James B. Epps
University of South Florida
17 Papers
22 Citations
James B. Epps is an academic researcher from University of South Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Malnutrition. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 13 publications.
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Papers
The Impact of a Home-Delivered Meal Program on Nutritional Risk, Dietary Intake, Food Security, Loneliness, and Social Well-Being
TL;DR: This pilot study reviews the nutritional status, dietary intake, well-being, loneliness, and food security levels of seniors participating in a Meals on Wheels delivery service and considers implications for further research, practice, and the Older Americans Act.
Childhood physical abuse and aggression: Shame and narcissistic vulnerability.
Amanda C. Keene,James B. Epps +1 more
TL;DR: Results indicated abused participants were more angry and aggressive and experienced higher levels of shame-proneness and narcissistic vulnerability than nonabused participants, suggesting that narcissistic vulnerability and shame- proneness may function as mediators of adjustment following childhood maltreatment.
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Improving credibility of instructions in the balanced placebo design: a misattribution manipulation.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested the plausibility of two misattribution strategies designed to reduce the conflict between experimenter instructions and internal cues of drunkenness, and found that the placebo drug group reported less alcohol intoxication without reporting less physical impairment than the control or tachistoscopic groups.
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BackPack: A Program for Improving Children's Readiness to Learn and Family Food Security
Lauri Wright,James B. Epps +1 more
TL;DR: Feeding America's BackPack Program as mentioned in this paper provides nutritious food to children to eat on the weekends when they may not have access to adequate food, but the program is limited to a limited number of families.
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Development and Validation of a HIV Disease–Specific Nutrition Screening Tool
Lauri Wright,James B. Epps +1 more
TL;DR: The Rapid Nutrition Screening for HIV disease (RNS-H) was developed and used by case managers to screen for nutrition risk status at an AIDS clinic and showed a very high degree of association between the dietitians' and case mangers' nutrition risk ratings.
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