With increasing costs of cancer treatment, financial hardship is a growing challenge for patients, their families, and healthcare providers. Aims are: (1) To understand the stakeholder (non-physician healthcare provider and patient/ caregiver) perspective regarding the need for interventions for financial distress and preferred mode of delivery, and (2) To develop and validate a psycho-educational intervention to address financial distress due to cancer treatment.
The goal of this project is to conduct a proposed Integrative Mixed Methods study on culturally-relevant approaches for promoting effective diabetes management among elder Latino and Latina patients with type 2 diabetes.
Recent research finds condom use resistance is common among young adults and young men's alcohol intoxication and sexual aggression history are predictive of greater condom use resistance and other sexual risk behaviors. This research will address the public health concern of men's sexual risk behaviors, evaluate the role of emotional processes in men's alcohol-related sexual risk, and use multiple methods to gather data to develop and inform prevention and intervention programs.
This study aims to examine how this group's immigration experiences influence their availability to and perception of physical activity.
The goal of this Planning Grant (R34) is to conduct a 2-stage pilot of a behavioral intervention for heavy episodic drinking and violence among college students.
This study will identify predatory beverage allocation behaviors used by men to facilitate women’s intoxication and elucidate the decision-making process across a night of drinking that culminates in a man having sex with a woman who is too intoxicated to consent or passed out (i.e., incapacitated rape). This research can inform the advancement of nuanced and targeted prevention, intervention and risk reduction programming to reduce incapacitated rape on our college campuses.
The causes of the current high prevalence of overweight and obesity among children are not clearly known. Schools have been implicated in the causal chain to high child obesity prevalence.
This study will inform physical activity interventions for Hispanic and Latina mothers, who are among the least physically active and at high risk of poor cardiometabolic health, to decrease cardiometabolic risk factors, inform best practice, and advocate for policy changes to enhance the health of undeserved communities.
Diversity supplement for R01 CA201179, Couple communication in cancer: a multi-method examination, to support Katherine Ramos, PhD. (2018-2020)
Diversity supplement for 3R01 CA201179-05S1, Couple communication in cancer: a multi-method examination, to support Katherine Ramos, PhD. (2020-2022)
The objective of the planning activity is to provide a forum for researchers and knowledge-users from Canada, the US and Antigua to discuss emerging issues related to the declining levels of physical activity (PA) among youth in Antigua and to identify research questions that will form the basis of future research activities.