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William Rakowski
Researcher at Brown University
Publications - 165
Citations - 13235
William Rakowski is an academic researcher from Brown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mammography & Population. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 164 publications receiving 12717 citations. Previous affiliations of William Rakowski include Rhode Island Department of Health & University of Michigan.
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Stages of change and decisional balance for 12 problem behaviors
James O. Prochaska,Wayne F. Velicer,Joseph S. Rossi,Michael G. Goldstein,Bess H. Marcus,William Rakowski,Christine Fiore,Lisa L. Harlow,Colleen A. Redding,Dena Rosenbloom,Susan R. Rossi +10 more
TL;DR: Clear commonalities were observed across the 12 areas, including both the internal structure of the measures and the pattern of changes in decisional balance across stages.
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Classification and regression tree analysis in public health: methodological review and comparison with logistic regression
TL;DR: C&RT is a promising research tool for the identification of at-risk populations in public health research and outreach and is compared to a common approach to logistic regression, the stepwise selection procedure.
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Assessing motivational readiness and decision making for exercise.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the trans-theoretical model of behavior change with respect to the area of exercise adoption with a total of 778 men and women, recruited from four worksites, answered a 40-item questionnaire consisting of statements.
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Self-Management of Chronic Disease by Older Adults: A Review and Questions for Research
Noreen M. Clark,Marshall H. Becker,Nancy K. Janz,Kate Lorig,William Rakowski,Lynda A. Anderson +5 more
TL;DR: There are strong commonalities in the essential nature of tasks that exist across disease entities and the context for self-management of disease by the ill elderly is likely to differ somewhat from the contexts for other age groups.
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Stage-based expert systems to guide a population of primary care patients to quit smoking, eat healthier, prevent skin cancer, and receive regular mammograms.
James O. Prochaska,Wayne F. Velicer,Colleen A. Redding,Joseph S. Rossi,Michael G. Goldstein,Judith D. DePue,Geoffrey W. Greene,Susan R. Rossi,Xiaowu Sun,Joseph L. Fava,Robert G. Laforge,William Rakowski,Brett A. Plummer +12 more
TL;DR: Proactive, home-based, and stage-matched expert systems can produce relatively high population impacts on multiple behavior risks for cancer and other chronic diseases.