This collection showcases the journal articles and other publications authored by researchers in the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The Division's faculty and staff study the role of health behaviors in the prevention and management of disease, develop interventions that promote health behavior change, and seek to broadly promote the implementation and dissemination of their work. The Division was founded in 1983 in the Department of Medicine by Judith K. Ockene, PhD., MEd., MA, and joined the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences in 2018.
Publications from 1998
Nutrient Intake Report: a coordination of patient dietary assessment between physicians and registered dietitians, Barbara C. Olendzki, James R. Hebert, Jeffrey S. Hampl, Kelly B. Scribner, and Ira S. Ockene
Interrelationships among disablement concepts, A M Jette, S F Assmann, D Rooks, B A Harris, and Sybil L. Crawford
Coronary Artery Smoking Intervention Study (CASIS): 5-year follow-up, Milagros C. Rosal, Judith K. Ockene, Yunsheng Ma, James R. Hebert, Ira S. Ockene, Philip A. Merriam, and Thomas G. Hurley
The effect of dietary exposures on recurrence and mortality in early stage breast cancer, James R. Hebert, Thomas G. Hurley, and Yunsheng Ma
Gender differences among smokers and quitters in the Working Well Trial, Ellen R. Gritz, Beti Thompson, Karen M. Emmons, Judith K. Ockene, Dale F. McLerran, and Ingrid R. Nielsen
Effectiveness of nicotine-containing gum in the Physician-Delivered Smoking Intervention Study, Milagros C. Rosal, Judith K. Ockene, Thomas G. Hurley, Kathryn L. Kalan, and James R. Hebert
Physician-based smoking intervention: a rededication to a five-step strategy to smoking research, Judith K. Ockene and Jane G. Zapka
Gender differences in social desirability and social approval bias in dietary self-report, James R. Hebert, Yunsheng Ma, Lynn Clemow, Ira S. Ockene, Gordon Saperia, Edward J. Stanek III, Philip A. Merriam, and Judith K. Ockene
Menopause: Demographic Aspects, Sonja M. McKinlay and Sybil L. Crawford
Publications from 1997
Provider training for patient-centered alcohol counseling in a primary care setting, Judith K. Ockene, Elizabeth V. Wheeler, Abigail Adams, Thomas G. Hurley, and James R. Hebert
Physicians and smoking cessation. Development of survey measures, Jane G. Zapka, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Yunsheng Ma, and Lori Pbert
A lipid trial tracking system, Philip A. Merriam, Ira S. Ockene, James R. Hebert, and Yunsheng Ma
Relationship between leisure-time physical activity and selected dietary variables in the Worcester Area Trial for Counseling in Hyperlipidemia, Charles E. Matthews, James R. Hebert, Ira S. Ockene, Gordon M. Saperia, and Philip A. Merriam
Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study, Catherine B. Johannes, Sybil L. Crawford, and John B. McKinlay
The effect of Medicare reimbursement for screening mammography on utilization and payment. National Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Screening Consortium, N. Breen, E. J. Feuer, S. Depuy, Jane G. Zapka, and Mary E. Costanza
Intracoronary Doppler assessment of moderate coronary artery disease: comparison with 201Tl imaging and coronary angiography. FACTS Study Group, Louis I. Heller, Christopher Cates, Jeffrey Popma, Lawrence I. Deckelbaum, James D. Joye, Seth T. Dahlberg, Bernard J. Villegas, Anita Arnold, Robert Kipperman, W. Carter Grinstead, Sharon Balcom, Yunsheng Ma, Michael Cleman, Richard M. Steingart, and Jeffrey A. Leppo
A longitudinal study of students' depression at one medical school, Milagros C. Rosal, Ira S. Ockene, Judith K. Ockene, Susan V. Barrett, Yunsheng Ma, and James R. Hebert
A pilot study of nadolol for overt aggression in developmentally delayed individuals, Daniel F. Connor, Kaan R. Ozbayrak, Sheldon Benjamin, Yunsheng Ma, and Kenneth E. Fletcher
The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses, Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, Sybil L. Crawford, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford
Self-reported depression in patients with coronary heart disease, Leonard A. Doerfler, Lori Pbert, and Diana DeCosimo
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Stephen J. Heishman, David J. K. Balfour, Neal L. Benowitz, Dorothy K. Hatsukami, Jon M. Lindstrom, and Judith K. Ockene
Strategies to increase the number and the quality of innovations in Medical Education Grants (IMEGs), Judith K. Ockene, Debra Bonollo, and Donna M. Qualters
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis, Deborah E. Sellers, Sybil L. Crawford, Karen Bullock, and John B. McKinlay
Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults, Sybil L. Crawford, A M Jette, and S L Tennstedt
Gender, social pressure, and smoking cessations: the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) at baseline, Jacqueline M. Royce, Kitty Corbett, Glorian Sorensen, and Judith K. Ockene
Lung cancer mortality after 16 years in MRFIT participants in intervention and usual-care groups. Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial, B. Jessica Shaten, Lewis H. Kuller, Marcus O. Kjelsberg, Jeremiah Stamler, Judith K. Ockene, Jeffrey A. Cutler, and Jerome D. Cohen
Changing provider behaviour: provider education and training, Judith K. Ockene and Jane G. Zapka
Possible role of indoor environment and coal combustion emission in lung carcinogenesis in Fuyuan County, China, Y. Nakanishi, S. Chen, S. Inutsuka, Yunsheng Ma, X. Jiang, N. Hara, N. Sera, and H. Tokiwa
Tobacco control activities of primary-care physicians in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation. COMMIT Research Group, Judith K. Ockene, Elizabeth A. Lindsay, Norman Hymowitz, Carol Giffen, Ted Purcell, Paul R. Pomrehn, and Terry F. Pechacek
Use of the nicotine skin patch by smokers in 20 communities in the United States, 1992-1993, K. Michael Cummings, Andrew Hyland, Judith K. Ockene, Norman Hymowitz, and Marc Manley
Publications from 1996
Dispositional Optimism as a Predictor of Health Changes among Cardiac Patients, James A. Shepperd, JoAnn J. Maroto, and Lori Pbert
Effect of training and a structured office practice on physician-delivered nutrition counseling: the Worcester-Area Trial for Counseling in Hyperlipidemia (WATCH), Ira S. Ockene, James R. Hebert, Judith K. Ockene, Philip A. Merriam, Thomas G. Hurley, and Gordon M. Saperia
Mammography use among sociodemographically diverse women: the accuracy of self-report, Jane G. Zapka, Carol Bigelow, Thomas G. Hurley, Leigh Durland Ford, John Egelhofer, W. Max Cloud, and Eckart Sachsse
Worker participation in an integrated health promotion/health protection program: results from the WellWorks project, Glorian Sorensen, Anne M. Stoddard, Judith K. Ockene, Mary K. Hunt, and Richard Youngstrom
Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels, Donald J. Brambilla, Sonja M. McKinlay, John B. McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, Sybil L. Crawford, and Christopher Longcope
Smoking in Ecuador: prevalence, knowledge, and attitudes, Judith K. Ockene, David E. Chiriboga, and Juan Carlos Zevallos
Publications from 1995
Physician training for patient-centered nutrition counseling in a lipid intervention trial, Judith K. Ockene, Ira S. Ockene, Mark E. Quirk, James R. Hebert, Gordon M. Saperia, Rose S. Luippold, Philip A. Merriam, and Sarah Ellis
Psychiatric disease and cytomegalovirus viremia in renal transplant recipients, Patricia L. Hibberd, Owen S. Surman, Mandy Bass, Nina E. Tolkoff-Rubin, A. Benedict Cosimi, Robert T. Schooley, Maureen Doran, Angela Delvecchio, Milagros C. Rosal, and Robert Rubin
The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients, John B. McKinlay, Sybil L. Crawford, and S L Tennstedt
Occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, S. Katharine Hammond, Glorian Sorensen, Richard Youngstrom, and Judith K. Ockene
ETS exposure in the workplace. Perceptions and reactions by employees in 114 work sites. Working Well Research Group [corrected], Beti Thompson, Karen M. Emmons, David B. Abrams, Judith K. Ockene, and Ziding Feng
Clinical Utility of Electrocardiographic ST-Segment Area for Predicting Unsatisfactory Outcomes Following Thrombolytic Therapy, Vijaya S. Velury, Yunsheng Ma, Thomas G. Hurley, James R. Hebert, Clinton F. Becker, and Richard C. Becker
A comparison of anlaytic methods for non-random missingness of outcome data, Sybil L. Crawford, S L Tennstedt, and John B. McKinlay
Publications from 1994
Nitritocobalamin and nitrosocobalamin may be confused with sulfitocobalamin using cation-exchange chromatography, J. M. Anes, R. A. Beck, J. J. Brink, and Robert J. Goldberg
Sexual functioning post-myocardial infarction: effects of beta-blockers, psychological status and safety information, Milagros C. Rosal, Jill Downing, Andrew B. Littman, and David K. Ahern
Longitudinal patterns and correlates of hormone replacement therapy use in middle-aged women, Catherine B. Johannes, Sybil L. Crawford, J G Posner, and S M McKinlay
Temporal trends and factors associated with extent of delay to hospital arrival in patients with acute myocardial infarction: the Worcester Heart Attack Study, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Robert J. Goldberg, Joel M. Gore, and Joseph S. Alpert
Chest pain self-management training for patients with coronary artery disease, Thomas J. Payne, Cheryl A. Johnson, Donald B. Penzien, James Porzelius, Gloria Eldridge, Sharon Parisi, Jean Beckham, Lori Pbert, Rita C. Prather, and Gaston Rodriguez
The Physician-Delivered Smoking Intervention Project: factors that determine how much the physician intervenes with smokers, Judith K. Ockene, Abigail Adams, Lori Pbert, Rose S. Luippold, James R. Hebert, Mark E. Quirk, and Kathryn L. Kalan
Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease, Sybil L. Crawford, S. A. McGraw, K. W. Smith, J. B. McKinlay, and J. E. Pierson
Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders, K M Skinner, S L Tennstedt, and Sybil L. Crawford
Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder following myocardial infarction and coronary artery bypass surgery, Leonard A. Doerfler, Lori Pbert, and Diana DeCosimo
The physician-delivered smoking intervention project: can short-term interventions produce long-term effects for a general outpatient population, Judith K. Ockene, Jean L. Kristeller, Lori Pbert, James R. Hebert, Rose S. Luippold, Robert J. Goldberg, Joan Landon, and Kathryn L. Kalan
Physicians and smoking cessation. A survey of office procedures and practices in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation, Elizabeth A. Lindsay, Judith K. Ockene, Norman Hymowitz, Carol Giffen, Larry Berger, and Paul R. Pomrehn
Temporal trends (1975 through 1990) in the incidence and case-fatality rates of primary ventricular fibrillation complicating acute myocardial infarction. A communitywide perspective, David E. Chiriboga, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Robert J. Goldberg, Joel M. Gore, and Joseph S. Alpert
Publications from 1993
Routine hospital-based quit-smoking treatment for the postmyocardial infarction patient: an idea whose time has come, C. Tracy Orleams and Judith K. Ockene
Acute effects of laboratory stress on blood glucose in noninsulin-dependent diabetes, Virginia L. Goetsch, Brent VanDorsten, Lori Pbert, Irma H. Ullrich, and Rachel A. Yeater
Measuring the effect of a worksite-based nutrition intervention on food consumption, James R. Hebert, Anne M. Stoddard, Donald R. Harris, Glorian Sorensen, Mary K. Hunt, Diane H. Morris, and Judith K. Ockene
HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities, K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, Sybil L. Crawford, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay
Setting the policy, education, and research agenda to reduce tobacco use. Workshop I. AHA Prevention Conference III. Behavior change and compliance: keys to improving cardiovascular health, Diane M. Becker, Richard Windsor, Judith K. Ockene, Barbara Berman, J. Allan Best, K. Michael Cummings, Stanton Glantz, Suzanne Haynes, Jack Henningfield, and Thomas E. Novotny
The COMMIT dental model: tobacco control practices and attitudes, R. B. Jones, Paul R. Pomrehn, R. E. Mecklenburg, Elizabeth A. Lindsay, Marc Manley, and Judith K. Ockene
Smoking after acute myocardial infarction: a good thing?, Ira S. Ockene and Judith K. Ockene
Effect of a community health center intervention on breast cancer screening among Hispanic American women, Jane G. Zapka, Donald R. Harris, David W. Hosmer, Mary E. Costanza, Edith Mas, and Robin S. Barth
Gender differences in the treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction. A multihospital, community-based perspective, Paul R. Pagley, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Robert J. Goldberg, Z. Chen, David E. Chiriboga, Priscilla Dalen, Jerry H. Gurwitz, Joseph S. Alpert, and Joel M. Gore
Factors associated with heavy smoking among men and women: the physician-delivered smoking intervention project, Robert J. Goldberg, Judith K. Ockene, Jean L. Kristeller, Kathryn L. Kalan, Joan Landon, and David W. Hosmer
A community-wide perspective of gender differences and temporal trends in the use of diagnostic and revascularization procedures for acute myocardial infarction, David E. Chiriboga, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Robert J. Goldberg, Z. Chen, Jerry H. Gurwitz, Joel M. Gore, Joseph S. Alpert, and James E. Dalen
Comparison of patients' and their resident physicians' responses regarding smoking-cessation interventions, Constantine Daskalakis, Robert J. Goldberg, Judith K. Ockene, Kathryn L. Kalan, David W. Hosmer, and Lori Pbert
Impact of a breast cancer screening community intervention, Jane G. Zapka, Mary E. Costanza, Donald R. Harris, David W. Hosmer, Anne M. Stoddard, Robin S. Barth, and Victoria P. Gaw
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care, S L Tennstedt, Sybil L. Crawford, and John B. McKinlay
Smoking intervention for cardiac patients: in search of more effective strategies, Jean L. Kristeller, Philip A. Merriam, Judith K. Ockene, Ira S. Ockene, and Robert J. Goldberg
Publications from 1992
An evaluation of the perceived stress scale in two clinical populations, Lori Pbert, Leonard A. Doerfler, and Diana DeCosimo
Impact of a physician intervention program to increase breast cancer screening, Mary E. Costanza, Jane G. Zapka, Donald R. Harris, David W. Hosmer, Robin S. Barth, Victoria P. Gaw, Harry L. Greene, and Anne M. Stoddard
Changes in mammography use: economic, need, and service factors, Jane G. Zapka, David W. Hosmer, Mary E. Costanza, Donald R. Harris, and Anne M. Stoddard
Patient characteristics and the effect of three physician-delivered smoking interventions, James R. Hebert, Jean L. Kristeller, Judith K. Ockene, Joan Landon, Rose S. Luippold, Robert J. Goldberg, and Kathryn Kalan
Smoking: epidemiology, cessation, and prevention. Task Force on Research and Education for the Prevention and Control of Respiratory Diseases, Brian R. Flay, Judith K. Ockene, and Ira B. Tager
Effectiveness of a meditation-based stress reduction program in the treatment of anxiety disorders, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ann O. Massion, Jean L. Kristeller, Linda Gay Peterson, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Lori Pbert, William R. Lenderking, and Saki F. Santorelli
Heavy smoking among a sample of employed women, Glorian Sorensen, Robert J. Goldberg, Judith K. Ockene, Janelle M. Klar, Terry Tannenbaum, and Stanley Lemeshow
The relationship of ovarian steroids, headache activity and menstrual distress: a pilot study with female migraineurs, Jean C. Beckham, Linda M. Krug, Donald B. Penzien, Cheryl A. Johnson, Thomas H. Mosley Jr., G. Rodney Meeks, Lori Pbert, and Rita C. Prather
Work-site nutrition intervention and employees' dietary habits: the Treatwell program, Glorian Sorensen, Diane H. Morris, Mary K. Hunt, James R. Hebert, Donald R. Harris, Anne M. Stoddard, and Judith K. Ockene
Are we pushing the limits of public health interventions for smoking cessation, Judith K. Ockene
Emphasizing screening activities in a community health center: a case study of a breast cancer screening project, Jane G. Zapka, L. Chasan, Robin S. Barth, Edith Mas, and Mary E. Costanza
Processes of change in smoking cessation: a cross-validation study in cardiac patients, Jean L. Kristeller, Joseph S. Rossi, Judith K. Ockene, Robert J. Goldberg, and James O. Prochaska
Smoking cessation and severity of disease: the Coronary Artery Smoking Intervention Study, Judith K. Ockene, Jean L. Kristeller, Robert J. Goldberg, Ira S. Ockene, Philip A. Merriam, Susan V. Barrett, Penelope S. Pekow, David W. Hosmer, and Ralph Gianelly
Publications from 1991
Baseline factors associated with smoking cessation and relapse. MRFIT Research Group, Norman Hymowitz, Mary Sexton, Judith K. Ockene, and Gregory Grandits
Cigarette smoking and mortality. MRFIT Research Group, Lewis H. Kuller, Judith K. Ockene, Elaine Meilahn, Deborah N. Wentworth, Kenneth H. Svendsen, and James D. Neaton
Cigarette smoking in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT). Introduction, overview, method, and conclusions, Judith K. Ockene and B. Jessica Shaten
Comparison of smoking behavior change for SI and UC study groups. MRFIT Research Group, Judith K. Ockene, Norman Hymowitz, John Lagus, and B. Jessica Shaten
Feasibility of universal screening mammography. Lessons from a community intervention, Mary E. Costanza, C. J. D'Orsi, H. L. Greene Jr., Victoria P. Gaw, A. Karellas, and Jane G. Zapka
Smoking cessation and change in diastolic blood pressure, body weight, and plasma lipids. MRFIT Research Group, Terence A. Gerace, Jack F. Hollis, Judith K. Ockene, and Kenneth H. Svendsen
Validity and reliability of psychosocial factors related to breast cancer screening, Jane G. Zapka, D. R. Harris, Anne M. Stoddard, and Mary E. Costanza
Interval adherence to mammography screening guidelines, Jane G. Zapka, Anne M. Stoddard, L. Maul, and Mary E. Costanza
Severity of angiographically proven coronary artery disease predicts smoking cessation, David Frid, Ira S. Ockene, Judith K. Ockene, Philip A. Merriam, Robert J. Goldberg, Jean L. Kristeller, and Susan V. Barrett
Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT): opportunities for community psychologists in chronic disease prevention, Edward Lichtenstein, Linda Nettekoven, and Judith K. Ockene
Effects of a worksite nonsmoking policy: evidence for increased cessation, Glorian Sorsensen, Nancy A. Rigotti, Amy Rosen, John Pinney, and Ray Prible
Hospital nonsmoking policies, Glorian Sorensen and Judith K. Ockene
Increasing the efficacy of physician-delivered smoking interventions: a randomized clinical trial, Judith K. Ockene, Jean L. Kristeller, Robert J. Goldberg, Terrence L. Amick, Penelope S. Pekow, David W. Hosmer, Mark E. Quirk, and Kathryn L. Kalan
Publications from 1990
Relation of forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) to lung cancer mortality in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT), Lewis H. Kuller, Judith K. Ockene, Elaine Meilahn, and Kenneth H. Svendsen
The relationship of smoking cessation to coronary heart disease and lung cancer in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT), Judith K. Ockene, Lewis H. Kuller, Kenneth H. Svendsen, and Elaine Meilahn
A functional assessment of heterosocial initiation behaviors in adults, Thomas M. DiLorenzo, Barry A. Edelstein, William T. Carr, Lori Pbert, Lynda Heiden, and Vanessa C. Selby