Past Research

 

Viva! – A Family Centered Obesity and Diabetes Prevention Program
CHPDP Collaborator:

Gabe Shaibi and Allison Williams

Funding:

Dignity Health Arizona division’s Community Grants Program

Research Duration:

-

The Dignity Health Arizona division’s Community Grants Program award to support “!Viva! – A Family Centered Obesity and Diabetes Prevention Program.” For more than a decade, the YMCA, SVdP, and ASU have successfully collaborated to develop, test, refine, and expand diabetes prevention programs for children and families. Engaging St. Joseph’s outpatient pediatrics clinic, which is part of the Dignity Health Medical Group, as an active partner with a clinical population will increase the potential for impact of the collaboration to reduce diabetes risk and improve quality of life for high-risk pediatric patients.

Read More


COVID-19 Working Group for Public Health and Social Sciences Research
Principal Investigator:

Aaida A. Mamuji (York University Co-Leader)

CHPDP Collaborator:

Angela Chia-Chen Chen(Co-Leader)

Funding:

National Science Foundation-funded Social Science Extreme Events Research Network and the CONVERGE facility at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder

Research Duration:

-

This COVID-19 Working Group for Public Health and Social Sciences Research is interested in issues of stigma, fear, discrimination, and backlash in light of COVID-19, as well as social countermeasures and emergency management actions that can be taken to address them. The group’s broad scope includes research interest in Sinophobia, stigma faced by frontline workers and those that have tested positive, compounded by discrimination experienced by those already marginalized, and the role played by culture and social media.

Read More


Relationship functioning and gut microbiota composition among older adult couples: a pilot study to assess feasibility of recruitment and data collection
CHPDP Collaborator:

Shelby Langer

Funding:

Edson College Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging Faculty Scholar Award

Research Duration:

-

Aims are to test feasibility of recruitment and data collection among 30 older adult spouse pairs and to examine intra- and inter-personal associations between indicators of relationship functioning (relationship satisfaction, communication, intimacy) and gut microbiota composition and diversity.

Read More


Coronavirus (COVID-19): How can Nurses Prepare for Patient Care and Protect Their Own Health?
Principal Investigator:

Elizabeth Reifsnider

Funding:

ASU Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR)

Research Duration:

-

This project aims to determine the professional quality of life, resilience, selfefficacy, and stress of nurses nationally and internationally during the pandemic. Findings will elucidate impacts of the virus on members of this critical work force. Knowledge gained will inform planning by healthcare leadership to promote resilience and self-efficacy among health care workers and also to prevent fatigue, burnout and illness.

Read More


The Effect of Young Mens's Emotion Regulation Strategy Use on Intentions to Perpetrate Sexual Assault
Principal Investigator:

Mitch Kirwan

CHPDP Collaborator:

Kelly Cue Davis

Funding:

ASU Institute for Social Science Research

Research Duration:

-

Research will examine which emotion regulation strategies may be associated with sexually aggressive intentions.

Read More


COVID-19 Impacts on Sleep, Health Behaviors and Well-Being
Principal Investigator:

Megan Petrov

Funding:

ASU Institute of Social Sciences Research

Research Duration:

-

This study aims to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic and the related social distancing measures may have affected sleep patterns, health behaviors, and well-being.

Read More


Personalized web-based sexual assault prevention for service members
Principal Investigator:

Kelly Cue Davis

Funding:

Department of Defense Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program for the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)

Research Duration:

-

This work will develop accessible and effective methods to prevent sexual assault among male and female service members; It will refine a research-based, computerized sexual assault prevention program, originally designed for college students, to meet the needs of military members.

Read More


Development and Feasibility Testing of a Culture-Centric Digital Storytelling Intervention to Promote HPV Vaccination in Korean American Youths
Principal Investigator:

Sunny Kim

CHPDP Collaborator:

Angela Chia-Chen Chen (Co-Investigator)

Funding:

NIH/NIMHD

Research Duration:

-

U54 Center Grant Project (PI: Marsiglia): To develop digital in-person stories from KA immigrant mothers about HPV vaccination of their children and examine the feasibility and the preliminary effectiveness of the digital storytelling intervention among 50 KA mothers of unvaccinated boys and girls aged 11-14.

Read More


Circadian Acclimatization of Performance, Sleep, and 6-sulphatoxymelatonin Using Multiple Phase-Shifting Stimuli
Principal Investigator:

Shawn Youngstedt

Funding:

Department of Defense (CDMRP)

Research Duration:

-


Acceptability and Feasibility of a Culturally Relevant Smartphone-delivered Physical Activity Intervention among Midlife African American Women
Principal Investigator:

Rodney Joseph

Funding:

ASU Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR)

Research Duration:

-

This project will examine the acceptability and feasibility of Smart Walk, a culturally relevant and theory-based Smartphone application developed to deliver a physical activity intervention for African American women aged 50-65. 

Read More