the Father Among Adult African American Children
Previous literature primarily defines father presence and absence in terms of the father's residence in the home. This definition may purport an exceedingly negative image of African American families. The present study, however, seeks to redefine father presence in the context of feelings of closeness to the father as well as frequency of father visitation. Results suggest that a considerable portion of African American nonresident fathers visit…
Gender, social engagement, and limitations in late life
Trajectories of Social Engagement and Limitations in Late Life
Although studies have established important links between social relations and health, much of this research does not take into account the dynamic nature of both social relations and health over time. The present study combines person-centered and variable-centered approaches and uses social integration theory within the life course framework to examine patterns of change in social engagement and how those patterns relate to trajectories of phys…
Trajectories of Social Engagement and Mortality in Late Life
Findings suggest the importance of maintaining high levels of social engagement over time for the health of older adults
Socioeconomic Status and the Black–White Mortality Crossover
Objectives. We investigated associations among age, race, socioeconomic status (SES), and mortality in older persons and whether low SES contributes to the Black–White mortality crossover (when elevated age–specific mortality rates invert). Methods. We used panel data from the North Carolina Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly to test the main and interactive effects of SES on mortality. Results. Discrete-time hazard …
Marital Status, Self-Rated Health, and Mortality: Overestimation of Health or Diminishing Protection of Marriage
This study challenges two well-established associations in medical sociology: the beneficial effect of marriage on health and the predictive power of self-rated health on mortality. Using The National Health Interview Survey 1986-2004 with 1986-2006 mortality follow-up (789,096 respondents with 24,095 deaths) and Cox Proportional Hazards Models, we find the protective effect of marriage against mortality decreases with deteriorating health so tha…
Race, Gender, and Chains of Disadvantage: Childhood Adversity, Social Relationships, and Health
We use a life course approach to guide an investigation of relationships and health at the nexus of race and gender. We consider childhood as a sensitive period in the life course, during which significant adversity may launch chains of disadvantage in relationships throughout the life course that then have cumulative effects on health over time. Data from a nationally representative panel study (Americans' Changing Lives, N = 3,477) reveal subst…
Marital Quality and Cognitive Limitations in Late Life
The discussion highlights possible explanations for the apparent protective effect of negative marital experiences for older adults' cognitive health over time, regardless of gender
Childhood Adversity and Men’s Relationships in Adulthood: Life Course Processes and Racial Disadvantage
A life course perspective directs attention to the early life origins of cumulative patterns of social disadvantage, patterns that extend to later life. Our findings suggest psychosocial and behavioral pathways through which early life adversity may constrain and strain men's relationships, possibly contributing to racial inequality in family relationships across the life span
Direct and Indirect Pathways From Social Support to Health
The growing number of older adults with an aging population urgently calls for a greater understanding of factors influencing their physical and mental health. The results of this study demonstrate the importance of social support in older adults' health, while specifically focusing on understudied indirect pathways from social support to health
Do Older Parents’ Relationships With Their Adult Children Affect Cognitive Limitations, and Does This Differ for Mothers and Fathers
The gender gap in cognitive limitations may be exacerbated among aging parents experiencing high levels of strain with their adult children. These findings point to the importance of taking gender into account and studying whether positive and negative aspects of close social relationships affect older adults
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Including the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Medical Education Program Highlights Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine (SOM) has 2 collaborative MD degree programs: the University Program, established in 1843 as the Western Reserve School of Medicine, and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (College) program, launched in 2002. The University program’s 4-year curriculum, Western Reserve2, merges the disciplines of public health and medicine into a single inte…
Lost Touch? Implications of Physical Touch for Physical Health
These findings highlight the importance of finding safe ways to incorporate physical touch, even in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic
Exacerbating Inequalities: Social Networks, Racial/Ethnic Disparities, and the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
Importantly, racial/ethnic disparities in social networks both prior to and as a result of the pandemic intensify existing inequalities and demonstrate the necessity of better understanding social network inequalities for marginalized older adults, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 health crisis
Using Kern’s 6-Step Approach to Integrate Health Systems Science Curricula Into Medical Education
The term “health systems science” (HSS) has recently emerged as a unifying label for competencies in health care delivery and in population and community health. Despite strong evidence that HSS competencies are needed in the current and future health care workforce, heretofore the integration of HSS into medical education has been slow or fragmented—due, in part, to a lack of evidence that these curricula improve education or population outcomes…
Tibetan Buddhist Pilgrims and the covid-19 pandemic
Vajrayana Buddhism, like all of the world's major religions, places high importance on the ancient practice of pilgrimage for spiritual development and maintenance of spiritual health. The negative mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the need for exploring efficacious methods of religious coping, especially those closely associated with culture and tradition. This qualitative hermeneutical study was aimed at examining the impact…
Sibling Deaths, Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage, and Dementia in Later Life
The death of a sibling in mid-to-late life is a stressor that is associated with increased dementia risk. Black adults are disadvantaged in that they are more likely than Whites to experience the death of siblings, and such losses contribute to the already substantial racial/ethnic disadvantage in dementia
Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression
Using the life course perspective, we assess the 'resources' and 'risks' to mental health associated with transitions in religious attendance between early life and midlife and how this process may be influenced by education. Drawing on over 35 years of prospective panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, baseline models suggest that stable, frequent attendance accumulated between adolescence to midlife and increases to frequent …
Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Gerontology (12 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Demography (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (5 works) · Gerontology (5 works)