Accomplishments: Department of Social and Behavioral Health
Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored a paper on "Predictors of Mind–Body Therapy Use Among Sexual Minority Older Adults" in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
Timothy J. Grigsby (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article on the "Comparison of Substance Use Estimates by Age, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity between Two Representative Samples of the US Adult Population" in the Population Research & Policy Review.
This paper presents differences in past year estimates of alcohol,…
Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored a publication in the Journal of American Medicine Neurology: "Sexual and Gender Minority Health in Neurology: A Scoping Review"
Timothy Grigsby (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored an article on "Pandemic-Specific Factors Related to Generalized Anxiety Disorder during the Initial COVID-19 Protocols in the United States" in the journal Issues in Mental Health Nursing.
The purpose for the current study is to assess the prevalence rates of generalized…
Melva Thompson-Robinson, Jennifer Pharr, Marya Shegog (all Public Health) and Sandra Owens, along with Philip Danquah (Public Health alumni) presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo on the topic: HIV risk behaviors associated with the willingness to take PrEP among young university students in the…
Melva Thompson-Robinson, Johanna E. Andrews, Tristesse Burton (all Center for Health Disparities Research) and Kristina Ricker-Boles (Public Health), along with colleagues at other institutions, have a book chapter published in Researching in the Age of COVID-19, Volume III: Creativity and Ethics. This book explores dimensions of…
Timothy J. Grigsby (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently co-authored an article on "Psychometric Evaluation of the Perceived Context of Reception Scale among Hispanic and Somali Adolescents" in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.
This study validates the psychometric properties and correlates of the perceived context of reception (…
Jason Flatt, Francisco Sy, Chad Cross (all Environmental and Occupational Health), Timothy Bungum, and Sheniz Moonie (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with Jennifer Keeley, '19 Master of Public Health, and Karen S. Gutierrez, '17 BS Biology, recently published an article on "Mental Health Disparities among Sexual Minorities"…
Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health) published the first national study on the health of intersex adults — an umbrella term for people born with differences in sex development in PLOS One. The work was also highlighted in the Bay Area Reporter and in Them.
Kavita Batra, Amanda Elizabeth Morgan, and Manoj Sharma (all Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article, "COVID-19 and Social Isolation Endangering Psychological Health of Older Adults: Implications for Telepsychiatry" in the journal Signa Vitae.
Erika Marquez (Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy) and Melva Thompson-Robinson (Center for Health Disparities Research) led a team that published the Environmental Scan of Region IX: An Access to Health Care Report , which takes a look at factors that promote and impede health equity. It is the first of its kind to examine issues…
Selam Ayele (Public Health) and Melva Thompson-Robinson, and Johanna Andrews (both Center for Health Disparities Research), along with Carolee Dodge Francis of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently published an article, "Factors Associated with Mental Health Service Utilization Among Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees" in the Journal of…