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Meg Gerrard
Researcher at University of Connecticut
Publications - 176
Citations - 18640
Meg Gerrard is an academic researcher from University of Connecticut. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 74, co-authored 171 publications receiving 17126 citations. Previous affiliations of Meg Gerrard include Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Iowa State University.
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Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancy.
TL;DR: These two studies explored the cognitive decision-making process which differentiate effective contraceptors form the ineffective contraceptives and applied these findings to the development and testing of educational and cognitive interventions aimed at a group of sexually active young women at risk of becoming pregnant.
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Array-Based Epigenetic Aging Indices May Be Racially Biased
Robert A. Philibert,Steven R. H. Beach,Man-Kit Lei,Frederick X. Gibbons,Meg Gerrard,Ronald L. Simons,Meeshanthini V. Dogan +6 more
TL;DR: The Levine PhenoAge Index is influenced by cryptic ethnic-specific genetic influences that may extend to similarly constructed EA indices and bias cross-race comparisons.
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Moderation of the effects of discrimination-induced affective responses on health outcomes
TL;DR: Previous research suggested that two different types of affective reactions mediate the relations between perceived racial discrimination and physical health status vs. health-impairing behaviours: internalising and externalising, and revealed moderation of these effects by coping mechanisms.
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Behavioral treatments of primary dysmenorrhea: a review.
Douglas R. Denney,Meg Gerrard +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, behavioral interventions for primary dysmenorrhea are reviewed under four categories: hypnotherapy, Lamaze exercises, biofeedback training, and desensi.
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An Evaluation of a Juvenile Education Program in a State Penitentiary
TL;DR: In this article, a controlled study of the impact of a juvenile education program on the recidivism rates of juveniles was performed, which involved introducing the juveniles to the realities of prison life.