| Faculty Member |
Area of Interest |
Methods |
| Said Abusalem, PhD, RN |
- Predictors of Pneumonia and Influenza Vaccination Programs in Nursing Homes
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| Deborah Armstrong, PhD, RN |
- Pregnancy and parenting after prior perinatal loss
- Factors that influence early attachment relationships for families
- Influence of stress during pregnancy on birth outcomes and early parent-infant relationships
- Maternal and newborn health outcomes
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| Beth Bonham, PhD, APRN, BC |
- Mental health issues of youthful offenders
- Community-based interventions
- School-based mental health
- Middle range development
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- Qualitative
- grounded theory
- appreciative
inquiry
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| Vicki Burns, PhD, RN |
- Health promotion
- Experience of becoming sexually active for teenage mothers
- Domestic violence
- Alternative therapies
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| Diane Chlebowy, PhD, RN |
- Self-care behaviors and glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes
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| Mary-Beth Coty, PhD, APRN, BC |
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| Peggy El-Mallakh, PhD, RN |
- Diabetic Self-Care Management in Individuals with Co-Morbid Schizophrenia and Diabetes Mellitus
- Violence and Mood Disorders
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| Linda Freeman, DNS, RN |
- Historical research
- Florence Nightingale
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| Carla Hermann, PhD, RN |
- Quality of life at end of life
- Quality of life for lung cancer patients
- Spirituality and quality of life
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| Vicki Hines-Martin, RN, PhD, CS |
- African-American utilization of mental health services
- Mental health
- Qualitative research
- African-American nurses
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| Ermalynn Kiehl, PhD, RN |
- Maternal child nursing & curriculum
- Community-based nursing education
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| M. Cynthia Logsdon, DNS, WHNP-BC, FAAN |
- Measurement issues in women’s health nursing
- Psychosocial and functional outcomes in women’s health
- Social support and postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and parenting adolescents
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| Rosalie Mainous, PhD, RNC, NNP |
- Physiologic research
- High risk neonates/VLBW
- Neonatal pain
- Cerebral blood flow velocity and IVH
- Environmental determinants of birth defects
- Noise in the NICU
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- Cross-Over designs
- Quantitative
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| Lee Ridner, PhD, ARNP |
- Smoking cessation
- Health risk behaviors among college students
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- Quantitative
- Survey research
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| Kay Roberts, EdD, RNC, FAAN |
- Nursing interventions to influence the genetic/ environment interaction in hypertension in African-Americans
- Nursing Centers and Patient Outcomes
- Serenity
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| Karen Robinson, DNS, RN, CS, FAAN |
- Spirituality and caregiving
- Develop, implement and evaluate interventions helpful to family caregivers
- Building interventions using natural helping systems (community Outcomes evaluation groups) to increase support in the community for caregivers
- Social support interventions
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- Survey research
- Evaluation research
- Outcomes evaluation
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| Celeste Shawler, PhD, APRN, BC |
- Transitions of older women and their adult daughters with chronic and acute illness
- Use of life narratives, exploring effects of chronic illness on QOL, older women and adult daughters
- Healthy lifestyles within the context of chronic illness
- Examination of empowerment
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- Qualitative: grounded theory; life narrative case study
- Quantitative: descriptive; cross-sectional, longitudinal
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| Barbara Speck, PhD, RN |
- Health promotion
- Cardiovascular disease prevention
- Women’s health promotion and disease prevention
- Low-income women and physical activity
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- Quantitative
- Psychometrics
- Community-based research
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| Robert V. Topp, PhD, RN |
- Rehabilitation of chronically ill older adults
- Effects of prehabilitation on rehabilitation in older adults
- Exercise mode and health status indices in the elderly
- Chronic joint disease/osteoarthritis
- Balance and strength in older adults
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- Testing and training
- Repeated measures designs
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| Mary Pat Wall, PhD, RN |
- Functional Performance in COPD
- Depression in Chronic Illness
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- Quantitative
- Survey research
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