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PURPOSE: Longitudinal studies are essential for examining how social and institutional determinants of health, historical and contemporary, affect disparities in COVID-19 related outcomes. The unequal impacts of COVID-19 likely exacerbated selected attrition in longitudinal research. This study examines attrition and survey mode effects in the SHOW COVID-19 study which recruited from a statewide, representative cohort. MATERIALS & METHODS: Participants were recruited from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) cohort. Online surveys, or phone interviews, were administered at three timepoints during 2020-2021. The surveys captured social, behavioral, and structural determinants of health and the lived experience. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression was used to examine predictors of participation and survey mode effects. RESULTS: A total of 2304 adults completed at least one COVID-19 online survey. Participants were more educated, older, and more likely to be female, married, non-Hispanic, and White compared to non-participants. Phone participants were older, less educated, and more likely be non-White, food insecure, and have co-morbidities compared to online participants. Mode effects were seen with reporting COVID-19 beliefs, loneliness, and anxiety. CONCLUSION: The SHOW COVID-19 cohort offers unique longitudinal data but suffered from selected attrition. Phone interview is an important mode for retention and representation.
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COVID-19 , SARS-CoV-2 , Humans , COVID-19/epidemiology , Female , Male , Wisconsin/epidemiology , Middle Aged , Longitudinal Studies , Adult , Aged , Cohort Studies , Young Adult , Surveys and Questionnaires , Health Surveys , Socioeconomic FactorsABSTRACT
A diagnosis was arrived at by doing something that the patient's other doctors hadn't: perform a biopsy.
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Aspirin/therapeutic use , Malignant Atrophic Papulosis/diagnosis , Malignant Atrophic Papulosis/drug therapy , Malignant Atrophic Papulosis/physiopathology , Pentoxifylline/therapeutic use , Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors/therapeutic use , Skin Diseases/diagnosis , Skin Diseases/drug therapy , Biopsy/methods , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Skin Diseases/physiopathology , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
In this paper, we describe our efforts to integrate the Diabetes Prevention Program and the Bright Bodies program into a coordinated intensive lifestyle intervention program for families living in Fair Haven, an underserved Hispanic neighborhood in New Haven, Connecticut with high rates of obesity and prediabetes in adults and children.
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Community Health Centers/organization & administration , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/ethnology , Family/ethnology , Hispanic or Latino/psychology , Life Style/ethnology , Quality Assurance, Health Care/organization & administration , Weight Reduction Programs/organization & administration , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Community-Based Participatory Research , Connecticut/epidemiology , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/prevention & control , Evidence-Based Practice , Family/psychology , Female , Humans , Medically Underserved Area , Middle Aged , Obesity/ethnology , Obesity/prevention & control , Social Support , Young AdultABSTRACT
Prematurely born children are at increased risk for cognitive deficits, but the neurobiological basis of these findings remains poorly understood. Because variations in neural circuitry may influence performance on cognitive tasks, recent investigations have explored the impact of preterm birth on connectivity in the developing brain. Diffusion tensor imaging studies demonstrate widespread alterations in fractional anisotropy, a measure of axonal integrity and microstructural connectivity, throughout the developing preterm brain. Functional connectivity studies report that preterm neonates, children and adolescents exhibit alterations in both resting state and task-based connectivity when compared with term control subjects. Taken together, these data suggest that neurodevelopmental impairment following preterm birth may represent a disease of neural connectivity.
