Center for Families

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November 1, 2023

Nursing and Medical Students’ Responses About End-of-Life Communication Reveal Educational Opportunities for Spiritual Care

Nasreen Lalani

The need for improved spiritual care education is a national directive, prompting many nursing and medical education programs to respond with spiritual curriculum. This article reports on research that tested an educational intervention to enhance nursing and medical students' understanding...

November 1, 2023

Unique and combined effects of quantitative mathematical language and numeracy instruction within a picture book intervention: A registered report

David Purpura, Jennifer Dobbs-Oates

Significant research has highlighted the importance of quantitative language in children’s early mathematics development. The findings from this study raise questions as to how to best implement such interventions. Namely, in contrast to prior work, the current interventions targeting one...

October 31, 2023

Unconventional Work, Conventional Problems: Gig Microtask Work, Inequality, and the Flexibility Mystique

Jeremy Reynolds

Gig work platforms often promise workers flexibility and freedom from formal constraints on their work schedules. Some scholars have questioned whether

October 24, 2023

Nominations sought for Burkhart Award for Excellence in Research about Families

The Lorene Burkhart Award for Excellence in Research about Families recognizes outstanding family research being conducted by Purdue Faculty.

October 23, 2023

Faculty and students invited to apply for funding for research about families

The Center for Families’ annual funding program supports the study of families from a cross-disciplinary, life course perspective. Faculty and students from all departments

October 23, 2023

Family math engagement with preschoolers in rural contexts

Sarah Eason

With the aim of broadening our understanding of math engagement among families who are often underrepresented in research, the current study

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...

October 22, 2023

Improving Primary Care Provider Prediabetes Patient Education Through Use of an Education Tool

Elizabeth Richards

Current research findings suggest that improving provider education and using communication guidelines can have a positive impact on patient outcomes. This study used a series of 3 surveys and a focus group to examine if primary care provider’s knowledge, confidence,...

October 20, 2023

Within-person associations of cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone, and testosterone hair hormone concentrations and psychological distress in pregnant and non-pregnant women

Kristine Marceau

Prenatal hair cortisol concentration is inconsistently associated with maternal psychological distress. However, prior studies have not often measured hair cortisol and maternal psychological distress prospectively over time, examined within-person associations, nor concurrently considered the complex hormonal milieu in which cortisol...

October 17, 2023

Early cumulative risk and outcomes in adolescence and adulthood: The role of executive function and behavioral regulation

Rob Duncan

This study examined the extent to which early cumulative risk predicts a range of behavioral and psychological outcomes measured at ages 15 and 26 and whether executive function and/or behavioral regulation mediated and/or moderated these associations.