Mary E. Costanza, MD, FACP, is a Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and an adjunct professor in the Clinical and Population Health Research program for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She is also the former director of the Division of Oncology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Dr. Costanza's research interests include cancer screening, patient acceptance of health care, health behavior, breast cancer, and mammography.
Articles
The Cancer Message Literacy Tests: psychometric analyses and validity studies (with Kathleen M. Mazor, H. Jane Rogers, Andrew E. Williams, Douglas W. Roblin, Bridget Gaglio, Terry S. Field, Sarah M. Greene, and Paul K. J. Han), Patient education and counseling (2012)
OBJECTIVE: To examine the psychometric properties of two new health literacy tests, and to evaluate...
Screening mammograms should not be underestimated, Archives of internal medicine (2012)
Comment on: Likelihood that a woman with screen-detected breast cancer has had her "life saved"...
Health literacy and cancer prevention: Two new instruments to assess comprehension (with Kathleen M. Mazor, Douglas W. Roblin, Andrew E. Williams, Sarah M. Greene, Bridget Gaglio, Terry S. Field, Paul K. J. Han, Laura Saccoccio, Josephine Calvi, Erica Cove, and Rebecca Cowan), Patient education and counseling (2012)
OBJECTIVES: Ability to understand spoken health information is an important facet of health literacy, but...
Design and methods for a randomized clinical trial comparing three outreach efforts to improve screening mammography adherence (with Roger S. Luckmann, Mary Jo White, Milagros C. Rosal, Caroline Cranos, George W. Reed, Robin E. Clark, Susan Sama, and Robert A. Yood), BMC health services research (2011)
BACKGROUND: Despite the demonstrated need to increase screening mammography utilization and strong evidence that mail...
Media messages about cancer: what do people understand (with Kathleen M. Mazor, Josephine Calvi, Rebecca Cowan, Paul K. J. Han, Sarah M. Greene, Laura Saccoccio, Erica Cove, Douglas W. Roblin, and Andrew Williams), Journal of health communication (2010)
Health messages on television and other mass media have the potential to significantly influence the...