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Research interests: Assessing health and health-related concepts in a variety of diverse populations, adaptation of measures to be appropriate for minority and older population subgroups; developing concepts and measures of interpersonal processes of care in diverse population groups, identifying optimal measures of socioeconomic status for identifying effects of SES on health and healthcare disparities, and diffusing and evaluating physical activity promotion interventions to reach older persons in underserved communities.
Teaching and Mentoring: Conceptualizing research questions with a focus on questions pertaining to health care and health disparities, selecting and testing self-report measures of health and health-related concepts, adapting measures for use in diverse population groups, sources of existing measures in studies of health disparities, methodological issues in selecting measures for use in studies of health disparities.
Top 10 Publications Relevant to MERC
- Stewart AL, Nápoles-Springer A, Pérez-Stable EJ, Posner S, Bindman AB, Pinderhughes HL, Washington AE Interpersonal processes of care in diverse populations. The Milbank Quarterly. 77:305-339, 1999
- Stewart AL, Nápoles-Springer A. Health-related quality of life assessments in diverse population groups in the United States. Medical Care, 2000;38(9)(Suppl II):II-102-II-124
- Stewart AL, Nápoles-Springer AM. Advancing health disparities research: can we afford to ignore measurement issues? Medical Care, 2003;41(11):1207-1220
- Wong ST. Korenbrot CC, Stewart AL. Consumer assessment of the quality of interpersonal processes of prenatal care among low income women of diverse race and ethnicity: development of a new measure. Women’s Health Issues 14(4):118-129, 2004
- Wong S, Gregorich S, Stewart AL. Measurement adequacy of parenting and children’s functional status in African American and Latino families. Journal of Nursing Measurement, in press, 2004
- Wong ST, Yoo GJ, Stewart AL, The meaning of social support in immigrant Asian elders. International Journal of Health and Human Development, in press, 2004
- Nápoles-Springer AM, Santoyo J, Stewart AL. Using interaction analysis of cognitive interviews to develop surveys in diverse populations. Medical Care, In press, 2005. (Special issue)
- Nápoles-Springer AM, Santoyo J, Houston K, Houston K, Pérez-Stable EJ, Stewart AL. Patients’ perceptions of cultural factors affecting the quality of their medical encounters. Health Expectations, In press, 2004
- Nápoles-Springer AM, Santoyo J, Stewart AL. Recruiting ethnically diverse general internal medicine patients for a telephone survey on physician-patient communication. Journal of General Internal Medicine, in press, 2004
- Alvidrez J, Areán P, Stewart AL. Psychoeducation to increase psychotherapy entry for older African Americans: A pilot study. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, in press, 2004
