To investigate vaccine hesitancy among religious leaders and future healthcare workers in the U.S. to better conceptualize and understand the complex relationships between religion, science, and health and how these interact in relation to vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers and, particularly, the future healthcare workforce.
It is an R01, funded from Sep 15 2025 - Aug 31 2030 Goal: Determine the efficacy of a 12-week, online-delivered TCQ intervention to reduce (T2) and sustain (T3) reductions in abdominal fat and physiologically measured stress indicators
To test feasibility and acceptability of Mates in Motion, a couple-based physical activity intervention for hematopoietic cell transplant recipients and their caregiving spouses/ partners. The program prescribes weekly step (walking) goals and trains couples in problem-solving skills to support one another in the achievement of those goals.
(1) To identify communication profiles of cancer patient-partner couples based on ecological momentary assessment and observational data collected in the prior grant. (2) To examine the predictive relationship of these communication profiles to outcomes. (3a) To develop, using machine learning, a brief self-report screening tool that will identify couples most at risk for poor outcomes. (3b) To concurrently and prospectively validate this brief self-report screening tool in a new sample of 270 couples.
To examine the knowledge of and perceived risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementia and engagement in brain health promotion behaviors among midlife and older adults with T2D in Arizona, US.
To co-create a digitally enhanced T2D self-management intervention tailored to the education and support needs of low-income adults newly diagnosed with T2D or with poorly controlled glycemia. The intervention will be pilot tested within a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center to determine its feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects on engagement in self-management behaviors and diabetes self-management education classes.
This mechanistic trial seeks to identify effective goal setting strategiesto increase physical activity among midlife adults, with the long-term goal of reducing risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
The aim of this study is to test the efficacy of a culturally tailored, smartphone-delivered physical activity intervention to increase physical activity and reduce cardiometabolic disease risk among African American women with obesity.
To identify and explain which sociodemographic factors and baseline type 2 diabetes metrics influence how Latinx individuals respond to a digital storytelling intervention.