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Cheryl L. Holt is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including Medicine, Social Sciences, and Health Professions, with a substantial focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Health, Oncology, Sociology and Political Science, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics in public health and medicine. These include:

  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Community Health and Development
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare

Cheryl L. Holt has published numerous articles in journals frequently associated with health and cancer epidemiology. The most common publication venues include Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, Journal of Cancer Education, Global Implementation Research and Applications, Health Education Research, and Journal of Community Health.

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Cheryl L. Holt include:

  • "Meaning in Life Predicts Decreased Depressive Symptoms and Increased Positive Affect over Time but Does not Buffer Stress Effects in a National Sample of African-Americans," 2020, Journal of Happiness Studies
  • "The big reveal: Family disclosure patterns of BRCA genetic test results among young Black women with invasive breast cancer," 2020, Journal of Genetic Counseling
  • "Risks and benefits of antioxidant dietary supplement use during cancer treatment: protocol for a scoping review," 2021, BMJ Open
  • "Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Acceptability and Campaign Message Preferences Among African American Parents: a Qualitative Study," 2021, Journal of Cancer Education
  • "Lung cancer screening decisional needs among African American smokers of lower socioeconomic status," 2020, Ethnicity and Health

The scientist frequently collaborates with a group of colleagues whose expertise complements their work. Among the frequent co-authors are Nathaniel Woodard, Maisha Huq, Debarchana Ghosh, Randi M. Williams, and Jimmie L. Slade.

Best Publications

  • Assessing the current validity of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory.

    Cheryl L. Holt;Jon. B. Ellis

  • Culturally appropriate storytelling to improve blood pressure: a randomized trial

    Thomas K. Houston;Jeroan J. Allison;Marc Sussman;Wendy Horn

  • Cultural tailoring for mammography and fruit and vegetable intake among low-income African-American women in urban public health centers

    Matthew W. Kreuter;Celette Sugg-Skinner;Cheryl L. Holt;Eddie M. Clark

  • Development and validation of brief scales to measure collectivism, religiosity, racial pride, and time orientation in urban African American women.

    Susan N. Lukwago;Matthew W. Kreuter;Dawn C. Bucholtz;Cheryl L. Holt

  • Spiritual health locus of control and breast cancer beliefs among urban African American women.

    Cheryl L. Holt;Eddie M. Clark;Matthew W. Kreuter;Doris M. Rubio

  • Perceptions of the Religion-Health Connection Among African American Church Members

    Cheryl L. Holt;Stephanie M. McClure

  • Positive and Negative Religious Coping Styles as Prospective Predictors of Well-Being in African Americans.

    Crystal L. Park;Cheryl L. Holt;Daisy Le;Juliette Christie

  • Relationship between religious social support and general social support with health behaviors in a national sample of African Americans.

    Katrina Debnam;Cheryl L. Holt;Eddie M. Clark;David L. Roth

  • Understanding the effects of printed health education materials: which features lead to which outcomes?

    Fiona Bull;C.L. Holt;M.W. Kreuter;E.M. Clark

  • Proceedings from the 9th annual conference on the science of dissemination and implementation

    David Chambers;Lisa Simpson;Felicia Hill-Briggs;Gila Neta

  • Religion and health in African Americans: the role of religious coping.

    Cheryl L. Holt;Eddie M. Clark;Katrina J. Debnam;David L. Roth

  • Sociocultural correlates of breast cancer knowledge and screening in urban African American women.

    Susan N. Lukwago;Matthew W. Kreuter;Cheryl L. Holt;Karen Steger-May

  • Spirituality, breast cancer beliefs and mammography utilization among urban African American women.

    Cheryl L. Holt;Susan N. Lukwago;Matthew W. Kreuter

  • Spiritual health locus of control and health behaviors in African Americans.

    Katrina J. Debnam;Cheryl L. Holt;Eddie M. Clark;David L. Roth

  • Responses to behaviorally vs culturally tailored cancer communication among African American women.

    Matthew W. Kreuter;Celette Sugg Skinner;Karen Steger-May;Cheryl L. Holt

  • Comparing homeless persons' care experiences in tailored versus nontailored primary care programs.

    Stefan G. Kertesz;Cheryl L. Holt;Jocelyn L. Steward;Richard N. Jones

  • Exploring religion-health mediators among African American parishioners.

    Cheryl L. Holt;Laura A. Lewellyn;Mary Jo Rathweg

  • How Do People Process Health Information? Applications in an Age of Individualized Communication

    Matthew W. Kreuter;Cheryl L. Holt

  • Role of religious social support in longitudinal relationships between religiosity and health-related outcomes in African Americans

    Cheryl L. Holt;David L. Roth;Jin Huang;Eddie M. Clark

  • A comparison of a spiritually based and non-spiritually based educational intervention for informed decision making for prostate cancer screening among church-attending African-American men.

    Cheryl L Holt;Theresa A Wynn;Mark S Litaker;Penny Southward

  • Role of Religion in Cancer Coping Among African Americans: A Qualitative Examination

    Cheryl L. Holt;Lee Caplan;Emily Schulz;Victor Blake

Frequent Co-Authors

Eddie M. Clark
Eddie M. Clark Saint Louis University
Celette Sugg Skinner
Celette Sugg Skinner The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Crystal L. Park
Crystal L. Park University of Connecticut
Carol M. Mangione
Carol M. Mangione University of California, Los Angeles
Rinad S. Beidas
Rinad S. Beidas University of Pennsylvania
David H. Rosmarin
David H. Rosmarin Harvard University

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