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Lawrence Fisher

Researcher at University of California, San Francisco

Publications -  212
Citations -  13370

Lawrence Fisher is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Distress & Type 2 diabetes. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 201 publications receiving 11776 citations. Previous affiliations of Lawrence Fisher include University of California & University of British Columbia.

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Assessing psychosocial distress in diabetes: development of the diabetes distress scale.

TL;DR: The Diabetes Distress Scale has a consistent, generalizable factor structure and good internal reliability and validity across four different clinical sites, and may serve as a valuable measure of diabetes-related emotional distress for use in research and clinical practice.
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Is self-efficacy associated with diabetes self-management across race/ethnicity and health literacy?

TL;DR: Self-efficacy was associated with self-management behaviors in this vulnerable population, across both race/ethnicity and health literacy levels, and the magnitude of the associations suggests that, among diverse populations, further study of the determinants of and barriers to self- management is warranted.
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Diabetes distress but not clinical depression or depressive symptoms is associated with glycemic control in both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.

TL;DR: It is found that what has been called “depression” among type 2 diabetic patients may really be two conditions, MDD and diabetes distress, with only the latter displaying significant associations with A1C.
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Psychological insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes: the scope of the problem.

TL;DR: A PIR self-report survey was developed and distributed to a large multicity sample of patients with type 2 diabetes who were not taking insulin to examine their willingness to take insulin if it was prescribed and to identify perceived attitudinal barriers to insulin therapy.
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A longitudinal study of affective and anxiety disorders, depressive affect and diabetes distress in adults with Type 2 diabetes

TL;DR: Aims To report the prevalence and correlates of affective and anxiety disorders, depressive affect and diabetes distress over time.