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Karen M. Emmons
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 354
Citations - 21892
Karen M. Emmons is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Smoking cessation & Population. The author has an hindex of 75, co-authored 336 publications receiving 20366 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen M. Emmons include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Miriam Hospital.
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A Test of Numeric Formats for Communicating Risk Probabilities
TL;DR: Although the relative performance of the formats varied by operation, aggregated across operations, the percentage and frequency formats had higher overall accuracy rates than the 1-in-n format and should be avoided.
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Project PREVENT: A Randomized Trial to Reduce Multiple Behavioral Risk Factors for Colon Cancer
Karen M. Emmons,Colleen M. McBride,Elaine Puleo,Kathryn I. Pollak,Elizabeth C. Clipp,Karen M. Kuntz,Bess H. Marcus,Melissa A. Napolitano,Jane E. Onken,Frank Farraye,Robert H. Fletcher +10 more
TL;DR: The PREVENT intervention was effective in helping patients change multiple risk factors, and provides further support that more comprehensive interventions that move beyond emphasis on a single risk factor are acceptable to patient populations, can result in improvements, and are cost effective.
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The cancer screening practices of adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
Mark W. Yeazel,Kevin C. Oeffinger,James G. Gurney,Ann C. Mertens,Melissa M. Hudson,Karen M. Emmons,Hegang Chen,Leslie L. Robison +7 more
TL;DR: The current study characterized the self‐reported cancer screening practices of adult survivors of childhood cancer and found that women with a history of sexual abuse are more likely to be screened for cancer than men.
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Cancer Prevention Among Working Class, Multiethnic Adults: Results of the Healthy Directions–Health Centers Study
Karen M. Emmons,Ann M. Stoddard,Robert H. Fletcher,Caitlin Gutheil,Elizabeth Gonzalez Suarez,Rebecca Lobb,Jane C. Weeks,Judy Anne Bigby +7 more
TL;DR: Interventions that respond to the social context of working class individuals across racial/ethnic categories hold promise for improving cancer-related risk behaviors.
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Associations between perceived social environment and neighborhood safety: Health implications.
TL;DR: The findings reported here are useful in exploring a potential pathway through which social environmental factors influence health and in untangling the complex set of variables that may influence perceived safety.