Christine S. Davis

University of Manitoba

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Jonathan L. Crane

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Deborah C. Breede

Coastal Carolina University

Mark A. Hirsch

Wake Forest University

Margaret I. Fitch

University of Toronto

Ross E. Gray

Health Sciences Centre

Catherine Phillips

Case Western Reserve University

Martha Kropf

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Flora M. Hammond

Trex (United States)

Jan Warren‐Findlow

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Peggy Philbrick

Carolinas Healthcare System

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Development and Testing of an Instrument to Measure Mental Health Literacy

SSRN Electronic Journal (2007)

Richard B. Smith Mary I. Armstrong Christine S. Davis Christine Epps Oliver T. Massey

The heightened attention to the role of consumer health literacy and knowledge is reflected in the specific objectives of Healthy People 2010, as well as in the recently implemented reform of the Florida Medicaid (i.e. public insurance) program, which marks the introduction of a more consumer-oriented model to this particular group of health care consumers. Despite these and similar initiatives, the mechanisms by which more-informed and -active healthcare consumers might improve health outcomes, or drive better access to and quality of service, are only beginning to be understood. Moreover, as in other areas of health, an understanding, as well as suitable measures, of mental health literacy lag those found for physical health. The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between mental health literacy and service utilization among a group of Medicaid beneficiaries, using a newly developed measure of mental health literacy that encompasses its various domains of knowledge, behavior, and beliefs.

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Patient-centered outcomes: a qualitative exploration of patient experience with electroencephalograms in the Emergency Department

Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare (2017)

Christine S. Davis Sandra K. Beverly Jackeline Hernandez‐Nino Andrew J. Wyman Andrew W. Asimos

The primary objective of this qualitative project was to understand the experience of patients who had first-time seizures and who did, and did not, have electroencephalograms (EEGs) performed in the Emergency Department (ED) as part of their initial evaluation, so as to refine the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to these patients and transform the standard of care for first-time seizures by focusing on outcomes as defined by patient experiences and expectations. In this paper, we show that, regardless of the diagnostic and therapeutic approach patients are given in the ED, patients and caregivers trust that health care providers will perform the standard of care consistent with the current medical practice for first-time seizures. However, performing EEGs in the ED and initiating appropriate anticonvulsant therapy for those patients who are at high risk for future seizures addresses patient needs by offering patients a sense of security and control over their medical condition and expediting appropriate follow up care, as long as clearly stated written diagnostic, treatment, and referral instructions are provided upon discharge.

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10.4081/qrmh.2017.6219

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Storytelling and Terror: Ethnography, Culture, and the Narrative Management of Death

Jonathan L. Crane Christine S. Davis

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Transcriptional control of Ia antigens in murine T cell lines

Satwinder Singh Kathleen A. Donovan Gayle E. Woloschak Christine S. Davis

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A Physical Assessment Skills Module on Vital Signs

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (2014)

Christine Leong Christopher Louizos Grace Frankel Sheila Ng Harris Iacovides

Neurovascular bundle

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10.5688/ajpe787137

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Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

Qualitative Inquiry (2016)

Jonathan L. Crane Christine S. Davis

In this article, we examine the love–death dialectic through a mosaic of story and song. Layering personal narrative and musical chronicles about love, life, and death—from the heroic to the tedious, the passionate to the mundane, the tragic to the contented, the transgressive to the faithful, and fantasy to reality—we consider the marriage of love and loss in narratives where multiple instantiations of the truth mix and mingle. We use these disparate creations to evocatively dramatize the magnetic allure of endless, inexhaustible love in light of our inevitable extinction. The love impulse, says Becker, is the antithesis to the fearful losses that mark our long descent to the grave. Following Becker’s lead, we take the measure of idealized passion in enduring relationships and assert the catalytic dynamism of heroic transcendence in everyday intercourse. From the storybook tales we author with family, lovers, and other close conspirators, sagas of romance, lasting companionship, marriage, hearth and home, birth and death; to the songbook—with a focus on splatter platters—the trite songs of teenage tragedy and mayhem produced in the last half of the 20th century and still popular into the 21st—juxtaposed with German Romantic opera, we examine how celebrated artists, Brill Building songsmiths, and everyday dreamers aestheticize love, life, and death. In pillow talk, in conversational idylls, and in song, what we say about love tells us what it means to live, to desire, and to die.

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10.1177/1077800416667696

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Child’s Play: The Role of Play in Mitigating the Fear of Death Among Pediatric Palliative Care Team Patients, Families, and Caregivers

Journal of Loss and Trauma (2018)

Jonathan L. Crane Christine S. Davis

Terror Management Theory (TMT), derived from Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death (1974), maintains that humans are motivated by the desire to overcome our fear of death by constructing meaning and significance in our lives in various ways, including making light of our mortality. In this paper, we examine the role of play as seriously ill children involved with a hospital-based palliative care team live out what may be the remainder of their lives. We question the function that play has, if any, in mitigating the fear of death among dying children and their caregivers. We explore formal and informal manners of therapeutic play among children and adults occurring in moments of terrible stress, pain, and the looming threat of death. We draw on playful representations of death from popular culture and from extended field research conducted with a pediatric palliative care team in a large regional children’s hospital caring for seriously ill children and their families, as patients, families, and caretakers struggle to make sense of their suffering, fear and loss.

10.1080/15325024.2018.1446271

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Epilogue: Revelation Communicating to Transcend Death

Routledge eBooks (2018)

Christine S. Davis Deborah C. Breede

Revelation

10.4324/9780429506598-12

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Death as a Horrible Other

Routledge eBooks (2019)