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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Family health history"”.
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Ethnic Minorities and Family Health History: An Autoethnography of Guyanese Americans and Kidney Disease
<p>Exploring family health histories (FHHs) has emerged in recent years as an inexpensive genomic tool in public health. Families and clinicians can also use them to uncover family histories and experiences, which could inform better lifestyle choices to prevent or delay the onset of diseases. …
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Genograms as threat appeals: Using the Extended Parallel Process Model with familial cardiovascular disease
… threat appeals in motivating intent to perform health promotion and disease prevention behaviors in participants with a history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) recruited by convenience and snowball sampling. The Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) contends that efficacy must exceed threat for …
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Examining the Role Dietary Habits Play with Food Access, Stress, and Chronic Conditions Among African-Americans
… This thesis, a secondary data analysis, used Health Advocates In-Reach and Research(HAIR) data, a study evaluating family health history intervention to promote cancer screening. Participants(n=164) were recruited from barbershops/salons in low-income neighborhoods in the Washington D.C. …
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Exploring the Experiences and Perceptions of Individuals who have Completed the Discovery Health Family History Tool, and how the Personalised Report has Impacted their Lives
… diseases show strong familial clustering, as family members share both genetic and non-genetic risk factors, and therefore a positive family history is considered a risk factor for these diseases. Although a 3-generation pedigree is considered the gold standard for the collection of family …