Category: Funded_Research

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

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.

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...

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

May 29, 2019

‘Let’s move’ wins Pittu Laungani best paper prize

A paper stemming from the work completed during the 2018 Hancock fellowship, lead by Libby Richards, PhD, assistant professor of nursing, has received the Pittu Laungani prize from the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education. The paper is titled,...