Samuel J Simmen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3572871 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Samuel J Simmen |
| PRENOMES | Samuel J |
| SOBRENOME | Simmen |
| ASSINATURA | SIMMEN S J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7830-8003 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Empathic Engagement With the Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitant in Private Facebook Groups
Background Vaccine misinformation has been widely spread on social media, but attempts to combat it have not taken advantage of the attributes of social media platforms for health education. Methods The objective was to test the efficacy of moderated social media discussions about COVID-19 vaccines in private Facebook groups. Unvaccinated U.S. adults were recruited using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and randomized. In the intervention group, moderato…
The Role of Health in Climate Litigation
Objectives. To examine how the courts, which play a critical role in shaping public policy, consider public health in climate change and coal-fired power plant lawsuits. Methods. We coded US local, state, and federal court decisions relating to climate change and coal-fired power plants from 1990 to 2016 (n = 873) and qualitatively investigated 139 cases in which litigants raised issues concerning the health impacts of climate change. We also con…
Cross-cultural comparison of the patient-centeredness of the hidden curriculum between a Saudi Arabian and 9 US medical schools
Background: The implicit “hidden curriculum” strongly influences medical students’ perceptions of the importance of patient-centeredness. A new instrument, the Communication, Curriculum, and Culture Survey (C3), already used to assess this hard-to-access part of the curriculum in the US, has potential for use in cross-cultural comparisons.Objective: To use the C3 to perform a pilot cross-cultural comparison of the patient-centeredness of the hidd…
Response
Department of Psychiatry; University of Arizona; Tuscon, AZ (Weihs) Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; The George Washington University; Washington, DC (Enright) Epidemiology and Biostatistics; The George Washington University; Washington, DC (Simmens)
Close Relationships and Emotional Processing Predict Decreased Mortality in Women with Breast Cancer
OBJECTIVE: To examine close relationships and emotional processing as predictors of breast cancer mortality. METHODS: Ninety women were enrolled at 14 +/- 5 months after diagnosis of Stage II/III breast cancer. The Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) quantified disease severity. Cox proportional hazards analyses were used to predict mortality using standardized variables. RESULTS: Twenty-one subjects developed recurrent disease and 16 died during a…
The Impact of Professionally Conducted Cultural Programs on the Physical Health, Mental Health, and Social Functioning of Older Adults
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to measure the impact of professionally conducted community-based cultural programs on the physical health, mental health, and social activities of individuals aged 65 and older. DESIGN AND METHODS: Participants in the study were 166 healthy, ambulatory older adults from the Washington, DC, area. We assigned them to either an intervention (chorale) or comparison (usual activity) group and assessed them at baseli…
Predicting toddler anxiety/depressive symptoms
This research examines whether maternal sensitivity in early childhood reduces later anxiety/depressive symptoms for children with more temperamental vulnerability, and whether these effects are different for boys and girls. Data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care study with 1,226 subjects (631 boys, 595 girls) were analyzed. Mothers and other caregivers rated children's difficult temperament at 1 a…
Natural Disaster and Depression
A statewide sample of 1735 Iowa residents, approximately half of whom were victims of the 1993 Midwest Floods, participated in interviews 1 year prior to, and 30 to 90 days after, the disaster. Employing a rigorous methodology including both control‐group comparisons and predisaster assessments, we performed a systematic evaluation of the disaster's impact. Overall, the disaster led to true but small rises in depressive symptoms and diagnoses 60–…
Adolescents' relationships to siblings and mothers
Research has consistently demonstrated that children's behavior toward their siblings tends to resemble interactions occurring in the parent-child relationship. This study examined the relative contributions of genetic and environmental influences to the covariation between sibling relationships and mother-adolescent relationships. Reported and observed family interactions were assessed for 719 same-sex sibling pairs of varying degrees of genetic…
The importance of shared environmental influences in explaining the overlap between mother's parenting and sibling relationships
This article addresses concerns raised by M. C. Neale (1999) in his commentary on the D. A. Bussell et al. (1999) Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development (NEAD) study. These concerns fall into two categories: (a) model assumptions and sample design and (b) testing of alternative models. The validity of the assumptions of quantitative genetic models is a concern for all researchers in this area. Discussion of those assumptions in this repl…
Family structure and patient survival in an African-American end-stage renal disease population
Staff security and work pressure
Responses to viewing symptomatic behaviors and labeling of prior mental illness
An experiment was conducted to determine whether a psychiatric label or symptomatic behaviors would be more likely to generate prejudicial attitudes towards a person viewed on videotape. Subjects watched three sequences: one anxious, one depressed, and one normal. One of these sequences was described as an ex-mental patient. The order of presentation, labeling, and actors on the videotape were all counterbalanced. The symptomatic behaviors produc…
Natural Disaster and Depression
A statewide sample of 1735 Iowa residents, approximately half of whom were victims of the 1993 Midwest Floods, participated in interviews 1 year prior to, and 30 to 90 days after, the disaster. Employing a rigorous methodology including both control‐group comparisons and predisaster assessments, we performed a systematic evaluation of the disaster's impact. Overall, the disaster led to true but small rises in depressive symptoms and diagnoses 60–…
Adolescents' relationships to siblings and mothers
Research has consistently demonstrated that children's behavior toward their siblings tends to resemble interactions occurring in the parent-child relationship. This study examined the relative contributions of genetic and environmental influences to the covariation between sibling relationships and mother-adolescent relationships. Reported and observed family interactions were assessed for 719 same-sex sibling pairs of varying degrees of genetic…
Predicting toddler anxiety/depressive symptoms
This research examines whether maternal sensitivity in early childhood reduces later anxiety/depressive symptoms for children with more temperamental vulnerability, and whether these effects are different for boys and girls. Data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care study with 1,226 subjects (631 boys, 595 girls) were analyzed. Mothers and other caregivers rated children's difficult temperament at 1 a…
The importance of shared environmental influences in explaining the overlap between mother's parenting and sibling relationships
This article addresses concerns raised by M. C. Neale (1999) in his commentary on the D. A. Bussell et al. (1999) Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development (NEAD) study. These concerns fall into two categories: (a) model assumptions and sample design and (b) testing of alternative models. The validity of the assumptions of quantitative genetic models is a concern for all researchers in this area. Discussion of those assumptions in this repl…
Family structure and patient survival in an African-American end-stage renal disease population
Responses to viewing symptomatic behaviors and labeling of prior mental illness
An experiment was conducted to determine whether a psychiatric label or symptomatic behaviors would be more likely to generate prejudicial attitudes towards a person viewed on videotape. Subjects watched three sequences: one anxious, one depressed, and one normal. One of these sequences was described as an ex-mental patient. The order of presentation, labeling, and actors on the videotape were all counterbalanced. The symptomatic behaviors produc…
Staff security and work pressure
Adolescents' relationships to siblings and mothers
Research has consistently demonstrated that children's behavior toward their siblings tends to resemble interactions occurring in the parent-child relationship. This study examined the relative contributions of genetic and environmental influences to the covariation between sibling relationships and mother-adolescent relationships. Reported and observed family interactions were assessed for 719 same-sex sibling pairs of varying degrees of genetic…
The importance of shared environmental influences in explaining the overlap between mother's parenting and sibling relationships
This article addresses concerns raised by M. C. Neale (1999) in his commentary on the D. A. Bussell et al. (1999) Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development (NEAD) study. These concerns fall into two categories: (a) model assumptions and sample design and (b) testing of alternative models. The validity of the assumptions of quantitative genetic models is a concern for all researchers in this area. Discussion of those assumptions in this repl…
Family structure and patient survival in an African-American end-stage renal disease population
Natural Disaster and Depression
A statewide sample of 1735 Iowa residents, approximately half of whom were victims of the 1993 Midwest Floods, participated in interviews 1 year prior to, and 30 to 90 days after, the disaster. Employing a rigorous methodology including both control‐group comparisons and predisaster assessments, we performed a systematic evaluation of the disaster's impact. Overall, the disaster led to true but small rises in depressive symptoms and diagnoses 60–…
Predicting toddler anxiety/depressive symptoms
This research examines whether maternal sensitivity in early childhood reduces later anxiety/depressive symptoms for children with more temperamental vulnerability, and whether these effects are different for boys and girls. Data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care study with 1,226 subjects (631 boys, 595 girls) were analyzed. Mothers and other caregivers rated children's difficult temperament at 1 a…
The Impact of Professionally Conducted Cultural Programs on the Physical Health, Mental Health, and Social Functioning of Older Adults
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to measure the impact of professionally conducted community-based cultural programs on the physical health, mental health, and social activities of individuals aged 65 and older. DESIGN AND METHODS: Participants in the study were 166 healthy, ambulatory older adults from the Washington, DC, area. We assigned them to either an intervention (chorale) or comparison (usual activity) group and assessed them at baseli…
Response
Department of Psychiatry; University of Arizona; Tuscon, AZ (Weihs) Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; The George Washington University; Washington, DC (Enright) Epidemiology and Biostatistics; The George Washington University; Washington, DC (Simmens)
Close Relationships and Emotional Processing Predict Decreased Mortality in Women with Breast Cancer
OBJECTIVE: To examine close relationships and emotional processing as predictors of breast cancer mortality. METHODS: Ninety women were enrolled at 14 +/- 5 months after diagnosis of Stage II/III breast cancer. The Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) quantified disease severity. Cox proportional hazards analyses were used to predict mortality using standardized variables. RESULTS: Twenty-one subjects developed recurrent disease and 16 died during a…
Cross-cultural comparison of the patient-centeredness of the hidden curriculum between a Saudi Arabian and 9 US medical schools
Background: The implicit “hidden curriculum” strongly influences medical students’ perceptions of the importance of patient-centeredness. A new instrument, the Communication, Curriculum, and Culture Survey (C3), already used to assess this hard-to-access part of the curriculum in the US, has potential for use in cross-cultural comparisons.Objective: To use the C3 to perform a pilot cross-cultural comparison of the patient-centeredness of the hidd…
The Role of Health in Climate Litigation
Objectives. To examine how the courts, which play a critical role in shaping public policy, consider public health in climate change and coal-fired power plant lawsuits. Methods. We coded US local, state, and federal court decisions relating to climate change and coal-fired power plants from 1990 to 2016 (n = 873) and qualitatively investigated 139 cases in which litigants raised issues concerning the health impacts of climate change. We also con…
Empathic Engagement With the Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitant in Private Facebook Groups
Background Vaccine misinformation has been widely spread on social media, but attempts to combat it have not taken advantage of the attributes of social media platforms for health education. Methods The objective was to test the efficacy of moderated social media discussions about COVID-19 vaccines in private Facebook groups. Unvaccinated U.S. adults were recruited using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and randomized. In the intervention group, moderato…
Medicine (11 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Psychiatry (6 obras) · Clinical Psychology (4 obras) · Nursing (4 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 obras) · Developmental psychology (3 obras) · Family medicine (3 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (3 obras) · Mental health (3 obras)