Category: Funded_Research

May 7, 2024

Center for Families announces 2024 Funding Recipients

NEW PHOTOS! Center for Families announces the 2024 Funding Recipients – Congratulations faculty and students focused on research about families!

Lorene Burkhart Award for Excellence in Research about Families Sarah Eason, PhD, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science, College of Health and Human Sciences Family Math Engagement in Rural Families Eason, S. H., Leech, K. A., Anderson, K....

October 23, 2023

A Preliminary Analysis of Psychiatric Service Dog Placements and Sleep Patterns of Partners of Veterans with PTSD

A. J. Schwichtenberg, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth

Partners of veterans diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at risk of a variety of challenges, and it is unknown whether psychiatric service dogs are disruptive to their sleep or provide similar benefits that are seen in the limited...

April 27, 2023

Center for Families announces 2023 Funding Recipients

Center for Families announces the 2023 Funding Recipients – Congratulations faculty and students focused on research about families!

Lorene Burkhart Award for Excellence in Research about Families Annabelle Atkin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science, College of Health and Human Sciences A qualitative examination of familial racial-ethnic socialization experiences among multiracial American emerging adults. Atkin,...

January 29, 2023

Dietary Costs among Midwestern Adult Food-Pantry Users by Food-Security Status

Evidence of the relationship between dietary cost, diet quality, and socio-economic status is mixed. This study investigated whether food-pantry clients with low and very low food-security status had less expensive daily diets than food-secure clients by comparing total cost, cost...

June 19, 2022

Emerging Ideas. Families Together: Supporting family resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic

The program was widely used and received favor-able feedback. Participants reported less stress in weeks when they engaged in more program activities, and more family connectedness in weeks when they spent more time engaged in program materials.

April 20, 2022

Congrats to 2022 Funding Recipients!

Lorene Burkhart Award for Excellence in Research about Families Rosie Shrout, PhD, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Health and Human Sciences Breast Cancer Survivors' Satisfying Marriages Predict Better Psychological and Physical Health: A Longitudinal Comparison...

February 26, 2022

Evaluating a food pantry-based intervention to improve food security, dietary intake and quality in Midwestern food pantries

Voices for Food was a longitudinal community, food pantry-based intervention informed by the social ecological model, and designed to improve food security, dietary intake and quality among clients, that was carried out in 24 rural food pantries across six Midwestern...

August 20, 2021

Toddlers’ Developmental Trajectories as a Function of QRIS Rated Child Care Quality

State-level child care quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) have been implemented in a majority of states in the U.S.A. One goal is to improve developmental outcomes for young children, especially from families with fewer resources. Research is needed to...

May 5, 2021

Want to improve your child’s math skills? Read them a book.

CFF Faculty Partners, David Purpura and Sara Schmitt, collaborated with a professional children’s book author and illustrator to produce “The Little Elephants” series starring Benjamin, Lucy and their best friend,

March 10, 2021

Mobile technology helps give voice to nonverbal autistic children during pandemic

Mobile technology helps give voice to nonverbal autistic children during pandemic Purdue University technology to assist nonverbal children on the autism spectrum is helping families around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced schools and clinics to rely