Research and News from the Center for Families at Purdue University

March 21, 2024

Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences launches participant registry to elevate research

As part of the College of Health and Human Sciences efforts to refresh its signature research areas, A.J. Schwichtenberg, associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science, and Arielle Borovsky, associate professor in the Department of Speech,...

March 19, 2024

The impact of COVID-19 on mental health and well-being of Latine youth from rural and agricultural families in the Midwest

Zoe Taylor

The COVID-19 pandemic had significant health and socioeconomic repercussions for Latine immigrant families and their children due to long-standing social, economic, and immigration-related inequities, with rural families particularly vulnerable.

March 18, 2024

Nurses Caring for Older Adult Family Members: Disclosing Caregiving to Work Supervisors

Jiayun Xu, Karen Foli

Disclosure of family caregiving to work supervisors is needed for nurses to access work support for family caregiving. Little is known about characteristics of nurses who decide to/not to disclose family caregiving to supervisors.

March 18, 2024

Long-term consequences of mothers’ and fathers’ wartime deployments: Protocol for a two-wave panel study

Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth, Sharon Christ

Multiple adjustment difficulties have been associated with children’s exposure to recent parental wartime military deployments, but long-term consequences have not yet been systematically studied.

March 15, 2024

Top Ten Tips Palliative Clinicians Should Know About Rural Palliative Care in the United States

Nasreen Lalani

Palliative care improves outcomes, yet rural residents often lack adequate and equitable access. This study provides practical tips to address palliative care (PC)-related challenges in rural communities. Strategies include engaging trusted community partners, addressing cultural factors, improving pediatric care, utilizing...

March 12, 2024

Are you Cheating on Me? Identifying Factors Contributing to the Use of Suspicion Confirmation and Avoidance Strategies

Rosie Shrout

This study integrates communication, motivational, and behavioral elements to identify factors that lead to the use of key information seeking strategies people employ to confirm or avoid suspicions about a partner’s potential cheating.

March 11, 2024

Reaching Rural Veterans: Rena Sterrett and Jake Newton

The Military Family Research Institute (MFRI) of Purdue is an organization that helps military and veteran families through information gathering and direct community support. MFRI conducted the Reaching Rural Veterans (RRV) program to serve rural communities directly. Research and direct...

March 9, 2024

Barriers and Facilitators to Breastfeeding Practices Among Immigrant Muslim Arab Women Living in a Metropolitan Area of the Southwestern United States

Azza Ahmed

Immigrant Muslim Arab women are a fast-growing and underserved minority group in the United States. Immigrant Muslim Arab women face breastfeeding challenges in accessing and seeking healthcare. Little is known about breastfeeding challenges that immigrant Muslim Arab women face to...

March 8, 2024

Insisting on Success as Resistance: Building an Ecosystem of Black Joy, Laughter and Affirmation

Breanya Hogue

School climate is a complex system involving norms, goals, values, relationships, practices and organizational structures. It includes the composition of the school and school practices. School composition encompasses the social and economic characteristics of a school, whereas school practice includes...

March 6, 2024

Patterns of Gender Development Across Intersections of Age, Gender, and Ethnicity-Race

Kim Updegraff

Two components of gender identity are gender similarity, how one’s self-concept relates to the major gender collectives (i.e., female, male), and felt pressure to conform to gender norms. The development of these components across ages and contexts has been understudied....