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Eddie M. Clark
Researcher at Saint Louis University
Publications - 83
Citations - 5748
Eddie M. Clark is an academic researcher from Saint Louis University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social support & Locus of control. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 79 publications receiving 5150 citations.
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Achieving Cultural Appropriateness in Health Promotion Programs: Targeted and Tailored Approaches
Matthew W. Kreuter,Susan N. Lukwago,R D Dawn C Bucholtz,Eddie M. Clark,Vetta Sanders-Thompson +4 more
TL;DR: Five strategies commonly used to target programs to culturally defined groups are described and a sixth approach, cultural tailoring, is explained, which might extend and enhance the ability to develop effective programs for cultural groups.
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Narrative communication in cancer prevention and control: A framework to guide research and application
Matthew W. Kreuter,Melanie C. Green,Joseph N. Cappella,Michael D. Slater,Meg Wise,Doug Storey,Eddie M. Clark,Daniel J. O'Keefe,Deborah O. Erwin,Kathleen Holmes,Leslie Hinyard,Thomas K. Houston,Sabra Woolley +12 more
TL;DR: A typology of narrative application in cancer control is proposed, asserting that narrative has four distinctive capabilities: overcoming resistance, facilitating information processing, providing surrogate social connections, and addressing emotional and existential issues.
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Understanding how people process health information: a comparison of tailored and nontailored weight-loss materials.
TL;DR: Overweight adults randomly assigned to receive weight-loss materials that were tailored to the individual, in an American Heart Association brochure, or in an AHA-content formatted to look like tailored materials had more positive thoughts about the materials.
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Are tailored health education materials always more effective than non-tailored materials?
TL;DR: Data from this study suggest present approaches to tailoring are more effective than non-tailored materials in most, but not all cases.
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Individual, social environmental, and physical environmental influences on physical activity among black and white Adults: A Structural Equation Analysis
TL;DR: For all forms of activity, self-efficacy was the strongest direct correlate of physical activity, and evidence of a positive dose-response relation emerged between self- efficacy and intensity ofphysical activity.