Larry Scherwitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4236649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Scherwitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Scherwitz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHERWITZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Integrative Medicine Clinic in a Community Hospital
We report on the creation of an integrative medicine clinic within the setting of a medical research and tertiary care hospital. The clinical audit used a prospective case series of 160 new patients who were followed by telephone interviews over a 6-month period. Patients’ demographic characteristics, presenting symptoms and diagnoses, physician treatment recommendations, extent of understanding and adherence to treatment recommendations, changes…
Cook-Medley Hostility scale and subsets
This report describes the relationships between scores obtained on the Cook-Medley Hostility (Ho) scale and race, education, gender, and age in a sample of 5115 young adult participants in a prospective study of coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors. Large differences were observed in total Ho scale scores and in six recently identified subsets according to race, education, gender, and age. Young black males with limited education had the hig…
Self-reference and coronary heart disease incidence in the Western Collaborative Group Study
Previous research has indicated that the spoken frequency of the self-references "I," "me," and "my" in a structured interview was prospectively related to coronary heart disease (CHD). To assess whether the findings would replicate in another population, we conducted a case-control analysis of 750 structured interviews from the Western Collaborative Group Study. To measure self-references, auditors counted all first person pronouns (I, me, my) a…
Self-involvement and coronary heart disease incidence in the multiple risk factor intervention trial
At intake into a multiple coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factor intervention trial, 3110 individuals were interviewed to assess Type A behavior. After an average of 7 years followup, the 193 individuals who manifested their first CHD event were matched with 384 CHD-free individuals. To assess self-involvement, auditors counted all verbal self-references (I, me, my) and clauses spoken in the audiotaped baseline interviews. Self-references were …
Stress Research
Behavioral Correlates of Angiography
Role Behaviors in Routine Medical Interviews with Hypertensive Patients
The present study of routine follow-up interviews of 217 hypertensive patients by 11 health service providers (physicians or physician assistants) identified six types of verbal exchanges, exposition, closed question, direction, inquiry, explanation, and instruction/contracts. In conjunction with previous research, these results suggest that the verbal exchange structure of encounters between these roles is consistent across individuals, settings…
Type A Behavior, Self-Involvement, and Coronary Atherosclerosis
Prior to coronary angiography, 150 men were assessed for Type A behavior using the structured interview and two questionnaire measures. The results show no relationship between Type A behavior and extent of coronary artery disease (CAD). A second finding is that the number of self-references (I, me, my) derived from speech in the structured interview correlated positively with the number of previous myocardial infarctions and the extent of CAD; s…
Procedures and Discrepancies of Blood Pressure Measurements in Two Community Health Centers
Three studies of blood pressure measurement were conducted in two primary care clinics. In study I, procedures for taking blood pressure were observed for seven nurses, and their readings were compared with readings taken in a standard manner. The results show that the nurses' procedure needed improvement; the systolic/diastolic discrepancies with the standard averaged 10.2/7.5 mmHg. In study II, the nurses were trained to improve their procedure…
Coronary-Prone Behavior
Type A Behavior, Self-Involvement, and Cardiovascular Response
Coronary-prone Type A and noncoronary-prone Type B students were challenged by a battery of tasks including cold pressor, mental arithmetic, behavior type interview, and the generation and expression of emotions. Measures of blood pressure, heart rate, and digital vasoconstriction were intercorrelated with reported distress, performance, speech characteristics, emotional intensity, and self-references. The major difference between the two behavio…
Type A Assessment and Interaction in the Behavior Pattern Interview
Speech characteristics of both an interviewer and respondents were scored from recorded interviews that were conducted to assess Type A behavior. A stepwise regression analysis indicated that the expressive speech characteristics were the best discriminators of behavior typing by the interview. A similar analysis employing the Jenkins Activity Survey as the criterion for typing showed that only the content of the respondents' answers predicted ty…
Community attitudes toward the Attica prison riot — a mini‐study
Interactive effects of eye contact and verbal content on interpersonal attraction in dyads
The effects of amount of eye contact and verbal content on interpersonal attraction were studied in two experiments using televised dyadic interactions, the first a 3 x 3 factorial with three levels of eye contact and 3 degrees of positiveness of personal evaluation by a confederate. In the record, a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial, the effects of personal versus impersonal positive evaluation, high or low eye contact and sex of dyad on attraction were inves…
Role Behaviors in Routine Medical Interviews with Hypertensive Patients
The present study of routine follow-up interviews of 217 hypertensive patients by 11 health service providers (physicians or physician assistants) identified six types of verbal exchanges, exposition, closed question, direction, inquiry, explanation, and instruction/contracts. In conjunction with previous research, these results suggest that the verbal exchange structure of encounters between these roles is consistent across individuals, settings…
Interactive effects of eye contact and verbal content on interpersonal attraction in dyads
The effects of amount of eye contact and verbal content on interpersonal attraction were studied in two experiments using televised dyadic interactions, the first a 3 x 3 factorial with three levels of eye contact and 3 degrees of positiveness of personal evaluation by a confederate. In the record, a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial, the effects of personal versus impersonal positive evaluation, high or low eye contact and sex of dyad on attraction were inves…
An Integrative Medicine Clinic in a Community Hospital
We report on the creation of an integrative medicine clinic within the setting of a medical research and tertiary care hospital. The clinical audit used a prospective case series of 160 new patients who were followed by telephone interviews over a 6-month period. Patients’ demographic characteristics, presenting symptoms and diagnoses, physician treatment recommendations, extent of understanding and adherence to treatment recommendations, changes…
Community attitudes toward the Attica prison riot — a mini‐study
Interactive effects of eye contact and verbal content on interpersonal attraction in dyads
The effects of amount of eye contact and verbal content on interpersonal attraction were studied in two experiments using televised dyadic interactions, the first a 3 x 3 factorial with three levels of eye contact and 3 degrees of positiveness of personal evaluation by a confederate. In the record, a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial, the effects of personal versus impersonal positive evaluation, high or low eye contact and sex of dyad on attraction were inves…
Community attitudes toward the Attica prison riot — a mini‐study
Type A Assessment and Interaction in the Behavior Pattern Interview
Speech characteristics of both an interviewer and respondents were scored from recorded interviews that were conducted to assess Type A behavior. A stepwise regression analysis indicated that the expressive speech characteristics were the best discriminators of behavior typing by the interview. A similar analysis employing the Jenkins Activity Survey as the criterion for typing showed that only the content of the respondents' answers predicted ty…
Type A Behavior, Self-Involvement, and Cardiovascular Response
Coronary-prone Type A and noncoronary-prone Type B students were challenged by a battery of tasks including cold pressor, mental arithmetic, behavior type interview, and the generation and expression of emotions. Measures of blood pressure, heart rate, and digital vasoconstriction were intercorrelated with reported distress, performance, speech characteristics, emotional intensity, and self-references. The major difference between the two behavio…
Coronary-Prone Behavior
Procedures and Discrepancies of Blood Pressure Measurements in Two Community Health Centers
Three studies of blood pressure measurement were conducted in two primary care clinics. In study I, procedures for taking blood pressure were observed for seven nurses, and their readings were compared with readings taken in a standard manner. The results show that the nurses' procedure needed improvement; the systolic/diastolic discrepancies with the standard averaged 10.2/7.5 mmHg. In study II, the nurses were trained to improve their procedure…
Type A Behavior, Self-Involvement, and Coronary Atherosclerosis
Prior to coronary angiography, 150 men were assessed for Type A behavior using the structured interview and two questionnaire measures. The results show no relationship between Type A behavior and extent of coronary artery disease (CAD). A second finding is that the number of self-references (I, me, my) derived from speech in the structured interview correlated positively with the number of previous myocardial infarctions and the extent of CAD; s…
Stress Research
Behavioral Correlates of Angiography
Role Behaviors in Routine Medical Interviews with Hypertensive Patients
The present study of routine follow-up interviews of 217 hypertensive patients by 11 health service providers (physicians or physician assistants) identified six types of verbal exchanges, exposition, closed question, direction, inquiry, explanation, and instruction/contracts. In conjunction with previous research, these results suggest that the verbal exchange structure of encounters between these roles is consistent across individuals, settings…
Self-involvement and coronary heart disease incidence in the multiple risk factor intervention trial
At intake into a multiple coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factor intervention trial, 3110 individuals were interviewed to assess Type A behavior. After an average of 7 years followup, the 193 individuals who manifested their first CHD event were matched with 384 CHD-free individuals. To assess self-involvement, auditors counted all verbal self-references (I, me, my) and clauses spoken in the audiotaped baseline interviews. Self-references were …
Self-reference and coronary heart disease incidence in the Western Collaborative Group Study
Previous research has indicated that the spoken frequency of the self-references "I," "me," and "my" in a structured interview was prospectively related to coronary heart disease (CHD). To assess whether the findings would replicate in another population, we conducted a case-control analysis of 750 structured interviews from the Western Collaborative Group Study. To measure self-references, auditors counted all first person pronouns (I, me, my) a…
Cook-Medley Hostility scale and subsets
This report describes the relationships between scores obtained on the Cook-Medley Hostility (Ho) scale and race, education, gender, and age in a sample of 5115 young adult participants in a prospective study of coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors. Large differences were observed in total Ho scale scores and in six recently identified subsets according to race, education, gender, and age. Young black males with limited education had the hig…
An Integrative Medicine Clinic in a Community Hospital
We report on the creation of an integrative medicine clinic within the setting of a medical research and tertiary care hospital. The clinical audit used a prospective case series of 160 new patients who were followed by telephone interviews over a 6-month period. Patients’ demographic characteristics, presenting symptoms and diagnoses, physician treatment recommendations, extent of understanding and adherence to treatment recommendations, changes…
Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Cardiac Health and Mental Health (6 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works) · Cardiology (5 works) · Blood pressure (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Coronary heart disease (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works)