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James A Shepperd

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Fedele D, Webster G, Pogge G, Hunleth J, Ruiz S, Shepperd J, et al.
Health Psychol . 2024 Sep; 44(2):129-139. PMID: 39325430
Objective: Caregivers' self-efficacy for managing their child's asthma appears to influence their success with managing their child's disease. We examined how caregiver self-efficacy operates in the context of multilevel social-environmental...
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Guan Y, McBride C, Zhao J, Pentz R, Escoffery C, Liu Y, et al.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev . 2024 Jun; 33(9):1185-1193. PMID: 38912902
Background: Most relatives of women with ovarian cancer are unaware of their increased risk for cancer and their eligibility for genetic counseling. State cancer registries offer a platform to communicate...
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Waters E, Pachur T, Pogge G, Hunleth J, Webster G, Fedele D, et al.
Psychol Health . 2024 Apr; :1-21. PMID: 38682920
Objective: Pediatric asthma management is challenging for parents and guardians (hereafter ). We examined (1) how caregivers mentally represent trigger and symptom management strategies, and (2) how those mental representations...
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Waters E, Pogge G, Orom H, Kiviniemi M, Hay J, Lewicka M, et al.
J Risk Res . 2024 Jan; 26(12):1370-1382. PMID: 38274030
Several studies suggest that "don't know" (DK) responses to risk perception items may represent meaningful expressions of uncertainty about disease risk. However, researchers are often discouraged from including a DK...
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Waters E, Pachur T, Pogge G, Hunleth J, Webster G, Fedele D, et al.
Psychol Health . 2023 Aug; 40(4):571-593. PMID: 37545105
Objective: Parents and guardians (hereafter ) make decisions for their children's medical care. However, many caregivers of children with asthma struggle to understand their child's illness. We used the psychometric...
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Pogge G, Fedele D, Waters E, Maki J, Hunleth J, Prabhakaran S, et al.
JMIR Form Res . 2023 Aug; 7:e46341. PMID: 37531188
Background: Maintaining control of asthma symptoms is the cornerstone of asthma treatment guidelines in the United States. However, suboptimal asthma control and asthma exacerbations among young people are common and...
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Waters E, Pachur T, Pogge G, Hunleth J, Webster G, Shepperd J
Risk Anal . 2023 Feb; 43(12):2610-2630. PMID: 36781299
People often use cognitive and affective heuristics when judging the likelihood of a health outcome and making health decisions. However, little research has examined how heuristics shape risk perceptions and...
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Pogge G, Waters E, Webster G, Prabhakaran S, Hunleth J, Fedele D, et al.
J Asthma Allergy . 2022 Dec; 15:1795-1804. PMID: 36573182
Purpose: Although several indicators suggest that pediatric asthma control in the United States improved early in the pandemic, other indicators suggest not. Missing are reports from caregivers of the experiences...
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Shepperd J, Hunleth J, Maki J, Prabhakaran S, Pogge G, Webster G, et al.
Psychol Health . 2022 Sep; 39(7):969-988. PMID: 36147010
We examined the extent to which caregivers of children with asthma used -a novel comparison process that parallels social comparison and temporal comparison-to form judgments about their child. Using semi-structured...
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Wongsomboon V, Shepperd J
Soc Sci Med . 2022 Sep; 311:115355. PMID: 36122527
Rationale And Objective: Delay discounting is the devaluation of an outcome as a function of delay until receiving that outcome. In two studies, we used a delay discounting approach to...