Carolyn M Tucker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3820181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn M Tucker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn M |
| FAMILY NAME | Tucker |
| SIGNATURE | TUCKER C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7385-9914 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Factors Associated with Emergency Department Utilization among Older Black Adults with Chronic Illness in the United States
Gendered Paths To Cancer Knowledge and Screening Behavior among Black Adults: Results from a Community-Partnered Study
Efforts are needed to promote cancer knowledge and the uptake of cancer screening behaviors among Black Americans. Such efforts must be customized for the unique differences in facilitators/barriers among Black men and women. The present study leverages the potential of the UF Health Cancer Institute Community-Partnered Cancer Disparities Research Collaborative (CDRC) to identify the psychosocial and structural factors associated with cancer know…
A Community-Partnered Cancer Disparities Research Collaborative Model for Engaging Members of Low-Income Black Communities in Cancer Research
Black adults experience the highest incidence and/or mortality rates for many commonly diagnosed cancers; yet they are underrepresented in cancer basic, applied, and translational research. This underrepresentation is greatest among Black adults living in low-income communities. There are many barriers to these individuals participating in cancer research, including limited effective research engagement strategies. This paper describes the Univer…
Using Multi-Method Insights to Develop a Novel Chronic Pain Self-Management Intervention for Black Older Adults
Sleep as a Predictor of Health-Related Quality of Life among Economically Disadvantaged Black Older Adults
While sleep deprivation has a serious impact on quality of life for Black older adults, sleep disturbances in this population are understudied. Interventions to improve sleep duration and quality among Black older adults may help reduce disparities in quality of life between Black older adults and NHW adults
Radical Healing Community-Based Participatory Research to Eliminate Health Disparities
The health disparities experienced by Black older adults are associated with social determinants of health, all of which are inextricably linked to anti-Black racism. Research led by counseling psychologists has implications for promoting mental and physical health equity. We describe a new model, based on the integration of the radical healing framework and the community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, for promoting mental and phys…
Motivators of and barriers to in-person health care and video telehealth utilization among older Black adults: A Qualitative Study
These findings provide key implications for reducing the burden of health care inequity for older Black adults. Future implementation research should use equity-focused frameworks such as the patient-centered culturally sensitive health care (PC-CSHC) model. Additionally, collaboration with the community is necessary to create and implement the necessary culturally sensitive health interventions
Avoidance-Endurance Model in Older Black Men with Low Back Pain: Exploring Relationships
The Associations between Depression, Acculturation, and Cardiovascular Health among African Immigrants in the United States
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death both globally and in the United States (U.S.). Racial health disparities in cardiovascular health (CVH) persist with non-Hispanic Black adults having a higher burden of CVD morbidity and mortality compared to other racial groups. African immigrants represent an increasingly growing sub-population of the overall U.S. non-Hispanic Black adult population, however little is known about how sp…
Perceived socioeconomic status and health-related quality of life (HQoL) among urban adults: Evaluating the protective value of resilience
Health-related quality of life (HQoL) is increasingly used as a measure of population health. The utility of HQoL lies in its ability to capture the subjectivity and totality of health-HQoL is an individual's subjective assessment of their physical, psychological, and social functioning. HQoL disparities exist in the United States, with some groups (e.g., individuals of low socioeconomic status [SES]) experiencing disproportionately low rates of …
Impact of Stress and Loneliness on Health-Related Quality of Life Among Low Income Senior African Americans
Associations of Health Self-efficacy With Engagement in Health-Promoting Behaviors and Treatment Adherence in Rural Patients
Rural residents have lower levels of engagement in health-promoting behaviors and treatment adherence than their urban counterparts. This cross-sectional study sought to understand the role of health self-efficacy as a precursor to engagement in health-promoting behaviors and treatment adherence in 273 rural patients. Structural equation model was used to examine whether health self-efficacy predicted engagement in health-promoting behaviors and …
An Examination of Health-Promoting Behaviors Among Hispanic Adults Using an Activation and Empowerment Approach
An Examination of Health-Promoting Behaviors Among Hispanic Adults Using an Activation and Empowerment Approach Guillermo M. Wippold, PhD, Carolyn M. Tucker, PhD, Tasia M. Smith, PhD, Nicole Ennis, PhD, Shuchang Kang, MS, Andrea D. Guastello, MS, Tara A. Morrissette, MS, Tya M. Arthur, PhD, MPH, and Frederic F. Desmond, PhD What Is the Purpose of this Study/Review? • The purpose of the present study was to examine the association between person-c…
An Examination of Health-Promoting Behaviors Among Hispanic Adults Using an Activation and Empowerment Approach
The current findings suggest that these modifiable factors may be useful in informing intervention programs designed to improve healthy eating and physical activity among Hispanic adults
Counseling Psychologists and Behavioral Health: Promoting Mental and Physical Health Outcomes
On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of The Counseling Psychologist, we reflect on the many contributions that counseling psychologists have made and are poised to make in the areas of behavioral health and behavioral health care. We note that psychologists’ engagement in health promotion and prevention of behavioral, mental, and emotional disorders is consistent with counseling psychology values. We provide a concise review of theories that a…
Health Self-Empowerment Theory: Predicting Health Behaviors and BMI in Culturally Diverse Adults
Health Self-Empowerment Theory asserts that 5 controllable psychological variables predict engagement in health-promoting behaviors. This study tests the theoretical integrity of Health Self-Empowerment Theory and its usefulness in predicting health-promoting behaviors and body mass index. Results from surveying 189 predominantly low-income, overweight/obese, and culturally diverse adults showed that most Health Self-Empowerment Theory variables …
A Socially Just Leadership Approach to Community-Partnered Research for Reducing Health Disparities
Significant health disparities continue to plague many groups of people who have been systematically oppressed and largely unrepresented in health research. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative research approach that has been shown to be effective in addressing health disparities; a community–university partnership approach can be used to conduct this research. Counseling psychologists are well suited to establish and …
A CBPR Study to Test the Impact of a Church-Based Health Empowerment Program on Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes of Black Adult Churchgoers
Associations among perceived provider cultural sensitivity, trust in provider, and treatment adherence among predominantly low-income Asian American patients
Motivators of and Barriers to Engagement in Healthy Eating Behaviors among non-Hispanic Black Adults
Testing of a Model with Latino Patients That Explains the Links Among Patient-Perceived Provider Cultural Sensitivity, Language Preference, and Patient Treatment Adherence
These results suggest that interventions to promote treatment adherence among Latino patients should likely include provider training to foster patient-defined PCS, trust in provider, and patient satisfaction with care. Furthermore, this training needs to be customized to be suitable for providing care to Latino patients who prefer speaking Spanish and Latino patients who prefer speaking English
Validation of a Patient-Centered, Culturally Sensitive, Clinic Environment Inventory Using a National Sample of Adult Patients
The purpose of this study was to determine the factor structure, internal consistency reliability, and validity of the Tucker Culturally Sensitive Health Care Clinic Environment Inventory–Patient Form (T-CSHCCEI-PF), a novel instrument designed to assess an aspect of health care often ignored in health care quality research: the cultural sensitivity of health care center policies and environment as perceived by adult, racially/ethnically diverse …
Obesity and Related Chronic Health Conditions as Predictors of Motivation to Engage in Healthy Eating Behaviors Among Black Adults
Resolving the Paradoxes of and Barriers to Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care: Lessons From the History of Counseling and Community Psychology
The three reviews of the Major Contribution in this issue of The Counseling Psychologist provide thought-provoking critiques of counseling psychology's role in patient-centered culturally sensitive health care. In this rejoinder, the authors situate these critiques within the historical context of enduring paradoxes and barriers confronting counseling psychologists' entry into health care settings. The primary themes of this discussion focus on t…
Culturally Sensitive Health Care and Counseling Psychology: An Overview
This article introduces the Major Contribution, which focuses on counseling psychologists' roles in addressing health disparities through culturally sensitive health care research and interventions. First, the authors provide a rationale for conducting research focused on culturally sensitive health care and then offer definitions of patient-centered culturally sensitive health care and related terms, drawing from both the health care and counsel…
Providing Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care: A Formative Model
This article describes the literature-based, testable, formative Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care Model that explains the associations between patient-centered culturally sensitive health care, health-promoting treatment behaviors, and health outcomes and statuses. An intervention program based on the model and its foundational research are also described. In addition, the article summarizes research concerning the ongoing evalua…
The Roles of Counseling Psychologists in Reducing Health Disparities
This article presents an overview of the health disparities problem that exists among individuals from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds and their majority counterparts. The argument is made that the involvement of counseling psychologists in addressing this health disparities problem presents an opportunity for the field to remain true to its commitment to prevention, multiculturalism, and social justice while becoming more competitive …
A Socially Just Leadership Approach to Community-Partnered Research for Reducing Health Disparities
Significant health disparities continue to plague many groups of people who have been systematically oppressed and largely unrepresented in health research. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative research approach that has been shown to be effective in addressing health disparities; a community–university partnership approach can be used to conduct this research. Counseling psychologists are well suited to establish and …
Culturally Sensitive Health Care and Counseling Psychology: An Overview
This article introduces the Major Contribution, which focuses on counseling psychologists' roles in addressing health disparities through culturally sensitive health care research and interventions. First, the authors provide a rationale for conducting research focused on culturally sensitive health care and then offer definitions of patient-centered culturally sensitive health care and related terms, drawing from both the health care and counsel…
The Impact of Sex and Situational Cues on the Endorsement of Traditional Gender-Role Attitudes and Behaviors in Dating Couples
This investigation examines the effects of sex of participant, sex-role orientation and conversation topic on women's and men's endorsement of traditional gender-role attitudes and behaviors within intimate relationships. Sixty dating couples were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a discussion about the intimacy in their relationship, a discussion about everyday things, or a no-treatment control condition. The intimate-conversation co…
Radical Healing Community-Based Participatory Research to Eliminate Health Disparities
The health disparities experienced by Black older adults are associated with social determinants of health, all of which are inextricably linked to anti-Black racism. Research led by counseling psychologists has implications for promoting mental and physical health equity. We describe a new model, based on the integration of the radical healing framework and the community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, for promoting mental and phys…
A CBPR Study to Test the Impact of a Church-Based Health Empowerment Program on Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes of Black Adult Churchgoers
Motivators of and barriers to in-person health care and video telehealth utilization among older Black adults: A Qualitative Study
These findings provide key implications for reducing the burden of health care inequity for older Black adults. Future implementation research should use equity-focused frameworks such as the patient-centered culturally sensitive health care (PC-CSHC) model. Additionally, collaboration with the community is necessary to create and implement the necessary culturally sensitive health interventions
Counseling Psychologists and Behavioral Health: Promoting Mental and Physical Health Outcomes
On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of The Counseling Psychologist, we reflect on the many contributions that counseling psychologists have made and are poised to make in the areas of behavioral health and behavioral health care. We note that psychologists’ engagement in health promotion and prevention of behavioral, mental, and emotional disorders is consistent with counseling psychology values. We provide a concise review of theories that a…
Testing of a Model with Latino Patients That Explains the Links Among Patient-Perceived Provider Cultural Sensitivity, Language Preference, and Patient Treatment Adherence
These results suggest that interventions to promote treatment adherence among Latino patients should likely include provider training to foster patient-defined PCS, trust in provider, and patient satisfaction with care. Furthermore, this training needs to be customized to be suitable for providing care to Latino patients who prefer speaking Spanish and Latino patients who prefer speaking English
Factors in Marital Adjustment and Their Interrelationships: A Comparison of Taiwanese Couples in America and Caucasian American Couples
Counseling Psychology and Health Psychology: Is this a Relationship whose Time has Come
Black Children's Adaptive Functioning and Maladaptive Behavior Associated With Quality of Family Support
The authors investigated differences in low-income Black children's adaptive functioning and maladaptive behavior in association with their father-figures' presence or absence, grade level, gender, and quality of family support as perceived by the children's caregivers
Relationships between Ethnicity, Conceptions of Mental Illness, and Attitudes Associated with Seeking Psychological Help
This study examined the relationships between ethnicity, conceptions of mental illness, and attitudes associated with seeking psychological help among school teachers. It was hypothesized that these variables are related and the relationships ate independent of other demographic variables. Participants were 513 school teachers (321 whites and 192 blacks). Each completed the Nunnally Conception of Mental Illness Questionnaire, the Fischer and Turn…
Ability to Discriminate Rational Responses to Items on the Irrational Beliefs Test as a Predictor of Rationality and Trait Anxiety
In this study were examined correlations among irrationality, ability to discriminate rationality, and trait anxiety. The Irrational Beliefs Test with standard instructions was the estimate of subjects' rationality. The same test with instructions to mark the most rational responses to test items assessed ability to discriminate rationality. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory measured trait anxiety. For subjects, 152 college students, a significan…
Counseling Psychology and Health Psychology: Is this a Relationship whose Time has Come
Factors in Marital Adjustment and Their Interrelationships: A Comparison of Taiwanese Couples in America and Caucasian American Couples
Black Children's Adaptive Functioning and Maladaptive Behavior Associated With Quality of Family Support
The authors investigated differences in low-income Black children's adaptive functioning and maladaptive behavior in association with their father-figures' presence or absence, grade level, gender, and quality of family support as perceived by the children's caregivers
The Impact of Sex and Situational Cues on the Endorsement of Traditional Gender-Role Attitudes and Behaviors in Dating Couples
This investigation examines the effects of sex of participant, sex-role orientation and conversation topic on women's and men's endorsement of traditional gender-role attitudes and behaviors within intimate relationships. Sixty dating couples were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a discussion about the intimacy in their relationship, a discussion about everyday things, or a no-treatment control condition. The intimate-conversation co…
Self‐efficacy, goal orientation, and fear of failure as predictors of school engagement in high school students
Lack of school engagement among adolescents in this country remains a problem that can have very serious consequences including increased risk for school dropout, substance use, teenage pregnancy, and criminal activity. Clearly, identification of psychological variables (self‐variables) of individuals that facilitate or hinder adolescents' levels of school engagement would contribute greatly to the understanding of how to increase adolescents' ps…
Cultural Sensitivity in Physician-Patient Relationships Perspectives of an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Low-income Primary Care Patients
Cultural Sensitivity in Physician-Patient Relationships: Perspectives of an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Low-income Primary Care Patients Vol. 41, No. 7, pp. 859-870 In the article cited above, copyediting errors caused racial and ethnic labels to be used interchangeably. The authors intended to use distinct ethnic labels to describe participants of the study throughout the paper. In particular, the racial label “white” was used instead of the et…
Resolving the Paradoxes of and Barriers to Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care: Lessons From the History of Counseling and Community Psychology
The three reviews of the Major Contribution in this issue of The Counseling Psychologist provide thought-provoking critiques of counseling psychology's role in patient-centered culturally sensitive health care. In this rejoinder, the authors situate these critiques within the historical context of enduring paradoxes and barriers confronting counseling psychologists' entry into health care settings. The primary themes of this discussion focus on t…
Culturally Sensitive Health Care and Counseling Psychology: An Overview
This article introduces the Major Contribution, which focuses on counseling psychologists' roles in addressing health disparities through culturally sensitive health care research and interventions. First, the authors provide a rationale for conducting research focused on culturally sensitive health care and then offer definitions of patient-centered culturally sensitive health care and related terms, drawing from both the health care and counsel…
The Roles of Counseling Psychologists in Reducing Health Disparities
This article presents an overview of the health disparities problem that exists among individuals from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds and their majority counterparts. The argument is made that the involvement of counseling psychologists in addressing this health disparities problem presents an opportunity for the field to remain true to its commitment to prevention, multiculturalism, and social justice while becoming more competitive …
Providing Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care: A Formative Model
This article describes the literature-based, testable, formative Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care Model that explains the associations between patient-centered culturally sensitive health care, health-promoting treatment behaviors, and health outcomes and statuses. An intervention program based on the model and its foundational research are also described. In addition, the article summarizes research concerning the ongoing evalua…
Validation of a Patient-Centered, Culturally Sensitive, Clinic Environment Inventory Using a National Sample of Adult Patients
The purpose of this study was to determine the factor structure, internal consistency reliability, and validity of the Tucker Culturally Sensitive Health Care Clinic Environment Inventory–Patient Form (T-CSHCCEI-PF), a novel instrument designed to assess an aspect of health care often ignored in health care quality research: the cultural sensitivity of health care center policies and environment as perceived by adult, racially/ethnically diverse …
Obesity and Related Chronic Health Conditions as Predictors of Motivation to Engage in Healthy Eating Behaviors Among Black Adults
Associations among perceived provider cultural sensitivity, trust in provider, and treatment adherence among predominantly low-income Asian American patients
Motivators of and Barriers to Engagement in Healthy Eating Behaviors among non-Hispanic Black Adults
Testing of a Model with Latino Patients That Explains the Links Among Patient-Perceived Provider Cultural Sensitivity, Language Preference, and Patient Treatment Adherence
These results suggest that interventions to promote treatment adherence among Latino patients should likely include provider training to foster patient-defined PCS, trust in provider, and patient satisfaction with care. Furthermore, this training needs to be customized to be suitable for providing care to Latino patients who prefer speaking Spanish and Latino patients who prefer speaking English
A Socially Just Leadership Approach to Community-Partnered Research for Reducing Health Disparities
Significant health disparities continue to plague many groups of people who have been systematically oppressed and largely unrepresented in health research. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative research approach that has been shown to be effective in addressing health disparities; a community–university partnership approach can be used to conduct this research. Counseling psychologists are well suited to establish and …
A CBPR Study to Test the Impact of a Church-Based Health Empowerment Program on Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes of Black Adult Churchgoers
Health Self-Empowerment Theory: Predicting Health Behaviors and BMI in Culturally Diverse Adults
Health Self-Empowerment Theory asserts that 5 controllable psychological variables predict engagement in health-promoting behaviors. This study tests the theoretical integrity of Health Self-Empowerment Theory and its usefulness in predicting health-promoting behaviors and body mass index. Results from surveying 189 predominantly low-income, overweight/obese, and culturally diverse adults showed that most Health Self-Empowerment Theory variables …
Associations of Health Self-efficacy With Engagement in Health-Promoting Behaviors and Treatment Adherence in Rural Patients
Rural residents have lower levels of engagement in health-promoting behaviors and treatment adherence than their urban counterparts. This cross-sectional study sought to understand the role of health self-efficacy as a precursor to engagement in health-promoting behaviors and treatment adherence in 273 rural patients. Structural equation model was used to examine whether health self-efficacy predicted engagement in health-promoting behaviors and …
An Examination of Health-Promoting Behaviors Among Hispanic Adults Using an Activation and Empowerment Approach
An Examination of Health-Promoting Behaviors Among Hispanic Adults Using an Activation and Empowerment Approach Guillermo M. Wippold, PhD, Carolyn M. Tucker, PhD, Tasia M. Smith, PhD, Nicole Ennis, PhD, Shuchang Kang, MS, Andrea D. Guastello, MS, Tara A. Morrissette, MS, Tya M. Arthur, PhD, MPH, and Frederic F. Desmond, PhD What Is the Purpose of this Study/Review? • The purpose of the present study was to examine the association between person-c…
An Examination of Health-Promoting Behaviors Among Hispanic Adults Using an Activation and Empowerment Approach
The current findings suggest that these modifiable factors may be useful in informing intervention programs designed to improve healthy eating and physical activity among Hispanic adults
Counseling Psychologists and Behavioral Health: Promoting Mental and Physical Health Outcomes
On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of The Counseling Psychologist, we reflect on the many contributions that counseling psychologists have made and are poised to make in the areas of behavioral health and behavioral health care. We note that psychologists’ engagement in health promotion and prevention of behavioral, mental, and emotional disorders is consistent with counseling psychology values. We provide a concise review of theories that a…
Impact of Stress and Loneliness on Health-Related Quality of Life Among Low Income Senior African Americans
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