Albana Dassori
Biographic Data
| ID | 5417331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albana Dassori |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albana |
| FAMILY NAME | Dassori |
| SIGNATURE | DASSORI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Case Control Study of the Implementation of Change Model Versus Passive Dissemination of Practice Guidelines for Compliance in Monitoring for Metabolic Syndrome
Barriers to, and Strategies for, Starting a Long Acting Injection Clinic in a Community Mental Health Center
When is Caregiving a Burden? Listening to Mexican American Women
Home care of a chronically mentally ill relative exerts substantial physical and emotional demands on a family member. Yet, little work has examined the perspective about caregiving voiced by individuals from different ethnic groups and the comparison of this perspective with objective measures of caregiver burden. This article reviews findings from a study of 251 Mexican American and European American family caregivers of severely mentally ill r…
Ethnicity and negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia
The purpose of this study was to assess ethnic differences in the negative symptom profile of 25 Anglo American and 26 Mexican American subjects with schizophrenia. Subjects were rated at the end of a 1-2-week medication washout period (time 1) and at discharge (time 2) with the Negative Symptoms Assessment (NSA), Brief Psychiatric Research Scale, (BPRS), the [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edition)] DSM-IV negative fa…
Age and Maturing Out of Heavy Drinking among Anglo and Minority Male Drinkers: A Comparison of Cross-Sectional Data and Retrospective Drinking History Techniques
Data from a random sample of 164 Anglo, 168 African American, and 149 Mexican American male regular drinkers compare the use of cross-sectional data on current consumption patterns versus retrospective lifetime drinking history data in studying ethnic differences in "maturing out" of heavy drinking among male drinkers. Crosssectional analyses among males in their 20s, 30s, and 40s on current consumption indexes suggest that maturing out of heavy …
Ethnic and Gender Differences in the Diagnostic Profiles of Substance Abusers
The aim of the study was to evaluate ethnic and gender differences in the diagnostic profiles of patients first admitted to the alcohol/drug rehabilitation unit of a state hospital. The majority of the patients (66%) had more than one diagnosis. African-American patients were significantly more likely to have a single diagnosis, however. In terms of primary diagnosis, Mexican Americans were more likely to have an alcoholrelated disorder while Afr…
When is Caregiving a Burden? Listening to Mexican American Women
Home care of a chronically mentally ill relative exerts substantial physical and emotional demands on a family member. Yet, little work has examined the perspective about caregiving voiced by individuals from different ethnic groups and the comparison of this perspective with objective measures of caregiver burden. This article reviews findings from a study of 251 Mexican American and European American family caregivers of severely mentally ill r…
A Case Control Study of the Implementation of Change Model Versus Passive Dissemination of Practice Guidelines for Compliance in Monitoring for Metabolic Syndrome
Ethnic and Gender Differences in the Diagnostic Profiles of Substance Abusers
The aim of the study was to evaluate ethnic and gender differences in the diagnostic profiles of patients first admitted to the alcohol/drug rehabilitation unit of a state hospital. The majority of the patients (66%) had more than one diagnosis. African-American patients were significantly more likely to have a single diagnosis, however. In terms of primary diagnosis, Mexican Americans were more likely to have an alcoholrelated disorder while Afr…
Ethnicity and negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia
The purpose of this study was to assess ethnic differences in the negative symptom profile of 25 Anglo American and 26 Mexican American subjects with schizophrenia. Subjects were rated at the end of a 1-2-week medication washout period (time 1) and at discharge (time 2) with the Negative Symptoms Assessment (NSA), Brief Psychiatric Research Scale, (BPRS), the [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edition)] DSM-IV negative fa…
Age and Maturing Out of Heavy Drinking among Anglo and Minority Male Drinkers: A Comparison of Cross-Sectional Data and Retrospective Drinking History Techniques
Data from a random sample of 164 Anglo, 168 African American, and 149 Mexican American male regular drinkers compare the use of cross-sectional data on current consumption patterns versus retrospective lifetime drinking history data in studying ethnic differences in "maturing out" of heavy drinking among male drinkers. Crosssectional analyses among males in their 20s, 30s, and 40s on current consumption indexes suggest that maturing out of heavy …
When is Caregiving a Burden? Listening to Mexican American Women
Home care of a chronically mentally ill relative exerts substantial physical and emotional demands on a family member. Yet, little work has examined the perspective about caregiving voiced by individuals from different ethnic groups and the comparison of this perspective with objective measures of caregiver burden. This article reviews findings from a study of 251 Mexican American and European American family caregivers of severely mentally ill r…
Barriers to, and Strategies for, Starting a Long Acting Injection Clinic in a Community Mental Health Center
A Case Control Study of the Implementation of Change Model Versus Passive Dissemination of Practice Guidelines for Compliance in Monitoring for Metabolic Syndrome
Medicine (6 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Mexican americans (3 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (3 works) · Acculturation (2 works) · Demography (2 works)