N F Woods
Biographic Data
| ID | 9149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N F Woods |
| GIVEN NAMES | N F |
| FAMILY NAME | Woods |
| SIGNATURE | WOODS N F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8396-3467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social isolation and health among family caregivers of older adults: Less community participation may indicate poor self‐reported health
Social isolation is associated with adverse health outcomes in the general older adult population, but little is known about indicators of social isolation in family caregiver populations. This cross-sectional study examined the prevalence of social isolation in the 2015 National Survey of Caregiving. Using the Convoy Model of social relations, a life-course social support framework, we also examined associations between social isolation and care…
Is Interpersonal Abuse Associated with Sexual (Dis)satisfaction among Postmenopausal Women
Prospective Analysis of Health and Mortality Risk in Veteran and Non-Veteran Participants in the Women's Health Initiative
Dispositional optimism and terminal decline in global quality of life
We examined whether dispositional optimism relates to change in global quality of life (QOL) as a function of either chronological age or years to impending death. We used a sample of 2,096 deceased postmenopausal women from the Women's Health Initiative clinical trials who were enrolled in the 2005-2010 Extension Study and for whom at least 1 global QOL and optimism measure were analyzed. Growth curve models were examined. Competing models were …
Susan Baxter and Jerilynn C. Prior. The Estrogen Errors: Why Progesterone Is Better For Women's Health
A Global Imperative: Development, Safety, and Health from Girl Child to Woman
The purposes of this article are to review what we know about the health status for girl children in the world and to suggest policy that allows us to see how to improve the health of girl-children. First, I will consider globalization and its relationship to health disparities. I then will review what we know about the health of the girl-child, contrasting patterns of health observed in girl-children from Sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences …
Well-Being During the Menopausal Transition and Early Postmenopause
Midlife women making hormone therapy decisions
The U.S. Women's Health Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century
Women's Health: Complexities and Differences . Sheryl Burt Ruzek , Virginia L. Olesen , Adele E. Clarke The Psychology of Women's Health: Progress and Challenges in Research and Application . Annette …
Menopause: Models, Medicine, and Midlife
Baby boomers have had a profound effect on nearly every life stage, and midlife has been no exception. As the baby boomer cohort enters midlife, the topic of menopause has moved into popular media and increasingly into the medical literature. Woven throughout this literature are two competing models of menopause that have begun to structure knowledge about women's experiences during midlife. The first model characterizes menopause as a nonadaptiv…
The impact of marital status and quality on family functioning in maternal chronic illness
Married individuals tend to enjoy greater health and well-being than nonmarried. However, investigators disagree about whether this is related to the quality of the marriage or to participation in the socially accepted role of marriage. In the present study, we examined the roles of marital quality and marital status as predictors of the family's adjustment processes in the context of maternal chronic illness. We found that the family functioning…
Women with chronic illness: Their views of their families’ adaptation
Although research has characterized the effects of chronic illness on patients and their spouses, little work has addressed the effects of a woman's chronic illness on her family. We tested a model of family functioning during a woman's chronic illness. Data were obtained from standardized questionnaires from 48 women who resided with an adult partner and one or more school age children and had breast cancer, diabetes, or fibrocystic breast disea…
Women and depression
As Western society increases in complexity and becomes more reliant on technology, women who thrive as integrators in interactional modes will face new dilemmas. Many women will view these changes as challenges, but for many other women, who view these changes as threats, the response will be depression. We lay a foundation to an understanding of depression in women, evaluating the current concept of depression and pointing out its limitations. W…
Depressed mood and self‐esteem in young Asian, black, and white women in America
During the last two decades, investigators have explored the relationship between women's life conditions and their mental health. Some have related women's socially disadvantaged status, or their socialization to a traditional feminine role, to depression and low self-esteem. Others have emphasized the consequences of women's roles, or the balance of social demands and resources, on their well-being. More recently, feminist scholars have propose…
The new woman: Health‐promoting and health‐damaging behaviors
Compared with their mothers, contemporary women are better educated, live alone more of their adult lives, and participate in the labor force more consistently throughout their lives. Most studies of the New Woman have focused on the effects of the configuration of her roles on her health and health-related behavior. Few have considered both the influence of women's roles and the broader context of their lives on their health. Moreover, investiga…
The family's functioning with chronic illness in the mother: The spouse's perspective
Self‐care practices among young adult women: Influence of symptoms, employment, and sex‐role orientation
The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of symptoms, employment, and sex‐role orientation on illness‐related self‐care activities employed by young adult women. Ninety‐six women, 20 to 40 years of age, kept a daily health diary for three weeks in which they reported their regular health care, symptoms experienced each day, and self‐care actions in response to symptoms. Self‐care actions were specific to the nature of the symptoms. …
Coping with infertility in couples: Gender differences
Despite the fact that the incidence of infertility is increasing, health care professionals know very little about gender differences in responses to infertility. This study was designed to (1) explore gender difference in the problems of infertile women and men, (2) compare and contrast how women and men cope with the problems, and (3) explore gender differences in personal and social resources available for coping with infertility. Sixty‐six in…
Toward a holistic perspective of human sexuality: Alterations in sexual health and nursing diagnoses
Women's lives: Pressure and pleasure, conflict and support
Caring relationships are central to women's lives, producing conflict and support, pressure and pleasure. In this paper I explore how caring relationships in family and work contexts influence women's health in complex ways. Evidence from many studies suggests that women remain healthy despite multiple demands and that caring relationships have positive effects on women's health
Socialization and social context: Influence on perimenstrual symptoms, disability, and menstrual attitudes
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of socialization and exposure to a stressful milieu on women's experiences of perimenstrual symptoms, related disability, and menstrual attitudes. Women (N= 179) from 18 to 35 years of age were interviewed using the Index of Sex Role Orientation, Schedule of Recent Events, Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire, and Menstrual Attitudes Questionnaire. Path analysis was used to assess models based…
Introduction to the special issue: Sociocultural perspectives on menstrual cycle research
Sex role orientation, sex typing, occupational traditionalism, and perimenstrual symptoms
Historically the study of sex roles and perimenstrual symptoms has produced conflicting results. Nevertheless, a stereotype has pervaded which depicts lack of femininity or rejection of the female role as a major contributor to various kinds of gynecologic problems, particularly perimenstrual distress. This study sample consisted of a nonclinic, community‐based, randomly selected group of 179 women ages 18–35 who were interviewed in their homes. …
New models of women's health care
A consideration of contemporary U.S. women's health status, causes of morbidity and mortality, and the progress of the women's health care movement prompts a reconsideration of traditional health care models. New models must deliver comprehensive services, invite participation of clients, offer a choice of healers, incorporate new sites for delivery of services, and transcend the boundaries of traditional medicine. Although consumer demand and co…
Isro: A scale to measure sex-role orientation
The family's functioning with chronic illness in the mother: The spouse's perspective
Prevalene of perimenstrual symptoms
The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of perimenstrual symptoms (PMS) in a free-living population of US women and to determine if prevalence estimates varied with parity, contraceptive status, characteristics of the menstrual cycle, and selected demographic variables. We identified all households from a census listing for five southeastern city neighborhoods that offered variation in racial composition and socioeconomic status…
Social isolation and health among family caregivers of older adults: Less community participation may indicate poor self‐reported health
Social isolation is associated with adverse health outcomes in the general older adult population, but little is known about indicators of social isolation in family caregiver populations. This cross-sectional study examined the prevalence of social isolation in the 2015 National Survey of Caregiving. Using the Convoy Model of social relations, a life-course social support framework, we also examined associations between social isolation and care…
Dispositional optimism and terminal decline in global quality of life
We examined whether dispositional optimism relates to change in global quality of life (QOL) as a function of either chronological age or years to impending death. We used a sample of 2,096 deceased postmenopausal women from the Women's Health Initiative clinical trials who were enrolled in the 2005-2010 Extension Study and for whom at least 1 global QOL and optimism measure were analyzed. Growth curve models were examined. Competing models were …
Human Sexuality in Health and Illness
Isro: A scale to measure sex-role orientation
Recollections of Menarche, Current Menstrual Attitudes, and Perimenstrual Symptoms1
By menarche, girls are likely to have been influenced not only by cultural stereotypes about menstruation, but also by information acquired through significant others. Their own expectations about menstruation are likely to influence their reports of menarcheal experience. Moreover, some suggest that menarcheal experiences are likely to influence subsequent attitudes toward menstruation, and that these expectations may, in turn, influence percept…
Prevalene of perimenstrual symptoms
The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of perimenstrual symptoms (PMS) in a free-living population of US women and to determine if prevalence estimates varied with parity, contraceptive status, characteristics of the menstrual cycle, and selected demographic variables. We identified all households from a census listing for five southeastern city neighborhoods that offered variation in racial composition and socioeconomic status…
Professor Woods' Response
Professor Woods' Response Nancy Fugate Woods CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.73.5.596-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Patterns and Perceptions of Menstruation
New models of women's health care
A consideration of contemporary U.S. women's health status, causes of morbidity and mortality, and the progress of the women's health care movement prompts a reconsideration of traditional health care models. New models must deliver comprehensive services, invite participation of clients, offer a choice of healers, incorporate new sites for delivery of services, and transcend the boundaries of traditional medicine. Although consumer demand and co…
Socialization and social context: Influence on perimenstrual symptoms, disability, and menstrual attitudes
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of socialization and exposure to a stressful milieu on women's experiences of perimenstrual symptoms, related disability, and menstrual attitudes. Women (N= 179) from 18 to 35 years of age were interviewed using the Index of Sex Role Orientation, Schedule of Recent Events, Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire, and Menstrual Attitudes Questionnaire. Path analysis was used to assess models based…
Introduction to the special issue: Sociocultural perspectives on menstrual cycle research
Sex role orientation, sex typing, occupational traditionalism, and perimenstrual symptoms
Historically the study of sex roles and perimenstrual symptoms has produced conflicting results. Nevertheless, a stereotype has pervaded which depicts lack of femininity or rejection of the female role as a major contributor to various kinds of gynecologic problems, particularly perimenstrual distress. This study sample consisted of a nonclinic, community‐based, randomly selected group of 179 women ages 18–35 who were interviewed in their homes. …
Toward a holistic perspective of human sexuality: Alterations in sexual health and nursing diagnoses
Women's lives: Pressure and pleasure, conflict and support
Caring relationships are central to women's lives, producing conflict and support, pressure and pleasure. In this paper I explore how caring relationships in family and work contexts influence women's health in complex ways. Evidence from many studies suggests that women remain healthy despite multiple demands and that caring relationships have positive effects on women's health
Self‐care practices among young adult women: Influence of symptoms, employment, and sex‐role orientation
The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of symptoms, employment, and sex‐role orientation on illness‐related self‐care activities employed by young adult women. Ninety‐six women, 20 to 40 years of age, kept a daily health diary for three weeks in which they reported their regular health care, symptoms experienced each day, and self‐care actions in response to symptoms. Self‐care actions were specific to the nature of the symptoms. …
Coping with infertility in couples: Gender differences
Despite the fact that the incidence of infertility is increasing, health care professionals know very little about gender differences in responses to infertility. This study was designed to (1) explore gender difference in the problems of infertile women and men, (2) compare and contrast how women and men cope with the problems, and (3) explore gender differences in personal and social resources available for coping with infertility. Sixty‐six in…
The family's functioning with chronic illness in the mother: The spouse's perspective
The new woman: Health‐promoting and health‐damaging behaviors
Compared with their mothers, contemporary women are better educated, live alone more of their adult lives, and participate in the labor force more consistently throughout their lives. Most studies of the New Woman have focused on the effects of the configuration of her roles on her health and health-related behavior. Few have considered both the influence of women's roles and the broader context of their lives on their health. Moreover, investiga…
Depressed mood and self‐esteem in young Asian, black, and white women in America
During the last two decades, investigators have explored the relationship between women's life conditions and their mental health. Some have related women's socially disadvantaged status, or their socialization to a traditional feminine role, to depression and low self-esteem. Others have emphasized the consequences of women's roles, or the balance of social demands and resources, on their well-being. More recently, feminist scholars have propose…
The impact of marital status and quality on family functioning in maternal chronic illness
Married individuals tend to enjoy greater health and well-being than nonmarried. However, investigators disagree about whether this is related to the quality of the marriage or to participation in the socially accepted role of marriage. In the present study, we examined the roles of marital quality and marital status as predictors of the family's adjustment processes in the context of maternal chronic illness. We found that the family functioning…
Women with chronic illness: Their views of their families’ adaptation
Although research has characterized the effects of chronic illness on patients and their spouses, little work has addressed the effects of a woman's chronic illness on her family. We tested a model of family functioning during a woman's chronic illness. Data were obtained from standardized questionnaires from 48 women who resided with an adult partner and one or more school age children and had breast cancer, diabetes, or fibrocystic breast disea…
Women and depression
As Western society increases in complexity and becomes more reliant on technology, women who thrive as integrators in interactional modes will face new dilemmas. Many women will view these changes as challenges, but for many other women, who view these changes as threats, the response will be depression. We lay a foundation to an understanding of depression in women, evaluating the current concept of depression and pointing out its limitations. W…
Menopause: Models, Medicine, and Midlife
Baby boomers have had a profound effect on nearly every life stage, and midlife has been no exception. As the baby boomer cohort enters midlife, the topic of menopause has moved into popular media and increasingly into the medical literature. Woven throughout this literature are two competing models of menopause that have begun to structure knowledge about women's experiences during midlife. The first model characterizes menopause as a nonadaptiv…
The U.S. Women's Health Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century
Women's Health: Complexities and Differences . Sheryl Burt Ruzek , Virginia L. Olesen , Adele E. Clarke The Psychology of Women's Health: Progress and Challenges in Research and Application . Annette …
Midlife women making hormone therapy decisions
Well-Being During the Menopausal Transition and Early Postmenopause
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