Browsing by Author "Becker, Anne"
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Adaptation and Evaluation of the Clinical Impairment Assessment to Assess Disordered Eating Related Distress in an Adolescent Female Ethnic Fijian Population
Becker, Anne Edith; Thomas, Jennifer Joanne; Bainivualiku, Asenaca; Richards, Lauren; Navara, Kesaia; Roberts, Andrea L; Gilman, Stephen Edward; Striegel-Moore, Ruth H (John Wiley and Sons, 2010)Objective: Measurement of disease-related impairment and distress is central to diagnostic, therapeutic, and health policy considerations for eating disorders across diverse populations. This study evaluates psychometric ... -
An Agenda for Closing Resource Gaps in Global Mental Health: Innovation, Capacity Building, and Partnerships
Becker, Anne Edith; Kleinman, Arthur Michael (Informa Healthcare, 2012) -
Caged: Intimate Violence and the Search for Sovereignty at the Margins of the City
Heintz, John Isaac Blanco (2016-05-19)“Caged” is an ethnographic investigation of intimate partner violence in Usme, a peripheral district of Bogotá, Colombia, where 37% of women report having experienced physical violence by a partner and 80% report some form ... -
Do DSM-5 Eating Disorder Criteria Overpathologize Normative Eating Patterns among Individuals with Obesity?
Thomas, Jennifer J.; Koh, Katherine A.; Eddy, Kamryn T.; Hartmann, Andrea S.; Murray, Helen B.; Gorman, Mark J.; Sogg, Stephanie; Becker, Anne E. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)Background. DSM-5 revisions have been criticized in the popular press for overpathologizing normative eating patterns—particularly among individuals with obesity. To evaluate the evidence for this and other DSM-5 critiques, ... -
GAP-REACH: A Checklist to Assess Comprehensive Reporting of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Psychiatric Publications
Lewis-Fernandez, Roberto; Raggio, Greer A.; Gorritz, Magdaliz; Duan, Naihua; Marcus, Sue; Cabassa, Leopoldo J.; Humensky, Jennifer; Becker, Anne; Alarcón, Renato D.; Oquendo, María A.; Hansen, Helena; Like, Robert C.; Weiss, Mitchell; Desai, Prakash N.; Jacobsen, Frederick M.; Foulks, Edward F.; Primm, Annelle; Lu, Francis; Kopelowicz, Alex; Hinton, Ladson; Hinton, Devon (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2013-10)Growing awareness of health and health care disparities highlights the importance of including information about race, ethnicity, and culture (REC) in health research. Reporting of REC factors in research publications, ... -
Mental Health and the Global Agenda
Becker, Anne E.; Kleinman, Arthur Michael (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2013) -
A qualitative study of perceived social barriers to care for eating disorders: Perspectives from ethnically diverse health care consumers
Becker, Anne Edith; Hadley Arrindell, Adrienne; Perloe, Alexandra; Fay, Kristen; Striegel-Moore, Ruth H (Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2009)Objective: The study aim was to identify and describe health consumer perspectives on social barriers to care for eating disorders in an ethnically diverse sample. Method: We conducted an exploratory secondary analysis of ... -
Validity and Reliability of a Fijian Translation and Adaptation of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire
Becker, Anne Edith; Thomas, Jennifer Joanne; Bainivualiku, Asenaca; Richards, Lauren; Navara, Kesaia; Roberts, Andrea L; Gilman, Stephen Edward; Striegel-Moore, Ruth H (John Wiley and Sons, 2010)Objective: Assessment of disordered eating has uncertain validity across culturally diverse populations. This study evaluated Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) performance in an ethnic Fijian study population. ...