Category: Faculty Partner Research

February 1, 2022

Perspectives on facility dogs from pediatric hospital personnel: A qualitative content analysis of patient, family, and staff outcomes

An increasing number of children's hospitals feature full-time resident facility dogs, which are specially trained to work alongside pediatric healthcare professionals to improve the patient experience. This qualitative study aimed to describe the role that facility dogs play in the...

January 31, 2022

Measuring Physical Activity Regulatory Styles and Identity Among Adults 55 Years or Older

The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of modified versions of the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire and Exercise Identity Scale for use with adults ages ≥55 years to measure regulatory styles and identity related to...

January 20, 2022

Strengths of the heart: Stressors, gratitude, and mental health in single mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has created significant economic, social, and mental health challenges for many parents. However, single mothers (who are typically both primary caregivers and wage earners for their families) may be especially vulnerable to stress and mental...

December 1, 2021

Pushing the boundaries: A qualitative study of how stem women adapted to disrupted work–nonwork boundaries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

National reports widely publicized that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic’s disruption of work–nonwork boundaries impacted women’s careers negatively, as many exited their jobs to manage nonwork demands. We know less about the adaptations made by highly career-invested women to remain...

December 1, 2021

Interactions between Genetic, Prenatal, Cortisol, and Parenting Influences on Adolescent Substance Use and Frequency: A TRAILS Study

Dynamic relations between genetic, hormone, and pre- and postnatal environments are theorized as critically important for adolescent substance use but are rarely tested in multifactorial models. This study assessed the impact of interactions of genetic risk and cortisol reactivity with...

November 27, 2021

Parental Deployment and Military Children: A Century of Research

In this chapter, we place current research about parental deployments and military children into historical context. Policies regarding military families have evolved from ignoring or excluding families to a more systematic and intentional configuration of formal supports. Our review of...

November 20, 2021

Engaging Rural Community Members with Food Policy Councils to Improve Food Access: Facilitators and Barriers

This study is a secondary assessment of data from a multi-state project called Voices for Food. The purpose was to determine facilitators and barriers to community stakeholders’ and food pantry clients’ engagement with food policy councils (FPCs) among rural Midwestern...

November 20, 2021

Trajectories of early alcohol use milestones: Interrelations among initiation and progression

Alcohol use shows age-graded patterning, with normative use progressing through characteristic milestones of escalating use or severity. Despite some knowledge about the timing of milestone attainment and sequencing across milestones, there is a gap in our understanding of the earliest...

October 20, 2021

Do Early-Life Social, Behavioral, and Health Exposures Increase Later-Life Arthritis Incidence?

This study investigates direct and indirect influences of childhood social, behavioral, and health exposures on later-life osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis development. Methods: Drawing from cumulative inequality theory and six waves of the Health and Retirement Study (2004–2014), we estimate structural...

September 28, 2021

Associations among African American Parents’ Beliefs, Involvement, and Measures of School Readiness

Parents’ beliefs about school readiness have been linked to their involvement practices and children’s achievement. However, there is some evidence to suggest associations among parental beliefs, practices, and children’s outcomes may vary by families’ racial and ethnic background. This study...