Associate Dean for Research and Evaluation Research Interests
Gerontology, dementia, end-of-life care, nutrition and aging.
Current Research - Principal Investigator, Meals at the End of Life for Persons with Dementia. College of Nuring/VAMC
- Principal Investigator, Spreading the Word: Teaching Caregivers to Support Meals at Home. SC Nutrition Research Consortium.
- Pending--Dual Principal Investigator, Feeding in the Elderly with Late-stage Dementia: The FIELD Pilot Trial. NIH/NIA.
Biography Director of Doctoral Program and Online Learning
Research Interests
Domestic violence, maternal stress and birth outcomes, access to prenatal care, informatics and educational technology.
Current Research - Principal Investigator, An Education, Screening, and Referral Program for Abuse Among Pregnant Women. The Duke Endowment Domestic Violence Special Grant Program.
- Principal Investigator, Online Technology Programs: A Response to the Shortage of Baccalaureate and Advanced Practice Nurses.
Biography Research Interests
Nursing history and ethics.
Current Research
1. Nurses' participation in the "euthanasia" programs of Germany during National Socialism.
2. Nurses and ethical dilemmas.
Biography Research Interests
Secondary surfactant deficiency, extremely low birth-weight infants and the environment, pain.
Current Research
Secondary surfactant deficiency.
Biography Research Interests
Access to care for low income women with abnormal Pap tests; regression, persistence and progression factors associated with Human Papillomavirus; attitudes and acceptability of HPV vaccination; factors associated with keeping/not keeping appointments for abnormal Pap follow-up care.
Current Research - Exploring knowledge, attitudes and perceptions about HPV vaccination among
ethnic groups and between generations. - Outcomes of women referred for treatment of significant cervical disease.
- Trends in morbidity and disparities among women with cervical disease.
- Biomarkers in serum of women with HPV infection.
- Characteristics of advanced practice clinicians practicing colposcopy.
- Digitized cervical images.
Biography Research Interests
Utilization of simulated learning in nursing education, family presence during resuscitation and special procedures, academic success programs for the disadvantaged. Biography Research Interests
Primary care of the older adult, cancer in the older adult, family caregivers, health promotion/health education, risk education, behavior change. Biography Research Interests
Use of personal digital assistants by nurse practitioner students and faculty.
Biography Research Interests
Evidence-based interventions in suicide prevention, program evaluation of family skills building, impact of advanced practice nursing in mental health, evaluation of mental health interventions in school, suicide prevention in African-American male youth, health promotion in recovering women.
Current Research - Co-Investigator on NIDA-sponsored youth smoking cessation project.
- Co-PI on HRSA-sponsored school-based clinics project, development of mental health intervention.
- Development of telemental health services in school-based clinics.
Biography Research Interests
Faith Community Nursing, health promotion, cardiovascular health, and health disparities.
Current Research - Qualitative research in faith community nursing.
- Outcomes research in congregational health.
Biography Research Interests
Unintended and unwanted pregnancy, pregnancy health care behaviors, low birth weight, web-based peer support.
Current Research - Unwanted pregnancy: pilot work to examine unwanted pregnancy in relation to pregnancy behaviors (smoking, alcohol, nutrition, exercise), prenatal care, and maternal-fetal attachment as well as the effect of social support on unwanted pregnancy.
- I have an ongoing opportunity for students interested in maternal and child health to utilize several university and state databases and conduct secondary data analysis. The expected student outcome would be a databased research article.
- Web-based peer support for African American pregnant women (completed R15 and submitting R01 for multi-site project).
- School Based Health Clinic childhood obesity research.
Biography Research Interests
Diabetes, hypertension, health disparities (African Americans), community health and coalition development, provider/systems change, patient education Current Research REACH 2010: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health: Current funding by CDC for about 1 million per year to document and decrease disparities in African Americans with diabetes living in Charleston and Georgetown counties. The focus in on community development, empowerment, and education for diabetes, health systems changes related to access, care, and education and coalition power, expansion, advocacy and sustainability. Currently, the REACH faculty and staff are working with 11 different clinical sites. Non-Emergent Emergency Department Use by People with Diabetes: Funded by NINR to examine emergency department (ED)use for "ambulatory sensitive conditions" related to diabetes. This study uses a qualitative grounded theory approach to examine use of ED from the perspective of the patient and includes an audit of prior health systems usage and quality of care received. The goal is build a model related to non-emergent use of emergency medical care. Diabetes Initiative of South Carolina Outreach: Our goal is to improve diabetes outcomes for South Carolinians with diabetes, through clinical care and health systems change, community outreach, and surveillance of diabetes related problems, care, and Outcomes. Dr. Jenkins and her colleagues have developed valid and reliable instruments for surveying and evaluating health provider practices, diabetes self-management, and community coalition development. Logic modeling is used for program development, implementation, and evaluation.
Biography Research Interests Geriatrics, skin temperature, chronic venous disorders, biometrics, foot care, leg ulcers.
Current Research
- Study of skin temperature variability of lower legs of lower legs of adults 45 years of age with chronic venous disorders, measured with a wireless temperature data logger for minute-to-minute variation and a handheld infrared thermometer for day-to-day variation.
- Pilot study of the impact of two cryotherapy interventions on patient outcomes (reduce skin temperature, blood flow, leg discomforts, and to improve quality of life and mobility) in chronic venous disorders.
Biography Marilyn G. King, DNSc (Boston University), RN Research Interests
Family caregiving and help seeking, history of nursing and public health, qualitative methods.
Biography Research Interests
Community-based participatory research, community health, evaluation research, pregnancy outcomes, and access to care.
Current Research - Project Export to reduce prevalence of the metabolic syndrome
- Evaluation of outreach programs at MUSC
- Health-e-AME program, which is a health education project with the AME Church. I conduct the ongoing evaluation and a new project aimed to encouraging members to be physically active.
- School-based clinics at CON: development and ongoing evaluation.
- Co-investigator, conducting strategic planning with community representatives to reduce stroke
Biography Research Interests Development of applications using machine learning algorithms such as artificial neural networks to improve medical and health care; application of clinical trials and biostatistical methods in health care research. Current Research: - Development of a decision-support tool to predict extubation outcome in mechanically ventilated premature infants.
- Statistical support for grant development and manuscript preparation related to
A. Mental health
i. Treatment and relapse prevention of severe depression
ii. Prevention of domestic violence
B. Health disparities among patients with diabetes mellitus
Biography Research Interests
Health care services research, primary care, chronic illnesses, quality of care. Current Research 1. Colorectal cancer prevention in primary care.
2. Evaluating implementation of guidelines for incorporating alcohol
screening guidelines in hypertensive patients. Biography Research Interests
Racial/ethnic disparities, provider-patient communication, preventive cardiology (diabetes behavior and decision-making), international health (esp. communication), sociolinguistics.
Current Research - Racial/ethnic variations in elderly communication and patient-provider encounters (esp. with diabetes care).
- Refinement of a provider-patient language use communication taxonomy associated with membership categorization.
- Secondary analysis of gender and ethnic differences in Alzheimer’s patients speaking with interviewers.
Biography Research Interests
Children's coping with stressful life events; impact of acute and chronic illnesses for children and their families including hospitalization; drawing and therapeutic play as assessment and nursing intervention.
Current Research - Stress and coping of children with sickle cell disease.
- Children’s perception of illness and hospitalization.
- Therapeutic play.
- Lead surveillance in children.
Biography Research Interests
Pediatric epilepsy, chronic illness issues and impact on child/family.
Current Research - South Carolina Epidemiological Studies of Epilepsy and Seizure Disorder (SCESESD): co-investigator, funded by the CDC for three years to estimate the incidence and prevalence of epilepsy in a state population and to describe the distribution of epilepsy cases by etiology and seizure type.
- South Carolina Health Outcome Project on Epilepsy (SC HOPE): co-investigator, funded by the CDC to start in 2005 to look at epilepsy outcomes for patients with epilepsy in the state of South Carolina with the goal of improving public health and health care practices that will improve the lives of people with epilepsy, especially the socioeconomically disadvantaged and those receiving substandard healthcare.
- South Carolina Traumatic Brain Injury Surveillance for Prevalence of Epilepsy: assisting with data collection and abstraction tool development to review prevalence and incidence of epilepsy in patients with history of TBI. Funded by the CDC as a sub-project of the South Carolina Traumatic Brain Injury Surveillance Project.
- Children's Observations and Perceptions of Epilepsy (COPE): co-PI, funded by Epilepsy Foundation Targeted Initiative for Mood Disorders. Goals: to test the hypothesis that depressive symptoms may be explained by the mechanisms of learned hopelessness and self-efficacy in children and adolescents with epilepsy; to examine children's use of coping skills and their relationship to depressive symptoms.
- Coping Openly and Personally with Epilepsy: A Program for Youth and Caregivers. Co-PI, funded by Parents Against Childhood Epilepsy. Goals: to develop and pilot an evidence based intervention for treating psychosocial issues associated with childhood epilepsy.
Biography Research Interests
Health promotion interventions for pregnancy and obesity; exercise initiation and long-term participation; diabetes in pregnancy; gestational hypertension; pregnancy associated osteoporosis; effects of group prenatal care on pregnancy outcomes. Current Research - Resting metabolic rate during pregnancy as a predictor of maternal weight gain and neonatal birth weight.
- Centering Pregnancy for prematurity prevention. Funded by March of Dimes.
- Hispanic Health Initiative.
Biography Associate Dean for Academics Research Interests
Clinical use of PDAs, education, footcare.
Current Research
Clinical use of PDAs.
Biography Dean, College of Nursing Research Interests
Depression, anxiety disorders, behavior change, patient compliance, behavioral health workforce, nursing education innovation, simulation. Biography Research Interests
Social determinants of health, community mental health, psychotherapy, GIS. Current Research
Understanding risk and protective factors that influence mental health in deprived areas: A small-area study in South Carolina using community-participatory research methods and geospatial analysis (AHRQ research fellowship grant). Biography Research Interests
Critical care, informatics, inpatient nursing costs, billing, reimbursement, nurse staffing and scheduling, secondary data analysis of clinical and administrative databases.
Current Research - Nursing costs, billing, reimbursement.
- Inpatient nursing intensity.
- Nurse staffing patterns.
Biography Research Interests
Racial and ethnic disparities in health services, social support and health outcomes, and barriers to accessing health services.
Current Research
Hispanic Health Initiative Biography Research Interests
Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in diverse populations. Patient-clinician communication and decision making. Special focus on quality improvement and program evaluation and survey research methods. Current Research - Obesity prevention via multi-level interventions in the worksite.
- Improving provider and patient/caregiver communication in palliative and end-of-life care.
- Improving self-management and outcomes of heart failure in diverse populations.
- Surveillance and coordination of care in colorectal cancer survivors.
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