Kevin P Weinfurt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5128933 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kevin P Weinfurt |
| NOMBRES | Kevin P |
| APELLIDO | Weinfurt |
| FIRMA | WEINFURT K P |
| AFILIACIONES | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0624-7448 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Interpreting the meaningfulness of treatment effects estimated in parallel groups designs
Some Clarifications Regarding the PROMIS© SexFS
Expectations of preventative benefits and risk behaviors in a randomized trial evaluating oral HIV preexposure prophylaxis candidates
When participants enrolled in an HIV prevention trial hold a preventive misconception (PM) - expectations that experimental interventions will confer protection from HIV infection - they may engage in behaviors that increase their risk of acquiring HIV. This can raise ethical concerns about whether those enrolled in the trial understand the nature of participation and their safety. Consequently, we systematically evaluated the prevalence of PM an…
Recalling what we thought we knew about recall periods
Including a 7-day recall period improves recall consistency for patients when answering physical function PROM items, but there is still room for improvement. The inaccuracy of recall for PROMs in clinical trials influences the ability to calculate the change in treatment outcomes over time and may conceal or emphasize actual treatment effects
What facets of physical function are most important to adults diagnosed with cancer
Investigating gender-based differential item functioning on the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) using qualitative content analysis
Generalizing from qualitative data as a moral activity
Constructing arguments for the interpretation and use of patient-reported outcome measures in research
Viewing assessments of patient-reported heath status as conversations
Comparison of Approaches for Notification and Authorization in Pragmatic Clinical Research Evaluating Commonly Used Medical Practices
BACKGROUND: For pragmatic clinical research comparing commonly used treatments, questions exist about if and how to notify participants about it and secure their authorization for participation. OBJECTIVE: To determine how patients react when they seek clinical care and encounter one of several different pragmatic clinical research studies. RESEARCH DESIGN: In an online survey using a between-subjects experimental design, respondents read and res…
Sexual Satisfaction and the Importance of Sexual Health to Quality of Life Throughout the Life Course of U.S. Adults
Reliability and construct validity of PROMIS® measures for patients with heart failure who undergo heart transplant
Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials
BACKGROUND: To optimize the use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical research, it is first necessary to review the current use of these outcomes in clinical trials to determine under what circumstances they are most useful, and to reveal current limitations. PURPOSE: To investigate current patterns of use of PROs in clinical trials. RESEARCH DESIGN: We conducted a systematic literature review of all double-blind, placebo-controlled, ra…
The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks
Using cognitive interviews to evaluate items for measuring sexual functioning across cancer populations
Decisional Conflict among Patients Who Accept or Decline Participation in Phase I Oncology Studies
WE COMPARED DECISIONAL CONFLICT among adults with advanced cancer who had accepted or declined participation in phase I cancer clinical trials. Respondents completed a 121-item questionnaire that included the Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS), which was designed to measure uncertainty in making health decisions. We used standardized effect sizes to compare the DCS scores of accepters (n = 250) and decliners (n = 65). Accepters had lower decisional …
Measuring Trust in Medical Researchers
BACKGROUND: Concern is widespread that the public's and participants' trust in medical research is threatened, but few empirical measures of research trust exist. This project aims to enable more rigorous study of researcher trust by developing and testing appropriate survey measures. METHODS: Survey items were developed based on a conceptual model of the primary domains of researcher trust (safety, fidelity, honesty, global trust). Pilot testing…
Women’s Resources and Use of Strategies as Risk and Protective Factors for Reabuse Over Time
Using a longitudinal and ecological approach, we investigated the relationships between women's material and emotional resources and strategies and their ability to stay safe over time in a sample of 406 help-seeking African American women. The multivariate analysis demonstrated that social support served as a protective factor and resistance strategies as risk factors for reabuse during a 1-year period. It also showed an interaction between soci…
Discursive Versus Information-Processing Perspectives on a Bioethical Problem
This article discusses an example of how the adoption of different theoretical views of the person can have practical implications for the field of bioethics. Patients who agree to receive new medical treatments with little chance of benefit routinely report strong confidence that they will experience benefit. These ‘unrealistic’ expectations are interpreted as false beliefs about treatment, and thus as evidence that the informed consent process …
Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients With Breast Cancer Receiving Zoledronic Acid or Pamidronate Disodium for Metastatic Bone Lesions
BACKGROUND: Research on individual differences in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) can identify intervention targets and important covariates in analyses of treatment outcomes. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to describe HRQOL trajectories for women with metastatic breast cancer in a randomized trial of bisphosphonates and to identify characteristics associated with variations in HRQOL. RESEARCH DESIGN: We conducted a prospect…
The Intimate Partner Violence Strategies Index
Although research has documented the myriad ways that victims of IPV struggle to keep themselves safe, little research has gone the next step to investigate patterns in women’s use of strategies, the factors that influence choice of strategies, or which strategies are most effective. One obstacle to conducting such research is the absence of an instrument to measure the nature and extent of battered women’s strategic responses to violence across …
Welfare Reform and Latinas' Use of Perinatal Health Care
We read with concern the conclusion of Joyce et al. that the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) had little effect on perinatal health care use among foreign-born Latinas.1 We are particularly concerned about whether the data can be interpreted clearly enough to support this conclusion. Also, regardless of the findings, we wonder about the relevance of this study to our understanding of welfare reform's impact…
Relationship Between CD4 Count, Viral Burden, and Quality of Life Over Time in HIV-1-Infected Patients
BACKGROUND: Although surrogate markers such as CD4 counts and viral burden (HIV-1 RNA) are predictive of AIDS-related disease progression, little is known about the relationship between changes in surrogate markers and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes. This study investigated how changes in CD4/mm3 and viral burden (RNA copies/mL) are related to changes in HRQOL as indexed by the Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health Survey (MOS-HIV-30…
Towards a composite scoring solution for the Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory
Concepts of human differences
Concepts of human differences were studied among 5th and 11th graders in the United States (n = 175), Japan (n = 256), and the People's Republic of China (n = 160). Relative to their peers in the other 2 cultures, more American students noted differences in appearance and attractiveness and material resources; more Japanese students noted various physical features, and more Chinese students noted specific behaviors. On the whole, Japanese respons…
Women’s Resources and Use of Strategies as Risk and Protective Factors for Reabuse Over Time
Using a longitudinal and ecological approach, we investigated the relationships between women's material and emotional resources and strategies and their ability to stay safe over time in a sample of 406 help-seeking African American women. The multivariate analysis demonstrated that social support served as a protective factor and resistance strategies as risk factors for reabuse during a 1-year period. It also showed an interaction between soci…
The Intimate Partner Violence Strategies Index
Although research has documented the myriad ways that victims of IPV struggle to keep themselves safe, little research has gone the next step to investigate patterns in women’s use of strategies, the factors that influence choice of strategies, or which strategies are most effective. One obstacle to conducting such research is the absence of an instrument to measure the nature and extent of battered women’s strategic responses to violence across …
Concepts of human differences
Concepts of human differences were studied among 5th and 11th graders in the United States (n = 175), Japan (n = 256), and the People's Republic of China (n = 160). Relative to their peers in the other 2 cultures, more American students noted differences in appearance and attractiveness and material resources; more Japanese students noted various physical features, and more Chinese students noted specific behaviors. On the whole, Japanese respons…
The Factor Structure of the Affect Intensity Measure
Larsen (1984) developed the Affect Intensity Measure (AIM) as a putative measure of a unidimensional construct referred to as affect intensity, or the characteristic strength with which people experience emotions. Using a sample of 673 college undergraduates (409 females, 264 males), the one-factor model was found to be untenable as an explanation for subjects′ responses to the AIM. Based on exploratory principal components analysis, confirmatory…
Decisional Conflict among Patients Who Accept or Decline Participation in Phase I Oncology Studies
WE COMPARED DECISIONAL CONFLICT among adults with advanced cancer who had accepted or declined participation in phase I cancer clinical trials. Respondents completed a 121-item questionnaire that included the Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS), which was designed to measure uncertainty in making health decisions. We used standardized effect sizes to compare the DCS scores of accepters (n = 250) and decliners (n = 65). Accepters had lower decisional …
The Factor Structure of the Affect Intensity Measure
Larsen (1984) developed the Affect Intensity Measure (AIM) as a putative measure of a unidimensional construct referred to as affect intensity, or the characteristic strength with which people experience emotions. Using a sample of 673 college undergraduates (409 females, 264 males), the one-factor model was found to be untenable as an explanation for subjects′ responses to the AIM. Based on exploratory principal components analysis, confirmatory…
Death Education
The study compared two death education programs for mothers ( N = 90) of young children. Pre- and post-test scores on the State-Anxiety Scale and researcher-designed instruments that included the Children's Questions About Death Scale (CQADS) and Future Plans Inventory (FPI) were compared. Mothers in both the Didactic and Didactic-Experiential programs scored significantly higher than the Control group in their level of effectiveness in respondin…
Concepts of human differences
Concepts of human differences were studied among 5th and 11th graders in the United States (n = 175), Japan (n = 256), and the People's Republic of China (n = 160). Relative to their peers in the other 2 cultures, more American students noted differences in appearance and attractiveness and material resources; more Japanese students noted various physical features, and more Chinese students noted specific behaviors. On the whole, Japanese respons…
Towards a composite scoring solution for the Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory
Relationship Between CD4 Count, Viral Burden, and Quality of Life Over Time in HIV-1-Infected Patients
BACKGROUND: Although surrogate markers such as CD4 counts and viral burden (HIV-1 RNA) are predictive of AIDS-related disease progression, little is known about the relationship between changes in surrogate markers and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes. This study investigated how changes in CD4/mm3 and viral burden (RNA copies/mL) are related to changes in HRQOL as indexed by the Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health Survey (MOS-HIV-30…
Welfare Reform and Latinas' Use of Perinatal Health Care
We read with concern the conclusion of Joyce et al. that the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) had little effect on perinatal health care use among foreign-born Latinas.1 We are particularly concerned about whether the data can be interpreted clearly enough to support this conclusion. Also, regardless of the findings, we wonder about the relevance of this study to our understanding of welfare reform's impact…
The Intimate Partner Violence Strategies Index
Although research has documented the myriad ways that victims of IPV struggle to keep themselves safe, little research has gone the next step to investigate patterns in women’s use of strategies, the factors that influence choice of strategies, or which strategies are most effective. One obstacle to conducting such research is the absence of an instrument to measure the nature and extent of battered women’s strategic responses to violence across …
Discursive Versus Information-Processing Perspectives on a Bioethical Problem
This article discusses an example of how the adoption of different theoretical views of the person can have practical implications for the field of bioethics. Patients who agree to receive new medical treatments with little chance of benefit routinely report strong confidence that they will experience benefit. These ‘unrealistic’ expectations are interpreted as false beliefs about treatment, and thus as evidence that the informed consent process …
Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients With Breast Cancer Receiving Zoledronic Acid or Pamidronate Disodium for Metastatic Bone Lesions
BACKGROUND: Research on individual differences in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) can identify intervention targets and important covariates in analyses of treatment outcomes. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to describe HRQOL trajectories for women with metastatic breast cancer in a randomized trial of bisphosphonates and to identify characteristics associated with variations in HRQOL. RESEARCH DESIGN: We conducted a prospect…
Women’s Resources and Use of Strategies as Risk and Protective Factors for Reabuse Over Time
Using a longitudinal and ecological approach, we investigated the relationships between women's material and emotional resources and strategies and their ability to stay safe over time in a sample of 406 help-seeking African American women. The multivariate analysis demonstrated that social support served as a protective factor and resistance strategies as risk factors for reabuse during a 1-year period. It also showed an interaction between soci…
Measuring Trust in Medical Researchers
BACKGROUND: Concern is widespread that the public's and participants' trust in medical research is threatened, but few empirical measures of research trust exist. This project aims to enable more rigorous study of researcher trust by developing and testing appropriate survey measures. METHODS: Survey items were developed based on a conceptual model of the primary domains of researcher trust (safety, fidelity, honesty, global trust). Pilot testing…
Decisional Conflict among Patients Who Accept or Decline Participation in Phase I Oncology Studies
WE COMPARED DECISIONAL CONFLICT among adults with advanced cancer who had accepted or declined participation in phase I cancer clinical trials. Respondents completed a 121-item questionnaire that included the Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS), which was designed to measure uncertainty in making health decisions. We used standardized effect sizes to compare the DCS scores of accepters (n = 250) and decliners (n = 65). Accepters had lower decisional …
Using cognitive interviews to evaluate items for measuring sexual functioning across cancer populations
The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks
Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials
BACKGROUND: To optimize the use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical research, it is first necessary to review the current use of these outcomes in clinical trials to determine under what circumstances they are most useful, and to reveal current limitations. PURPOSE: To investigate current patterns of use of PROs in clinical trials. RESEARCH DESIGN: We conducted a systematic literature review of all double-blind, placebo-controlled, ra…
Reliability and construct validity of PROMIS® measures for patients with heart failure who undergo heart transplant
Sexual Satisfaction and the Importance of Sexual Health to Quality of Life Throughout the Life Course of U.S. Adults
Comparison of Approaches for Notification and Authorization in Pragmatic Clinical Research Evaluating Commonly Used Medical Practices
BACKGROUND: For pragmatic clinical research comparing commonly used treatments, questions exist about if and how to notify participants about it and secure their authorization for participation. OBJECTIVE: To determine how patients react when they seek clinical care and encounter one of several different pragmatic clinical research studies. RESEARCH DESIGN: In an online survey using a between-subjects experimental design, respondents read and res…
Viewing assessments of patient-reported heath status as conversations
Generalizing from qualitative data as a moral activity
Constructing arguments for the interpretation and use of patient-reported outcome measures in research
Investigating gender-based differential item functioning on the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) using qualitative content analysis
Some Clarifications Regarding the PROMIS© SexFS
Expectations of preventative benefits and risk behaviors in a randomized trial evaluating oral HIV preexposure prophylaxis candidates
When participants enrolled in an HIV prevention trial hold a preventive misconception (PM) - expectations that experimental interventions will confer protection from HIV infection - they may engage in behaviors that increase their risk of acquiring HIV. This can raise ethical concerns about whether those enrolled in the trial understand the nature of participation and their safety. Consequently, we systematically evaluated the prevalence of PM an…
Recalling what we thought we knew about recall periods
Including a 7-day recall period improves recall consistency for patients when answering physical function PROM items, but there is still room for improvement. The inaccuracy of recall for PROMs in clinical trials influences the ability to calculate the change in treatment outcomes over time and may conceal or emphasize actual treatment effects
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