Papers by Allison Hopkins
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2020
Introduction Most smoking quit attempts end in relapse, and interventions focused on relapse prev... more Introduction Most smoking quit attempts end in relapse, and interventions focused on relapse prevention are lacking. Helpers Stay Quit (HSQ) is a novel behavioral relapse prevention intervention that teaches newly abstinent smokers to offer a “helping conversation” (HC) to help others quit tobacco. Methods Pre-post intervention feasibility study with state quitline participants ≥14 days abstinent. Measures at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months included smoking status, offering HCs, and cessation self-efficacy. Primary outcomes: self-reported 7-day point prevalence abstinence; offering HCs. Cox models explored association of HCs with relapse. Preliminary effects analysis using propensity score matching compared 30-day abstinence of quitline clients with study sample at 7 months. Results Participants (N = 104) were as follows: mean age of 53 years (SD 13.9 years), 48.1% male, mean of cigarettes smoked/day of 16.2 (SD 9.7). Compared with participants who remained abstinent (n = 82), rela...
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The FASEB Journal, 2017
The autoimmune disease, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), leads to joint pain and inflammation. Pharmace... more The autoimmune disease, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), leads to joint pain and inflammation. Pharmaceutical drugs, including methotrexate, as well as antibodies directed against inflammatory cytokines ...
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The Journal of Nutrition, 2020
Background Over-the-counter, natural product–based (nonvitamin, nonmineral) dietary supplement (N... more Background Over-the-counter, natural product–based (nonvitamin, nonmineral) dietary supplement (NVNM DS) use is common in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a group at risk for drug-DS interactions, due to polypharmacy, but this use is underreported to health care providers. Recent dramatic changes in US sales of specific NVNM DS suggest that the prevalence and types of NVNM DS used in RA populations may also have shifted. Objectives A study was undertaken to identify current and past use of specific NVNM DS for RA disease treatment and to examine associations between use of NVNM DS, RA pharmaceuticals, and/or vitamin or mineral (VM) DS. Methods We developed a survey instrument to capture current and ever use of specific NVNM DS, VM DS, and RA pharmaceuticals, with 696 subjects self-reporting an RA diagnosis recruited online or in clinic for survey participation. Analyses were limited to 611 subjects reporting RA diagnosis after age 18 y and treatment with specific RA pharmaceut...
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Economic Botany, 2020
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PLOS ONE, 2019
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Ethnobiology Letters, 2018
Along the Peruvian north coast, many towns depend on fishing for subsistence. The adoption of tec... more Along the Peruvian north coast, many towns depend on fishing for subsistence. The adoption of technological innovations has facilitated the extraction of marine resources from the Pacific Ocean by Peruvian fishermen in recent years. However, some artisanal fishermen continue to rely on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) to create sea vessels using botanical resources. This is the case of the fishing community of Huanchaco, a beachside town, where a reed locally known as totora (Schoenoplectus californicus) is cultivated in sunken gardens and is principally used to construct caballitos de totora, reed sea craft. This reed is also used for other purposes that benefit the fishing community economically. The objective of this article is to highlight the dynamic quality of TEK by describing the persistence and change in use of totora by the fishing community of Huanchaco. Participant observation techniques and individual interviews were conducted with 40 members of the fishing commun...
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Journal of Latina/o Psychology, 2018
Literature emphasizes the need to engage Latino/as in research. However, exactly how to accomplis... more Literature emphasizes the need to engage Latino/as in research. However, exactly how to accomplish the engagement while maintaining scientific rigor is a challenge that investigators face. We contribute to the literature by demonstrating the implementation of a crossover design embedded within a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach. The goal of the study was to disseminate priority health education, which aligned with U.S. Preventive Services Task Force screening guidelines, to Latinas 18 to 65 years of age living in Pima County, Arizona. The use of CBPR was to ensure engagement and increase ownership of the study by the Latina community. To this end, the article discusses the integration of CBPR throughout the crossover study to reach the outcomes of increased knowledge in health education related to sexually transmitted infections and depression that promoted informed health care decisions and increased screening. La literatura acentúa la necesidad de atraer Latinos/as a estudios de investigaciones. Sin embargo, el desafío que encuentran los investigadores es de que manera exacta lograr atraerles y aun mantener el rigor científico. Nosotros contribuimos a esta literatura demostrando la implementación de un diseño cruzado estrechamente ligado al enfoque de investigaciones basadas en participación comunitaria (CBPR). El objetivo del estudio, el cual está en regla con las guías de evaluaciones de salud de United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), es de diseminar de manera prioritaria educación de salud a Latinas de entre 18 a 65 años de edad que viven en el condado de Pima, en Arizona. El uso de investigaciones basadas en participación comunitaria (CBPR) es de asegurar un compromiso y aumentar el sentimiento de posesión de este estudio por parte de la comunidad Latina. Con este propósito, este documento discute la integración de CBPR atreves de un estudio cruzado para alcanzar el objetivo de aumentar el conocimiento de educación sobre la salud relacionado con infecciones de transmisión sexual y depresión así promoviendo decisiones de salud educadas y aumentar el uso de evaluaciones de salud.
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Ecology of food and nutrition
Birth outcomes tend to be better among Hispanics than among other ethnic groups, even when matche... more Birth outcomes tend to be better among Hispanics than among other ethnic groups, even when matched for poverty and education, and foreign-born Latinas compared to their US-born counterparts. These patterns suggest that sociocultural factors exhibited by recent immigrants have the potential to protect birth outcomes against the instability of minority and low socioeconomic status. To discover potential sociocultural factors, a pilot qualitative study was carried out in Tucson, Arizona, with 18 Hispanic mothers. The two most prevalent factors reported were (1) a healthy diet prepared at home from minimally processed ingredients, and (2) constant and comprehensive social support. When comparing responses related to diet by interview language preference, a proxy for acculturation, there was very little difference between participants who interviewed in Spanish and those who interviewed in English. This result may be explained by greater maternal social support and higher education level...
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Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 2016
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Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, Jan 30, 2015
Ethnobotanical knowledge continues to be important for treating illness in many rural communities... more Ethnobotanical knowledge continues to be important for treating illness in many rural communities, despite access to health care clinics and pharmaceuticals. However, access to health care clinics and other modern services can have an impact on the distribution of medical ethnobotanical knowledge. Many factors have been shown to be associated with distributions in this type of knowledge. The goal of the sub-analyses reported in this paper was to better understand the relationship between herbal remedy knowledge, and two such factors, age and social network position, among the Yucatec Maya in Tabi, Yucatan. The sample consisted of 116 Yucatec Maya adults. Cultural consensus analysis was used to measure variation in herbal remedy knowledge using competence scores, which is a measure of participant agreement within a domain. Social network analysis was used to measure individual position within a network using in-degree scores, based on the number of people who asked an individual abou...
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Scientometrics, 2012
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Scientometrics, 2012
ABSTRACT The objective of this work was to test the relationship between characteristics of an au... more ABSTRACT The objective of this work was to test the relationship between characteristics of an author’s network of coauthors to identify which enhance the h-index. We randomly selected a sample of 238 authors from the Web of Science, calculated their h-index as well as the h-index of all co-authors from their h-index articles, and calculated an adjacency matrix where the relation between co-authors is the number of articles they published together. Our model was highly predictive of the variability in the h-index (R 2 = 0.69). Most of the variance was explained by number of co-authors. Other significant variables were those associated with highly productive co-authors. Contrary to our hypothesis, network structure as measured by components was not predictive. This analysis suggests that the highest h-index will be achieved by working with many co-authors, at least some with high h-indexes themselves. Little improvement in h-index is to be gained by structuring a co-author network to maintain separate research communities.
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Fitoterapia, 2013
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Field Methods, 2011
Common herbal remedy knowledge varies and is transmitted among individuals who are connected thro... more Common herbal remedy knowledge varies and is transmitted among individuals who are connected through a social network. Thus, social relationships have the potential to account for some of the variation in knowledge. Cultural consensus analysis (CCA) and social network analysis (SNA) were used together to study the association between intracultural variation in botanical remedy knowledge and social relationships in Tabi, Yucatan, Mexico. CCA, a theory of culture as agreement, was used to assess the competence of individuals in a domain of herbal remedies by measuring individual competence scores within that domain. There was a weak but positive association between these competence scores and network centrality scores. This association disappeared when age was included in the model. People in Tabi, who have higher competence in herbal remedies tend to be older and more centrally located in the herbal remedy inquiry network. The larger implication of the application of CCA and SNA for ...
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EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing, 2014
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Economic Botany, 2012
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BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2011
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Page 1. 1 MEDICINAL PLANT REMEDY KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL NETWORKS IN TABI, YUCATAN, MEXICO By ALLISO... more Page 1. 1 MEDICINAL PLANT REMEDY KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL NETWORKS IN TABI, YUCATAN, MEXICO By ALLISON LOUISE HOPKINS A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY ...
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