Erica Payton Foh's research while affiliated with University of North Carolina at Greensboro and other places

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Each year millions of females develop serious mental illnesses (SMI), which are major risk factors for suicides. Using the Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) for the years 2000, 2010 and 2020, we found in 2020 9,428 females (almost 190/week) committed suicide, losing 328,653 years off potential life before age 80 years...
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There is a dearth of population studies regarding law enforcement officers (LEOs) use of fatal force against teenagers. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to characterize the teens most likely to be killed, the methods used to fatally injure teenagers, the geographic distribution of the killings, and the years of potential life lost befo...
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Firearm violence continues to be a national public health issue. The objective of this study was to collect baseline data regarding North Carolina County Commissioners’ perceptions of firearm violence and potential local level interventions. A cross-sectional study of NC County Commissioners (n = 582) was conducted to investigate the research quest...
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Features of the built environment such as parks and open spaces contribute to increased physical activity in populations, while living in neighborhoods with high poverty, racial/ethnic segregation, presence of neighborhood problems, and violence has been associated with less active living. Our present study examined the factors that may facilitate...
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There is limited research on how Black women’s perspectives of their relationship infuence their sexual experiences (i.e., sex initiation and orgasm frequency) in early adulthood. This quantitative study examined the association between relationship and partner-specifc factors (e.g., relationship satisfaction, love, egalitarianism, partner’s age, p...
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This study examined individual and familial influences on Black female adolescents’ (N = 1426) sexual pleasure expectancies, sexual guilt, and age of sexual debut using data from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent to Adult Health. Results indicated significant differences between Black female adolescents that were sexually active and tho...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the deeply entrenched structural inequities in health that exist in the United States. We draw parallels between the COVID-19 pan­demic and our cardiovascular health equity research focused on physical activity and diabetes to highlight three common needs: 1) access to timely and disaggregated data; 2) how to inte...

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... Figure 1 shows the PRISMA flow chart. A total of 35 papers were reviewed which presented studies that had relied on self-report (n = 23) (Osypuk et al. 2009, Clarke et al. 2010, Simen-Kapeu et al. 2010, Dyck et al. 2011, Main et al. 2012, Jalaludin et al. 2012, Yildirim et al. 2012, Trapp et al. 2012, Van Dyck et al. 2013, Teixeira et al. 2014, Smith et al. 2015, Sugiyama et al. 2015, Child et al. 2016, Hino et al. 2017, Oyeyemi et al. 2017, Yong et al. 2017, Macmillan et al. 2018, de Matos et al. 2018, Calise et al. 2019, Christiana et al. 2021, Foh et al. 2021, Rugel et al. 2022, Blanchette et al. 2022 or audit-based (n = 15) (Kamphuis et al. 2008, Neckerman et al. 2009, Casagrande et al. 2011, Main et al. 2012, Hoyt et al. 2014, Leach et al. 2016, Richardson et al. 2017, Roberts et al. 2018, Zieff et al. 2018, Macmillan et al. 2018, Molina-García et al. 2020, Holliday et al. 2020, Bojorquez et al. 2021, Font et al. 2021, Rugel et al. 2022) measures to assess walkability or bikeability (Table 1). No studies used a bikeability specific measure, as a result walkability and bikeability are combined for the reporting. ...
... 39 Based on many studies, pathological primary caregiver-infant relationships play a role in the occurrence of addictions. 40 In other words, failure to attain intimacy in an early relationship can lead to the development and maintenance of addiction behaviors. 41 Parental abuse and a subjective or real feeling of abandonment and neglect can increase the likelihood of traumas. ...
... Moreover, while it is a significant factor motivating men and women to engage in sexual relationships, it does not rank among the top five reasons (Meston & Buss, 2007). As Thorpe et al. (2021) noted, the absence of orgasm does not necessarily mean that people are not having pleasurable sexual relationships (Fahs, 2014), just as the presence of orgasm does not make an encounter unquestionably ideal, positive, or pleasurable (Chadwick et al., 2019). ...