
Professor Emeritus
N_FHCN-Operations
My research is focused on abused women and their children as well as on their human responses and strengths. This program of research is an outgrowth of years of clinical experience with battered women and their children and attempts to answer questions of clinical significance and relevance. Initially my research described the breadth and depth of battered women’s and their children’s multidimensional responses to violence. However, more recently my research has focused on the impact of diverse types of traumatic exposures including intimate partner violence on women’s health including exploration into mechanisms of action that underlie women’s symptoms.
Publications
A Qualitative Study of the Social Relationship Experiences Across the Life Course Among Black/African American Women Aging With HIV in the South.
The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC
Stressors Among Healthcare Workers: A Summative Content Analysis.
Global qualitative nursing research
The Association between Well-being Behaviors and Resilience in Health Care Workers.
Western journal of nursing research
Symptom Trajectory among Formerly Abused Women: An Exploratory Study.
Issues in mental health nursing
Using Photovoice to Understand Survivors' Healthcare Experiences and Strategies.
Issues in mental health nursing
Application of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Sampling Weights to Transgender Health Measurement.
Nursing research
"That Guy is Gay and Black. That's a Red Flag." How HIV Stigma and Racism Affect Perception of Risk Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men.
AIDS and behavior
DISTINCT STRESS PROFILES AMONG ONCOLOGY PATIENTS UNDERGOING CHEMOTHERAPY.
Journal of pain and symptom management
Couples' Experiences of Maternal Postpartum Depression.
Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN
Health Care Experiences of Transgender Adults: An Integrated Mixed Research Literature Review.
ANS. Advances in nursing science
Trauma-related symptoms and severity among women in the Pacific Rim.
Health care for women international
Measuring Distress Levels of Refugee Women to Enhance Community-Based Psycho-social Interventions.
Issues in mental health nursing
A Qualitative, Systems Thinking Approach to Study Self-Management in Women With Migraine.
Nursing research
Describing the healthcare experiences and strategies of women survivors of violence.
Journal of clinical nursing
The Implementation of a Structured Nursing Leadership Development Program for Succession Planning in a Health System.
The Journal of nursing administration
Time to Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment in a Prospective South African Cohort.
Global pediatric health
Evaluation of coping as a mediator of the relationship between stressful life events and cancer-related distress.
Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
Trauma Exposure Among Women in the Pacific Rim.
Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
Stress, COMT Polymorphisms, and Depressive Symptoms in Older Australian Women: An Exploratory Study.
Genetic testing and molecular biomarkers
Predictors of mental health in midlife and older Australian women: A multilevel investigation.
Health care for women international
Childhood trauma is associated with depressive symptoms in Mexico City women.
Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health
Depression and Self-Rated Health Among Rural Women Who Experienced Adolescent Dating Abuse: A Mixed Methods Study.
Journal of interpersonal violence
Disparities in intimate partner violence prenatal counseling: setting a baseline for the implementation of the Guidelines for Women's Preventive Services.
Hawai'i journal of medicine & public health : a journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health
Stress, lifestyle, and quality of life in midlife and older Australian women: results from the Stress and the Health of Women Study.
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
"It was pretty scary": the theme of fear in young adult women's descriptions of a history of adolescent dating abuse.
Issues in mental health nursing
Intimate partner violence, depressive symptoms, and immigration status: does existing advocacy intervention work on abused immigrant women in the Chinese community?
Journal of interpersonal violence
[Types and severity of partner violence against women living in the community in Cali, Colombia].
Revista de salud publica (Bogota, Colombia)
Safety-promoting behaviors of community-dwelling abused Chinese women after an advocacy intervention: a randomized controlled trial.
International journal of nursing studies
A biopsychosocial-spiritual model of chronic pain in adults with sickle cell disease.
Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses
Occurrence, characteristics, and impact of chronic pain in formerly abused women.
Violence against women
Misconceptions about missed conceptions: the meanings of emergency contraceptive pills use among young adult couples.
Journal of family nursing
Translation and adaptation of the life stressor checklist-revised with Colombian women.
Health care for women international
Telomere shortening in formerly abused and never abused women.
Biological research for nursing
Relationships and betrayal among young women: theoretical perspectives on adolescent dating abuse.
Journal of advanced nursing
Young adult couples' decision making regarding emergency contraceptive pills.
Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
Depression among women experiencing intimate partner violence in a Chinese community.
Nursing research
Sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, and intimate partner violence.
Health care for women international
Increasing discussions of intimate partner violence in prenatal care using Video Doctor plus Provider Cueing: a randomized, controlled trial.
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
Social stressors associated with antepartum depressive symptoms in low-income African American women.
Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)
The relationship of two types of trauma exposure to current physical and psychological symptom distress in a community sample of Colombian women: why interpersonal violence deserves more attention.
Health care for women international
Effects of a cognitive adjustment program for Thai parents.
Nursing & health sciences
A review of the literature on the multiple dimensions of chronic pain in adults with sickle cell disease.
Journal of pain and symptom management
Differences in depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and lifetime trauma exposure in formerly abused women with mild versus moderate to severe chronic pain.
Journal of interpersonal violence
Interpersonal violence is associated with depression and chronic physical health problems in midlife women.
Issues in mental health nursing
The first step begins within each of us.
Journal of midwifery & women's health
Evaluation of a telephone advice nurse in a nursing faculty managed pediatric community clinic.
Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners
HIV-infected mothers' foci of concern during the viral testing of their infants.
The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC
An exploration of lifetime trauma exposure in pregnant low-income African American women.
Maternal and child health journal
The effects of childbirth self-efficacy and anxiety during pregnancy on prehospitalization labor.
Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN
Development of the Child Health Indicator Assessment (CHIA) in a community-based nurse-managed center.
Pediatric nursing
Expectations, perceptions, and management of labor in nulliparas prior to hospitalization.
Journal of midwifery & women's health
Sleep of children of abused women in transitional housing.
Pediatric nursing
[Resilience, spirituality, distress and tactics for battered women's conflict resolution].
Revista de salud publica (Bogota, Colombia)
Sleep disturbance in battered women living in transitional housing.
Issues in mental health nursing
What we know and what we still need to learn.
Journal of interpersonal violence
Perceived breast cancer risk: heuristic reasoning and search for a dominance structure.
Social science & medicine (1982)
What is faculty practice?
Nursing outlook
Resilience in sheltered battered women.
Issues in mental health nursing