Melisa Price

Dados Biográficos

ID5120853
NOMEMelisa Price
PRENOMESMelisa
SOBRENOMEPrice
ASSINATURAPRICE M
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of San Francisco
ORCID0000-0003-0223-0523
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES32
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1992
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H2

  • All Stressors Are Not Equal

    Alexis N Reeves, Alexis Reeves et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2024

    OBJECTIVE: Psychosocial stress is a major predictor of chronic disease among African American (AA) women. Stress is a process involving exposure, appraisal of threat, coping, and psychobiologic adaptation. However, many studies focus on the frequency of stress events and/or coping; few explicitly study stress events and their appraisals; and AA women experience high levels of racial discrimination, a well-known form of social identity threat (i.e…

  • Pursuing Research Justice Through Community–Academic Partnership to Address Racial Disparities in Preterm Birth

    Shira P Rutman, Melisa Price et al.ARTICLEProgress in community health…2023

    Community-academic partnerships addressing racial health disparities should confront internal and structural power dynamics early on and support affected communities to lead the efforts, including committing to funding and capacity-building activities to ensure research justice

  • Monitoring unplanned sexual health curricula adaptations

    Open AccessMartha Decker, Melisa Price et al.ARTICLEEvaluation and Program Planning2022

  • Using Collective Impact to Advance Birth Equity

    Open AccessMartha Decker, Melisa Price et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2022

  • Racial discrimination, the superwoman schema, and allostatic load

    Open AccessAmani M Allen, Yijie Wang et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the New York Academy of…2019

    Racial discrimination has been linked to allostatic load (i.e., cumulative biological stress) among African American women. However, limited attention has been given to psychosocial processes involved in the stress response—critical for understanding biological pathways to health—in studies examining racial discrimination as a social determinant of health. We examined whether the superwoman schema (SWS), a multidimensional culture‐specific framew…

  • Everyday Racial Discrimination and Hypertension among Midlife African American Women

    Open AccessEli K Michaels, Alexis N Reeves et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019Citada por: 12Referências: 36

    Racial discrimination, a psychosocial stressor, may contribute to disproportionate rates of hypertension among African American women. Coping moderates the effects of psychosocial stress on health. Coping dispositions describe stable personality characteristics, whereas contextual frameworks emphasize flexible coping behaviors in response to specific stressful encounters. Using data from the African American Women's Heart and Health Study-a non-p…

  • Coding the Everyday Discrimination Scale

    Eli K Michaels, Marilyn D Thomas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2019Citada por: 20Referências: 26

    Scale coding is an important methodological consideration for valid exposure assessment in epidemiological research. Coding can impact exposure classification and associations with important indicators of African American women's mental and physical health

  • The Physical and Emotional Health of Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren in the Crack Cocaine Epidemic

    Meredith Minkler, Kathleen M Roe et al.ARTICLEThe Gerontologist1992

    This article explores the physical and emotional health status of 71 African-American grandmothers raising their grandchildren as a result of the crack cocaine involvement of the children's parents. A comparison of self-assessed health ratings with qualitative responses revealed a tendency for respondents to downplay their own health problems and symptoms.