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Melinda S. Bender
Researcher at University of California, San Francisco
Publications - 18
Citations - 600
Melinda S. Bender is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychological intervention & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 17 publications receiving 457 citations. Previous affiliations of Melinda S. Bender include University of San Diego.
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Using appropriate body mass index cut points for overweight and obesity among Asian Americans.
Jane Jih,Arnab Mukherjea,Eric Vittinghoff,Tung T. Nguyen,Janice Y. Tsoh,Yoshimi Fukuoka,Melinda S. Bender,Winston Tseng,Alka M. Kanaya +8 more
TL;DR: Filipinos should be a priority population for overweight/obesity screening and lower BMI cut points recommended by the World Health Organization may have clinical utility to identify at-risk Asian Americans.
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Digital technology ownership, usage, and factors predicting downloading health apps among caucasian, filipino, korean, and latino americans: the digital link to health survey.
TL;DR: Results indicated that despite a narrowing racial/ethnic “digital divide”, some disparities still exist, particularly among racial/ ethnic groups with less education and whose primary language is not English.
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A culturally appropriate intervention to improve health behaviors in Hispanic mother-child dyads.
TL;DR: It is suggested that a culturally relevant intervention was feasible for improving target health behaviors in a low-income Mexican community and future work should assess an enhanced intervention including a maintenance phase for long-term adherence to health behavior changes and influence on maternal and child BMI.
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Cultural Adaptation for Ethnic Diversity: A Review of Obesity Interventions for Preschool Children.
Melinda S. Bender,Mary Jo Clark +1 more
TL;DR: A relative absence of appropriately adaptedesity interventions for ethnic minority groups is indicated, suggesting a need for more rigorous cultural adaptation guidelines when designing obesity interventions for diverse ethnicities.
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A Feasible and Efficacious Mobile-Phone Based Lifestyle Intervention for Filipino Americans with Type 2 Diabetes: Randomized Controlled Trial.
TL;DR: The PilAm Go4Health was feasible and demonstrated potential efficacy in reducing diabetes risks in overweight Filipino Americans with T2D, and this study supports the use of mHealth and other promising intervention strategies to reduce obesity andabetes risks in Filipino Americans.