Research in Health Care Settings

Kathleen E. Grady, Ph.D, is founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Behavioral Medicine in East Longmeadow, MA. Barbara Strudler Wallston1,3 (1943-1987), a fine feminist scholar who died young, was the recipient of many awards. Wallston possessed awesome organizational skills and rose to early leadership in organizations fostering women's careers within psychology and the development of the psychology of women. She was a leader in the Association for Women in Psychology as well as the sixth president of the APA's Division on the Psychology of Women. Wallston also made important contributions to psychological research. She developed a health locus of control scale with her then husband, Kenneth Wallston, which is used internationally to measure people's beliefs about what controls their health status. She also worked in the area of dual-career couples, stereotyping, and feminist methodology in psychology.

Introduction Health Care Settings and Collaborative Research Asking Research Questions Designing the Study Selecting the Sample Choosing Measures and Using Existing Data Self-Report and Other Report Observation and Physiological Measures Conducting the Study Interpreting and Publishing Findings