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PTSD and the Experience of Pain: Research and Clinical Implications of Shared Vulnerability and Mutual Maintenance Models by Asmundson, Gordon JG, Coons, Michael J, Taylor, Steven, Katz, Joel

“…It is common for individuals with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to present with co-occurring pain problems, and vice versa. However, the…”
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Personality differences between surgery residents, nonsurgery residents, and medical students by Hoffman, Benson M., PhD, Coons, Michael J., MS, Kuo, Paul C., MD

“…Background The Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality may provide a useful framework to understand performance-related issues in academic medical settings. We…”
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Technology Interventions to Curb Obesity: A Systematic Review of the Current Literature by Coons, Michael J., DeMott, Andrew, Buscemi, Joanna, Duncan, Jennifer M., Pellegrini, Christine A., Steglitz, Jeremy, Pictor, Alexander, Spring, Bonnie

“…Obesity is a public health crisis that has reached epidemic proportions. Although intensive behavioral interventions can produce clinically significant weight…”
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Multiple health behaviours: overview and implications by Spring, Bonnie, Moller, Arlen C, Coons, Michael J

“…More remains unknown than known about how to optimize multiple health behaviour change. After reviewing the prevalence and comorbidities among major chronic…”
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Psychometric properties of the social phobia inventory: Further evaluation by Antony, Martin M., Coons, Michael J., McCabe, Randi E., Ashbaugh, Andrea, Swinson, Richard P.

“…This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Social Phobia Inventory [SPIN; Connor, K. M., Davidson, J. R. T., Churchill, L. E., Sherwood, A.,…”
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Exercise and pharmacotherapy in patients with major depression: one-year follow-up of the SMILE study by Hoffman, Benson M, Babyak, Michael A, Craighead, W Edward, Sherwood, Andrew, Doraiswamy, P Murali, Coons, Michael J, Blumenthal, James A

“…To examine a 1-year follow-up of a 4-month, controlled clinical trial of exercise and antidepressant medication in patients with major depressive disorder…”
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The Potential of Virtual Reality Technologies to Improve Adherence to Weight Loss Behaviors by Coons, Michael J., Roehrig, Megan, Spring, Bonnie

“…A significant proportion of the global population is obese, foreshadowing an epidemic of chronic disease. Self-monitoring (of diet, exercise, and body weight),…”
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Mechanisms of Change in Diet and Activity in the Make Better Choices 1 Trial by Schneider, Kristin L, Coons, Michael J, McFadden, H. Gene, Pellegrini, Christine A, DeMott, Andrew, Siddique, Juned, Hedeker, Donald, Aylward, Laura, Spring, Bonnie

“…Objective: The Make Better Choices 1 trial demonstrated that participants with unhealthy diet and activity behaviors who were randomized to increase…”
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Social embeddedness in an online weight management programme is linked to greater weight loss by Poncela-Casasnovas, Julia, Spring, Bonnie, McClary, Daniel, Moller, Arlen C., Mukogo, Rufaro, Pellegrini, Christine A., Coons, Michael J., Davidson, Miriam, Mukherjee, Satyam, Nunes Amaral, Luis A.

“…The obesity epidemic is heightening chronic disease risk globally. Online weight management (OWM) communities could potentially promote weight loss among large…”
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Multiple health behavior change: a synopsis and comment on “A review of multiple health behavior change interventions for primary prevention” by Johnston, Winter, Buscemi, Joanna, Coons, Michael J

“…ABSTRACT The ninth column on Evidence-Based Behavioral Medicine is a synthesis of a recent systematic meta-review of multiple health behavior change (MHBC)…”
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Is glycemia control in Canadians with diabetes individualized? A cross-sectional observational study by Coons, Michael J, Greiver, Michelle, Aliarzadeh, Babak, Meaney, Christopher, Moineddin, Rahim, Williamson, Tyler, Queenan, John, Yu, Catherine H, White, David G, Kiran, Tara, Kane, Jennifer J

“…ObjectiveDiabetes guidelines recommend individualized glycemic targets: tighter control in younger, healthier patients and consideration of more moderate…”
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Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale-20 in a community physiotherapy clinic sample by Coons, Michael J., Hadjistavropoulos, Heather D., Asmundson, Gordon J.G.

“…The PASS-20 was developed to assess pain-related anxiety among a variety of pain populations. This measure was constructed by extracting 20 items from its…”
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Anxious temperament and disease progression at diagnosis: the case of type 2 diabetes by Hall, Peter A, Coons, Michael J, Vallis, T Michael

“…To examine the association between anxious temperament and disease progression at diagnosis for individuals with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). A sample of…”
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Some aspects of analytic number theory: Parity, transcendence, and multiplicative functions by Coons, Michael J

“…Questions on parities play a central role in analytic number theory. Properties of the partial sums of parities are intimate to both the prime number theorem…”
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Heart-focused anxiety in patients with cardiac conditions: Nature, extent, trajectory, and correlates by Coons, Michael J

“…Being anxious about your health after developing a cardiac condition is a likely experience. However, for some people this anxiety is extreme and results in…”
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