Topazian, Rachel J Levine, Adam S McGinty, Emma E Barry, Colleen L Han, Hahrie
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Preventive medicine
Mask wearing and social distancing have been essential public health guidelines throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but faced resistance from skeptical subgroups in the United States, including Republicans and evangelicals. We examined the effects of participation in ideologically heterogeneous civic associations on attitudes toward public health mea...
Webber, Bryant J Irani, Katherine L Omura, John D Whitfield, Geoffrey P
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The COVID-19 pandemic prompted built environment changes throughout the United States. We assessed the prevalence of new places and changed spaces for physical activity as observed by US adults and their intentions to use them. We used data from SummerStyles, a web-based survey of US adults conducted in June 2021 (n = 4073). Respondents were asked ...
Brownstein, Naomi C Reddy, Harika Whiting, Junmin Kasting, Monica L Head, Katharine J Vadaparampil, Susan T Giuliano, Anna R Gwede, Clement K Meade, Cathy D Christy, Shannon M
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Vaccination for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 illness, is an important public health tool to reduce hospitalizations and deaths. This report focuses on intentions and behaviors related to COVID-19 vaccination among United States (U.S.) adults ages 18-45. From February 25-March 24, 2021, we conducted an online survey assessing COVID-19 ...
Mandrik, Olena Chilcott, James Thomas, Chloe
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The English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme invites people between the ages of 60 and 74 to take a Faecal Immunochemical Test every two years. This programme was interrupted during the coronavirus pandemic. The research aimed: (1) to estimate the impact of colorectal cancer (CRC) Faecal Immunochemical Test screening pauses of different lengths and...
Smith, Debi L Perkins, Rebecca B
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This invited commentary discusses the article by Richards et al. describing differences in rates of on-time HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening in 2018 among enrollees in different insurance plans. The commentary focuses on the larger problem of low vaccination HPV rates and decreasing cervical cancer screening rates seen across all secto...
Parks, Michael J Fleischer, Nancy L Patrick, Megan E
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Previous research has not examined increased vaping because of the pandemic using a national sample of young adults (YAs), which is a critical gap because pandemic-related increases in vaping among YAs could have important implications for nicotine dependence, prolonged regular use, and using substances to cope with stress. We examined self-reporte...
White, James
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Illicit drug use is known to be associated with premature mortality. Whether exposure to socioeconomic disadvantage and mental health problems in childhood help to explain this association, is unclear. We analysed data from 11,250 participants in the 1970 British Birth Cohort study. At 10-years of age, socioeconomic disadvantage (parental socioecon...
Liu, Simin Wang, Michael Zhaoxi Mokdad, Ali H.
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Dai, Hongying Barrington-Trimis, Jessica L. Unger, Jennifer B. Baezconde-Garbanati, Lourdes Leventhal, Adam M.
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COVID-19 vaccines have been available for over a year, yet 26% of U.S. young adults remain unvaccinated. This study examines racial and ethnic disparities in young adult vaccine hesitancy and attitudes/beliefs that mediate disparities in vaccine hesitancy. Young adults (n = 2041;Mean[SD]:21.3[0.7] years-old) from a Los Angeles, CA, USA cohort were ...
Head, Katharine J Zimet, Gregory D Yiannoutsos, Constantin T Silverman, Ross D Sanner, Lindsey Menachemi, Nir
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Given low rates of uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine for children 12-17 and 5-11 years old, research is needed to understand parental behaviors and behavioral intentions related to COVID-19 vaccination for their children. In the state of Indiana, we conducted a non-random, online survey of parents or caregivers (N = 10,266) about their COVID-19 vaccin...
